Example sentences of "[pron] people [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd rather not have to use one of my people for the sacrifice unless it is absolutely necessary . ’ |
| 2 | My people at the PFA feel that until the League get together and show there is a practical job for me to do , they do n't see why they should let me go . ’ |
| 3 | When I saw all my people at the station , I felt completely overwhelmed . |
| 4 | If the government would only give me a small piece of land for my people in the Wallowa Valley , with a teacher , that is all I would ask . |
| 5 | 1 openly support the FDR-FMLN and feel that it would be an opportunistic attitude on my part to expect to act as a spiritual leader of my people after the triumph of the revolution if I were not working with them at this crucial time . |
| 6 | It must be clearly stated , however , that few other governments had , since the summer of 1989 , made a point of informing either their national Parliaments or their people about the preparations for the inter-governmental conferences or about their progress . |
| 7 | Aided by the media , who have never failed to find an opportunity to slip in the idea that it is Saddam Hussein who wo n't negotiate , the US and its Allies have led their people into a terrifying war which will claim the lives of so many of their sons and daughters . |
| 8 | We 've started it in our studio , bringing their people into the city or setting up a kind of branch over there where people can work together and so you do n't get the political problems of ownerships , of people saying well that 's your idea , you know , it 's the old thing of as soon as the client thinks that it 's his idea then he wants it , and it 's very hard . |
| 9 | So , when Kabye soldiers shot 26 anti-government Ewes , the Ewe chiefs of Lomé called their people to the sacred grove of Bé , to mourn the dead and plan revenge . |
| 10 | It was thought that if Calvinism were undermined the Presbyterian churches would give up their people to the Episcopal Church ; in fact the slow waning of Calvinism in the Presbyterian fold took away the one advantage the Episcopalians had and doomed them to irrelevance . |
| 11 | CHINA 'S leaders celebrated the 40th anniversary of Communist rule yesterday , protected from their people by the biggest security operation undertaken in the capital since the People 's Liberation Army stormed into Peking four months ago . |
| 12 | Their financial resources separated European monarchs from their people in a thoroughly mundane way ; the divine aura surrounding the monarchy provided the celestial counterpart , just as relics of the saints jostled with jewels and plate and coins in the royal treasuries . |
| 13 | Propaganda could be used to undermine their subjects ' faith in their legitimacy , while a war of successful raids ( or chevauchèes ) might shake that confidence yet further by showing that , as kings , they lacked the power to fulfil one of their prime roles , the defence of their people against the English . |
| 14 | Taking into account Syria 's losses in military service and imprisonment under ill-treatment , the country may have lost half a million of its people during the First World War out of a population of well under four million . |
| 15 | When a country can no longer afford to feed its people under an outdated political system , it will look elsewhere for its material prosperity and survival . |
| 16 | One hundred years on , the life of the Waverley is captured in its people through a photo study by . |
| 17 | If the Romanists did not destroy Ulster by forcing its people into a united papist Ireland , then God surely would as a punishment for departing from his standards . |
| 18 | CHINA increased its patrols along the border with Hong Kong yesterday in an apparent effort to prevent an exodus of its people into the colony following a dispute over immigration procedures . |
| 19 | I would have defended it and its people to the death and was understandably disillusioned when , on my arrival , I was beaten to a pulp because of the Battle of Bannockburn in 1314 . |
| 20 | That Germany had also provided a comprehensive state insurance for sickness , accident , disability and unemployment for its people from an early date was thought by some to be implicated in that country 's economic success . |
| 21 | Denmark , consulting its people in a way that some other European governments shunned , has nevertheless taught Europe 's statesmen quite a lesson . |
| 22 | Discover DEAN — the story of a Forest and its people in the MUSEUM OF FOREST LIFE with reconstructed forester 's cottage and smallholding , Lightmoor beam engine , recreated coal-mine , 12' overshot waterwheel , wood ant 's nest , 15' frame observational beehive and much more . |
| 23 | This , together with the dearth of negotiated work resulted in a declining turnover in 1992 but there is no doubt that our policy of not buying work to satisfy turnover will be to the advantage of the business and its people in the long term . |
| 24 | Energy has to be devoted to making sure that the assumptions which lie behind these activities are genuinely shared ; mistaken judgements can lead to ambiguity in the way in which people outside a school view its managers . |
| 25 | The only real meter of sexuality and its changing ways is and must remain the actual extent of the increase in sexual relationships and their intensity , and the degree to which people as a whole are more tolerant of such relationships under varying circumstances . |
| 26 | Is unemployment falling and are real jobs being created in West Belfast ( or outside of West Belfast which people from the area have access to ) ? |
| 27 | Its aim is to understand the different ways in which people around the world engage with each other and the physical environment to sustain their lives . |
| 28 | At the same time , one must exercise a certain note of methodological caution about this kind of interview in which people in a sense present public accounts of private relationships . |
| 29 | But it is unreasonable from this to extrapolate ‘ the school ’ as one of the cornerstones of society — for what are schools but institutions in which , in the name of knowledge , we ghettoize the young , and keep them from adult company , coop up the violent with the meek , those who like learning with those who do n't , and in general fit them for the modern world , which one quick glimpse of the television will show them to be a violent , murderous , greedy , vulgar and horrid place , in which people in a good mood throw custard pies at one another and in a bad mood chop each other to pieces ? |
| 30 | Usually this has been emphasised as an attempt to make a statement about which people in the population are most likely , given other interacting events , to develop psychotic illness ; in fact that is how we initially phrased the question here . |