Example sentences of "people [verb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The health authorities declared a fresh state of " red alert " on Dec. 28 when further cases of cholera were discovered in three northern provinces bordering Bolivia and Paraguay , although it was reported that none of the 44 people diagnosed in the space of five days had died [ for outbreak in early 1992 see p. 38761 ] . |
| 3 | It is usually a part-time appointment , often held by people distinguished in the world outside university , such as lawyers and business people . |
| 4 | and in the summer when they were thirty nine P it 's to get people to go in the shop really |
| 5 | It might be a scene in the High Street , or it might be some particular local personality who it would entertain the people to see in the evening , erm their faces on the screen . |
| 6 | I sat back expecting to be proved right and watched as people joined in the discussion and debate . |
| 7 | Its principles : participation , equity and intersectoral collaboration may seem new to many health workers but they are very familiar to people formed in the community development approach . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The young people gathered in the parlour . |
| 10 | According to Jordan radio " over one million " people gathered in the streets of Amman to greet the King on his arrival . |
| 11 | A LIVELY debate has broken out among the knot of people gathered in the GMTV studio concerning the future of Britain 's newest breakfast television channel . |
| 12 | Listening to the personal stories of the half-dozen Easterhouse people gathered in the hall — stories of drug addiction , crime , alcoholism , unemployment , poverty — it is hard to ignore his appeal . |
| 13 | The government had concluded ‘ that it is quite wrong that we should build up artificial hopes ’ by allowing boat people to remain in the colony in the belief that they would be resettled . |
| 14 | ( A full list of people consulted in the US is included at the end of the report . ) |
| 15 | Apart from Donna there were only two other people eating in the train 's dining car . |
| 16 | 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 " . |
| 17 | For of course the Pacific is still influenced by the Atlantic that once dominated the world : the ties that bound the world together yesterday — personified by the men and women who came out from the West to trade or to peddle religion , to colonize , annex , smuggle or fight — these ties still exist today , though more weakly , with less influence and fewer and fewer people enrolled in the process . |
| 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 | Few people lived in the north the whole time and in the south a large proportion of the permanent residents were slaves . |
| 20 | More than 125 people lived in the two blocks of flats , the Press Trust of India reported . |
| 21 | Combining life-histories with the use of personal documents such as letters and diaries can show how ordinary people lived in the past ( Plummer 1982 ) . |
| 22 | Organic remains provide much evidence as to how people lived in the past . |
| 23 | How many people lived in the house ? |
| 24 | Three people lived in the house — a beautiful girl , an old man , and a young man . |
| 25 | Some 500,000,000 people lived in the 42 LDCs ( 110,000,000 of them in Bangladesh ) , where population growth averaged 2.6 per cent . |
| 26 | As in most provincial towns of the time , the wealthiest families lived in the central area and the poorest people lived in the thickly-populated outskirts . |
| 27 | In 1801 a mere twenty-five people lived in the four houses that comprised the settlement of Middlesborough and thirty years later the population stood at only 154 . |
| 28 | By 1841 , when 1,079 people lived in the village , 107 men and boys and just 3 females worked at the trade . |
| 29 | Whatever the position in remoter times , when most people lived in the country , the urbanisation of England in the nineteenth century meant , among other things , that farmland adjacent to what were once small towns became the target of urban development . |
| 30 | Roger Kelly is convinced that there are enough people to invest in the centre : ‘ Five years ago this would have been a pipe-dream , but with the rise of the ethical investment movement it 's become a real possibility . |