Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] people [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Home Ownership and Opportunity for People Everywhere ( Hope ) programme was set to be expanded , but overall the proposed expenditure on " choice " was to be an estimated $16,000 million in fiscal 1992 , approximately $3,700 million less than in the current fiscal year . |
| 2 | Even when there 's precious little money about people still have to eat , and our ships do a steady bread and butter trade in produce from the Continent . |
| 3 | erm I also think that people will use the fact that people are staying away , or have stayed away , because of the Gulf as a sort of excuse for people not coming and not really get down to the roots of maybe , you know , why are n't people , why do n't people want to stay in British hotels , why do n't people want to stay in London Hotels ? |
| 4 | Meanwhile David O Selznick made a public plea for people not to judge Mitchum until the courts had done so . |
| 5 | Well and we have seen one response for people now making Mill that is that his objections are not being finessed by computer technology , they do n't want to get back into that type of argument , because this is really not the most important argument against direct democracy . |
| 6 | Like my colleagues in Newport , I have been dismayed by the checks for people over 75 : it is not just the collection of medical facts but the appreciation of the social and personal difficulties of elderly people . |
| 7 | This argument oversimplifies the relationships between people today ; the idea of ‘ the capitalist ’ and ‘ the worker ’ is an unreal abstraction in a world where GLC pension funds are invested in Rio Tinto Zinc . |
| 8 | Although one might suppose that the creation of a new party offers attractive opportunities for people previously excluded from local élites to establish themselves as leaders , it is often the case that such people do not obviously possess the right qualities . |
| 9 | Not that that was the end of it — NCR had simply had to open up opportunities for people lower down the ladder to develop , backed up by formal systems of career planning , appraisal and psychometric testing to mine the required resource . |
| 10 | These Working Groups would undertake tasks of a practical nature and they could provide opportunities for people not attracted to committee work to become involved and make a contribution . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , there are still many opportunities for people here . |
| 12 | Such an act could be accompanied by a Commission against Age Discrimination both to help enforce the legislation and promote equal opportunities for people regardless of age . |
| 13 | Unemployment is a major affliction , and at the time of the riots 36 per cent of the workforce in Handsworth was out of work , while the figure for people under 24 years was 50 per cent . |
| 14 | I 've got all sorts of people on . |
| 15 | For example , even the fragment of the research described above suggests that some of the taken-for-granted ideas about the sorts of people most likely to harm their children be subjected to much more critical scrutiny and scepticism . |
| 16 | ‘ The new tariffs have opened up the market and I 'm selling to all sorts of people now . |
| 17 | it 's that sort of time of the year when you have all sorts of people there , but I mean she 's such , so pathetic , words gon na come over for lunch , I mean we have them over every year sort of Christmas time |
| 18 | These are factors such as education , training , language and responsibility which colour the thinking of people so that different impressions result from the same data . |
| 19 | One of the absolutely necessary qualities of any writer of fiction is the possession of what is called empathy , the ability to see life through the eyes of people very different from oneself . |
| 20 | Status relates to our concern for our standing in the eyes of people more distant from us . |
| 21 | What is required is a fresh start in Europe , a new vision of a confident , outward-looking , interlocking commonwealth of democracies , the very opposite of a continent of people sullenly subservient to unelected and anonymous officials operating from some distant and foreign city — the future lot of the citizens of Europe unless the process is consciously and rapidly redirected . |
| 22 | Often there is no such work to be had , but if there is , the asylum seekers should not take it at the expense of people already here . |
| 23 | Like you , I used to be overcome with shyness and would hover outside a roomful of people rather than go in and meet them . |
| 24 | And given the prevailing prejudice against people actually speaking to each other , suitors and their intended sposi had to have recourse to the ambiguous and easily misunderstood language of fans and flowers . |
| 25 | I think reprisals against people only distantly or circumstantially connected with those who have done others wrong are to make the people doing the avenging feel good . |
| 26 | The education and training of Health Care workers should include at least the possibility of working in partnership with people rather than for people , so that the experience of unlearning , deroling and relearning through which the family development nurses had to go in order to work effectively in this way with people , can be avoided . |
| 27 | I had not had very successful relationships with people up to this time and I said no to him . ’ |
| 28 | And then dropping out of it when I was twelve or thirteen , getting sidetracked by hormonal changes and the need to , like , butt heads with people out on the grass for a while … |
| 29 | This concerns the capacity to discern how far the content of a belief is positive as opposed to negative , and how far this promotes engagement with people rather than indifference to them or denial of them as persons . |
| 30 | Tooth loss in people under 60 , however , is usually caused by dental caries . |