Example sentences of "people [verb] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the annual meeting , some 70 people heard of the parish Outreach scheme and of plans to extend the building itself to provide a much larger Christian centre . |
| 2 | ‘ What do your people think of the political changes now going on ? ’ the Minister asked . |
| 3 | It 's easy to see why many people say of the place ‘ Once seen never forgotten ’ . |
| 4 | About 3,500 cases of malignant melanoma ( cancerous moles ) are diagnosed in Britain every year — and about 800 people die of the disease . |
| 5 | No wonder people talked of the breakdown of the health service and turned in their thousands to complementary medicine . |
| 6 | And always , inside and outside , people dreamed of the end of the war . |
| 7 | The trial of two people accused of the murder of a man described as a police informer has been halted on the orders of the judge . |
| 8 | What should that placid little people know of the rattle and rush of an express train , typical as it is of the nerve-wasting haste with which we Westerners live our lives ? |
| 9 | Only our London intelligence people know of the safe house . |
| 10 | In Dar es Salaam and elsewhere during 1967 and 1968 , one occasionally heard mention of Mwafrika as if it still existed , only to discover that what was being referred to was actually Uhuru , the official daily paper of TANU , This confusion was understandable : the Mwafrika of 1965 bore no relation to what people remembered of the old one , but the pattern set by the earlier Mwafrika and Zuhra seems to have been continued after independence by Uhuru and Ngurumo . |
| 11 | It was really to see what people thought of the presentation rather than the prize . ’ |
| 12 | Many more people thought of the works outside Europe in a way that still reflected the idea of El Dorado , or at least of immense profits , and the idea was exploited in vast manipulations of the stock exchanges in France and Britain around 1720 . |
| 13 | In the old days people spoke of the development of character . |
| 14 | Several people spoke of the advantage of needing help from their patients or clients . |
| 15 | People spoke of the great times when he fought sea-battles all over the Sudreyar and further south , in England and Ireland and Wales , but he , Paul , had not been there and did n't remember them . |
| 16 | The ‘ blockbuster ’ bombs were part of the IRA 's economic war , but there had been a tendency for people to despair of the political process , he warned . |
| 17 | Who 's not heard of people cured of the dread |
| 18 | People think of the Klan as those rootin'-tootin' guys who chew tobacco and drive pick-ups . |
| 19 | When older people think of the past they are not just taking stock of their lives but trying to decide what to do with the time that they have left , and trying to do so in relation to concluding or making sense of what has gone before . |
| 20 | What people think of the media in general and each medium in particular and the role or roles they perceive them to play in their lives and in society are important preliminary considerations which have to be studied . |
| 21 | Several blind people complained of the excessive concern over their inability to make eye contact with clients and the difficulty they had convincing teaching staff that they could cope . |
| 22 | Throughout its life of eight years , myth building encouraged people to think of the unit as being on the margins of the organization . |
| 23 | Early maps exist to show how people conceived of the world at the time , but unless made of durable material , like this mosaic , such maps have not survived . |
| 24 | The family of a man shot dead in a row over a fence have started legal action against two people cleared of the killing . |
| 25 | Furthermore , Mr Chris Mullin , the author of the book which asserts the innocence of the six people convicted of the Birmingham bombing ( Error of Judgement , Chatto and Windus , £10.95 ) is a former editor of Tribune , one of whose previous works was a novel about that tedious left-wing fantasy : a right-wing coup in Britain . |
| 26 | We started our 1964 test with the words : ‘ Sun-capped Dolomites and the distant roar and squeal of one of the works rally cars scrambling its way up the Gavia Pass — this is perhaps the image that some people have of the big Austin-Healey at work . |
| 27 | He seems to be above , or able to cut through , all the normal suspicions that alienated young people have of the ‘ Establishment ’ in a quite remarkable way . |
| 28 | Secondly , by using interviews from local people the programme dispelled the ‘ Grim North ’ image many people have of the Tyneside area . |
| 29 | The overall goal , therefore , of the SPR/SSR system is to keep all relevant people informed of the performance and status of the software stored in LIFESPAN . |