Example sentences of "[subord] [prep] people " in BNC.
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| 1 | But here I am Elsie spending more time writing about a fish than about people . |
| 2 | Meanwhile , the state family planning programmes continue to treat women as objects whose fertility needs to be controlled rather than as people who might wish to exercise more control over their lives . |
| 3 | The cost of community care for action sample clients is of course higher than for people in the control samples because the cost of support worker time plus a proportion of the time of the development officers was included in the assessment of community service costs at the time of second and third assessments . |
| 4 | Furthermore , perhaps we should at least ask whether cremation is not really for the convenience of public health , efficiency , and land conservation rather than for people . |
| 5 | For the few people on low incomes who do have credit , paying it off tends to soak up more of their budget than for people with higher incomes . |
| 6 | Moreover , there are already other pressures towards monthly budgeting ( such as monthly rent or fuel payments ) ; these pressures are likely to set up more financial strain for people who get their pay weekly and spend it on a weekly basis than for people who get paid monthly . |
| 7 | The education and training of Health Care workers should include at least the possibility of working in partnership with people rather than for people , so that the experience of unlearning , deroling and relearning through which the family development nurses had to go in order to work effectively in this way with people , can be avoided . |
| 8 | Periods at risk under 40 were obviously shorter for both in migrants and out migrants and deaths than for people permanently resident throughout the study . |
| 9 | I 'd rather take the loss myself than for people to get you know rotten stuff . |
| 10 | Everything I have learnt teaches me that it is only when you work with rather than against people that achievement and lasting success is possible . |
| 11 | except in people 's eyes ; |
| 12 | For the twenty-three years after 1950 , the list was run by Miss Mary Bruce , a caricature white-haired Whitehall spinster more interested in horses than in people and who scared the pants off all who worked with her . |
| 13 | except on people 's breath ; |
| 14 | They have not been for some time except to people who still remember The Beatles and The Animals . |
| 15 | It would be a pity if reading replaced talking and writing — that is the fate of the ‘ book-worm ’ , the person who is happier and safer among books than among people . |
| 16 | However , it gradually became apparent that from now on , London Transport was to be ruled by politicians , rather than by people who had any knowledge or experience of how to run a public transport undertaking . |
| 17 | which is trying to accumulate a record of how the English language is used in everyday context , like lectures , like in broadcasts , like in people 's homes and so forth . |
| 18 | erm clarification because for people like me that are interested in the total provision of employment land in the district , erm what I 'm hearing for example in the case of Harrogate is that there is an allocation of employment land of of sixty hectares plus the Greater York allocation . |
| 19 | Towards the end of the story , Gowie does start to become much nicer — not because of people threatening him , but because he meets somebody with a stronger personality who wants to be his friend . |
| 20 | ‘ We 've been stopped from coming into the Park because of people throwing paper and things on to the ground . ’ |
| 21 | Many innocent lives have already been lost because of people like him . |
| 22 | You ca n't hold grudges because of people 's opinions . ’ |
| 23 | ' ’ Perhaps because of people like you . ’ |
| 24 | But even in the 1950s and '60s the unemployment figures may not have reflected the ‘ true ’ number unemployed because of people 's failure to register . |
| 25 | Essentially , deterrence is the simple idea that the incidence of crime is reduced because of people 's fear or apprehension of the punishment they may receive if they offend . |
| 26 | Because of people like Alan Sillitoe ( it says on the back he was the son of a labourer ) . |
| 27 | Despite the fact that about 95% of that can be recycled , very little actually is , but this is not because of people 's ignorance , but more because the majority of district councils in Britain provide insufficient Recycling services . |
| 28 | It 's it 's not worth a marriage no more because the C S A and because of people like them sat there that think they know it all . |
| 29 | But Neill said : ‘ We are not moving because of people pestering us . |
| 30 | However , HIV and AIDS are already affecting some women , whether as people with the virus , carers , mothers , partners , or health educators . |