Example sentences of "people [unc] [noun pl] [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is the very last thing that should ever suffer in a time of recession or emergency when people 's belts have to tighten . |
| 2 | After backroom lobbying by presidential aides , the organising committee of the Congress of People 's Deputies agreed to drop a resolution that would have recommended that Mr Yeltsin should be deprived of his post of Prime Minister and the right to select his Cabinet . |
| 3 | On December 24th in Moscow a Ukrainian member of the Congress of People 's Deputies rose to welcome Croat and Slovene moves towards independence , but he was shouted down . |
| 4 | RUSSIA 'S leaders vacillated between confrontation and compromise yesterday as President Boris Yeltsin softened his claim to special powers and parliament called an emergency session of the Congress of People 's Deputies to try to oust him . |
| 5 | Since people 's self-assessments tend to reflect the way they wish they spoke , Trudgill took it that women wished to identify themselves with a higher social class , and thus that their status aspirations were higher than men 's ( with male informants he found the opposite tendency , which will be discussed later on ) . |
| 6 | As I said earlier , courses which are to be broadcast into people 's homes have to cater for the individual studying alone . |
| 7 | So a formal democracy , in which the people or the people 's representatives appeared to rule , might conceal a very undemocratic distribution of actual power . |