Example sentences of "people [prep] [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the closure of the session he suggested a number of measures to be undertaken to " promulgate and propagate the essence of the new laws " , including the nationwide education of party cadres and the people through study classes , and increased media coverage . |
| 2 | Out of sight is out of mind , when it comes to people as curse objects . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ We were crap for ages , ’ confesses Lucy , ‘ but we hung on in there , gradually improved and started pestering people for support slots . ’ |
| 4 | Cannabis may not lead to crime , but jailing people for drug offences does . |
| 5 | Cannabis may not lead to crime , but jailing people for drug offences does . |
| 6 | ‘ We shall have to prove able to provide professionally competent people for government posts . |
| 7 | And , they may have one display displayed , but if you go to somewhere like a warehouse or distribution where you go round and pick up your you can go to a garden you 'll pick up a box that 's illustrating a Flymo lawn mower or something and , and it 'll , er they spend a lot of time and money on the packaging , but , a lot of people for pilferage reasons do n't illustrate and that 's good practise not to illustrate , from our point of view , what 's on the package . |
| 8 | Last week police arrested a total of 36 people for theft offences alone . |
| 9 | Whatever one may argue for the value of research findings which ensue from this technique ( and certainly the publication of Down and Out must have come as a revelation to many people in present-day Britain ) the question must be squarely faced as to whether the social researcher has a right to deceive and manipulate people for research purposes . |
| 10 | You know you do n't need to tell us and in fact what you should be doing is in fact trying to develop relationships with your local papers and we actually have a very good relationships in Cambridge with our local council whereby it 's not just a matter of , of contacting people during office hours . |
| 11 | We used to go through the ritual of taking people off beta blockers , performing exercise tests , returning them to beta blockade and repeating the test . |
| 12 | He had a peculiar droning voice that reminded people of summer days and of buzzing from high up . |
| 13 | In Canada the Human Rights Act 1978 does not go as far as removing mandatory retirement ages ( although there is pressure growing to do so ) but does make it unlawful to deprive people of employment opportunities on grounds of age , as a result of policies or practices relating to recruitment promotion , training , or other personnel matters . |
| 14 | ‘ Competition will come from people like Virgin Games and Games Limited . |
| 15 | They know that other unhappy things can happen to people like road accidents or other illnesses . |
| 16 | This includes people like tea ladies and receptionists . |
| 17 | Some people like model trains or football . |
| 18 | Even better , people like tax inspectors did n't visit even under cover , unless they were feeling suicidal . |
| 19 | In spite of peace negotiations between the two sides , access to relief for the estimated 500,000 to 700,000 people behind rebel lines remained a critical problem . |
| 20 | Fifteen people including church workers were arrested on Dec. 1 in connection with an attack on Oct. 30 on the military high command [ see p. 37038 ] , and a US church worker , Jennifer Casolo , was held for 18 days accused of stockpiling weapons for the FMLN , before being released on Dec. 13 under intensive pressure from the USA . |
| 21 | According to the Washington Post of Jan. 16 , 1990 , more than 800 people including university students had been sentenced to prison terms of up to 10 years for " counter-revolutionary crimes " , including such acts as putting up posters . |
| 22 | Decaffeinated coffee is now widely available as beans or as instant coffee and is suitable for drinking by children and insomniacs and by people with heart conditions and high blood pressure , where caffeine can aggravate the symptoms . |
| 23 | Until the late 1950s , medical advice to people with heart problems and high blood pressure was to rest . |
| 24 | 2. drug-treatment centres and clinics who specialize in treating people with drug problems . |
| 25 | People with Drug Problems ; |
| 26 | Services for people with drug problems |
| 27 | The tax break enjoyed by people with company cars distorts the market for new cars in Britain , putting private buyers at a disadvantage |
| 28 | Ewen Cameron , a McGill-based psychologist , began to feed heavy doses of RNA — typically 100 grams of yeast RNA extract , a truly massive amount — to elderly people with memory difficulties . |
| 29 | 1 People with anxiety disorders may have exaggerated , irrational beliefs concerning the consequences of facing up to the feared or difficult situation . |
| 30 | For people with anxiety problems however it is common for their confidence to become slowly eroded . |