Example sentences of "[coord] [noun pl] [Wh det] people " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if they can be measured they may help us relate fertility decisions to the values , meanings , or signs which people use to make sense of the world and which motivate or justify their actions . |
| 2 | Here he is , at the outset , reporting from Brussels : ‘ You must not imagine that I live richly here , for my chief food is dry bread and some potatoes or chestnuts which people here sell on the street corner , but by having a somewhat better room and by occasionally taking a somewhat better meal in a restaurant whenever I can afford it , I shall get on very well … . |
| 3 | It would be prepared to " flip " name-words and it would have access to useful cross-reference files derived from the forms of names and titles which people actually search for . |
| 4 | It considers the way in which we might make a reality of the observation ( by Keith Joseph ) that ‘ the curriculum should be relevant to the real world and pupils ’ experience of it' by considering the range of challenges and opportunities which people face in , say , the domestic environment , often regarded as too trivial for ‘ academic ’ education , but where arguably most important economic , technical and social decisions are made and acted upon : in the community where a host of issues require an informed public to exercise judgment and active commitment to ensure that the quality of the social and physical environment is constantly improved , and so on in other contexts which will require people to make an active and hopefully informed response , underlain by conceptual understanding of general issues to which , if taught effectively , geography , history , physical sciences and design , indeed all academic disciplines , can make a powerful contribution . |
| 5 | In the main survey ( Appendix 1 , comments on Table 24 ; and more detailed cross-tabulations not included in Appendix ) , only three per cent of those who had recently bought on credit had had any problems with their credit arrangement , after buying ( nearly half the problems were difficulties over paying , and problems which people thought were the fault of the credit firm were very rare indeed ) . |
| 6 | As a way of understanding these linked themes we have argued for an increased emphasis on ‘ the expressive order ’ : the understandings , interpretations and theories which people have of their social world and the way it is changing . |
| 7 | The Europe in which we are to live will in part be shaped by the ideas , negotiations , cultural translations and mis-translations which people such as MEPs bring to Strasbourg and Brussels , or which they learn there , and in which they engage . |
| 8 | It seems to me you have to start from the fact that your role in the community is to produce goods and services which people want . |
| 9 | The only way for Britain to build a strong economy is to make the goods and services which people at home and abroad want to buy . |
| 10 | As mentioned previously , Mead was one of the early originators of symbolic interactionism , a perspective on social life which emphasises the significance to social change and social order of the understandings and interpretations which people hold both of themselves and of others . |
| 11 | This is somewhat surprising given that Weberian sociology gives particular significance to the values , intentions and interpretations which people have of their lives and social relations . |