Example sentences of "people on the [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No longer did he lecture people on the splendours of the Exhibition or on the advance of civilization . |
| 2 | It was a cold , damp night , and there were very few people on the streets at this late hour . |
| 3 | News of his departure was greeted with muted satisfaction by people on the streets of Tirana , the capital . |
| 4 | However , there is no escaping the fact that fifteen years ago it was rare to see wildly deranged people on the streets of London and other major cities . |
| 5 | The vote on independence was greeted with jubilation inside the Supreme Council chamber and by people on the streets of the capital , Vilnius . |
| 6 | Attacks on individuals became so frequent that there were notably fewer people on the streets after dark then was usual . |
| 7 | The offences of dangerous driving and causing death by dangerous driving , those convicted of the latter killing more people on the roads of the United Kingdom each year than the IRA , were abolished , being replaced by reckless driving and causing death by reckless driving . |
| 8 | But do you think that the Yeah so and do you f I mean d Have you managed to make any friends with coloured people on the flats at all ? |
| 9 | AIDS AHEAD which was set up in 1987 to promote a health education programme and advice service for deaf people on the dangers of AIDS . |
| 10 | If anyone is disposed to look for a golden lining in the effects of Typhoon Thelma — which , in November , killed about 7,000 people on the islands of Leyte and Negros in the central Philippines — it might be the resulting national outrage against illegal logging . |
| 11 | Erm well slightly different in the fact that er we er have two close schemes with far more er beneficiaries than there are er subscribing members , and at the moment that are four nominated by the er employer and four by the unions er we wish to say a pensioner erm that the rights were a pensioner nominee to that board of trustees , because we feel that er the situation is er is going to increase , we 've got so many beneficiaries and that the pensioners have no representative er I know that erm people on the boards of trustees are completely impartial , but on the other hand there is no pensioner there , the members are unsure of the fund , because of what 's been said , not that I 'm implying it 's not a secure fund , it is a secure fund , but they think why are they keeping the pensioners off , they there is some sort of hidden agenda they will not have us on there because neither of the businesses although we have tried for several years er they will not entertain at the moment erm a pensioner trustee , and yet Professor Good in his report acknowledges the merit of pensioner nominated trustees , er particularly in the sort of schemes where we 've got , wh where th the majority of beneficiaries . |
| 12 | In his television address to the Soviet people on the results of the summit Gorbachev described the INF treaty as a ‘ major event in world politics ’ and a ‘ victory for the new political thinking ’ , which represented a ‘ first step towards the actual liquidation of the nuclear arsenal ’ . |
| 13 | Discrimination against people on the grounds of ‘ non-normal ’ bodies or intellectual capacity places them outside the mainstream of social life . |
| 14 | Alan Walker argues that the social security policies have played a central role in puffing people on the margins of society , forcing them into retirement and then providing them with a pension which reduces many older people to economic dependency and even poverty . |
| 15 | Wh when you put people on the patches for the first time because the hormone goes straight into the system , rather than having to go through the gut , |
| 16 | Silhouetted against the red sky were rows of people on the roofs of the carriages . |
| 17 | There was no increased radiation and no danger to the environment or residents of Enerhodar , the adjacent town of 50,000 people on the banks of the Dniepr river . |