Example sentences of "of people [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The pattern of people espousing public values of kindness and decency , but voting in national governments of the right which eschew political ideals , is well-established in both Japan and the US , the former having a very weak socialist party , the latter having no socialist party at all .
2 As we have already indicated , there is lack of agreement about what is relevant or appropriate because different groups of people use different sets of criteria .
3 Everybody else she said a lot of people put one N and it 's probably what .
4 While the number of people drawing such assistance grew steadily during the post-war period , the size of this group has exploded since 1979 .
5 The number of people repeating hard routes ( F8a or harder ) is alarming .
6 ‘ A group of people made this Star Zoo .
7 In recent years there has been a dramatic increase in the number of people undergoing vocational training in France .
8 Britain can not match the French achievement and in some subjects the number of people undergoing vocational training has declined .
9 What are the main obstacles in the way of people taking more control over their own health and health care and have we examples of this struggle from which we can all learn ?
10 Um now I think maybe um again there 's this there 's this notion of of people developing distorted beliefs , distorted perceptions and so forth .
11 The notion of people sending each other greetings cards in the future with ‘ Happy Music Day ’ complete with pithy , humorous and probably quaintly vulgar subtext is an amusing one .
12 At a local level , voluntary help is usually available ; there is often a list of people speaking other languages who are willing to act as interpreters .
13 Partly because a large staff generates a greater amount of training need and sometimes more specialized needs , partly because the logistics of co-ordinating the movements of a large number of people generates greater need for formal timetabling , and partly because size of establishment can have a significant effect on staff mobility .
14 The future is to be found in attitudes , in decisions taken every day by millions of people trying new ways of doing things .
15 And they say yeah I will but but presumably that tapers off and they do n't but it 's an interesting thing that on particular when you 're targeting certain things like pantomime do get people in I think there 's lot 's of people said this evening say actually build on that perhaps get those people to come back again so yes I did like it I I did like what I saw there I did like the way that I was treated I did like the whole ambience of the place like I 'll definitely come back again will they be viable to do that ?
16 The concept of linking an administrative central service ‘ core ’ with a dispersed cluster of homes of people receiving long-term services was developed in the 1970S , and still retains its appeal .
17 The number of people receiving supplementary benefit for each year from 1948 to 1978 , as shown in figure 9.1 , is an example of a time series .
18 Delegates returning to the West Bank from Madrid on Nov. 10 were greeted in Jericho by thousands of people expressing euphoric support .
19 By comparison with other videoconferencing systems ( which have been known to take over whole rooms ) the surprisingly compact desktop VC7000 looks basic , but allows small groups of people to see each other and show documents and objects regardless of their location .
20 To stop splatter from spilling into the conversations of people using analogue phones , the digital frequencies require buffer zones of precious spectrum to separate them from analogue channels .
21 Consequently , those British cities and towns which have large numbers of people using injectable drugs may be among the first to experience full-blown AIDS/HIV epidemics , not just because needle-sharing can spread the virus between drug users , but because infected drug users-particularly the young and single-are likely to spread the virus to the wider population through sexual contacts .
22 There is evidence of a parallel growth in the number of people using complementary medicine of different kinds .
23 The central idea of ethnomethodology is that the orderliness of social life is not the result of people obeying social norms or giving way to social pressures , but rather that orderliness is attained by all those involved working to achieve it .
24 It is extremely important that small rural benches — provided that they are large enough to provide the necessary range of skills and an adequate number of people to dispense rural justice — are kept .
25 Saudi Arabia yesterday publicly beheaded four people — two Saudis and two Indians — convicted of murder , taking the total number of people beheaded this year to 99. — Reuter .
26 What is important to a large majority of people takes second place to the market .
27 It was a case of people ringing each other up and going — ‘ Guess what … ’ and waiting for the reactions .
28 Furthermore , the religious activity and beliefs of people take different forms , so that a number of different scales will probably be needed . ’
29 Between 1980 and 2000 the number of people experiencing acute fuelwood deficit or scarcity will have increased from 1,395 million to 2,986 million .
30 Estimates of the proportion of people experiencing hypnagogic imagery have varied considerably , depending partly on how exactly they were asked .
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