Example sentences of "of people [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 To give an example of how inadequate official testing can be , at Swansea , where a hell of a lot of people use the sea for recreation , until 1989 it was not disclosed that the official testing point in the sewage outfall pipe was above the point where commercial waste was joining the system .
2 It has been some debate er on the board and the management committee about the direction the theatre should be going into the nineteenth century twentieth century and I think and I and I think it 's important that this meeting hopefully will be very constructive in the sense that is important that the theatre actually gets the views of people use the building , and people actually come along and support the of the theatre .
3 That 's in the oh a lot of people did , oh yes , lot of people spent the money but I was one of the fortunate ones I had a little bit left because I mean I was , er I was very lucky myself , I mean I had a decent job at that time from time I left school and when I was on the dredging plant , I mean you take er in nineteen twenty five when er a schoolboy left school , his money was about ten shillings a week as an errand boy but I was one of the fortunate being a cabin boy on the dredger , I was getting thirty five shillings a week which was a lot of money and then after a few months they , I , they wanted another deck hand , so of course I went on there on four pound a week and then I was well off .
4 What we did at that point , was to get together a task force of people to examine the idea and where it was going : the people doing the work and the people who were likely to understand the most likely market — put them together in one room to reason their way through to the fact that we really ought to drop the project .
5 Or were the knives sent to a random group of people to confuse the hunt for either the killer or the hoaxer ?
6 They had spent Hogmanay at home , welcoming the groups of people roaming the village as they came round .
7 In May 1985 , on the occasion of the centenary , hundreds of people thronged the platform , many in Victorian costume .
8 Even the washing hanging from the tenement windows seemed to be fluttering a welcome as we all struggled to our feet , pushing and shoving , as we attempted to get our packs on our backs , at the same time trying to get a clear view of the platform and the hundreds of people watching the train pull in .
9 A recent G M B poll showed that sixty nine percent of people thought the unions should support Labour to balance big biglifs big business and what a major balancing act that is .
10 ‘ A lot of people thought the world clique was an élitist group of artists .
11 Another , protesting that ‘ I am not exaggerating ’ against murmurs of dissent from his colleagues , believed that ‘ there is a danger of people taking the law into their own hands ’ .
12 Unfortunately , the Museum and the Reading Room of the British Library Reference Division share a common entrance , so any simple count of people walking through either of the two entrances to the building would certainly give a correct number of people entering the Museum , but it would not be correct for genuine visitors to the Museum .
13 The characteristics and attitudes of people entering the sector as owner/occupiers is considered to be especially important and is likely to mark this small business sector as unique in relation to other sectors .
14 This scheme is only one example of an increasing number of measures designed to attract women into and back to work as demographic changes show a decreasing number of people entering the workforce .
15 Women will become increasingly important as prospective employees as the number of people entering the job market decreases and with the advent of a single European market .
16 The fall in the birth rate in the 1970s means that the number of people entering the labour market today is falling .
17 In general however the greater the number of people entering an area the greater the risk of the introduction of an infection .
18 In any discussion about the influence of the media over our perception of reality , it is important to recognise that millions of people form an idea of reality which is based firmly on experience , not on media images , and that these millions include most older people .
19 But large numbers of people set a value by this differential service , by no means restricted to those one could regard as rich .
20 In social terms , the hacienda system represents a very unequal distribution of land , with a small number of people monopolising the bulk of cultivable land .
21 Hundreds of people line the banks of the River Coruh in Eastern Turkey eagerly awaiting three huge river rafts , each with a 24 strong crew , to set off down the rapids .
22 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 .
23 I 'm s sure sir , you 're aware it 's outside the City walls and if you 're commu commu If rail travel is possible from a new settlement to the Town Centre , the actual nu proportion of people using the rail , I would submit it would be very small , because say if you 're a shop worker in er Marks and Spencers , then you 've got a considerable walk from York City Station for example .
24 Crucially , the one may support the other : , a prominent Jesuit in Nicaragua , comments ‘ I think the lack of a good academic training is at the roots of too many simplifications in the pastoral work of people using the framework of liberation theology . ’
25 ‘ If we could run a commuter service we would be delighted but the number of people using the boat — we need 130 morning and night — has been insufficient , ’ he said .
26 Council leader , Phyllis Starkey , and Conservative Group Leader , Janet Todd , have written to the Unit General Manager of the John Radcliffe , Tony Stapleton , asking him to withdraw the charge , but hospital officials say they are introducing fees following a survey of people using the hospital , which showed that seventy percent of them were in favour of it .
27 CW pointed out that Library staff were often not made aware of the status of people using the Library , and wished to codify the access , loan , inter-library loan , and other facilities which are appropriate .
28 Upon asking a number of people to describe the CL colour of a given sample , I have received responses including ‘ bright red ’ , ‘ dull orange ’ , ‘ purple-brown ’ and ‘ crimson ’ ; a red-green colour-blind person perceived ‘ grey ’ .
29 It is generally accepted that large numbers of people evaded the attention of the enumerators on that occasion and that if allowance is made for under-recording the total should be raised to about 9·2 millions .
30 Thousands of people visit the Arrow Cottage every year … many return regularly to see how the garden rooms change over the seasons .
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