Example sentences of "[det] people [vb base] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Some people take to the Cup more than others . |
| 2 | Some people depend on the land for their income . |
| 3 | Some people react to the notion that a human being might be understood as a computer of a certain sort as demeaning of what is special about human beings . |
| 4 | Some people change for the better . |
| 5 | It never fails to amaze me how little some people know about the fish they are buying , even down to the most basic of aspects . |
| 6 | Some people stumble across the Kingdom without looking for it , like discovering a hidden treasure while turning over the soil in the field ( Matt. |
| 7 | It is really very easy for people like me , in North-West London , living my comfortable middle-class life , to go to a comfortable mikva like some people go to the local jacuzzi or sauna ! |
| 8 | Some people go in the legs and some go in the head . |
| 9 | I mean the trouble with group selectionistic thinking is you , you completely discount the costs that some people pay for the benefits of others and so oh well , you know everybody benefits from mothers erm having children and sacrificing themselves to their offspring . |
| 10 | We started our 1964 test with the words : ‘ Sun-capped Dolomites and the distant roar and squeal of one of the works rally cars scrambling its way up the Gavia Pass — this is perhaps the image that some people have of the big Austin-Healey at work . |
| 11 | The conflict which some people see between the Commission 's role in attempting to improve the economic position of Catholics and its neutrality between Protestants and Catholicism is more apparent than real . |
| 12 | Although the institute now has a staff of 28 at its Kensington headquarters , it copes with the collection only because few people know about the free public listening service that it offers . |
| 13 | Few people know about the great lengths and the key behind the scenes roles French and Fordham played in South Africa 's return to the international rugby scene . |
| 14 | Few people know about the work of Y Care International , the charity that Yasmin le Bon supports so enthusiastically . |
| 15 | Such people have in the past been left to go their own way without interference . |
| 16 | They work at night because fewer people turn on the taps . |
| 17 | So that these people go to the urban areas to get the jobs , they 're not trained erm , for these jobs right and as a result , these wages rates still , may still be maintained despite the fact there are lots of people who are quite happy to take wages erm , in , take up jobs in the urban sectors , it 's the fact that sort of , employers do n't want them , because they do n't have the requisite skills . |
| 18 | Even though the obvious explanation of the abnormal rhythmicity is that these people suffer from the loss of the light/dark cycle as a time-cue , the result also indicates that the other time-cues ( social factors , activity , and meal times ) are inadequate . |
| 19 | Hopefully most of these people wash in the morning and use a shower ( those who do n't are probably compensated for by those who take baths ) … 5.3 billion showers equals an annual consumption of something like 160 billion gallons of water a year . |
| 20 | Only observation of parental intercourse is prohibited — a very significant exception in the light of basic psychoanalytic theory — but as these people sleep in the open around camp-fires and children can easily feign sleep , this rule is unenforceable . |
| 21 | These people live amongst the wealthier residential areas in all of the cities of Bangladesh . |
| 22 | But this in no way negates the importance of understanding the role which all these people play in the context of curriculum change , for while the picture of an obscurantist inspector or manager eager to discourage the innovative teacher is one which is often conjured up by teachers themselves as an excuse for inaction , it can be all too true . |
| 23 | Despite the rather flippant tone of the statement , it does convey what many people regard as the main characteristic of services — the absence of a physical or material form . |
| 24 | Many people worry about the imagined complexity of defibrillators . |
| 25 | The Upper Reik begins just south of Black Fire Pass where countless mountain streams converge to form what many people take as the beginnings of the mighty river Reik . |
| 26 | Many people write to the group and consider themselves ‘ friends ’ but Gedge himself concedes that there are precious few people with whom he is genuinely close . |
| 27 | Opus declined to say how many people remain with the company or how many boxes it actually put in the field . |
| 28 | Many people suffer from the same disease of thinking they must be right all the time , and they must push their rightness onto other people . |
| 29 | It 's not how many people come to the first night of your tour in Windsor , it 's what they do when they get there . |
| 30 | It is an international attraction and we are planning to do a study later this year in Pennan to find out how many people come to the village and why . |