Example sentences of "people only [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We had known these simple people only since the previous day , they had no proof that I too was not an enemy , but their action was typical of the whole attitude of the German people . |
| 2 | She had seen an advertisement in the newspaper : ‘ £5 — £100 lent to respectable people only on their IOU 's and promissory notes without bonds — W. Trees Esq. , Park Villas , Heeley . ’ |
| 3 | In America the organisational style is geared to mobilize people only for specific projects . |
| 4 | However , as a result of the accident , he has completely lost the use of his arms and legs and he is now able to communicate with other people only by using his parents to interpret his signs . |
| 5 | This is an instance of the general finding that aspects of work activity have the capacity to satisfy or dissatisfy people only in relation to the personal value put upon them . |
| 6 | But this does not mean that it is fitted only to be used on matters at the extreme end of the spectrum of abstraction — that it can , for instance , discuss people only in so far as they are rational beings , or sets of behaviour-patterns , or immortal souls . |
| 7 | An extremist of the Right he is interested in the welfare of the people only in so far as some concession to their welfare is necessary to enable him to gain and retain dictatorial leadership . |
| 8 | There were three people only in the school : myself , the young man and my driver . |
| 9 | It is generally thought that they were a new people only in name , and that they were made up of tribes such as the Amsivarii , Chattuarii and Chatti , who are mentioned in earlier sources , but rarely , if at all , in later ones . |