Example sentences of "people [Wh pn] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He thought that if people such as the Iroquois of North America practised a particular type of agriculture it could be assumed that their institutions were the same as those of long dead prehistoric peoples who had a similar level of technology . |
| 2 | The Old Cumberland Beggar is more obviously a sermon addressed to the political economist , who believes that only ‘ people who show a profit ’ are important , and that people who are poor or old or ill should be shut away because they are ‘ useless to society ’ . |
| 3 | Those people who show a strong respect for authority and who expect negative criticism often dread making presentations to their superiors ( see Chapter Four for more on authority and criticism ) . |
| 4 | We shall need in time to check which belong to people who had a right to handle the diary ; Sir Paul , yourself , members of the household . |
| 5 | ‘ I think there have been a lot of people who had a problem in Hollywood because they were too good-looking or too charming . |
| 6 | He remembers : ‘ He was one of those people who had a firm sense of the system and how it could be made to work . |
| 7 | It was It seems a kind of I mean it seems to have gone on quite a bit that people who had a Co book would allow other people to draw off of that , would go to the shops and buy whatever they needed of the Co book . |
| 8 | are people who had a choice about where they would live . |
| 9 | ‘ We know of two people who had a row recently , do n't we ? ’ |
| 10 | He liked people who had a family , which was why he enjoyed being with Gordon Jackson so much . |
| 11 | I was talking to a civil servant in the Ministry of erm Energy the other day , and he said that he reckoned out of several hundred people working there there were about fifteen people who had a scientific or engineering background , and therefore were able to talk with some degree of expertise perhaps and certainly knowledge about the matters that they were discussing . |
| 12 | But I think , looking back in history , there has always been a erm strong erm religious motivation behind many of the past great scientists , like Newton , erm Boyle , Maxwell , Calvin — these are all people who had a very strong religious motivation erm behind their investigations , and if you look back in history still further , there is a strong case to be made that the reason why science was so dramatically successful in the west was because there was a strong belief in monotheistic religion , that people believe that the world had been created in an ordered way by a deity and so there really were laws of nature to be discovered , whereas if you study what happened in the Far East , for example , in China , the Chinese , you remember , were well ahead of the west in science at about the tenth century . |
| 13 | In my experience most people who suffer a myocardial infarct have been under pressure with associated exhaustion and fatigue for a prolonged period . |
| 14 | I mean , you get people who blow a couple of bars on a mouth organ and then hold out their hands . |
| 15 | The same study found that people who read a daily paper were more likely to watch the news on TV than people who did not . |
| 16 | And there is a high proportion of people who know a good deal about what they are looking at and may even have seen it before . |
| 17 | It sounds convincing but , as I have already noted , most people who know a particular species well quickly develop a good intuitive sense from an animal 's bodily and facial postures of whether it is likely to attack or escape . |
| 18 | we have people who know a lot about the subject , and others who are bringing in their own items for us to assess |
| 19 | ‘ It is not acceptable to have people who require a home confined to long-stay institutions when they could be in more domestic settings . |
| 20 | Thus most long-term care for people who require a lot of daily support would be the responsibility of the local authority rather than , as formerly , of the NHS . |
| 21 | ‘ Many spend two years in the sixth form and get nothing at all , and it is hard for people who get a low grade at A-level to realise they have actually done very well . ’ |
| 22 | The Minister of State spoke about overcrowding and the cost of adding a supervision requirement to the new sentence ; with Mayhew , in a phrase that was to gain increasing currency on the Conservative benches , pronouncing that whereas a great many people who get a suspended sentence , and their friends , think that they have got away with their crime , the effect of ‘ a short , sharp and I hope , nasty taste of prison ’ would linger on . |
| 23 | Anyway I gather from my office cleaner that tickets from Oxford are now on sale to their season ticket holders and members , and will be on sale soon to public people who get a voucher from this saturday 's game . |
| 24 | The man who was killed was one of three people who attacked a crew from the international television news agency , Visnews , 50 yards from the Marines ' post at the airport entrance . |
| 25 | Police are searching for people who attacked a pony , leaving it with a gaping wound six inches long in its leg . |
| 26 | I would go as far as to argue that , however well-intentioned and humanitarian the people who undertake a socialist revolution , the logic of their ideology , which is of necessity reflected in the institutions which they create , makes totalitarianism inevitable . |
| 27 | Because these men who knew with such unquestionable certainty the difference between right and wrong , and who blithely described the garotters as creatures capable of responding only to the fear of physical pain , were people who knew a great deal about physical pain . |
| 28 | Opinion was mobilised around the paradoxical notion that it was Black people who represented a threat to the rule of law in Britain . |
| 29 | It is a known fact that most people who attempt a new diet or exercise regime fail on Day 3 . |
| 30 | sort of track are contacting the people who done a very good job on the on the public footpath erm and that was actually going through our land , and they done some steps with erm you know erm wooden erm supports in them , er maybe in in conjunction with , was it ? |