Example sentences of "many people [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Despite the rather flippant tone of the statement , it does convey what many people regard as the main characteristic of services — the absence of a physical or material form .
2 mass forms of musical practice which are based on the musical activity of many people interacting at the same time and in the same way — forms which structure bodily movements and processes , and which enable bodily experience to become an aesthetically mediated pleasure ( ibid : 228 ) .
3 Many people worry about the imagined complexity of defibrillators .
4 These disparities are largely attributed to poor educational attainment — too many people leaving at the statutory school leaving age with few or no qualifications , too few continuing their education and too few entering higher education .
5 Why do many people stay on the farms , with the result that this migration has been less than normal for the UK ?
6 Very many people heard about the riots in the area last year , and heard the authorities ' explanations for them , but this programme attempted to find the root causes of the problems .
7 Hence there must be many people searching in the belief that lower prices will be found .
8 The Upper Reik begins just south of Black Fire Pass where countless mountain streams converge to form what many people take as the beginnings of the mighty river Reik .
9 He went down extremely well last Sunday , for example , when many people gathered outside the party 's central committee building in an unauthorised meeting and called on him to come out and talk to them .
10 In the Fox case many people connected with the convicted man were hauled on to the national stage by the popular press .
11 Many people connected to the heavyweight game in the US believe a Bowe-Lewis fight will take place next year — but in America , most likely in Las Vegas .
12 In that area many people relied on the coconut plantations for their livelihood .
13 He wrote two books : The Living Brain ( 1953 ) , which was popular science and was the first introduction that many people had to the brain , and a novel , Further Outlook ( 1956 ) , which was not very successful .
14 Many people write to the group and consider themselves ‘ friends ’ but Gedge himself concedes that there are precious few people with whom he is genuinely close .
15 Opus declined to say how many people remain with the company or how many boxes it actually put in the field .
16 Like many people branded with the attributes of reliability , honesty , and politeness , the band were attracted to the George Best myth and basked in its reflected glory .
17 Er , mind many people , many people relied on the cycle er for to get about you see .
18 In a rapidly changing society , with many people living on the margins of subsistence , such support was limited in cost and likely to bring benefits to the giver in return .
19 Many people living in the rural areas of the South of Italy , the Highlands of Scotland , the West of Ireland or the interior of Portugal have lower incomes , fewer job opportunities and poorer social services than those in cities and in well-endowed agricultural areas .
20 In addition , a whole range of aspects of consumption , housing , education , shopping , transport , training , and so on , remain insufficient for many people living in the cities .
21 Hornsey and Wood Green 's Labour MP Barbara Roache said from the scene : ‘ There are many people living in the flats above the shopping centre .
22 There was a decline in the island s population in the mid-1850s associated with many people emigrating at the time of the oidium disease of the vines .
23 How many people lived in the house ?
24 How many people went to the school roughly would you say ?
25 Many people suffer from the same disease of thinking they must be right all the time , and they must push their rightness onto other people .
26 There are far too many people looking into the mind of the murderer and not at the agony of mind of the relations of the murdered person .
27 There are far too many people looking into the minds of the Teddy cosh-boys and not into the minds of the old ladies who have been coshed .
28 Both days were a great success and it was good to see so many people looking round the plant and seeing for themselves where our effort is going and what is being achieved . ’
29 It 's not how many people come to the first night of your tour in Windsor , it 's what they do when they get there .
30 It is an international attraction and we are planning to do a study later this year in Pennan to find out how many people come to the village and why .
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