Example sentences of "[n mass] [Wh pn] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The simple translation is , first , that the 750m people in the countryside , including 90m who work in what amount to private factories , can not be sent back to the commune , however much China 's old-guard ideologues might wish . |
| 2 | It became mingled with the tales of a folk who lived in the east of your world ; they called it Adam 's Paradise . ’ |
| 3 | God the Lord Jesus is always ready to se , to receive folk who come to him and to meet their needs . |
| 4 | The folk who live at nearby Ross-on-Wye have never had so many callers . |
| 5 | INSTEAD of surveying prisoners to see how life in jail can be improved , the authorities should talk to ordinary , law-abiding folk who live in fear of crime . |
| 6 | But when it 's down mostly to wiggling around a stage in clattering heels there is no time for deep analysis of the psyche of folk who engage in such events and despite a doughty effort , director Ian Kellgren simply does not have enough suitable material to mesh this into any shape worthy of the tag theatre . |
| 7 | The man behind the project is popstar Fish who shot to fame in the early 1980s as lead singer of the group Marillion . |
| 8 | An enormous fish who lived in the Black Sea . |
| 9 | Most of the 15% of the world 's population who live in rich industrial countries have similar feelings about the 85% who live in poor ones : the ‘ poor ’ may be more numerous , but they do not produce much . |
| 10 | ‘ The man who is looking for a breed to put shape into his lambs only has to talk to butchers who deal in this type of Texel-sired carcass and look at the successes achieved in carcass competitions . |
| 11 | One of the Kirkwoods from Woodbrook had told me about these wondrous isles , where fiddlers played Gaelic melodies to fisherfolk who danced on the quayside . |
| 12 | Treasurer Marie Taylor presented the mayor Coun Rita Fishwick with a scroll naming the 66 townspeople who served in the Gulf . |
| 13 | The Kurdish refugees want to see Saddam 's promises enforced by American power ; some of the 500,000 who fled to Turkey have drifted home , but not the 1m who fled to Iran . |
| 14 | With this method all the people who wish to be involved in the selection of a candidate do so one after the other and not as one unwieldy group . |
| 15 | Improve information , advice services and facilities for people who wish to be tested for HIV . |
| 16 | I have not met many Scottish people who wish to be left exposed to the nuclear blackmail that could come from the huge nuclear arsenal which will remain for many years on the continent and in Russia . |
| 17 | Er , yes I agree the funding that we provide at the moment , seventeen thousand I think , er i in in we 've already committed erm for for wh for the coming year , is small but it is because of the example , because er people who wish to m er erm promote cycling schemes and cycling policies within South Cambridgeshire , within the county council can identify the example that we have been setting that hypothecated budget aimed at cycling have been er directed this way and have been spent amicably , constructively , sensibly by cycling working parties . |
| 18 | Then erm , of course there were people who lectured on er gate courses on elementary German , there was a friend of Doctor , who used to go out and , to units and erm give lessons in German and erm there were , there was a unit of Polish erm soldiers stationed , they had an armoured train , believe it or not , which was erm parked at Saxmundham and erm every so often , particularly at night , they used to trample up and down the line . |
| 19 | Not only delegates but also people who attend as a service from other churches outside the membership of the World Council and also to cope with the press . |
| 20 | What has happened over the course of this century has been an improvement in people 's states of fitness at particular ages so that whereas at the beginning of the century people in their sixties were regarded as being old , it is clear that people who survive into their sixties are now mainly , as is described below , generally quite fit . |
| 21 | It consisted of a team of people who met on a regular basis and who made themselves available to share their expertise with parents . |
| 22 | People who knocked about the revolutionary left at the time still remember Big Flame fondly as a fundamentally nice organization . |
| 23 | Not all the people who indulge in these tastes are addicts — that is , they do not depend on their habit in a way that seems clearly abnormal to the bulk of people who do not share their tastes . |
| 24 | Ninety-five per cent of people sent in tickets or wrist bands but there were about 300 people who sent in anything from bank statements to photocopies , which is where the problem has arisen . |
| 25 | erm in the days when they had terraced houses back to back terraced houses erm well anywhere in the country I guess but but where I come from it was fine for the people who lived with their doors on the on the road but the people who lived at the other side of the block they could n't get from the road so every so often down the down the terrace they had a little alley way an entry I think you 'd probably call it in Scotland , do n't they ? |
| 26 | Even the people who lived on farms did not have to work like she did . |
| 27 | Most people who lived on the south-western littoral consumed imported rice , while the plantation workers and those who provided services for the plantations were almost entirely dependent on it . |
| 28 | No dietary deficiencies in people who lived on her soup ! |
| 29 | In 1985 regulations were held to be void as having no statutory authority where their purpose was to force able-bodied young people who lived on supplementary benefit to move from one area to another in search of employment . |
| 30 | They had been built many hundreds of years ago by the people who lived on the moor . |