Example sentences of "people [be] [vb pp] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But initial reactions are n't always right and it seems to me that people are split down the middle . |
| 2 | ‘ These people are destroyed by the system , not those who lick its arse . ’ |
| 3 | One explanation for the ethical crisis comes when people are asked about the standing of leading institutions over the past ten years . |
| 4 | The King 's own statements , however , show the extent to which his view of the Church was political : ‘ It is not the change of Church government which is chiefly aimed at ’ , he wrote in 1646 , ‘ ( though that were too much ) but it is by that pretext to take away the dependency of the Church from the Crown , which , let me tell you , I hold to be of equal consequence to that of the militia ; for people are governed by the pulpit more than the sword in the time of peace . |
| 5 | People are littered along the hospital 's dark , dirty , blood-splattered corridors . |
| 6 | Some people are daunted by the technology of sound , but it 's basically just like water : you can send it out in a jet or you can spray it gently over everyone . |
| 7 | ( i ) All activities , methods and institutions in support of the welfare of young people are subsumed under the term ‘ pedagogical ’ ( ‘ erzieherisch ’ ) . |
| 8 | 11,000 people are packed onto the shoreline , some of them ankle deep in sea-water . |
| 9 | If people are exposed to the variety of opinions that normally exist in relation to any major issue , the likelihood of their being easily manipulated by unscrupulous opinion-makers is greatly reduced . |
| 10 | It may well be true that Black people are inspired by the memory of their courage under slavery . |
| 11 | They 're the unseen victims of the crisis at Leyland Daf. 50 people are employed at the factory which assembles door parts for trucks . |
| 12 | Fifteen hundred people are employed at the coal mines at Frickley , Hatfield and Bentley . |
| 13 | More than 100 people are employed at the site in Belle Vale Road . |
| 14 | If an increase in national income is the result of an increase in the quantity of goods and services produced , then we would expect the level of employment to rise as more people are employed in the production of additional output . |
| 15 | Most people are fascinated by the way words change their meanings and their form and spelling : your pupils may not know that the history of any one word can be a story in itself ( like the etymology of the word " history " ) . |
| 16 | I mean people are fascinated by the sea are n't they ? |
| 17 | It has been convincingly argued that the image of an advice-giving agency is crucial because it is at the stage of identification of the appropriate agency that most people are obstructed on the way to the solution of their problem . |
| 18 | Excess alcohol consumption is associated with premature death , and some 1,100 people are killed on the road in the UK each year as a result of drunken driving . |
| 19 | Up to 500 black people are killed by the security forces . |
| 20 | In some cases only two or three people are seen in the course of a week ; in others , there are two or three social contacts in the course of each day . |
| 21 | General social welfare provisions for elderly people are enacted in the Health and Person Social Services Act 1977 . |
| 22 | If a patient 's problems centre on a relationship with a partner or family member(s) , and if the relationship is to continue , it is usually essential that these people are included in the treatment sessions . |
| 23 | I assume that people are put on the list if they have been connected with an offence relating to prostitution or have been cautioned . |
| 24 | It 's funny how ideas shrink away when people are put on the spot . |
| 25 | Furthermore , I would argue that the general history of disability representation is one of oppressive or ‘ negative ’ forms and that this has happened precisely because disabled people are excluded from the production of disability culture and excluded from the dominant ‘ disability ’ discourses . |
| 26 | Now it seems that successive governments have just have n't lived up to their obligation to wield the stick , and Harlow council just have n't had the sense to reach for the carrot in that that local people are caught in the middle ! |
| 27 | If it is written by a true enthusiast , a book will enable the reader to understand why people are committed to the study of the cheetah , DNA , Victorian costume , Alpine plants , or whatever . |
| 28 | Such studies exemplify the kind of fetishism to which material culture studies are always prone , when people are superseded as the subject of investigation by objects , and become essentially labels for their movement or pattern . |
| 29 | The people are displaced by the war , living in a hired house ( Mrs Lippincote 's ) , probably in Reading : there is a river and there are abbey ruins . |
| 30 | Some 120 cakes or ‘ pieces of ’ are generally required and four people are needed on the afternoon for preparing and servicing . |