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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , there are still many opportunities for people here . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ The new tariffs have opened up the market and I 'm selling to all sorts of people now . |
| 13 | 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 |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Status relates to our concern for our standing in the eyes of people more distant from us . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Like you , I used to be overcome with shyness and would hover outside a roomful of people rather than go in and meet them . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Tooth loss in people under 60 , however , is usually caused by dental caries . |
| 25 | The energy which creates earth lights seems to have a sensitizing effect on people so that they are more likely to see things psychically , and there may be outbreaks of psychic effects , such as poltergeist activity . |
| 26 | The most important chairman ( of the municipality ) was a Jlulat from Tazarbu , that is to say from the category of people least involved in the Kufran disputes . |
| 27 | We did not believe that any of these should be the subject of charity or whim on the part of people more privileged than ourselves in this society . |
| 28 | There were crowds of people everywhere but , when they saw Burun 's banner , they moved politely aside to let the party pass . |
| 29 | Oh well we had no feelings about it because I really was n't an Old Harlow person , nor was my husband and all that we could think about it was that it would be very good for the area , it would erm , bring work and employment and everything like that , but of course Old Harlow people were very , you know , a lot of them were very against it and yet , in the end , the Harlow High Street shops was , made a fortune in those first few years , you know , when there was nothing else and the , the Old Harlow High Street was n't of course paved over in those days , anything like that and it , it was a narrow , narrow high street , it was almost like taking your life in your hands walking down there because there were crowds of people obviously with all this influx of community and they er the main Chelmsford road used to come up through there , so it was a , a hell , sort of a traffic hazard really . |
| 30 | Such increases set a bad example and I hope that managers in the private and public sectors will remember that the setting of pay for those who are high on the ladder affects the willingness of people further down the ladder to respond sensibly . |