Example sentences of "[det] people " in BNC.
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| 1 | For Europe , the nineteenth century was the great time when languages were identified and codified in single forms , minority languages in part eliminated , consciously national literatures and musics invented , and the territory mapped ( appropriately described as a ‘ father ’ or ‘ mother ’ land , even though very few peoples have occupied the same territory for more than a thousand years ) . |
| 2 | Here , in splendid isolation , emerged a tribe of Polynesians who were prepared to address problems such as this , and who moreover were one of the few peoples in the world to develop a system of writing . |
| 3 | It has , however , been contained by an environment in which President Nyerere 's political leadership promoted a strong national ideology , and in which , for reasons which lie in Tanzania 's nineteenth-century history ( including both the replacement of traditional authority by trader barons and the unity achieved among some peoples in resisting German colonialism ) localism has been much less strong than among many African peoples . |
| 4 | Unfortunately , the insides of these sea-urchins are considered by some peoples to be a delicacy eaten raw and so are potentially dangerous . |
| 5 | David Graeme of Orchill , when describing the contest for the collector of the cess for Perthshire in 1738 , which terminated in an election lasting two days , saw his party 's victory as one by which ‘ some peoples management of this shire is interrupted ’ . |
| 6 | For some peoples , the physical universe or a basic element such as water or earth always existed , an the gods arose from it . |
| 7 | Considerable physical migration took place — mostly , but not entirely , caused by the activities of the Russians — and some peoples were reduced in numbers almost to vanishing point , while on the other hand at least one new ethno-cultural group was formed . |
| 8 | And if you volunteered for five years I know you got fifty pound for that which was a hell of a lot of money , a year 's wage in some peoples ' eyes that was you know . |
| 9 | In traditional societies where prolonged breastfeeding has been the custom , the advantages of lengthy spacing are widely recognized though , as in Kenya , the tradition has begun to fade among some peoples along with the advance of modernization . |
| 10 | Hurling insults is some peoples way of showing they care . |
| 11 | Food imported for a million and a half people . |
| 12 | But while the battle goes on , the aid does not get through , and in Central Bosnia , a million and a half people depend upon it . |
| 13 | In the end there has to be a limit , there has to be a level beyond which you can not go without people cracking under the strain , without people saying I 'm now doing the job that was done by two people , two and half people a few years ago . |
| 14 | Well it 's equivalent to an another two and a half people . |
| 15 | erm it employs a million and a half people in full time jobs , or full time equivalents . |
| 16 | Some people think drugs can help you find God , or discover the meaning of life . |
| 17 | Perhaps this is the more important in the late twentieth century now that this means of image-making is so familiar that some people actually imagine that a photograph shows the world as it is . |
| 18 | It is possible to imagine that for some people such consolation might make it easier to reconcile the two , and to wonder what it was that made the difference in Fraser 's case . |
| 19 | Some people find this makes theatre less ‘ believable ’ — less true to their own experience and therefore less convincing than the more restrained performances seen on television and cinema . |
| 20 | Some people never have to use their back-ups , just as some people never need to claim on their insurance , but would you want to be uninsured ? |
| 21 | Some people never have to use their back-ups , just as some people never need to claim on their insurance , but would you want to be uninsured ? |
| 22 | ‘ Some people never learn . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ And some people learn just in time . |
| 24 | This suited everyone else , as some people like to come in early , others to leave late , and we all managed to work around each other . |
| 25 | ‘ They said it would be as soon as possible — but it takes years for some people . |
| 26 | Look , I 've got to get back to some people I spoke to this morning . |
| 27 | I do n't want to ‘ politicize ’ the homeless in a way that makes them look like the front-line infantry fighting a barbaric government , which is a line some people have taken , simply because when you 're out there , it just is n't like that . |
| 28 | The Senate wants to merge us into University College and we 've been told we 'll have to get rid of some of our staff — it may all be very neat and tidy for the bureaucrats , but it 's going to be absolutely disastrous for some people . |
| 29 | It has n't occurred to them that some people might actually have to survive on any money they 're given . ’ |
| 30 | Some people think that holding the wing down or putting a tyre on the wing will stop the glider blowing over . |