Example sentences of "people in [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Native peoples in Africa and South America have employed animal toxins to help them catch prey ; Kalahari bushmen anoint their hunting arrows with the squashed contents of beetle larvae to produce a slow-acting poison , and the Colombian Indians , as described , dip their blow-darts into the secretion of the poison arrow frog . |
| 2 | AMNESTY RESEARCHERS CATALOGUE THE RECORD OF HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES OF THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES IN NORTH AND SOUTH AMERICA , IN THIS , THE 500TH ANNIVERSARY YEAR OF CHRISTOPHER COLOMBUS 'S VOYAGE OF ‘ DISCOVERY ’ |
| 3 | Rhee was encouraged by certain people in Washington and Hodge named Oliver , Staggers and Jerome Williams ; Staggers and Williams were respectively president and vice-president of the American World Trade Export-Import Company Inc . |
| 4 | What the right hon. Gentleman might also have fastened his mind upon is the fact that reported job vacancies are rising , that the number of people placed in jobs is rising and that there are 500,000 more people in work than in 1979 . |
| 5 | For instance I have given one which is in the last ten years we have nearly one and half million more people in work than we had ten years ago . |
| 6 | He added that the UK continues to have the highest proportion of people in work than any other EC country except Denmark . |
| 7 | He will attempt to counter the Oppositions ' attacks on the rise in unemployment by arguing that Scotland has a higher proportion of people in work than any other European country except Denmark and Luxembourg . |
| 8 | In our rural areas , libraries have taken their stock out to the people in bookmobiles and ( to the astonishment of visiting Americans ) made available from these peripatetic points full access to the national interlending system of which Britain is justifiably rather proud . |
| 9 | The third part is perhaps something that erm , we find a little more difficult , I do found that er number two , number three and number four if you were n't careful blends very much into one another and actually then part three as far as I 'm concerned actually putting across the benefits is really the main part I think and that really is putting into everyday English what we know as professionals as in technical terms , cos if you go and talk to somebody whatever it is , they have n't got a clue we have , we talk about it all the time and I think the biggest criticism of the insurance industry as a whole is the fact that you do n't talk to people in English and that 's why it 's got such a foot in the door and I think the third part for me really is the most important part of the sales process , relating our cock-ups in English , the benefits the client . |
| 10 | Many Portuguese people in hotels and restaurants speak French if not English , but unfortunately for us the Met people did not , in general . |
| 11 | Old people in lavender and tweed sitting against the neat hedges , and roses tumbling along veined and curled beams , timber drydocked after a lifetime at sea . |
| 12 | I am living here with Arab people in peace and I have some friends among them . |
| 13 | At the same time concern was growing at a tripling in the cost of the high speed rail link following objections from people in Kent and Surrey . |
| 14 | At the same time , recall suppression was discovered when deaf subjects were instructed to hold blocks of wood while watching the presentation of items , in a way similar to suppression experienced by hearing people in tasks where they have a redundant phrase to say aloud at presentation . |
| 15 | Before the election , World In Action did a survey of 250 unregistered people in Hampstead and Highgate . |
| 16 | As an extremely broad overview , the shift from heavy manufacturing through the electronics and cybernetics revolution is creating the conditions for a different position for disabled people in society and this theoretical position is currently being borne out . |
| 17 | The state-funded National Consumer Council said : ‘ If these legal reforms go through , ordinary people in England and Wales will stand a much better chance of getting real justice . ’ |
| 18 | The number of people in England and Wales over the age of 75 has increased by 20 per cent since 1981 ; and those over 85 by almost 40 per cent , according to the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys . |
| 19 | More than 46,000 people in England and Wales suffer hip fractures each year — 60 per cent of them are women aged at least 75 . |
| 20 | According to the Commission 's National Survey of Countryside Recreation 1990 four out of 10 people in England and Wales are worried about trespassing on private land , getting lost and not knowing where to go or how to behave when visiting the country . |
| 21 | Every year , some 100,000 people in England and Wales suffer a stroke for the first time — one third will die within two to three weeks whilst around half the survivors remain permanently disabled . |
| 22 | When I tell you that , every year , 100,000 people in England and Wales suffer a stroke for the first time and that some of these may be unborn babies or small children , then I am sure that you will want to help . |
| 23 | Almost four million people in England and Wales were summonsed in the first half of this year for failing to pay . |
| 24 | About 160 people in England and Wales die each year from liver failure after an overdose of paracetamol , although this official figure may underestimate the true annual mortality as many cases of liver failure may not be attributed to a suicidal overdose to alleviate bereaved relatives ' distress . |
| 25 | ( p. 140 ) Burke estimated that " the people " , by which he meant those who ought to enjoy voting rights , comprised about 400,000 people in England and Scotland . |
| 26 | In 1961 , just over 2 persons divorced per 1,000 married people in England and Wales , while in 1981 it was almost 12 . |
| 27 | In fact , most people in England and Wales drop their [ h ] s to a greater or lesser extent . |
| 28 | Residential care is provided by local authorities for about 105,000 old people in England and Wales . |
| 29 | Editor , — Gary P Bray reports that each year 160 people in England and Wales die of liver failure after an overdose of paracetamol . |
| 30 | According to the census of 1891 there were 14,192 deaf and dumb people in England and Wales , 2,125 in Scotland , and 2,570 in Ireland . |