Example sentences of "people [conj] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many believe that minority group members have better insight , more commitment and greater rapport with similarly affected people than does the general population ( Shearer , 1981 ) and that people with extensive professional training do not necessarily help those who are disabled ( McKnight , 1981 ) . |
| 2 | Ninety years ago two-wheeled pedal power carried far more people than did the four-wheeled internal combustion machines . |
| 3 | This may seem like an impossible demand to make on someone who has smoked 20–60 cigarettes a day , but psychologically it works better for most people than attempting the ‘ slowly does it ’ campaign of a cigarette less every day . |
| 4 | These were the people that orchestrated the crimes , using the MID 's as their henchmen . |
| 5 | I took a seat a little way from the knot of people that formed the main body of our party . |
| 6 | There 's nothing difficult about a whole stream of , of er comments were raised by the inspector Mr team are , have addressed a large number of them , have told us what they propose to do to deal with a number of er and , and I believe that there will be things left over when he 's finished that , that he wo n't be able to resolve er perhaps er without the people that help the Committee er or some of us are always suggesting is that er those things that he is unsuccessful in resolving erm be identified and so that er when , when the er the Inspector makes his er his next report we can see just , just why that some of these other items there have were n't able to be addressed . |
| 7 | Estimates of the extent of desertification vary ; the Gaia atlas of planet management ( Myers 1985 ) , for example , suggests that c. 10 per cent of the 700 million people that inhabit the arid and semi-arid zones are living in areas that are becoming impoverished and that c. 12 million ha of land are degraded annually to such an extent that they are agriculturally unproductive . |
| 8 | The majority of ramblers are not a problem — it 's just those particular people that get the attention . ’ |
| 9 | Lou Macari says … he ; s very annoyed about what happened at swindon.the people that ran the club let him doww … but it was up to him to get on with his football and he 's happy at Stoke having won a cup at wembley and promotion to the first division |
| 10 | Theses are the people that cause the problems and I have had enough and when at the same time you do n't believe the slogans they are shotuing its time to leave the Labour Party . |
| 11 | Well we 'll have to consider that along with land Messrs , cos we think it 's a brilliant site with good road access and we want to work very hard with the people that put the deal together . |
| 12 | They sent they sent 'em out from er , Abbey National and we had to pay , well we did pay 'im fifty pound , people that put the building on paid . |
| 13 | We 're a good mix of people that set the trends , the ‘ see and be seen ’ generation … |
| 14 | they say that ad , it pays to advertise I mean , to me advertising has never done anything for me well I do n't think it has anyway but if it pays to advertise and look at the number of people that read the Express |
| 15 | It helps sort of talking to people that know the score and that . |
| 16 | The important thing for people new to the business , you 're rubbing shoulders with people that know the business , and it 's your opportunity to say hey , I 've heard about you , I think ooh , you 're important , and hello . |
| 17 | Sometimes the people that owned the book had to pay it for them you know . |
| 18 | Aye that was the people that owned the book . |
| 19 | I just worries me that these caring people are the same people that support the Tory policies that oppressed |
| 20 | against the people that use the graduates . |
| 21 | these , these people that use the conference rooms , you know ? |
| 22 | The only problem with it is that very often we , the people that organize the Neighbourhood Watches already live in areas that do n't really need one that much . |
| 23 | They say this to the very people who have been the bedrock of this organization , the very people that built the organization . |
| 24 | ‘ When you get down to the end of a tournament , the people that hit the great shots win and she hit some great shots . ’ |
| 25 | There are issues which driver training and what we 're doing in that because those vehicles are quite large , they are actually minibuses as such from the public 's point of view , and they are carrying people that need the best possible care and attention in their transport . |
| 26 | I think the fact that the books were filled out correctly and I think you should give the people that did the stock take , congratulations because the books were filled out reasonably well considering some of their ex inexperience in it . |
| 27 | In nineteen eighty six treat people as if their labour is worth nothing you know those men have given their lives to the quarry industry and there 's no doubt that there is money to be made from slate at the moment and people are people that have the money to invest are making a lot of money okay they 're inves they 're risking the money but er people are risking their lives as well and giving their lives . |
| 28 | And there 's all those people that have the big signs that say |
| 29 | You know , I think that 's the general feeling , we 're the people that buy the food , really , women , are n't we ? |
| 30 | In its vast project to kick the mainframe habit and move to Unix-based client-server systems , Mead Corp 's database operator Mead Data Central Inc is spreading its favours around , and while some Unix business has gone to Hewlett-Packard Co , NCR Corp is also in there as a so-called strategic technology partner ( presumably its non-strategic technology partners are the people that supply the brooms they sweep the floor with ) as Mead moves existing applications off mainframes to a client-server environment : the two have been working together for the past year on projects to re-engineer access to the widely-used Lexis and Nexis on-line information services and create a new internal information system infrastructure and campus-wide network , and Mead is using NCR System 3000 symmetric multiprocessors and AT&T Co and NCR network products . |