Example sentences of "[Wh adv] people [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Early approaches to the study of ageing attempted to explain how people react to the ageing process in psychological or behavioural terms ( Cumming and Henry , 1961 ; Neugarten , 1968 ) . |
| 2 | The research aims to describe how people sell on the telephone , how they sell successfully , and what factors make certain calls more successful than others . |
| 3 | Early maps exist to show how people conceived of the world at the time , but unless made of durable material , like this mosaic , such maps have not survived . |
| 4 | Organic remains provide much evidence as to how people lived in the past . |
| 5 | It is a place to which resort , during the formative years of early adult life , those desirous and capable of learning how people engaged in the pursuit of knowledge for its own sake go about their business . |
| 6 | And I 'm , I 'm sure that was the reason , there , I mean there are all sorts of er accounts of you know how people poured onto the streets waving their bloody flags in nineteen fourteen and die in the trenches |
| 7 | This is how people look in the country . |
| 8 | Which is why people delve into the two system start-up files and edit commands out . |
| 9 | Let's begin by looking at what happened in the past , as it will give some insights into what took place in Utah in 1989 and help us understand better why people reacted in the ways that they did . |
| 10 | A poll carried out into the reasons why people voted for the SDP candidate in the Warrington by-election of 1981 revealed that only 9 per cent did so because they supported SDP policy ; 8 per cent did so because they admired the well-known candidate ; and nearly 70 per cent voted for negative " reasons — the most frequently cited being their opposition to the extremism of the two established parties . |
| 11 | In popular speech , when people expatiate upon the virtues or vices of the British , Scottish , Welsh , Irish , Jewish or any other so-called ‘ race ’ , they are really talking about particular cultural attitudes and characteristics . |
| 12 | There 's a whole range of emotions when people come through the gate |
| 13 | And I think when we talk in terms in getting around to spending the money we have got then we need to look quite clearly about how you make a place more inviting and it 's also about when people come into the building how they 're met what the receptionists like , when they ring up can they get through and I mean I 'm I 'm surprised that 's said about the tickets that I think that our reception ticket areas an excellent area the people working there are first class are very friendly very helpful so it 's trying to get that sort of concept through the building I thin k we work on that I think the building 's kept very clean people who clean the building are very good but I hear what you 're saying and I thinks it 's been said earlier by the lady here by the foyer downstairs she feels threatened when she goes into that bar because I think the whole decor and the way it is is a threatening place I think we need to look at those so that was an old and . |
| 14 | This room was rarely used except by posher locals , who were very thin on the ground , or on really big occasions when people overflowed from the public bar and snug . |
| 15 | You know when people talk about the war we feel dreadful ! |
| 16 | Perhaps the most dramatic example of this is when people meet for the first time . |
| 17 | South Africa is one of the few countries in the world where people drive on the left , so that most motorcars have a right-hand drive . |
| 18 | Under pressure from diminishing resources and central government exhortations , much greater emphasis is being placed on the careful targeting of policy measures to the places where people suffer from the most severe problems , as evidenced by the successive reviews of regional policy and by the initiatives of the 1970s and 1980s aimed at rejuvenating inner city areas . |
| 19 | Most cour I mean you nor you can get up to about ten percent on most cou on a lot of courses , where people leave after the first term . |
| 20 | It has been alleged that the assumption that only fiscal considerations are important ‘ makes the voting by feet hypothesis somewhat unrealistic , except in a setting where people work in the inner city and may choose among the suburbs for residence ’ ( Musgrave and Musgrave 1989 , p. 453 ) . |