Example sentences of "people [vb base] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | For as long as ordinary people remain on the Island , this pub will not change . |
| 2 | Opus declined to say how many people remain with the company or how many boxes it actually put in the field . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Some people change for the better . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The key to Homoeopathy is that no two people suffer from the same disease . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | 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 " . |
| 18 | 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 . ) |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | People sleep on the floor or huddle round television sets . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The campaigning or action group of committed older people may not be what many people expect from the counselling process , preferring acceptance and contentment rather than possible militancy as the outcome of help and support . |
| 24 | If my right hon. and learned Friend believes in cause and effect , will he assure the House that he has learnt a lesson from it and that not only investment in but the subsidy to British Rail will be maintained to provide the service that people expect from the railways as we approach the end of the century ? |
| 25 | The vast majority of head-injured people slip through the net and the burden falls on the carers . |
| 26 | It 's easy to see why many people say of the place ‘ Once seen never forgotten ’ . |
| 27 | The Profitboss does n't control punctuality nor what his people say to the press . |
| 28 | Well what a lot of people say on the course is I know it 's my responsibility , but I always , I do n't always have the time to train because there 's a lot of backlog , there 's a lot of pressure , it 's and we all say to them that training is like a catch twenty two situation . |
| 29 | He needs not to forget that there are demonic forces in the universe whatever people say about the existence of the devil . |
| 30 | ‘ And I do n't care what people say about the age difference . |