Example sentences of "people [verb] [prep] the [adv] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Under pressure from diminishing resources and central government exhortations , much greater emphasis is being placed on the careful targeting of policy measures to the places where people suffer from the most severe problems , as evidenced by the successive reviews of regional policy and by the initiatives of the 1970s and 1980s aimed at rejuvenating inner city areas . |
| 2 | Even so , people living in the highly technological societies do not feel fully content , and imagine that they might be better off with a return to primitive technical conditions . |
| 3 | Henry thought this was depressingly typical of the way in which people talked about the recently deceased . |
| 4 | The irony is that all too often one needs the very best people to deal with the very worst industrial situations , which are seldom of their own making . |
| 5 | As goals at Arsenal became fewer , most people plumped for the most obvious explanation ; Nicholas was a victim of the magical trinity of bevvy , birds and big-headedness . |
| 6 | Job information hardly any people went to the there . |
| 7 | People think in the most illogical way , ( unless you are of Vulcan decent ! ) therefore computers are often of little help when trying to organise thoughts . |
| 8 | People think in the most illogical way , ( unless you are of Vulcan decent ! ) therefore computers are often of little help when trying to organise thoughts . |
| 9 | During a day of extraordinary jubilation , more than 100,000 people poured through the increasingly open border to the West . |
| 10 | Nor are there many rodassiers , ample benches or daybeds which many French people regard as the most typical item of Provençal furniture . |
| 11 | There have of course been many other television programmes which have touched on the subject of mental handicap , including series such as ‘ Let's Go ’ , a weekly series for the mentally handicapped launched in 1981 , and followed by a second series in 1983 , and ‘ Accident of Birth ’ , a series mainly for parents and people working with the mentally handicapped broadcast in early 1982 . |