Example sentences of "of people [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 31 | I think I never witnessed such a squabble of people rushing into a building . |
| 32 | It is demonstrable that a suitable number of people cooperating on a task will achieve a better result than one person doing the same task . |
| 33 | He continued walking , past a queue of people filing aboard a sight-seeing bus , jostling for the best positions as they reached the open upper deck . |
| 34 | We climbed into the back , already full of people perched atop a deep pile of cargo , and squeezed into a rear corner , hoping there was no one else to come . |
| 35 | In hide-and-seek , a number of people agree for a period of time to abstract from living what they know of the ‘ hiding ’ function ( i.e. that people can be ‘ hiders ’ and ‘ seekers ’ and that places can be ‘ hiding places ’ ) and to behave , for the time being , as if only that function mattered . |
| 36 | Table 4.4 does not support overall the hypothesis that among those still living at home six months and 12 months after referral , the action samples would contain higher proportions of people suffering from a selection of ‘ home care disadvantages ’ . |
| 37 | Societal risk is defined by IChemE as ‘ the relationship between frequency and the number of people suffering from a specified hazards ’ . |
| 38 | Of people walking about a room . |
| 39 | erm A lot of people gave as a reason for getting a particular piece of furniture the fact that it was given to them by their parents when they got married , or that a neighbour was trying to get rid of it , or that somebody from work had passed it on and they needed one . |
| 40 | If a group of people sitting at a dining table had their entire bodies shrouded under some tent-like garment , there are two ways in which the expert observer of eating behaviour could differentiate the fat from the slim . |
| 41 | If there are a lot of people sitting in a room they 'll just sit there and they wo n't communicate , whereas two or three or four or five residents will communicate quite freely — they do n't feel inhibited or they do n't feel they 're interrupting somebody else 's television programme or radio or something like that . ’ |
| 42 | A partnership is an unincorporated body of people combined for a common business objective . |
| 43 | It 's the snap-shot of people paid in a period , and it has in it comparisons with the previous quarter , June ninety-three and the previous year , September ninety-two . |