Example sentences of "the people [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the peoples traded in the products of their particular region , exchanging goods by means of barter . |
| 2 | He looked at the people drinking in the restaurant bar , and thought the same . |
| 3 | In reality , Scotland 's premier stadium-fillers have always striven for scale on a windswept , neo-Celtic level ; grand dreams , grander schemes , the proverbial men of the people reaching for the impossible . |
| 4 | On the Alpha , DEC said that roll-out of Alpha-based systems continues on schedule but that because it is a major programme , it will continue to take several quarters to implement fully — and rather than talk numbers of machines or orders , the company chose to focus on the people writing for the thing , saying that more than 500 Alpha AXP applications from partners and 50 software products are available today . |
| 5 | When this happens , the people go on a hunting spree . |
| 6 | the people come into the village |
| 7 | They have succeeded in corrupting many of the people charged with the protection of the Indians and forests . |
| 8 | A woman whose husband was shot dead is to get compensation , even though the people charged with the killing were cleared . |
| 9 | It tells how the attractions of the women of Moab , a region to the east of the Dead Sea in which the Israelites were encamped , led the people to join in the worship of their gods , and how ‘ Israel yoked himself to Baal of Peor ’ , the chief of the local deities ( 25.3 ) . |
| 10 | If you believe that women , and not planners , should be the people to decide on the size of families they have , then this is the book for you . |
| 11 | As at Guiseley , the people walked round the church until it was possible for all to join hands in a big circle . |
| 12 | Many medieval farms in Wales consisted of only one main building , the so called ‘ longhouse ’ : farm animals were kept at one end of the house and the people lived at the other . |
| 13 | Peace immediately sent the news ratings down by one-third , but the pulling power of radio in its heyday is shown in the fact that 45 per cent of the people listened to the half-hour general election speeches in the 1945 campaign — feats of concentration ( however imperfect ) inconceivable in 1990 . |
| 14 | The two men of faith put the true interpretation on the facts ( Numbers 13:30 ) , but the people listened to the ten prophets of doom , with their tales of giants and grasshoppers , God , and the good land , was forgotten . |
| 15 | At a time when the BBC has declared its object of cutting its staff from 25,000 , it has added an extra thousand to the people employed in the department concerned . |
| 16 | If the people know from the start where the researcher draws the line , then the problem does not arise . |
| 17 | It was from the people gathered on the rim of this amphitheatre in the dunes that the sighing came . |
| 18 | Seeing the flowers from tepees , the people gathered on the hill and sang and danced their thanks to the Great Spirits who had sent the blooms as a sign of their forgiveness . |
| 19 | As has been pointed out in Chapter Two , an integrated education programme should be based on the views of all the people participating in the various educational processes , but the final success of a given course depends , to a large extent , on the motivation of the students . |
| 20 | This was when the people living on the Georgia coast in the southeast corner of the United States began growing and eating maize . |
| 21 | Seventy per cent of the people living on the estate had no wage and depended on state benefits . |
| 22 | They found that the people living on the estate did not have such intimate contact with their extended kin network . |
| 23 | The people living on the estates , especially the elderly , tended to be isolated , and a number of new residents felt lonely and insecure . |
| 24 | ‘ Wo n't that seem odd — to the people living on the ground floor — to have everything around them squashed up ? ’ |
| 25 | This expropriation took the form of tithes , taxes and labour in kind in return for the physical protection of the people living on the land by the noble landowners . |
| 26 | As the situation went from bad to worse , the people living near the volcano became increasingly distressed , and many tried to leave St Pierre , heading for Fort-de-France , Martinique 's second town . |
| 27 | The photographs show another example of changing an old , unplanned industrial area , with its derelict factories and waste tips , into a pleasant local recreation area for the people living in a city . |
| 28 | Some of the Maritime school go further and ask the question , ‘ Who are We ? ; and answer it by pointing out that We are not just the people living in the United Kingdom today . |
| 29 | Aberdeen ( 200 000 people ) has attracted over a quarter of all the people living in the Highlands . |
| 30 | They were used to store the very large volume of offerings and tribute that came in from the townspeople and from the people living in the surrounding countryside ; administrating the inflow and redistribution of this temple tribute was a major function of the Minoan temple . |