Example sentences of "people [prep] [noun prp] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I sensed that the people of Donegal felt faintly disappointed at having such a rational church service . |
| 2 | But the people of Kingswood seem far from happy with the prospect of another shake-up . |
| 3 | Tell the people of Israel to go forward . ’ |
| 4 | All the people of Sligo feel bitterly ashamed for what happened . |
| 5 | But the people of England knew better and continued to read and delight in their chapbooks . |
| 6 | Winter of Discontent boxes Callaghan in , people of Britain get so sick of futile Nostalgie de la Blitz privations that they vote in Thatcher , 4 May . |
| 7 | On economic and monetary union , it would be irresponsible for any Government to ask the people of Britain to decide now that we should adopt , at a future date , a single European currency which will have far-reaching implications for the conduct of monetary and economic union . |
| 8 | The loyalists now had the grounds they needed to be able to argue that the executive was undemocratic : the people of Ulster had finally been given a chance to vote on the issue and 50.8 per cent of them were opposed to power-sharing . |
| 9 | The people of Somalia have already had to wait too long . |
| 10 | THE people of Castlerock have often wondered when the horror of sectarian slaughter would come to their peaceful , seaside village . |
| 11 | The Hebrew conveys , as the English can not , the notion of tables being turned , of the people of God becoming now the enemy of God . |
| 12 | ‘ The people of Wensleydale make better , ’ said Allen . |
| 13 | I appeal to the people of Burma to economise as far as possible in the consumption of rice and foodstuffs ; so that we may have some surplus to send to a hungry world . |
| 14 | A recent edition carries a joint statement from the Christian and Islamic communities urging the people of Zaire to join together in an act of reconciliation and to support the democratic process which has been undermined so severely since January this year . |
| 15 | Many people with HIV stay well for many years . |
| 16 | Many people with HIV stay well for a long time and you would never know they had the virus . |
| 17 | Most people with HIV remain perfectly healthy for several years . |
| 18 | In fact , many people in Broadmoor have never been convicted of a serious crime , or indeed ever committed a criminal offence . ) |
| 19 | The nicest people in England have always been the least |
| 20 | It may be that few people in Japan have yet made this connection , or realise the sheer scale of the catastrophe in Africa . |
| 21 | Consider the following exchange between an opponent of nuclear waste dumping and a representative of the firm which had been authorized to do the dumping : " Ninety thousand people in Bedfordshire have already signed a petition saying no to the dump . |
| 22 | There is no doubt that most people in Britain eat far more than they need , and probably more than is good for them . |
| 23 | Yet when they started out few people in Britain had ever heard of them and even now not much is known about their ideas on marketing and how they put them into effect . |
| 24 | On the other hand , people in Britain grew increasingly impressed by the success of the Soviet troops on the eastern front . |
| 25 | People in Britain spend about £20bn a year using plastic cards . |
| 26 | Well , if you consider that one in a hundred people in Britain means over half a million people , you are talking of a large group of people , who must have something in common to make them buy your product . |
| 27 | Between 1901 and 1981 the number of people in Britain aged over 65 rose from 1.7 million to almost 8 million , increasing as a proportion of the total population from less than 5 per cent to 15 per cent . |
| 28 | Although it is hard to know how valid these comparisons are , it is clear that ordinary people in Britain have far more possessions and assets than they did in 1911 . |
| 29 | People in Donegal listened earnestly to the priest , craning forward as if to show him that they were there , but did not seem to be taking in the words . |
| 30 | All we seemed to get is abstract art which people in Harlow means so few appreciate which I quite understand . . . |