Example sentences of "people have [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would therefore appear that power to the people has become a reality . |
| 2 | The government in order to protect people has put a stop to us collecting this money . |
| 3 | A committee of leading business people has recommended a set of wide-ranging environmental policies to counter global warming for implementation by the government , local authorities and industry . |
| 4 | Some do , er the rise and fall type of fitting over a dining table where when you 're er , er having dinner you 'd have erm it down to about what not more than twelve inches above the table er so that it lit the table but did n't shine in your eyes , erm some people leave it like that all the time , other people having had a meal lift er it up , erm I think the main thing about the , er adjustable fly and fall is that erm , it 's there for , as you want it , if you 're trying to find a meal you 've lost on the floor well then you pull it down to floor level really . |
| 5 | Omniday is a desk top diary for up to 10 users , ideal for people having to share a computer . |
| 6 | Erm not only will people have to travel a lot further for treatment , as was admitted at the public meeting erm last Monday , here in Harlow but er if people want to is maybe they 'll one or two less senior f the area committee authority they will have to travel to Witham or Colchester or whatever , by absolutely execrable public transport if they do n't drive a motor car to actually attend those meetings and that 's not democratic or accountable either ! |
| 7 | The main source of knowledge that there had been a quarrel was the reminders that people had made a peace ; and as the peace was between groups , it suggested that the quarrel was as well . |
| 8 | Blake tried to see but the people had formed a barrier preventing him from seeing what was on the ground . |
| 9 | It is clear that even five thousand years ago in Mesopotamia people had achieved a degree of subtlety of belief that defies analysis into one or two dogmas . |
| 10 | He said that the Supersight people had put a lot of money up front , and this was his share and plenty more where that came from . ’ |
| 11 | Bulgarian leaders raised further objections after up to 100,000 people had held a rally on Feb. 20 in Skopje , capital of Yugoslavia 's Macedonian republic , to show solidarity with Bulgaria 's Macedonians . |
| 12 | Mrs Austin claimed 1,000 people had signed a petition opposing the new building work and promised a fiery meeting tonight . |
| 13 | Two people had derived a moment of pleasure from the boy 's conception . |
| 14 | yeah , no , not that we come back to that in a moment or to , I 'm just trying to see where this leads us though Mr , erm as a matter of legal analysis , erm y-y-y- your complaint , one particular one we 're talking about is that erm these standard , these are standard degrees which offend the competition rules now if it , if that 's right would not the consequence by erm across the ball , you 're saying you only , you only would render them invalid in so far as they happen to do any , happened to have done any particular name of , er that , I ca n't think , it did n't seem to be in any of the erm cases we 've looked at where the competition rules were applied , but that was a necessary condition if , if , if it 's that if it 's void , if people have suffered a loss as a result of it they can recover a lost , you do n't have to show a loss do you in order to , to , to be declared void |
| 15 | Some people have mounted a coup d'état . |
| 16 | At Barclays de Zoete Wedd , whose report on the sector is due out this week , analyst Jane Anscombe points out that there are currently some worries on the advertising revenue front , and that some television people have seen a bit of pressure . |
| 17 | Well , people have seen a ghost . |
| 18 | Over the last few years , thousands of people have received a variety of training through the Business Venture , which is made up of senior local businessmen and two council officials one Conservative and one Labour . |
| 19 | Many people have to use a car to travel to work , and at many other times , because there is no practical alternative . |
| 20 | Many people have employed a variety of mouse and rat poisons without stopping to think that the initial effect of such toxins is to slow down the victim which then becomes an easy target for a hunting cat . |
| 21 | All these people have discovered a passion for one of the most popular recreational sports , sailing , and as you can see , you can take it up at any age . |
| 22 | Some people have made a god of it . |
| 23 | In part it must mean that past generations of people have created a culture and it has been handed down to the present generation . |
| 24 | Well the mortgage people have said a couple of days |
| 25 | I mean these people have had a pay freeze since November nineteen ninety and these grievances were as a result of a new pay structure last year that actually worsened the terms and conditions since nineteen ninety , but till then we 've been making steady progress in getting better improvements and we 've gone backwards . |
| 26 | God 's people have committed a sin which He finds almost beyond belief . |
| 27 | One of the most striking results of the research was that young people have identified a lack of educational programmes , as well as of programmes that examine the emotions , affections , sexuality and identity of people of their own age group . |
| 28 | ‘ These people have to make a living off the land and they have to drink the water that 's under it . |
| 29 | I think it 's always the problem Sam where people have used a manual based system for so long |
| 30 | I think there 's also the type very often these people have left a family , a wife and children behind |