Example sentences of "of people [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But large numbers of people set a value by this differential service , by no means restricted to those one could regard as rich . |
| 2 | A study of people using a shelter in Boston found that although 30 of the 68 respondents were suffering from a psychosis , only five had been admitted to hospital for longer than a year in total . |
| 3 | About ten people a day kill themselves by suicide , maybe maybe one in a thousand people who take Prozac get bad reactions to it , but that has to be seen in balance , in the balance of a large number of people deriving a lot of benefit and maybe a few people having some bad reactions . |
| 4 | ‘ Jazz exploded in London in the mid-Eighties , but only a handful of people got a deal out of it , ’ says Geoff , who got into hip hop via rare groove and whose CV includes organising CND and Artists Against Apartheid benefits , putting on jazz rap weekends to try and prove bands could carry it off live as well as on record , DJing at Camden 's Jazz Cafe and , until recently , booking the bands there too . |
| 5 | During the day hundreds of people took a trip around the harbour in Saltash steamers ’ . |
| 6 | Millions of people had a horror both of burial and of cremation . |
| 7 | Do n't forget that THERE IS NO CUT BACK IN THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE WANTING A CLASS but future methods of provision may be varied and unfamiliar , we need to be adaptable and keep our eyes wide open to take advantage of every opportunity . |
| 8 | ‘ There are a lot of people chasing a lot less money . ’ |
| 9 | A small proportion of people develop a headache after lumbar puncture but this is usually because they have been too active too soon after the test . |
| 10 | A lot of people anticipated a lot of ill feel , well a lot of ill feeling being expressed . |
| 11 | ‘ Now come on , Richard , ’ Frank Bough began , ‘ a lot of people confuse a stroke with a heart attack . |
| 12 | He said Dad , there 's a lot of people know a lot more than we do . |
| 13 | If you ever try to do a ha a demonstration for anybody erm or a group of people involving a sort of manual skill , you find that it goes to pieces if it 's not a very well rehearsed skill , whereas you find you can actually get very your performance is a lot better when you 've got an audience if you know the skill very well . |
| 14 | McKellar argued that while more than 70 per cent of people answering a questionnaire reported at least one hypnagogic experience the actual incidence may be even higher , as " it can be overlooked for a very long time even by those who subsequently realize that they have the experience frequently … |
| 15 | All the pressures of people having a go at me all the time do n't help , ’ said Kylie . |
| 16 | In an astonishing outburst on the Barnet Clubcall line , Flashman said : ‘ I was surprised at the stupidity of people having a go at me . |
| 17 | And and you hear of people having a degree in political science , how can a person obtain a degree in political science . |
| 18 | Jackson is the first to admit that the numbers of people having a thing about some of the later material have taken a dip . |
| 19 | However he revealed that although stores were not acting improperly , police have now persuaded them to keep a register of the names and addresses of people purchasing a scanner . |
| 20 | The year 1966 was when the number of people paying a TV licence for the first time exceeded the number paying a radio licence . |
| 21 | In principle the task of the project manager is to plan , organize and lead a group of people to complete a project life cycle of the type illustrated in Figure 10.1 . |
| 22 | The results of the race used to be worked out in the Jay dining-room , with a lot of people doing a lot of mental arithmetic . |
| 23 | What Marx meant by a particular society was an organization of people making a living together . |
| 24 | Instead , they are the result of people making a series of decisions about what has happened . |
| 25 | But th there 's a s a strong campaign to have Cafe Direct taken by supermarkets and there 's a lot of people putting a lot of energy into this and , and at present it 's , it 's , it 's showing those results . |
| 26 | Car ownership has slowed , with 67.6pc of people owning a vehicle , compared with 67.8pc in 1991 . |
| 27 | For example , the numbers of people living together , or the numbers of people attending a day centre or place of work , should be as small as is consistent with the successful functioning of the facility . |
| 28 | In ‘ Dog and Duck Hotel ’ he captures again the bleak , brave lives of people scraping a living out of the Australian Outback . |
| 29 | There is a Dickensian quality about Cairo : the dense narrow lanes , the rubbish and stench of the streets , the jostling crowds , the animals , the dramatic disparity between rich and poor , the spectacle of young children hard at work , the host of people scraping a living from the most menial of tasks porters , scavengers , match-sellers , bootblacks , water-carriers . |
| 30 | The virus is highly infectious to those who have not previously been exposed to it , but the majority of people have a degree of immunity due to past clinical or symptomless mouth or face infection . |