Example sentences of "of people [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | This group of people met on a regular basis to coordinate services and discuss professional issues . |
| 2 | Very soon the place was so packed that knots of people integrated into a sway and the perimeter of the appointed area burst . |
| 3 | ‘ Team nursing is not merely a method of assigning individuals to a group : rather it is an implementation of the philosophy that holds that a group of people led by a knowledgeable nurse can effectively meet the nursing needs of a group of patients . |
| 4 | This was fewer than the number of people looking at a daily newspaper . |
| 5 | It 's often a case of people looking at a building and reading something into it . ’ |
| 6 | I put him though the hoops because there are all sorts of people looking for a dog for the wrong reason . |
| 7 | The cynical definition of a nation as ‘ a group of people united by a common error as to their origins and a common dislike of their neighbours ’ has a tragic relevance in the history of the Yugoslav peoples . |
| 8 | ‘ The streets were full of people moving to a safe area , ’ he said . |
| 9 | In a study of strikes during 1970–2 lasting for more than two weeks , Gennard and Lasko found that the number of people involved in a strike , the duration of the strike and whether it was official or unofficial affected the payment of supplementary benefit . |
| 10 | I am not normally a follower of the daily horoscopes in magazines as I could not see how one small horoscope could possibly influence so many millions of people born under a particular starsign . |
| 11 | Moreover , movement into the village was predominantly of people born within a few miles of its borders . |
| 12 | When a crowd of people surged from a side-room , all talking and laughing , she pulled a face of mock-exasperation . |
| 13 | He joined the ever-growing group of people calling for a change in the law . |
| 14 | HCRC has created a unique database of conversations between pairs of people engaged on a cooperative communication task involving the transmission of information about routes . |
| 15 | As one pro-contra advertisement put it , appealing for 53 cents a day to support a mercenary called ‘ Charley ’ and his machine-gun , ‘ There is no ‘ country ’ called Nicaragua , only a nation of people living under a totalitarian regime . ’ |
| 16 | They give some impression of the life and environment of the wealthy and influential but cause one to forget , or overlook , the lives of the majority of people living at a lower level of survival — a majority that probably includes the makers of the art object . |
| 17 | Locke builds his theory on the idea of people living in a state of nature , in families and loose groups , without any political authority over them . |
| 18 | The study of the surnames of people living in a place can be one of the most time-consuming , frustrating , baffling , but rewarding activities a researcher can undertake . |
| 19 | of people living in a a very small area . |
| 20 | Area analysis can be used to provide a company with information about the different types of people living in a particular area . |
| 21 | It was the failure of domestic rates to take any account of the number of people living in a property which , above all , led to the system being rejected by the public as an acceptable means of raising local government revenue . |
| 22 | Where is the accountability in a policy that fails to take account of the number of people living in a house , and leaves businesses without a vote and at the mercy of local authorities ? |
| 23 | The class can take on the role of any group of people unified by a common concern or problem , so long as we ensure that every child has an active role to play . |
| 24 | The court 's verdict on Jampa Ngodrup 's case said he had asked a young monk working at the Barkor Clinic to compile a list of people detained as a result of violent clashes between police forces and demonstrators on 5 March 1988 . |
| 25 | This is because the group of people descended from a common ancestor , which married as a group another group , was the famous gens . |
| 26 | It turns out that trying to define what a group is is quite difficult a what distinguishes a group of people from a mob of people er a group of people queuing at a bus stop , are they a group well you do n't think so normally . |
| 27 | Millions of people lost as a result of those cuts , but the difference between their anger and that felt by those in the poll tax battle is glue . |
| 28 | The mujaheddin marked the 10th anniversary of the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan on Dec. 27 in similar fashion by launching at least 52 rockets into Kabul killing dozens of people according to a government spokesperson . |
| 29 | Because bills are now lower , fewer people face large increases , so the number of people entitled to a reduction will be less than originally expected . |
| 30 | Will it wait to deal with them when the bills drop on the doormats and then try to compile a list of people entitled to a rebate after the council tax has been introduced ? |