Example sentences of "people [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the one hand , the local situation and knowledge about it encouraged some people to retire at the same time as they were made redundant . |
| 2 | In this context , it is likely that changes in the nature of marital relations resulting from the increasingly private nature of family life , together with an increasing tendency by working people to plan for the future , were the most important variables explaining the decrease in working class fertility during the inter-war years , at a time when the employed working man enjoyed a more regular and higher real wage than ever before . |
| 3 | After consultation with the police the council is asking people to gather on the Boulevard and the nearby Gloucester Street car park , at the rear of the library , which has been reserved for them . |
| 4 | Prosecuting uneducated deaf people with no speech , and accepting what they said in their defence in those days was however a different matter altogether from allowing the same people to go into the witness box and testify against other people . |
| 5 | Not to talk about their loss but to have people to go to the pub , cinema , even on holiday with . |
| 6 | The chairman of the Colchester and District Licensed Victuallers ' Association , Malcolm Freund , said the increases would further encourage people to go to the continent to buy alcohol . |
| 7 | Turns out , Deardrie , she 's applied to be an astronaut — I remember seeing the advert , asking for people to go to the moon — it 's not that I 'm jealous , but why did n't she ask me first ? |
| 8 | If the money was ploughed back into dog racing — horse racing enjoys a £40million levy — tracks could improve amenities and strengthen security which would encourage more people to go to the dogs . |
| 9 | But it 's always a , a joy for blind people to go to the theatre |
| 10 | Research has shown — as might be expected — that ‘ natural breaks ’ in programmes allow people to go to the lavatory or brew up a cup of tea rather than watch the commercials . |
| 11 | Julia was half convinced that she should tell the young people to go to the cinema and dances again but she consulted Pat . |
| 12 | Surely He did n't want people to go to the cinema ? |
| 13 | so , erm I hope that , that might make few people visit , but then as I said also in it , you ca n't force people to go to the theatre if they do n't want |
| 14 | We are now charging frail elderly people , physically and mentally handicapped people to go to the day car facilities that they so value and so need . |
| 15 | And both these tours enable people to go round the house on their own . |
| 16 | and in the summer when they were thirty nine P it 's to get people to go in the shop really |
| 17 | There are people to see at the Embassy , a number of them friends of mine . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | As is invariably the case in such matters , the only people to profit from the entire episode were the lawyers . |
| 20 | Harold Carter , some of you will know of him and have heard of him who was er , a preacher within one of the early preachers within the pentecostal movement in this country , and one of their teachers , said that to teach people to wait for the Holy Spirit is nothing in the world but a combination of works , and unbelief . |
| 21 | Counselling can play a vital part in helping retired , or retiring , elderly people to cope with the many dilemmas and pressures such attitudes place upon them . |
| 22 | In recent years emphasis has moved away from the teaching of ‘ craft ’ skills such as cookery and sewing towards the development of a range of practical and organisational skills which will enable young people to cope with the demands of living in constantly changing social and economic conditions . |
| 23 | Yes we were told they 're going to be trees like that because they 've had a lot of trouble with pigeons roosting in the erm the mature trees and it 's impossible for people to sit on the benches underneath cos of er pigeon mess . |
| 24 | According to their argument , above a certain level greater welfare benefits can act as a work disincentive , encouraging people to remain below the poverty line and be supported by the state rather than by their own efforts , which would have to be the case if benefits were lower . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The government 's response to the riots , apart from the setting up of the Scarman Inquiry , was to devote more resources to law and order and to renew its efforts to persuade business people to invest in the inner cities . |
| 28 | Dr Mitchell has spent the last five months getting people to write to the Royal Mail Stamp Programme Manager in London to lobby for a set of stamps honouring his father 's work . |
| 29 | The idea of this is for all the people to pull on the rope as hard as possible . |
| 30 | It has very much the same facilities as Delta Five , but is single-user rather than allowing several people to work on the same data , and also has a lower limit on the number of records , transaction files , and so on ; nothing that would really present a problem , unless you were trying to use the system for a fairly large system , in which case you should be using Delta Five . |