Example sentences of "people [Wh pn] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to this theory the earlier generational pairing was abandoned because it led to so much inbreeding that people who practised the gens system were genetically more fit for natural selection and therefore survived better . |
| 2 | He glared at the people who surrounded the tent , and they glared back , wanting action . |
| 3 | And I think when we talk in terms in getting around to spending the money we have got then we need to look quite clearly about how you make a place more inviting and it 's also about when people come into the building how they 're met what the receptionists like , when they ring up can they get through and I mean I 'm I 'm surprised that 's said about the tickets that I think that our reception ticket areas an excellent area the people working there are first class are very friendly very helpful so it 's trying to get that sort of concept through the building I thin k we work on that I think the building 's kept very clean people who clean the building are very good but I hear what you 're saying and I thinks it 's been said earlier by the lady here by the foyer downstairs she feels threatened when she goes into that bar because I think the whole decor and the way it is is a threatening place I think we need to look at those so that was an old and . |
| 4 | Some people who ate the fish died in nasty ways . |
| 5 | This apparently innocuous theory ran into trouble in a French village on an occasion when wheat was grown in a normal way , converted into bread in a normal way and yet most people who ate the bread became seriously ill and many died . |
| 6 | So , I mean what I 'm saying is that I think we should have a league table if you like of , of attendances , I , I recognise that that may not be popular , but I think it 's going to be one way of sorting out those people who attend every opportunity , and sometimes just to pat an officer on the back . |
| 7 | The giant Unilever company has found a link between dishwasher sales and people who attend the opera and theatre . |
| 8 | Basically everything we all agree at the Institute the question of improving the lot of the Third World is the responsibility of Third Worlders , and in fact a number of us would add that in very many cases , certainly not in all , it would not be achieved through slow incremental technical change , but would require in some cases very major social structural changes that in some cases erm will only be brought about very major social upheaval erm and there all we can do is add to perhaps the element of increasing consciousness and awareness of the problems , which furthermore is a two way street , I mean when we have this study activities we learn as much from the people who attend the seminars as we tell them . |
| 9 | I would have liked to see the bungalow demolished on TV so that people who violate the laws will know in future what can happen . ’ |
| 10 | The Old Cumberland Beggar is more obviously a sermon addressed to the political economist , who believes that only ‘ people who show a profit ’ are important , and that people who are poor or old or ill should be shut away because they are ‘ useless to society ’ . |
| 11 | Those people who show a strong respect for authority and who expect negative criticism often dread making presentations to their superiors ( see Chapter Four for more on authority and criticism ) . |
| 12 | ‘ People who show the drive and the energy to put in a great deal of their own personal time in pursuit of professional qualifications quite frankly deserve all the company support they can get , ’ says Jill Fulton , senior personnel officer , recruitment and training . |
| 13 | The financial advisers of those days were probably the people who taught the ones who have been professional schemes . |
| 14 | Sumner was unhappy that WordPerfect was n't invited to take part in the exercise and was critical of the relatively small sample of 51 people who evaluated the products . |
| 15 | And th and then we have Mr Lilley saying that there were lots of people at the Tory Party Conference , remember , he had his little list that he was going to go through and and erm chop out all the , the social security scroungers and people who abused the system . |
| 16 | I it 's only , th the attacks were against those people who abused the system not the system . |
| 17 | I wish you two lots over there would get your act together so that people who chair the meetings were of the right calibre for a chairman and not just because it was their turn . |
| 18 | Since Friday she had met many people who had every reason to be relieved , but Ayling had come closest to saying he was glad . |
| 19 | It was useless to baptize people who had no understanding of the faith , or who had not been persuaded by teaching to espouse Christianity . |
| 20 | An attempt to have them evicted failed because the county court judge ruled that the law only applied to people who had no interest in the property . |
| 21 | An attempt to have them evicted failed because the county court judge ruled that the law only applied to people who had no interest in the property . |
| 22 | Little thought was given to the conditions in which people who had no desire to leave the country of their birth had to live . |
| 23 | ‘ But should all of those people who had no part in that decision be made to wait ? , ’ he added . |
| 24 | This feeling was common even to many people who had no formal religious beliefs . |
| 25 | She was one of the few people who had no fear of him , even her Chief Constable would be shocked if he heard the way she argued with him sometimes . |
| 26 | Because of the success of The Making of the English Landscape people who had no interest in the countryside have read the book and been inspired by it But others have used the book and particularly this chapter as an authoritative statement that most hedges are modern and thus do not constitute a serious loss if they are removed to accommodate modern agricultural techniques . |
| 27 | The effect was that of an attempt at Mediterranean good taste , contrived by and for people who had no taste at all . |
| 28 | An alien presence had established itself in the heart of the town and people who had no connection with the crime under investigation or any other would feel uneasy until they were gone . |
| 29 | Chief Const Keith Hellawell criticised the mechanism used to deal with young offenders in particular as slow and bureaucratic , adding his officers were having to deal with young people who had no sense of social values . |
| 30 | We shall need in time to check which belong to people who had a right to handle the diary ; Sir Paul , yourself , members of the household . |