Example sentences of "people [modal v] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Business people may contribute to the actual delivery of education . |
| 2 | I understand the concern that people may feel about the proposed change , but I am content that it should go thus . |
| 3 | A leaflet explaining how disabled people may qualify for the new disability living allowance , which came into effect on Monday , has been produced by Stockton Borough Council for distribution to 75,000 households . |
| 4 | In this climate , it is likely that people may look at the Office of Innovation model through analytical eyes . |
| 5 | Although very much a townsman , Eliot was , like G. K. Chesterton , a great advocate of country life , and he shared the attitude of many townsmen that most other people ought to live in the country . |
| 6 | Rather he thinks that people ought to vote on the basis of what they think is right so he uses an with the jury service at this point . |
| 7 | With no reason not to come in — since it was the spirit of the house that people should sit around the kitchen table talking — they seemed to sense a unity , to know they were not wanted . |
| 8 | But little of all this results in rational or systematic debate about what people should study during the three or four years that lead to their first degree . |
| 9 | Following a request from an Age Concern organisation , we will also be producing short guidelines on why older people should vote in the first place . |
| 10 | It was agreed that only ten people should tramp round the tiny cottage at a time ; the remainder were forced to mingle with the morning shoppers and then to walk on to the old St Mary 's Chapel , which once had held the shrine of Our Lady of Bradstow and to which passing ships would lower their sails in honour . |
| 11 | Teller decided to return the White Bird and Looking Glass bands to Lapwai , but directed that Joseph 's people should go to the Colville Reservation , north-east Washington , because the Idaho settlers still nursed grievances towards them . |
| 12 | It 's of course only to be expected that people should moan about the tax they 've got to pay and people always complain that it seems to go up every year . |
| 13 | So that Committee is not determining what training people should have in the companies . |
| 14 | Well the mutual aid people should look at the |
| 15 | We accept the general proposition that people should rise to the top as far as possible through their talents and skills , not through wealth or influence or inheritance . |
| 16 | The governors have power to decide the school 's complement — that is , how many people should work at the school and at what level . |
| 17 | It was therefore not surprising that at the time Indirect Rule was rising to ideological prominence an emphasis on recruiting the right people should develop in the Colonial Service . |
| 18 | This letter , and 22 more pages of background material , suggested tough new medical tests to assess how many people should qualify for the benefit . |
| 19 | ‘ It is a humiliating thought , but true , ’ wrote one of them , the educational reformer J. H. Pestalozzi , ‘ that any advance in the good leadership of people must proceed from the cabinets of monarchs ’ ; and he himself acted on this thought by offering his services to the Habsburg emperors Joseph II and Leopold II . |
| 20 | But the most difficult part is the culture change that people must accept during the transition to a fully commercial structure . |
| 21 | This quotation does , however , sum up what many people might expect of the consequences of going without sleep for any length of time . |
| 22 | In response to figures suggesting that 250,000 people might benefit from the minimum wage but 100,000 might lose their jobs , he said ‘ I do not accept your figures . ’ |
| 23 | The World Jewish Congress estimated that 50,000 people might benefit from the US$630,000,000 allocated by the German government for payments between 1992 and the end of the century . |
| 24 | So far the process of grief that has been outlined is how people might react to the loss of someone they love , whether that person has died or has gone out of their life for good . |
| 25 | Of course , people might point to the generals in the First World War and say , rightly , that they were a bunch of ancient Blimps . |
| 26 | Before my hon. Friend concludes what some people might describe as the Linlithgow questions , may I point out that there are indeed many in COSLA who would still argue , even at this late stage in our discussions on the Bill — very rushed discussions indeed — that if the Government are determined to take the colleges out of local government , there is still an important role for COSLA . |
| 27 | Anderson ( 1971 , pp. 125–7 ) argues that the good wages which young people could earn in the cotton towns in the mid-nineteenth century altered the balance between parents and children and put them on more equal terms when they shared a household , and also made it more possible for them to leave the parental home — although boys did this more often than girls . |
| 28 | Secondly , it said that there had been a threat of economic and monetary union which threatened to bring unemployment , but that that had been removed and therefore people could vote in the referendum knowing that there would be no economic or monetary union . |
| 29 | Although A-T is rare , potentially millions of other people could benefit from the research . |
| 30 | ‘ It had become necessary to dispel these doubts so that , with full trust restored , South Africa 's people could benefit from the technological development that has taken place as a result of this process . ’ |