Example sentences of "not [art] [noun sg] of people " in BNC.

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1 Ebenezer , who spent 25 years in the navy , said : ‘ We 're not the kind of people who want to go racing round the world .
2 Not the kind of people who have everything sent . ’
3 Administrative tasks would lose their exploitative character and consist of the administration of things , not the repression of people .
4 It has had , since its inception , an adversarial relationship with governments and its activists are not the sort of people with whom Conservative governments easily make friends , particularly when they block the outflow pipe of nuclear processing plants such as the one at Sellafield in Cumbria .
5 But when people like Norman Jay and Omar said they were into the track , it sort of backed up in my own mind that it was a safe tune — they 're not the sort of people who give you compliments just to make you smile . ’
6 She avoided conversation with the other passengers , who , she saw immediately , were in commerce and not the sort of people she usually mixed with .
7 Our , most of our rules and most of our laws are made by people who are frightened of losing their property , and not the sort of people who are frightened of being mugged at night .
8 disgusting but then they 're not the sort of people you can talk to are they ?
9 The central idea of ethnomethodology is that the orderliness of social life is not the result of people obeying social norms or giving way to social pressures , but rather that orderliness is attained by all those involved working to achieve it .
10 I repeat that what is important is how a school deploys its teaching staff , not the number of people it happens to have on its books .
11 Not the world of people or the created world .
12 However , although people seem to agree on a hierarchy of symbolic rewards , this apparent consensus is not the sum of people 's personal evaluations regarding the relative importance of different jobs , but a reproduction of what they have been socialised into accepting and which , when asked , they reproduce as though this sort of thing is a matter of fact .
13 Since telephone conversations are usually confined to you and just one other person , not a group of people , it is easier to take initiatives and control the conversation .
14 The chances are you 've not yet considered the security of your home , not a lot of people do — it 's at the bottom of a long list of priorities .
15 Not a lot of people know this , but Dame Edna is a close confidante of the Queen .
16 One of our prolific actors , Michael Caine is also an avid foodie and successful restaurateur — though not a lot of people know that
17 Guitarists write to me a lot for advice , I guess because there 's not a lot of people out there who can really help .
18 Not a lot of people played it .
19 Not a lot of people know he won
20 Not a lot of people know that , ’ he continued , dropping unexpectedly into his Michael Caine persona .
21 Move over Wilf NOT a lot of people might know this , but a Newcastle United player has come closer to an Olympic medal than poor old wobbling Wilf O'Reilly .
22 Not a lot of people in the park .
23 off , and there 's not a lot of people that I know of
24 Not a lot of people know that .
25 Not a lot of people know that .
26 It 's something that not a lot of people take notice of , as I say , until they become a victim of it .
27 In the Third World land scarcity among the poor is due to skewed ownership , not an overload of people .
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