Example sentences of "the people [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He looked at the people drinking in the restaurant bar , and thought the same . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | This was when the people living on the Georgia coast in the southeast corner of the United States began growing and eating maize . |
| 6 | Seventy per cent of the people living on the estate had no wage and depended on state benefits . |
| 7 | They found that the people living on the estate did not have such intimate contact with their extended kin network . |
| 8 | The people living on the estates , especially the elderly , tended to be isolated , and a number of new residents felt lonely and insecure . |
| 9 | ‘ Wo n't that seem odd — to the people living on the ground floor — to have everything around them squashed up ? ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Aberdeen ( 200 000 people ) has attracted over a quarter of all the people living in the Highlands . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | And er you know , I feel that people are only too ready to believe erm others you know er er to believe er others you know er er to believe the people living in the flats . |
| 16 | When the Boundary Commission looks at these matters over every 10 years or so , demography and demographic conditions have to be considered , and it is less easy than it appears on paper simply to provide consistency in terms of the demographic relationship of the people living in the country and the number of Members representing them in the House . |
| 17 | It is important to understand that they are the people living in the area — the people who have suffered so much since 1947 . |
| 18 | Thus his first action on returning to the Questura the day before had been to send his inspectors out to question the people living in the houses along the road to Cannara and talk to the local farmers , just in case anyone had seen anything . |
| 19 | It took time for the Americans to commit themselves to a battle for the stomachs , hearts and minds of the people living in the Western zones of Germany . |
| 20 | But many of the people living in the maisonettes do not want to leave . |
| 21 | The 32-strong Skills Audit Team , recruited to find out all about the skills and work experience of the people living in the eastern district of the town , met for the last time yesterday at the end of a ten-week project . |
| 22 | Research will focus on the people living in the estates in east Middlesbrough . |
| 23 | The English had removed the head of a king as early as 1649 , and the Glorious Revolution of 1688 could be interpreted as an example of Rousseau 's ‘ general will ’ of the people triumphing over the Divine Right of Kings . |
| 24 | Send your answers on a postcard , with your name and address , to : The People Singin' In The Rain Competition , Blackhorse Road , London , SE99 7TY . |
| 25 | The people bounding around the room appeared to be transforming , taking on the shape and form of the animal masks they were wearing . |
| 26 | I could have kept on and on , but I just got tired of the crowds , the people getting in the way all the time . |
| 27 | I could see the people lounging in the yard now . |
| 28 | That 's the people playing on the violin for the orchestra . |
| 29 | Yeah , I know it puts more work back on the people asking for the money , but if , if that went ahead , and they it up , and the whole lot came down . |
| 30 | Creggan had been afraid of almost everything when he first came — of the Men , of the strange sounds from the rest of the Zoo , of the people staring from the path that ran past the Cages . |