Example sentences of "people [vb base] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These people account for 25.3 per cent of all spending on clothing and footwear , 21.6 per cent on household goods and 31.3 per cent on leisure . |
| 2 | This chapter pursues our general theme of exploring locales and localities as the context of interaction between people and the understandings people gain through such interaction . |
| 3 | Thus older people predominate among long-term claimants : 75 per cent of people aged 60 and over have been receiving Income Support for three years or more , compared with 40 per cent of those under 60 ; elderly people comprise 60 per cent of those receiving this benefit for five years or more . |
| 4 | Erm well I mean I think there 's some very fundamental issues in all this in , in the communication spectrum first of all using the phrase back to basics , what do people mean by that and that 's where the , they , they have gone wrong because the problem is that here we are , four people round this table and I 'm sure if all of us were asked what do we mean by getting back to basics , we 'll come out with a totally different you know set of things that meanings . |
| 5 | What do people mean by this ? |
| 6 | The therapeutic encounter is one in which two people communicate with one another , using a language . |
| 7 | Many groups of people suffer from stagnant or falling rates of both food and fuel production alongside others who have very significantly increased theirs . |
| 8 | About 3 in 1,000 people suffer from moderate or severe mental retardation . |
| 9 | There are no simple answers as to why people suffer from cardiovascular , respiratory and other Western diseases . |
| 10 | Many people suffer from this , and it does n't have to mean that they will eventually become much worse . |
| 11 | More than three million people suffer from severe mental illness . |
| 12 | The biotic and expressive orders help explain why people suffer from ontological insecurity , and why ( and how ) they attempt to create zones of relative autonomy . |
| 13 | Many of the diseases from which people suffer in Western society are caused by over-eating . |
| 14 | Do People suffer in this way ? |
| 15 | He did n't believe me when I told him about you , which just goes to show how much people judge by outward appearances . |
| 16 | An early question relates to ways of thinking about claims that people make on each other within families and the expression of these in law . |
| 17 | Denied political and civil space in most Arab society by undemocratic regimes of various kinds , many people make of such an image a confused by powerful instrument of criticism of their own rulers , never mind the powers which they associate with colonial history and contemporary world dominance . |
| 18 | I wonder what other people make of that , if , er if other people have had similar experiences ? |
| 19 | Wonder what people make of that ? |
| 20 | Given that the biogenic character of aggression is established it does not exculpate other sources of influence , namely social and psychological , from responsibility for the attacks people make upon one another . |
| 21 | Seemingly , they are also happy to accept that the meat/meet merger is also a true merger , and that some people alternate between these two merged classes . |
| 22 | Hair loss is quite normal and most people lose between 100 and 150 hairs every day |
| 23 | ‘ People tend at first to treat you as if you 're a journalist looking for Guinness connections . ’ |
| 24 | One common local belief about Belfast English is that upper-middle-class people tend to front-raise /a/ ( as in bat ) towards the conservative RP value : [ ae ] ( but we found little sign of this in any part of our research ) . |
| 25 | Everyday , people interact with one another and whether this is done informally or formally it involves a topic or string of topics . |
| 26 | Extreme natural events illuminate one aspect of the complex process by which people interact with biological and physical systems … |
| 27 | These are heightened in a hotel , since many people sleep within one building . |
| 28 | But participant observation you stand the best chance really of being able to check the accuracy of what , th they 're telling you in terms of behaviour and wha , and what people say , and what different people say in those situations over the , so you know . |
| 29 | One sees again and again that such people grow in outside interests . |
| 30 | But we know that people disagree to some extent about the right principles of behaviour , so we distinguish that requirement from the different ( and weaker ) requirement that they act in important matters with integrity , that is , according to convictions that inform and shape their lives as a whole , rather than capriciously or whimsically . |