Example sentences of "of people from the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A minibus full of people from the villages near Hinkley Point was taken over to Suffolk to hear and see how unpleasant a nuclear power construction site would be . |
| 2 | The Kurds regard themselves as a separate race of people from the rest of Iraq and wish to join with the Kurds of Turkey and make a new Kurdish state . |
| 3 | The church must seek to develop its spiritual and personal resources to minister imaginatively and responsibly in all of these situations in its care of people from the cradle to the grave . |
| 4 | The British Isles have been conquered by all manner of people from the Vikings , to the Picts , the Celts , the Saxons , the Romans and the Normans . |
| 5 | Especially groups of people from the Church . |
| 6 | I could just make out the figure of a boy , running from the house on the right , who was joined by a group of people from the other . |
| 7 | Erm but yes , lots of people from the flats , either taking part in terms of sitting on the committee and doing all the planning and getting all the various permissions that you needed to do all sorts of things . |
| 8 | HOO HAH BOYS : A strange tribe of people from the south of Ireland who have no interest in the concept of life as we know it but instead tend to live out their winters bushing it ( See : BUSHING ) behind the Carlini factory and spend their summers drinking their way across Europe . |
| 9 | They were a totally different set of people from the ones I knew before . |
| 10 | Hundreds of thousands of people from the Philippines , India , Bangladesh , Egypt , right across the ‘ south ’ kept Kuwait ( and much of the rest of the Gulf ) thriving . |
| 11 | Canadian Pacific Railways and he was able to take a lot of people from the place he was born in out to Canada . |
| 12 | Lots of people from the restaurants park down here in the evening , but I only just realized , talking to my wife , that it had actually been there all day as well . |
| 13 | The Ante-Natal Care Action Group is made up of people from the Health Authority , midwives , doctors , health visitors and the NCT . |
| 14 | This CD features 10,000 colour and black and white pictures of people from the world of sport , theatre , politics , art , religion and music and is designed to make picture research less demanding on both time and resources . |
| 15 | I really like my new jacket and hat and scarf , and when we stop and chat with a couple of people from the house , they say how smart I look . |
| 16 | He sits across the table from Mrs Thatcher and her team , which can be a mixture of people from the Downing Street Private Office , the Policy Unit and the Cabinet Office , with one or two personal advisers and sometimes a Treasury minister . |
| 17 | ‘ I knew a lot of people from the club because their ‘ B ’ team competed against Middlesbrough in the Northern League . |
| 18 | Until very recently housing associations have been able to have their own policies as to whom they can house , as well as housing a certain proportion of people from the housing waiting-list as part of their financial agreement with the local authority . |
| 19 | For example , we used to get a lot of people from the printers but you knew them . |
| 20 | The pubs especially were somewhat dependent on the influx of people from the countryside and after all , for the rest of the population , the kerfuffle was only one day each week . |
| 21 | The handful of people from the complex , including Rosie and Francisco , stood together in a group , waiting for the bride to come out of her grandfather 's cottage . |
| 22 | A number of people from the North-East were also caught up in the riots . |
| 23 | These are necessarily reflected in this book , not least through the voices of people from the region : beyond a certain point second-guessing is not possible . |
| 24 | One of Britain 's top comedy actors heads a list of people from the region mentioned in the New Year 's Honours List . |
| 25 | There was anguish in thinking of the anguish felt within the overcoats ; and in the hearts of people from the office with some substance and standing , like Gareth Holmroyd and Laurence Evenden ; and in the heart of one whose face would be well-known to anyone in the front pews from their television screens , if they happened to turn round … |