Example sentences of "[adj] people [verb] on [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Firth , Hubert and Forge report that some people get on with their mothers-in-law better than their own mothers , but for the most part these relationships are regarded as likely to be tricky : people treat them as an ‘ occupational risk ’ of marriage and regard themselves as ‘ lucky ’ if they work out satisfactorily ( 1970 , pp. 414–15 ) . |
| 2 | This is set in Ulster and sets out to depict ordinary people getting on with their lives . |
| 3 | Will she send out a message to those who oppose smoking and belong to the brigade who say , ’ Do as I say and as I instruct you , ’ to the effect that they should leave ordinary people to get on with the job of smoking and supporting the economy ? |
| 4 | There could be no more tragically eloquent testimony to the fact that the Government 's community care policies have failed than the sight of mentally ill people spilling on to the streets every moment . |
| 5 | ‘ It does n't seem to occur to anyone that all these people going on about UFOs and the general hilarity they cause would be quite a good disguise for the government if it did want to cover up weapons testing . ’ |
| 6 | Ignoring a ban which the Serbian government had imposed on March 7 , some 100,000 people poured on to the streets of Belgrade to demand the resignations not only of the Milosevic administration but also of the senior officials of the Belgrade television network , tightly controlled by the SPS . |
| 7 | The more people jumped on to the bandwagon , the more others wanted to join them . |
| 8 | It 's a forty foot long boat paddled by twenty people driven on by a drummer and steered by an oarsman |
| 9 | All able-bodied people go on about how horrible the changing-room experience is — how awful because my bra is dirty , or I 'm too fat or too thin — but disabled girls : how do you even begin to assess your own emotions on entering a changing room with young able-bodied women , most of them slim but all saying , ‘ Oh , I 've got a horrible body ’ , when you 're in a wheelchair , just wanting to try on a pair of trousers ? |
| 10 | Other people looked on in amazement . |
| 11 | ‘ He seems so untrusting , so unwilling to let other people get on with things on their own . |
| 12 | Compared to our competitors , not enough of our young people stay on to post-compulsory education . |
| 13 | The proportion of young people staying on at school between the crucial ages of 16 and 19 has always been heavily weighted towards the upper classes . |
| 14 | We need to see more of our young people staying on at school , more of them going into further and higher education and more of them achieving qualifications . |
| 15 | America and the Pacific Rim countries have 80–90 per cent of their young people staying on at school beyond 16 . |
| 16 | The percentage of young people staying on in full-time education after the legal minimum leaving age has increased during the last decade , as Figure 12.1 shows . |
| 17 | We would also improve the opportunities for young people to go on with education and training to reach skill levels and qualifications which will match the best in Europe . |
| 18 | A fast-growing proportion of young people go on to higher education ; and we want to see that proportion rise still further . |
| 19 | We shall go on expanding higher and further education to ensure more of our young people go on to college as naturally as they once went down the pit or onto the shop floor . |
| 20 | One in four young people goes on to higher education ; at the beginning of the 1980s , it was only one in eight . |
| 21 | Despite the many grumbles and adverse comments , 70 per cent of all employers interviewed claimed to have been satisfied with the standard of work of young people taken on by them in the previous two years , and only 14 per cent expressed dissatisfaction . |
| 22 | The main aim of this study is to investigate the way young people coming on to labour market in Northern ireland for the first time cope with stress of unemployment and in particular to investigate factors that might moderate any negative impact unemployment may have , such as participation in the Youth training programme . |
| 23 | Emily stared at them in horror but then a few bills did n't mean anything , most people hung on to their money for as long as they could , it was simply the way of businessmen . |