Example sentences of "people [prep] the area " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had pointed out that a road in this area would open up the rainforest to clearance by settlers , with the consequent loss of habitat for gorillas , elephants and other threatened animal species , and the disruption of the livelihoods of traditional tribal peoples in the area . |
| 2 | Its operations in Prudhoe Bay , Alaska , have allegedly had a devastating effect on the caribou herds hunted by indigenous peoples in the area . |
| 3 | According to the Sunday Times , ‘ A Government Minister has implied that their [ the people of the area ] problems are imaginary or psychosomatic and a senior Whitehall official has suggested that the whole thing was a ‘ hoax ’ , devised to thwart the Government 's privatisation plans . ’ |
| 4 | Many of the indigenous Cornish people of the area suffered symptoms but have accepted compensation from the Water Authority . |
| 5 | This survey , as so often happens , led from one thing to another , and I became interested in vernacular architecture and the people of the area , particularly in their work and homes over the changing years . |
| 6 | Three brief case studies illustrate the related issues of population growth ( without significant outmigration ) , stagnant production , poverty of most of the people of the area concerned , and environmental decline . |
| 7 | Conscious of their responsibilities as landlords the Marquis and Marchioness of Londonderry determined to provide assistance for the people of the area . |
| 8 | The suggestion was that the people of the area were outwardly smart but inwardly seared with pain : bleeding inside . |
| 9 | The people of the area , known as Chattisgarh , are tribals and untouchables . |
| 10 | But it took many years for the ordinary people of the area to benefit from tourism in any worthwhile economic sense . |
| 11 | The people of the area were Bosnians , Croats and Slavs . |
| 12 | ‘ Since VJ day , the majority people of the area , the Vietnamese , have stubbornly resisted the re-establishment of French authority , a struggle in which we have tried to maintain so far as possible the position of non-support of either party ’ . |
| 13 | But this policy extend well beyond the IRA and strikes right at the heart of independent community organisations who are interested in seeing the people of the area take control of all aspects of their own lives , including their own work , wealth and education . |
| 14 | For this reason , he invited the previous speaker who had first referred to the lack of education of the people of the area to spend a day or two in the area sometime to experience it first hand . |
| 15 | It was agreed that retail/service jobs provided neither a stable base for the economy nor decent jobs for the people of the area . |
| 16 | ‘ St Cecilia 's — A Celebration of 25 Years ’ is a tribute to the work done by the school with young people of the area — often in very difficult circumstances . |
| 17 | The supreme court ruled that the concession was illegal , because of the failure by the regional government to consult the Udege , the indigenous people of the area , who have the right to control the land under Russian law . |
| 18 | Indeed if they fail to take the initiative they might as well abandon the people of the area to a grim fate . |
| 19 | People who have intelligence and a conscience wrestle with these problems and we 've come to a conclusion which is as good a deal as we think we can get , with the people of the area and with the Labour party and I think he said that if people in this authority are sufficiently obstructive for a sufficiently long time then people will change their minds . |
| 20 | So there 's more people into the area for the shops . |
| 21 | It might bring more people into the area . |
| 22 | As another said , ‘ Being a neighbourhood man , you get to know all the people in the area to chat to them , and they know you to talk to and that ’ ( FN 28/4/87 p. 5 ) . |
| 23 | Colbert went wet again in 1982 , there 's an active local theatre group , and some people in the area are in the process of restoring and reopening the Ritz — which had survived mainly as a warehouse , and briefly as a recording studio in 1957 — putting on plays , and possibly a film series too . |
| 24 | British Gas North-Western workers are sticking the skull and crossbones symbol on appliances fitted by unqualified workmen in non-English speaking homes after three people in the area died in accidents caused by fumes last winter . |
| 25 | Concern centred on what effect this radioactive sea would have on the health of people in the area , especially if they ate large quantities of fish . |
| 26 | The ash raining down from it added to the misery of the people in the area — the Sir Robert Sale reported lumps the size of pumpkins falling on her decks , and she was at least forty kilometres distant . |
| 27 | In the last five years there has been a clear commitment from the Nursery/First , Middle and Comprehensive schools to work in a co-operative and supportive way , resulting in a pyramid of schools developing coherence and continuity for young people in the area from the ages 3–16 . |
| 28 | The answer might be ‘ Yes ’ — but only if the market research has shown that a lot of people in the area would buy fish and chips . |
| 29 | The administrator , Tilahu Walle , says they are the lucky ones of the 200 000 people in the area who need assistance . |
| 30 | The generosity of people in the area so far gives them good cause to believe that they will succeed again over the next 12 months . |