Example sentences of "of people [conj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to the motto , the words carved in granite outside our dock gates , a settlement in Africa raises no doubts : the great Roman god approves of the mingling of peoples and the making of treaties in Africa . |
| 2 | In his resignation speech , Gorbachev asserted that although he had been in favour of " the independence and self-determination of peoples and the sovereignty of republics " , he had also believed in " preserving the union state and the country 's integrity " . |
| 3 | Well that was the , the erm union for us , erm I think erm one of the great assets of being in public transport was that we were in a local erm pension scheme , erm when , when we in the office started , we had to wait until we were eighteen and then we had to wait for a vacancy because there was a limited number of people that the Council were prepared to back by paying a similar amount . |
| 4 | When combined with archaeological evidence of settlement distribution , age and function it will be possible to reconstruct something of the lives of people since the first settlers arrived in the area over 7,000 years ago . |
| 5 | A resigned silence congealed over the rows of people and the Reverend Archibald Menzies gripped the edges of the lectern , closed his eyes and raised his face to the ceiling , then looked down at the serried faces and spoke . |
| 6 | ( Apart from Colchester , the names of people and the locations of the events mentioned in this article have been changed in order to protect the integrity of the Service . ) |
| 7 | Common sense may tell us something different : that there are limits to growth ( or more accurately , perhaps , to real disposable income ) , imposed not so much by the depletion of fossil fuels and mineral which worried the Club of Rome , but by numbers of people and the cost of a worldwide defence of the environment . |
| 8 | Reggane was a soulless place , little more than a hamlet inhabited by a handful of people and the wind . |
| 9 | As I take them off I give them names , the names of people and the names of things . |
| 10 | The latter two may be the attractions prompting the former , but where the countryside or environmental features are the foci of interest , large influxes of people and the attendant services that they require can bring about environmental change . |
| 11 | The more a person is integrated into a close-knit social network , the more time they spend speaking to the same group of people and the less they spend in contact with others who might change their speech . |
| 12 | The now well-honed Mould character traits are everywhere : his underlying cynicism , the ongoing mistrust of people and the bits where his head sounds like it 's about to explode . |
| 13 | But they still have a lot to learn in terms of communications , hotels , airports , the movement of people and the sensitivity to visiting teams ’ , he said . |
| 14 | The main thing which strikes any inexperienced observer on a commercial shoot is the large number of people and the small amount that seems to happen . |
| 15 | Constitutional theory , in explaining how the various institutions of the state work together and in offering a particular theory of representation connecting state to society , seeks to provide us with answers to large and profound questions about who governs and how ; about who should govern and how ; and about the respective rights of people and the privileges of property in British politics . |
| 16 | I mean I do n't mind which institutional type you call it because it 's not so much the courses , it 's the numbers of people and the numbers of places you have to service |
| 17 | Will he urge on the Government of India the importance of allowing independent observers and visitors into that region , and of taking up Pakistan 's offer that independent observers should be stationed along the line of control , to deal with the movement of people and the problem of terrorism , as well as the human rights issue ? |
| 18 | We believe in smaller but better , which means a choice between the numbers of people and the quality of the equipment that they can enjoy . |
| 19 | Erm , I also suspect that one solution is erm not very satisfactory to one group of people and the other solution is not very satisfactory to another group of people and of course er since we are coming up to an election do n't want to offend either group of people . |
| 20 | He says we do take care in planning our housing — it 's a question of balancing the needs of people and the countryside . |
| 21 | This refers to the question of whether the group of people or the situation that we are studying are typical of others . |
| 22 | The the the the so called better off people lived at the top half , and the the the poorer type of people or the poorer class of property was on the bottom half , oddly enough and er |
| 23 | Not the world of people or the created world . |
| 24 | Also it is a common feature of course that you need to order the resources , that you have the resource in terms of people or the economy or the armed forces , you need to order those resources to try to achieve your ends erm and we 'll look at that later , the aims that you 're going for in foreign policy so they 're common , that you 're in the same environment , that you 've got to m er whatever the resources you have you have to try to organize them to achieve your ends and so on . |
| 25 | Eventually they 'll be just as full of people as the planet . |
| 26 | It would bring joy to millions of people if the Royals gave up bloodsports . |
| 27 | I said plenty of people because the stains represented life . |