Example sentences of "of people [vb pp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tournament , the entry fees of which are to be donated to the Wine and Spirit Benevolent Fund , a registered charity , is open to a wide ranging group of people connected with the trade , including … ‘ retail , wine bar , restaurant , or hotel trade buyers , writers , waiters or sales assistants , whatever their standard of tennis . ’ |
| 2 | Reading section 4 of the Act with the other relevant interpretative sections , it is hardly surprising that a number of people connected with the children 's hearing system saw the Act as a major handicap to their work . |
| 3 | First official event took place during the early afternoon of April 25 , when a large number of people gathered at the memorial site dedicated to the RAF and Allied aircrew . |
| 4 | ‘ On what list ? ’ blurted Karen , but Jessica pulled her roughly by the arm , towards the knot of people gathered at the square steel entrance to the boat . |
| 5 | There were disturbances in Drury Lane on 10 June 1695 , when a number of people gathered at the Dog Tavern to celebrate the birthday of the Prince of Wales . |
| 6 | This time around , most of the crowd stayed for the full set yet the number of people gathered at The Arena told its own story of one band 's fall from grace . |
| 7 | She was here to work , to wend her way among the clusters of people gathered around the groaning buffet tables , to smile like a wax mannequin and to stop when requested , to pirouette and offer the same answer to each question about her gown whether it dealt with size , colour , fabric , price or availability . |
| 8 | A LIVELY debate has broken out among the knot of people gathered in the GMTV studio concerning the future of Britain 's newest breakfast television channel . |
| 9 | It brought the number of people killed over the weekend to 25 . |
| 10 | Was there a lot of people killed with the bomb ? |
| 11 | Some sources put the number of people killed in the south-east since 1984 at over 3,000 . |
| 12 | Its report , published on April 19th , speaks of hundreds of people , most of them Palestinian , arbitrarily arrested , many tortured and ‘ scores ’ of people killed by the Kuwaiti armed forces and members of the resistance . |
| 13 | ( A full list of people consulted in the US is included at the end of the report . ) |
| 14 | Hundreds of thousands of people poured into the streets to watch the firework display - a fact which , Mr Deng boasted , proves that ‘ China 's social order has returned to normal ’ . |
| 15 | The total is then distributed among local authorities on the basis of the number of people listed on the Poll Tax register . |
| 16 | He finished the service by announcing tersely that some of the large number of people jailed during the night had been released . |
| 17 | Subsequent guidance enabled regional health authorities ( RHAs ) to pay grants to local authorities for the support of people resettled in the community from the NHS hospitals . |
| 18 | With machinery being used more and more on the farms , the village has seen the number of people employed on the land drastically fall , and is now one of many with commuters travelling further afield to their place of employment . |
| 19 | It can , however , be claimed that though the expansion of employment in the public sector was not directly responsible for the decline in the number of people employed in the manufacturing sector because it did not use the same labour sources and because there was no labour shortage anyhow , it was , nevertheless , indirectly responsible because it led to a decline in private profit and hence to a shortage of capital for investment in the manufacturing industries . |
| 20 | A large proportion of people employed in the borough — 23 per cent . |
| 21 | Six mobile offices were even stacked in pairs across the college lawn to accommodate some of the dozens of people employed by the Board especially for the event . |
| 22 | The fact that the housing market is divided into different tenure categories which are governed by different laws and customs means that , when changes in the structure of the housing market occur , and particular tenure categories expand and contract , so the number of people affected by the rules and regulations governing access to and maintenance of rights in particular tenure categories will also expand and contract . |
| 23 | We have created a considerable number of new jobs in south Norfolk ; regrettably , some of these were at the expense of people affected by the closure of the Ipswich site , but nevertheless , such opportunities in a rural environment have been viewed very positively by the local community . |
| 24 | No it 's not realistic because you know that there are thousands of people involved with the in the Garrimpos and er there is no way you could er shut them down without offering them an alternative . |
| 25 | Well there was a lot of people involved on the estate because they had to repair paths . |
| 26 | All in a day 's work for the hundreds of people involved in the various stages — but there is perhaps only one who will have witnessed everything that has happened . |
| 27 | In fact , the biggest section of people involved in the social security system are ordinary working people — the 20 million or so people who contribute every week to the national insurance fund , those mugs who pay in every week in the mistaken belief that at the end of their working days , or if a crisis should arise , they will have benefits to fall back on when times get tough . |
| 28 | The available published statistics on the race of people involved in the criminal justice system indicate a degree of black over-representation . |
| 29 | The number of people involved in the sort of work there was er something like twelve to twelve and fifteen people er added up er responsible for A B C. So it did n't make any sense to us to think well if Leeds have got a million pound practice there , why have we got nothing here . |
| 30 | Family size at longer durations of marriage has been rather stable in recent years ; the similarity of family building of people born in the 1960s to that of the 1920s does not imply much reduction in family size . |