Example sentences of "[noun sg] people [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The government had concluded ‘ that it is quite wrong that we should build up artificial hopes ’ by allowing boat people to remain in the colony in the belief that they would be resettled . |
| 2 | The second most important association people have with the home is one of relaxation and comfort . |
| 3 | Mortality rates , however , are a very weak proxy of the benefit people received from the use of medical services . |
| 4 | No wonder people talked of the breakdown of the health service and turned in their thousands to complementary medicine . |
| 5 | A PEACE PEOPLE MARCH IN THE IRISH REPUBLICAN FALLS ROAD AREA OF BELFAST ON 25TH OCTOBER 1976 . |
| 6 | Only our London intelligence people know of the safe house . |
| 7 | Secondly , it enables community people to participate in the beginning of creating the program or plan of action . |
| 8 | The government 's response to the riots , apart from the setting up of the Scarman Inquiry , was to devote more resources to law and order and to renew its efforts to persuade business people to invest in the inner cities . |
| 9 | Part of the Government 's failure can be seen every week in our constituency surgeries , at which small business people complain about the way in which their firms failed . |
| 10 | For all that , however , friction has been generated , not least within the service where criticism has personally been directed at Cruickshank — and not from health workers and professionals but the very business people brought into the service whom one would have expected to sympathise more with his modus operandi . |
| 11 | The results so far are encouraging , although problems have arisen because of the requirement for business people to operate under the inflexible and bureaucratic financial controls to which government agencies have become inured over the years . |
| 12 | This particular political failure of the post-war welfare policies , to provide equality and not just the opportunity for individual achievement , was set in its turn against the dislocation that my mother 's 1950s represent : welfarism in one country did not embody the desire people felt for the world that had shaped them . |
| 13 | At a musical evening of the Upton Liberal and Radical Association , Nicholson attributed unemployment to the lack of confidence people had in the men who were directing the destiny of the world ( SE 1 February 22 ) . |
| 14 | Lots of day people go to the war and come back night people . |
| 15 | Every day people fall from the clouds , dead . |
| 16 | All through the hot week people crept along the streets , hugging the edge of shade that buildings provided , half a foot and one side of an arm at least out of the burning sun , though still sweating . |
| 17 | If you look at the amount of viewing of news people do throughout the day — then CNN has a reach comparable of those of the big networks . |
| 18 | You could tell that the real reason people came into the shop was to hang out . |
| 19 | So what do you do if you 're four mild-mannered indie people plunged into the fire , brimstone , rain , cross-dressing , bile-snorting , stage-diving , limb-breaking , male-bonding world of LOLLAPALOOZA ‘ 92 ? |
| 20 | In London during the Great Plague people chewed on the root , believing that it would protect them from the disease . |
| 21 | These scenes are a record of the way people living in the countryside enjoyed themselves in their leisure time in 1946 . |
| 22 | A depressing picture of a grey society is revealed for the first time in comparisons of the way people live across the UK . |
| 23 | Leaving the punchbowl lying there for the clearup people to find in the morning , Wayne followed her . |
| 24 | The South Pennine Association said recently : ‘ The turbines are threatening the spiritual retreat people find in the mountains . ’ |
| 25 | One of the busiest streets was Fisherton for hundreds of country people flocked into the City , taking advantage of the very economical Saturday tickets offered by the railway . |
| 26 | Much of the factory food we eat is so tasteless that in desperation people reach for the brown sauce , tomato ketchup or pickles to perk it up . |
| 27 | ONCE upon a time people indulged in the ages-old craft of telling stories to each other — but then television and video stepped in and took the words out of our mouths . |
| 28 | Listening to the personal stories of the half-dozen Easterhouse people gathered in the hall — stories of drug addiction , crime , alcoholism , unemployment , poverty — it is hard to ignore his appeal . |