Example sentences of "people have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They believed that peoples had to go from one stage to another with mechanical regularity and in predictable order . |
| 2 | The major civilisations of the Americas , notably the Olmecs and Mayas which thrived between 3 kyr and 1 kyr , dominated the lowland regions adjacent to the Gulf of Mexico but by c. 600 AD ( The Times , The World , 1986 ) the major centres of early American peoples had become established in the high Andean basins . |
| 3 | The lofty idea that India could endure as a secular democracy of diverse peoples had come under open attack from the Hindu chauvinists of the Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP ) . |
| 4 | However , once peoples had chosen not to exercise their right to secede , they should join a fully centralized State . |
| 5 | Creation stories belonging to other ancient peoples have given currency to the view that Genesis contains merely another version , adapted to suit Hebrew beliefs . |
| 6 | As more and more peoples have become involved in the modern world , the perception of the unevenness of social and economic conditions has grown more extreme . |
| 7 | Fortunately , the relations between the American and the British peoples have improved a great deal since then . |
| 8 | For Europe , the nineteenth century was the great time when languages were identified and codified in single forms , minority languages in part eliminated , consciously national literatures and musics invented , and the territory mapped ( appropriately described as a ‘ father ’ or ‘ mother ’ land , even though very few peoples have occupied the same territory for more than a thousand years ) . |
| 9 | Further , most would argue that all peoples have evidenced certain basic developments of these capacities , notably with regard to language facility and abstract thought . |
| 10 | Most ancient peoples have disappeared . |
| 11 | However , since the Holocaust , the Jews and many other peoples have had difficulty in accepting this belief . |
| 12 | And ordinary soldiers , writing to relatives from the Front in April 1940 , spoke naïvely of their belief that ‘ as long as we have the front soldier Adolf Hitler , there will be only loyalty , bravery , and justice for his people ’ , and that ‘ the most beautiful day in the life of our Führer has still to come ’ , the day on which ‘ all peoples have recovered their freedom , peace , and equality ’ . |
| 13 | Their numbers have grown by more than a third since 1979 , while the number of self-employed people has grown to over 12 per cent of the workforce . |
| 14 | Overall spending on disabled people has increased ( in real terms ) by a massive 152 per cent since 1979 . |
| 15 | — twice the United Kingdom average — and the number of self-employed people has increased by 60 per cent . |
| 16 | It is no good knocking local authorities — we have only to consider the figures to see the massive amount that has been removed from rate support grant while the number of elderly people has increased . |
| 17 | Moving is development in IBM — and to bring that full circle , the depth of well developed IBM people has demonstrated itself in the company 's extraordinary ability to get so many thousand people into new jobs , even in new places . |
| 18 | Now The People has joined up with Vernons to let you know ! |
| 19 | The incense-burner of old Israel , the besamin , is no longer ; the violent fury of man against the Chosen People has done its work and eliminated many of the ceremonies and practices . |
| 20 | Yet the counsellor of older people has to realize that the blocks may not necessarily be those current in modern attitudes and beliefs . |
| 21 | ‘ Could it be that crime has become too easy , that violence has become too much a theme of television and videos , that respect for other people has gone too much out of fashion and too many young people see no stake for themselves in this society and see more of a future in crime and the black economy ? ’ he asked . |
| 22 | A CHARITABLE company set up to help homeless and needy people has given its own helpers a vote of thanks . |
| 23 | Unlike younger people , who have become more dependent upon the ‘ middle ’ generation over the last century , the position of older people has moved , if anywhere , in the direction of greater independence . |
| 24 | It would therefore appear that power to the people has become a reality . |
| 25 | The trial of two drivers alleged to have caused the death of five young people has heard how one of the cars was travelling at ninety-six miles an hour shortly before the fatal accident . |
| 26 | AN APPEAL which touched the hearts of generous Northern Ireland people has reached its target . |
| 27 | Halfway down the street , a loose line of people has formed outside a house . |
| 28 | My own understanding of the role of services in the lives of disabled people has developed , and in the light of this I have reviewed my own working practices . |
| 29 | As such , it is a barometer of the degree of civilisation a people has attained , combining as it does a great artistic tradition with the latest scientific research . |
| 30 | Mexico is a country with over three thousand years of continuous civilization , but knowledge of its history , culture and people has tended to be either minimal or — worse — affected by the kind of stereotypes we acquire from film or television . |