Example sentences of "people [vb base] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In other countries , the indigenous peoples live in a state of siege . |
| 2 | For as long as ordinary people remain on the Island , this pub will not change . |
| 3 | Opus declined to say how many people remain with the company or how many boxes it actually put in the field . |
| 4 | This was a vital necessity , otherwise the nation would remain backward , introverted and its people remain in a state of psychological subjugation . |
| 5 | When they reach retirement age , most people qualify for the basic pension , which is normally uprated once a year to keep in line with price rises . |
| 6 | Some people change for the better . |
| 7 | This suggests that you should sit at arms length from your monitor and should n't site desks so that people sit near the back of monitors . |
| 8 | ‘ How many people sit in a theatre ? |
| 9 | Against this background of craters and devastated buildings people sit in the sun at cafes open again for a town which has nothing else to do but drink coffee and wait for the future . |
| 10 | When I explain that I read books for a living , people launch into a frenzy of apologetic explanation : ‘ I do n't have the time ! ’ ; |
| 11 | However , by far the majority of slim people eat in a relatively relaxed , rather haphazard style that is not governed by special rules . |
| 12 | Speaking in Birmingham yesterday Ramblers ' chairman Dr Geoff Eastwood said : ‘ While millions of people flock to the countryside to enjoy its footpaths and open spaces , those who live in the cities and are without the means to travel to the countryside are losing out on a great potential leisure resource right on their doorsteps . ’ |
| 13 | Even though the obvious explanation of the abnormal rhythmicity is that these people suffer from the loss of the light/dark cycle as a time-cue , the result also indicates that the other time-cues ( social factors , activity , and meal times ) are inadequate . |
| 14 | The key to Homoeopathy is that no two people suffer from the same disease . |
| 15 | More than 300 million people suffer from the parasitic infection filariasis , Cholera , yellow fever , sleeping sickness leishmaniasis and leprosy affect tens of millions of people in tropical regions . |
| 16 | Under pressure from diminishing resources and central government exhortations , much greater emphasis is being placed on the careful targeting of policy measures to the places where people suffer from the most severe problems , as evidenced by the successive reviews of regional policy and by the initiatives of the 1970s and 1980s aimed at rejuvenating inner city areas . |
| 17 | Many people suffer from the same disease of thinking they must be right all the time , and they must push their rightness onto other people . |
| 18 | The research aims to describe how people sell on the telephone , how they sell successfully , and what factors make certain calls more successful than others . |
| 19 | Film of the real thing is an excellent way of challenging misconceptions or assumptions people make about a situation and a good aim for viewing tasks is to make trainees sharper in their perception of what is happening around them . |
| 20 | Of youth crime , it said : ’ Considering the significant contribution that young people make to the crime problem , both as victims and offenders , the working group was surprised by the lack of references to specific strategies for preventing crime by and against young people . ’ |
| 21 | The core distribution business , providing a kind of mail order service in components , put in a firm performance , thanks to improved margins on the many small orders people make in a recession , and reduced losses at a new German start-up . |
| 22 | To combat ageism , therefore , we need knowledge and understanding of the effective adjustments which so many very old people make in the face of radically changed situations , physical , social and emotional . |
| 23 | Many ageing people hide behind the facade of ‘ being all right ’ , and this is often one which is most difficult for the counsellor to penetrate ( Scrutton , 1986 ) . |
| 24 | He predicted civil war between parties currently gathered in an " illusory coalition " against his administration , which would lead to " genuine dictatorship , and not the imaginary one which certain people perceive in the current constitutional regime " . |
| 25 | Streets are blocked and atheism has to give way as people kneel in the streets and cross themselves with the sign of the Holy Trinity . ) |
| 26 | My horse is kept at a lovely yard 13 miles away : too far for many people 's choice , but the facilities and the people compensate for the 20 minute drive . |
| 27 | ONCE again we 've had to witness the horrifying sight of Christmas carnage on the roads because a few stupid people fly in the face of common sense and drive like lunatics whatever the conditions . |
| 28 | People sleep on the floor or huddle round television sets . |
| 29 | Only observation of parental intercourse is prohibited — a very significant exception in the light of basic psychoanalytic theory — but as these people sleep in the open around camp-fires and children can easily feign sleep , this rule is unenforceable . |
| 30 | People expect of a theory of origins that in some way or other it gives them some quite privileged and special position , and they feel undermined and threatened by a theory of origin which does n't say something really rather special about them . |