Example sentences of "the people [vb base] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The top 10 per cent of the people receive half the annual revenue . |
| 2 | I feel sorry for the D S S cos the Citizen 's Advice Bureau to make sure that the people get all they 're entitled |
| 3 | Locally the people call this animal a mara . |
| 4 | Dr Bruce Styne — originally from California but who came to live in Castlerock six years ago after a spell working in London — said : ‘ The people love this place . |
| 5 | Furthermore , the objective threat posed by the Soviet Union and its own nuclear weapons means that the United States has to have a permanent war economy and that the people recognise this and vote for it . |
| 6 | And whether the erm the kind of ideology or the ideas are christian or Marxist erm you 've got to wait till the overwhelming mass of the people see that truth before er it can be effective . |
| 7 | Even the World Bank has proposed that in Latin America , where one per cent of the people own half the land , they should pay a heavy income tax . |