Example sentences of "[verb] people [unc] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Berlin army joins people 's cause . |
| 2 | The failure to prioritise needs realistically or to genuinely recognise people 's individuality sometimes leads to competition for resources which badly damages the educational chances of some individuals . |
| 3 | If you want people 's attention , you 've got to scream . ’ |
| 4 | The tariff structure strongly discouraged completing the work of refining the sugar until it reached Britain , and there the increasing flow of sugar transformed people 's diet , provided revenue , and launched new industries . |
| 5 | Chafe ( 1977 ) too has examined the problem of explaining people 's understanding and subsequent recall of stories or events . |
| 6 | Once you have attracted people 's attention to a story with a bright , lively opening paragraph , you can provide them with some facts and figures . |
| 7 | Doctors say people 's health could be put at risk from car pollution if a new road is built . |
| 8 | The general social action approach thus emphasises fluidity and change in social interaction ; it has a conception of the individual that emphasises people 's creativity and capacity for innovation . |
| 9 | We certainly are not deliberately trying to shake people 's faith . |
| 10 | The ‘ vehicle ’ of Christianity which has carried people 's love of God is no longer viable to them . |
| 11 | Indeed one might well argue that unless this generation is able to distinguish between what has been the religious vehicle which has carried people 's love of God , and the love of God itself which needs to be interpreted in new ways , there may be scant hope for the future of religion in the west . |
| 12 | At the turn of the century Paris caught people 's imagination . |
| 13 | This would preserve people 's ability to take payment method into account when choosing their jobs , and maintain the present guarantee for existing workers that their payment method can not be changed against their will . |
| 14 | My finance and I have recently formed a local group with a view to organising fund raising events to increase people 's awareness of the role of this charity , and to increase the numbers on the donor register . |
| 15 | The idea is to increase people 's knowledge about the strength of drinks and weekly limits , and the link between drinking and health and fitness . |
| 16 | We should aim to increase people 's ability to participate in , and gain the rewards of , wealth creation , rather than limit ourselves to what is , at best , the palliative of redistributive taxation . |
| 17 | Measures to increase people 's resistance to infection are also important in prevention , and it is in this context that immunisation has played such a major role ( p. 82 ) . |
| 18 | Thus it was hoped that they would seize any opportunity of increasing awareness and understanding of mental frailty in old age , among professionals , lay carers and local people in such a way as to increase people 's sympathy and confidence in any contacts they might have with elderly mentally frail people . |
| 19 | He would go on sleeping badly , and opening people 's luggage , and given great luck he would even keep on living with Sam , though it was difficult to imagine that she would seriously consent to give up such a trophy , however little genuine pleasure she had from the child . |
| 20 | For over 400 years , for example , the British Foreign Office has been opening people 's mail , reading their telegrams and , more recently , listening to their telephone calls . |
| 21 | The second point about the leisure economy is that it places people 's use of their ‘ free ’ time at the centre of capitalists ' ( and governments ' ) concern . |
| 22 | When Her Majesty decided that she would not pay poll tax , even though it was supposed to be levied on every adult in the country , it changed people 's thinking , he says . |
| 23 | It limits people 's ability to pursue some conceptions of the good , but only in order to equalize the opportunity to do so overall . |
| 24 | I suggested putting an old lady sitting on a bench with a lace shawl erm er sculpture of so that it represents er Nottingham lace and etcetera and I said it would look more attractive and catch people 's eye than what 's there at the present . |
| 25 | ‘ We should confine ourselves to maintaining safety and not restrict people 's freedom of expression , ’ he said . |
| 26 | ‘ A collective image grabs people 's attention more that yet another picture of a rainforest . |
| 27 | ‘ A collective image grabs people 's attention more than yet another picture of a rainforest . |
| 28 | ‘ We do n't believe that these adverts are specific enough to do more than stimulate people 's interest in our general services , ’ said . |
| 29 | Economically , the main consequence of the reform will be to destroy people 's confidence in the banking system — hardly a desirable outcome . |
| 30 | At the same time we can expect people 's interest in green issues and concern for their local environment to grow . ’ |