Example sentences of "[prep] the [n mass] [pron] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The central characteristic of social action is that it has meaning for the people who are involved in it . |
| 2 | I think there is sympathy erm for the people who are sick of course I can . |
| 3 | However , for those who have received an arts education , such as the people who are likely to be responsible for restoration , this type of thinking must be assimilated and understood . |
| 4 | About the people who are dead ? |
| 5 | Or , as the prosecuting counsel said ‘ It is not the law … that if a girl crosses the threshold of the barracks she is fair game ’ . |
| 6 | If everything had gone according to plan , he 'd be able to spend some of the £29,000 he 's due from a Maxwell pension fund . |
| 7 | In many parts of the tropics there are mass spawnings of marine worms at the full moon at identical periods each year , the water glowing phosphorescent green during these mass nuptials . |
| 8 | The term " media relations " refers to the communication pattern between an organisation and those sections of the media which are interested in its activities . |
| 9 | An introduction for yourself to editor or specialist writers in an area of the media which is new to you . |
| 10 | Now I think this is a very interesting point because if you go home , and over the next few days do what most people do after course like this , and that is they listen perhaps a little bit to radio , certainly watch some T V and , and think about all these issues , one of the things that will surprise you is that some of the people who are prominent broadcasters are really rather incompetent . |
| 11 | The result is a perfectly acceptable ‘ build ’ fraction that will fool most of the people who are likely to see it and , unlike the generic fraction fonts , is actually in the correct typeface . |
| 12 | We know that this is only a small proportion of the people who are unemployed in this area but we hope we have made their Christmas a little bit more enjoyable . |
| 13 | It is not a good model for human relations , and some of the people who are aflame with political zeal and want to put the entire world to rights are in fact hell to live with . |
| 14 | Are there any of the people who were involved in those negotiations still around ? |
| 15 | People had been staging revolutions without a great deal of success over the years and it was seventy percent of the people who were disadvantaged was n't it ? |
| 16 | A third of the people who were successful in stopping , did n't gain weight or gained less than a couple of pounds . |
| 17 | Does that mean two thirds of the people who were successful |
| 18 | Sorry to say this , but I did n't feel as if I liked any of the people I was involved with either . ’ |
| 19 | It 's sad that so many of the people I 'm interested in are no longer around . |
| 20 | Western ‘ aid ’ in the mental-health field must change gear to address the needs of the people it is supposed to help : concentrate on the villages and towns where most poor people live ; require as little capital investment and new training as possible ; and make the maximum use of local talent and resources . |
| 21 | Providing tools that empower the user with all of the data which is available through the System Ten architecture in a form which is appropriate to all of the users . |
| 22 | The health authorities are belatedly starting to explain their new role to the people they are supposed to serve . |
| 23 | Nations are united to distribute aid to the people who are captive in their own land . |
| 24 | To get close to the people who were close to the man . |
| 25 | To Harriet Sally had become a surrogate mother and after she had married Hugo that position had been strengthened so that Harriet had felt secure and loved , never questioning her importance to the people who were important to her . |
| 26 | Whatever the original guidelines given them , goes the argument , the agents get drawn into doing what is in the best interest of those they are regulating — they are , wittingly or unwittingly , captured by the people they are supposed to be policing ( see , for example , Stigler , 1971 ) . |
| 27 | Bodies with an ostensibly overseeing role , like the People 's Control Commissions , were half-hearted in operation and often effectively controlled by the people they were supposed to be investigating . |
| 28 | However , if we look up rather than down the stratification hierarchy and see serious crimes being committed by the people who are respectable , well-educated , wealthy , and socially privileged then the imagery of pathology seems harder to accept . |
| 29 | Do n't complain because your boss is less visible than you would like — make sure YOU go out and about and are seen by the people you 're responsible for . |