Example sentences of "the people who [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He begins by summarising that for the obvious reasons of inaccessibility and defences , the peoples who reside among mountains are the last to be conquered : he progresses to consider similarly-caused impediments to civilisation : he deduces the part remoteness plays in the preservation of ancient languages . |
| 2 | Elsewhere he refers to a treaty imposed by the king on the peoples who lived on the river Wahal , that is the Franks . |
| 3 | Although Nicholas 's victories over the Persians in 1828 and the Ottoman Empire in 1829 had made him temporarily safe from international complications in this area , they did little for the extension of Russian control over the peoples who lived to the north of Georgia . |
| 4 | The peoples who survived in the northwest area gained greatly from the mixture of arts and race but retained their individuality also until the tide turned once more and the northwestern island increased its influence eventually over the whole of Spain . |
| 5 | Oh why you 're having to speak , you having to have the other people talking to each other , the people who speak to you |
| 6 | We try to formulate policies that 'll meet the needs of the people who speak to us and then we use officers , not to make necessarily proposals on policies , but to help us to work out the financial ways of achieving those policies , so that 's almost the other way round from the way that John outlined . |
| 7 | Our dramatis personae are the people who inhabit these places and the people who speak about them in various public ways . |
| 8 | Now one of the criticisms that I 've had er from the people who prefer to be nameless but always come to me afterwards and say oh it was a waste of time coming . |
| 9 | Was n't it erm also that the people who got in there first often took the most |
| 10 | I meant the people who gather by the sea and the noise and the colours and the smell of frying , but Syl had gone pale and sworn at me , using a word I had never been called before , and saying only a moron would say she did n't like the sea . |
| 11 | This means that tax evasion is depriving the state — and the people who benefit from what the state can do for them , whether it is building better roads and hospitals or cleaning the seashore or guarding the frontiers — of a sum amounting to about 10% of the current official national income . |
| 12 | Our data on chairmen and members suggest that the people who serve on tribunals may come from a ‘ local squirearchy ’ involved in a wide range of community activities , including welfare , church , education and training organizations , local politics , trade unions and professional associations . |
| 13 | A Christian can strongly believe in a triumphant entry into eternal life for the person who has died , but this does not mean that the people who remain on earth will not still deeply regret their passing . |
| 14 | Well , apparently what 's happened there , I do know , because erm , one or two of the people who looked at it got involved , and whereas the property started out at some figure in the high hun hundred and fifty , hundred and eighty thousand , something like that . |
| 15 | St Petrock 's , like so many South Coast resorts , was roughly divided into two classes — invalids , and the people who looked after them . |
| 16 | What 's worse is that before he died all the people who looked after the animals had left and got jobs with other circuses . |
| 17 | The people who looked after them were inadequate because they were dirty , messy and disorganised so inevitably there were leakages of the food . |
| 18 | The carelessness of the creators ( for not noticing the mess their employees were making ) and of the people who looked after the food meant animals , plants and insects were accidentally given Herakleophorbia so they grew . |
| 19 | shows the people who go to the |
| 20 | The trick is to make the qualification time long enough so that the people who go to a club towards the end of their career and get large transfer bonuses do not qualify , but short enough for the players to feel that they will not have to wait half their lives to get theirs . |
| 21 | just see them all getting away with it and they makes me thing something ought to be done , which has the people that lose out or the people who go in there very politely , fill out their claim |
| 22 | With this method all the people who wish to be involved in the selection of a candidate do so one after the other and not as one unwieldy group . |
| 23 | I want to thank the people who responded to my letter ( 11 February ) requesting poetry written by carers about their experiences . |
| 24 | You bring lots of people in at junior management and through a series of apprenticeships you cream off the people who get to the top . |
| 25 | These breed clubs have regenerated interest in the people who had for some reason left the breed and have now been asked to return to spread their knowledge to the younger members . |
| 26 | As for the physical appearance of the people who left behind their stone tools and food refuse , Singer and Wymer can say little because , compared with animal bones , there are few human remains in the deposits and they are mostly fragments of skulls and jawbones and teeth . |
| 27 | Not all the people who indulge in these tastes are addicts — that is , they do not depend on their habit in a way that seems clearly abnormal to the bulk of people who do not share their tastes . |
| 28 | Top cosmetic surgeon Anthony Erian says he turns away more than half the people who walk into his Harley Street consulting rooms looking for a new image . |
| 29 | He had lost many of the people who mattered to him , and he was unsure of himself and his abilities . |
| 30 | An additional problem that has dogged personality theories is that of tautology ; if the categories are to mean anything , they must not be identified only by the fact that the people who fall into them tend to commit crimes . |