Example sentences of "people are [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The UK Parliament is certainly not widely regarded as being at all competent in the scrutiny which it exercises over public spending , and few people are under the illusion that it is difficult for government departments to deceive MPs and Select Committees about necessary levels of expenditure and unnecessary levels of waste . |
| 2 | Two-thirds of disabled people are over the age of 60 and poverty is correlated with being old . |
| 3 | Turkey does not want to fight ( her people are at the moment almost frantically pacifist ) : and , if she can help it , she does not intend to fight . |
| 4 | Tory success in the elections to Anne 's first Parliament in 1702 led Dr Henry Sacheverell to boast that " the Majority of the People are for the Church of England " . |
| 5 | A lot of people are of the opinion that they are a very English band and of no interest elsewhere , but I do n't agree . |
| 6 | Many people are of the opinion that record fish lists exist mainly to bolster the egos of the captors of these huge fish . |
| 7 | The Consultants at least have to recognise , they could n't fix that the closure of was strongly opposed but it was a mystery to all of us except obviously Mr on the December how they were unable to nevertheless , to accept a little dissimilar rejection of part of my and the associated increased in the despite the fact that seven different people are of the same several different people same margin Mr but not . |
| 8 | As Miles Quest , writer on and consultant to the tourist industry , said in 1990 , ‘ … armies of people are on the move , and will not stop ’ . |
| 9 | And everywhere in the newly industrialised world people are on the move . |
| 10 | New figures show that in the 20 constituencies represented by the Cabinet , nearly 69,000 people are on the dole — an increase of more than 38,000 in two years . |
| 11 | Type A studios for 2–3 people are on the ground floor , Type B two-bedroomed apartments for 4–5 people are on the first floor . |
| 12 | Type A studios for 2–3 people are on the ground floor , Type B two-bedroomed apartments for 4–5 people are on the first floor . |
| 13 | I was driving along t you know t telling David that all the time that that people are on the roads practising how to drive and becoming better drivers there are people like that wally there crossing the roa Oh , it 's Simon . |
| 14 | In our strife-torn world , millions of people are on the move , in fear or in hope . |
| 15 | As usual Black people are on the margins , and seem to be animated props . |
| 16 | Trained people are on the way , and many of the people that we train go onto work college , other commercial agencies . |
| 17 | It has also been planned with the understanding that people are among the most valuable assets that any firm or corporation has . |
| 18 | When people are within the vicious cycle of stress , their top priority becomes limiting the damage that is being done to their self-esteem . |
| 19 | And all your people are out the door . |
| 20 | These people are from the Gloucester Centre for Harmony , and they 're indulging in what 's known as tree healing . |
| 21 | If you walk into a room full of strangers and there is only one person in that room whom you know , you will immediately see and recognise that person , however many people are in the room , because here is something which interests you — your human oasis in a desert of unfamiliar faces . |
| 22 | People can not smell or touch each other , so new devices are needed to give the impression that people are in the room . |
| 23 | It is generally true that people are in the greatest difficulties when the external world confirms their worst fears about themselves , and are at their happiest when it confirms their best fantasies . |
| 24 | He says these forces will move into areas where the retreating Serbs ( or Croats or Muslims ) ‘ have been protecting villages and towns where their own constituent people are in the majority . ’ |
| 25 | They 've only been elected to nineteen ninety two , so they 're , they 're really , what there doing there forcing people to take some action now , because at Kathy says , she 's afraid of being left out , if there should be a , another Tory Government , so a lot of people are in the same position , they will be putting in eh , I think they just call it best of interest , not a proper application , but then if the whole lot , hundreds of us come along , which is quite likely they will , the Government will say well this proves that everybody wants to become you see , so it 's rather clever move , erm , as , as far as I 'm concerned , what 's happening with that she is eh here within the hospital , the consultant 's and the worker 's in the hospital . |
| 26 | One of the experiences of the programme is that it is important to involve social security officers early on , to tell them what 's going to happen , not to wait until people are in the community and then make the claim . |
| 27 | The year Lydia had bought her cottage a young person had died and Lydia had been lost for words , as people are in the face of tragedy . |
| 28 | Sometimes though dogs only bark when people are in the house , they protect the person , the owner , rather than the building . |
| 29 | These are establishing analogues , integrating technologies , understanding uncertainties and making sure the right people are in the right place at the right time . |
| 30 | As many as 116 other people are in the same position . |