Example sentences of "people [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Opals were totally unknown to the early civilizations of the Old World and only came to the knowledge of the Mediterranean peoples as an outcome of Roman military expansion into the Balkans . |
| 2 | Other issues discussed during the visit included the movement of peoples between the two countries and the convening of a conference on relief and development in the Horn of Africa . |
| 3 | The crisis of capitalism therefore is the crisis of a society based on the exploitation of the labour force through the pursuit of private profit , the exploitation of women through the bourgeois family and the exploitation of colonial peoples through the abuse of minorities and the rise of neo-colonialism in the form of multi-national corporations and US foreign policy . |
| 4 | Neither the government nor the consortium has consulted the area 's Indian peoples about the concession ; at least seven Indian communities of Caribs , Arawak , Warau and Akawaio lie within the concession and the Amerindian Peoples ' Association of Guyana has appealed for the concession to be suspended . |
| 5 | To the east there was now the great long arm of East Prussia , an area occupied by German settlers planted on the remains of the Baltic Borussian peoples after the civilising work of the Teutonic Knights . |
| 6 | In the past this has been countered by the numerous superstitions of the indigenous peoples towards the river dolphins , but as the economic pressures of the commercial fishery become greater , these superstitions are likely to become less respected , especially by the younger fishermen . |
| 7 | This new study is based on the thesis that agreement on values and purposes is more likely to be achieved at regional level , among peoples of a broadly similar cultural background and experience , than globally . |
| 8 | The issue is far more complicated and it is only fair to note that we have not reached a stage of knowledge when we can easily say what explains the status of women among the different peoples of the world . |
| 9 | For example , the women among some of the peoples of the west of Madagascar have great freedom in choosing their sexual partners , yet they are totally insignificant in the administering of political and economic matters . |
| 10 | While the West recovered and prospered , the peoples of the Soviet Union were left with another four decades of dictatorship . |
| 11 | The Soviet Union and the countries it controlled have recovered from the war and , compared with the peoples of the poorer countries of the southern hemisphere , even the Poles are well off . |
| 12 | Surely the peoples of the Soviet Union are entitled to know what any changes in Central Europe would mean for their future and security . |
| 13 | ‘ Surely the peoples of the Soviet Union are entitled to know what any changes in central Europe would mean for their future and their security . |
| 14 | But even an angel would have trouble to better people 's lives and calm the rivalry between the peoples of the south ( where Mr Soglo comes from ) and the Muslims of the dry north ( Mr Kérékou 's people ) . |
| 15 | Had the Israelites been polytheists , like all the other peoples of the ancient world , a natural conclusion to have drawn from the defeat would have been that their god or gods had been overcome by the gods of the Philistines . |
| 16 | The people of Israel are thought of as a people chosen by God who are to separate themselves from the rest of the peoples of the earth by a series of laws that distinguish the holy time ( sabbath ) from profane time , clean foods from unclean foods , clean from unclean bodily states and holy from unholy places . |
| 17 | The Christians believed that by the death of Jesus , the suffering servant of Isaiah , God had formed a new covenant not only with the Jews but with all peoples of the earth . |
| 18 | Not to be outdone the Wesleyan Methodists rejoiced in 1898 ‘ in the growing sense of kinship that marks our relations with the United States ’ , expressed their ‘ warmest sympathy ’ with America 's efforts to ‘ disburden suffering peoples of the pitiless and truculent misgovernments under which they have groaned ’ and rejoiced that ‘ In fusing together the two great divisions of the Anglo-Saxon race , the Churches have played the chief part although ’ , they added as a reprove to their more ‘ political ’ friends , the Baptists and Congregationalists , ‘ like their Lord , they do not cry nor uplift their voice in the highways of International politics ’ . |
| 19 | The policy paper of March 2 , A Safer Britain for Women , sets forth the core of Labour 's programme to interpose the state between men and women , artificially dividing them and their interests as effectively as , on a larger scale , it plans to prise apart the peoples of the United Kingdom . |
| 20 | May we not waste our lives in jealousy and greed , but play our part in working towards a more just and equitable future where resources can be divided equally between all the peoples of the world . |
| 21 | So guide the United Nations that by word and deed it may promote your glory and establish peace and goodwill among the peoples of the world . |
| 22 | In the Old Testament , after the Great Flood , we 're told that God sent his rainbow as a sign of his agreement or covenant , that he would never again attempt to destroy the peoples of the world . |
| 23 | In our relations with the new democracies of Central and Eastern Europe as well as with the poverty-stricken peoples of the South , we will work from the principle that political freedom needs the sure foundation of economic security . |
| 24 | I never thought I was soon to see just how miserable the peoples of the earth can make life for themselves . |
| 25 | Yet on any interpretation , the ‘ peoples of Europe ’ can never be restricted to the peoples of the European Community , and therefore the ‘ ever closer union ’ has nothing to do with the EC itself . |
| 26 | In comparison with other peoples of the world , Latin Americans read newspapers more than watching television , but less than listening to the radio . |
| 27 | The reality was the creation of competitive world empires , the essence of which was a denial of the right of the majority of the peoples of the world to national self-determination , let alone to popularly elected governments . |
| 28 | Even for the peoples of the empire , it was not clear how far a majority of them were committed in any serious sense to a separate cultural identity . |
| 29 | There , a group of Bolsheviks , including Bukharin , Piatakov and Anovna Bosch , made several attempts to change the traditional position of the party which guaranteed the right of national self-determination to the subordinate peoples of the Russian empire . |
| 30 | The Poles , under her leadership , broke off the 1902 unity talks partly because the Russians refused to give up their guarantee of the right of national self-determination for the subordinate peoples of the empire . |