Example sentences of "[n mass] who [vb base] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not only delegates but also people who attend as a service from other churches outside the membership of the World Council and also to cope with the press . |
| 2 | It is important to remember that a very large percentage of jobs never come on to the open market but are filled from within the firm , by people applying ‘ on spec. ’ or by people who hear about a vacancy from friends or colleagues working in the same field . |
| 3 | To ignore this would ‘ demonstrate a lack of regard for the people who suffer as a result ’ , he said |
| 4 | There is no evidence in the great majority of cases that an altered body clock is in any way responsible , but there is one group of people who suffer from a fairly rare form of insomnia called Delayed Sleep phase Syndrome . |
| 5 | For those of us who live with a friendly cat it is hard to understand people who suffer from a terror of encountering felines at close quarters . |
| 6 | There are a lot of people who know of a colleague who appeared to be the last person to go under — ‘ Jim always seemed such a jolly , easygoing chap ’ — until his absence one day was followed by news of his nervous breakdown , or heart attack , or suicide . |
| 7 | The trick is to make the qualification time long enough so that the people who go to a club towards the end of their career and get large transfer bonuses do not qualify , but short enough for the players to feel that they will not have to wait half their lives to get theirs . |
| 8 | People who get in a car when it is stolen are associated with that act and can be convicted of exactly the same offence . |
| 9 | People who come on a timber frame construction course , for instance , will come along because they want to use the technique , perhaps for an extension to their home . |
| 10 | It draws people who come for a fun day out and it provides for the serious ornithologist . |
| 11 | People who overdose in a suicidal attempt may take one or several drugs but generally ingest at most one pack of each . |
| 12 | Equally there seem to be many people who stay for a short period , and then just move on . |
| 13 | There are very very few who are er interested in finding a gambling haunt or a , you know , television or film theatre or whatever , you know , er er by and large there are a lot of people who chat to a waitress if they 're a bloke or , or chat to the , the whatever it is if they 're girls but er in , in a , in a friendly way , who will have a drink but will not be paralytically drunk , who may watch television or a , you know , film or theatre or something if it 's appropriate but wo n't get twitched if it is n't , you know , and and by and large erm all the people we 've , we 've , we 've , we 've come across I came across before have been very very good company and it is , it is delightful to have the have you , cos have you been on a Si on a Signpost ? |
| 14 | People who live on a housing estate once labelled the worst in Europe are fighting to keep the headquarters of their community development project . |
| 15 | Others , however , suggest , less cheeringly and no less convincingly , that the duration of disability proceeding death rises with age , so the more people who live to a longer life span , the bigger the health bills . |
| 16 | Frequently too , people who live in a particular geographic location combine together to form a pressure group if their neighbourhood has been earmarked by government for the siting of , for example , a new motorway or nuclear power station or the dumping of nuclear waste which is considered to constitute a substantial threat to their safety and health . |
| 17 | There are some people who live in a world of detail . |
| 18 | Mm I mean er why do n't they do it on like the square , how big your house is because that way you could I know it 's not far when people who live in a great big old house do n't have to pay as much cos if this I mean Uncle Trevor and Aunty they 've got a massive great house have n't they ? |
| 19 | White people who live in an area like Neasden , Dalston , wherever , should really be talking about how much Black culture influences them , instead of it being always us who have to talk about the influences of white culture on us . |
| 20 | And The Truckers by Terry Pratchett , £7.95 , is about a race of four-inch-high people who live beneath a department store . |
| 21 | The novel has a contemporary setting and is about people who meet for an extraordinary dinner party . |
| 22 | We live in a community in which there are people who believe in a variety of faiths or no faith at all . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm slightly worried about people who adopt as a standard things that have n't been implemented . |
| 24 | A newly elected collegium , it was announced on Sept. 16 , included " competent people who think in a modern way and who have stood the tests of the crisis " , according to a spokesman . |
| 25 | Situated in the space between the constraints of childhood and having a career , these are people who dream for a while of wanting a vague something more from life , yet are saddened by these dreams because they know deep down they 'll probably relinquish them , buckle down to a life of mediocrity . |
| 26 | A large proportion of the people who work at a nuclear plant — a total of several hundred for each reactor — are concerned with ‘ health physics ’ , the official description for radiation protection . |
| 27 | This is especially so for people who work on a continuous basis as casual workers . |
| 28 | Second , there is a category composed of people who work on an irregular basis , but with whom the organisation is interested in developing a continuing relationship . |
| 29 | ‘ He knows he could not find an independent panel anywhere in Britain which would accept it is right to make an offer which is less than the rate of inflation to people who work in a service which is already underpaid and understaffed . ’ |
| 30 | What the people who work in a local government planning office do is constrained by a further dominant ideology at some higher level of centrality . |