Example sentences of "[n mass] [pron] are [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At such times , I wonder at my own job and the meaningless sterility of the statistics which are my trade . |
| 2 | This posits that the company or any group of individuals acting together for a common purpose creates a living organism , or a real person , capable of willing and acting through the people who are its organs just as a natural person wills and acts through their brain , mouth and hands . |
| 3 | My account of political integrity takes the personification much more seriously , as if a political community really were some special kind of entity distinct from the actual people who are its citizens . |
| 4 | Yet these are the same people who are our neighbours , our friends and those who sit beside us in the cinema or at a football ground . |
| 5 | The hierarchy of a church is important in the libidinal ties in churches , for they do not only rest on the love of the abstract figure of Christ , but on living people who are his priests , bishops and ministers in the various groups . |
| 6 | You pay the financing costs for all those people who are your customers and who owe you money . |
| 7 | All the people there are our brothers and sisters and relations so there are very few strangers around and women do n't have to wear Burkhas . |