Example sentences of "people 's [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The people 's assent to the covenant is formally sealed by a special sacrifice , and by the covenant meal eaten by their representatives in the presence of God . |
| 2 | You 're talking there about a bunch of people trying to stop another bunch of people 's expression of what they see , when they know absolutely nothing about them . |
| 3 | You 're talking there about a bunch of people trying to stop another bunch of people 's expression of what they see , when they know absolutely nothing about them . |
| 4 | But the language is so difficult to learn that there are times when I feel completely stupid and understand hearing people 's difficulty in learning sign language . |
| 5 | Gennady Burbulis , Yeltsin 's close friend who had headed the Sverdlovsk Party club and was an elected people 's deputy of the USSR , was also an active participant . |
| 6 | A similar thing has happened to Ms , especially in Britain and Australia : instead of replacing Miss and Mrs it has been added to the system to make a further distinction , referring in many people 's usage to older unmarried women , divorcees and ‘ strident feminists ’ — in other words , to ‘ abnormal ’ and ‘ unfeminine ’ women who have not been able to get — or keep — a man . |
| 7 | Previously , she had felt that the activities provided for retired people were not sufficiently mind-stretching and seemed to be based on younger people 's vision of what pensioners wanted . |
| 8 | Whereas the hypocrite normally deceives other people 's vision of himself , making them see good where he means evil , Iago manages to transmit that doubleness into their vision of the rest of the world . |
| 9 | The exception is the teacher who dissipates other people 's goodwill by edging further into a personally disorganized life or by losing any real sense of what is required of a teacher . |
| 10 | ( In fact , if one reads her work carefully , one notices that she never speaks of God , but rather of people 's concept of God , which may lead them on in their striving for justice . ) |
| 11 | Enlarging young people 's concept of work |
| 12 | This seeks to enlarge young people 's concept of work beyond that of traditional employment . |
| 13 | One of the big problems about erm teaching people what Darwin really said is that people 's concept of evolution by natural selection is er contaminated by ideas which were actually originated , not by Darwin , but by the founder of British sociology , Herbert Spencer , whose dates were nineteen twenty to nineteen O three . |
| 14 | Much of the data on the health effects of radiation has come from studying the surviving victims of the 1945 Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombs , where the Japanese people 's exposure to radiation was of an extremely large dose in a matter of seconds . |
| 15 | Clearly technology is not the only determinant of work organisation , or of people 's level of satisfaction at work . |
| 16 | The first , looking at women 's health at work , runs at Wallsend People 's Centre on Tyneside on three Tuesdays from June 23 . |
| 17 | Tutor Gina Tiller will look at changes in Europe that benefit working women , in a day course at Wallsend People 's Centre on Saturday , June 6 . |
| 18 | Barbara Myerhoff 's notably thoughtful study of a seafront Jewish old people 's centre in Venice , Los Angeles , conveys this well . |
| 19 | They stole £250 and vandalised offices at the People 's Centre in Raby Road . |
| 20 | However , the difficulties of containing risk go far beyond the immediate physical environment ; they relate also to old people 's capacity for self-care , keeping themselves clean , feeding themselves and so on . |
| 21 | However , people 's capacity for perceiving themselves in this way is not innate ; it is acquired within a framework of established social practices which impose on them the role ( forme ) of a subject . |
| 22 | Second , the " medicalisation of life " destroys people 's capacity for self-care and self-responsibility . |
| 23 | The ‘ authors of the ‘ neutralisation ’ idea ’ were accused of trying to decide the Afghan people 's fate for them ‘ without asking the government of that country what its position is and what it thinks on this score ’ . |
| 24 | In 1982 , the People 's Trust for Endangered Species , a conservation group based in the UK , sent Allan Thornton and photographer David Higgs to document the hunt , and attempt to determine the number of dolphins being killed . |
| 25 | The total raised is being divided between the Young People 's Trust for the Environment and Nature Conservation and the Children 's Liver Disease Foundation . |
| 26 | Tanith Blackman , of Ingleton , near Darlington , is a pupil at The Assumption School , Richmond , and the competition , organised by the Young People 's Trust for the Environment , is an award scheme for business and industry involving children of company employees . |
| 27 | Her latest pester-the-public project involves hanging outside a shoe repair shop and testing people 's trust by asking to take a copy of their house key . |
| 28 | Every item must perforce pay the tribute of the Chinese people 's gratitude to and love for Mao or Chou , and also to Hua . |
| 29 | As you will see in the final reading from Gowie Corby Plays Chicken nobody w ill put up with Gowie 's cruel jokes for ever and it 's not long before people 's patience with him runs out . |
| 30 | It is dispersals of this People 's University of books bequeathed by the Victorians and their successors up to the postwar years that are the real reason for the library 's losing its soul , as Richard Hoggart so aptly put it . |