Example sentences of "people in their " in BNC.
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| 1 | Until recently it was reckoned that men and women on average had sex with 6 different people in their lifetime . |
| 2 | Smoke alarms are small plastic devices which can be fitted by most people in their homes . |
| 3 | It is systematically ungrammatical colloquial speech which embeds people in their feudal ancestry . |
| 4 | Sponsorship means giving direct help to assist people in their fight against poverty . |
| 5 | This last amendment would have the effect of removing the deterrent which local authorities will face if they place people in their own homes and have to meet the full cost . |
| 6 | The job of the buyers is to assess the health needs of people in their area and then see that those needs are met as quickly and effectively as possible . |
| 7 | I teach students who are often illiterate , who do not know how to use a hand-held calculator , who have never seen a film with subtitles or read a classic work of literature , and who can not spell even the name of important people in their field ( for example , psychology majors who spell Freud as Frued ) . |
| 8 | They did so after widespread discussion , usually informal , in the guestrooms of important people in their lineages . |
| 9 | Again he said , in an argument strangely reminiscent of Erastus , Richard Hooker and Matthew Arnold , that ‘ the State is more sacred than any Church … for the State stands for the whole people in their manifold collective life ; and any Church is but a fragment of that life , though one of the most important fragments ’ . |
| 10 | With costs unofficially estimated at up to £200,000 , the award seemed likely to force the closure of the magazine , which has built a reputation for trendiness and a circulation of 73,000 , selling mainly to people in their 20s . |
| 11 | Or do they admit that the Rural Scheme is simply a rate-paid organisation to amuse well-educated people in their years of retirement . |
| 12 | Whilst endowing the local youth department ( Jugendamt ) for the first time with full and central responsibilities for the well-being of children and young people in their area and for the maintenance of high and uniform standards of services , the Act envisages that these responsibilities be discharged through the co-ordination of private and public agencies and organizations . |
| 13 | So strategic was the city 's position that the present inhabitants claim that the dwellers were a people in their own right even by the time of the Roman conquest , and that when Julius Caesar gave them Roman citizenship they were already famed as an industrious , peaceable , practical people with a legendary ability to confront any misadventures with incredible resources of energy . |
| 14 | Locals , portraits of local people in their home and work environments by Kevin Reynolds ( 22 Feb–22 Mar ) . |
| 15 | Humans have a surprising degree of receptivity — or even gullibility — in being open to other people in their lives . |
| 16 | In contrast , Jesus never ran away from trouble , nor left people in their sickness or sorrow . |
| 17 | In Europe , where music fans are usually more broad-minded , people in their thirties and forties often attend Wedding Present gigs . |
| 18 | You see , people in their class can not wear the same thing often . |
| 19 | While special programmes for older viewers undoubtedly offer information and support , television companies may use them as an excuse for not including realistic portrayals of older people in their mainstream peak-time programmes . |
| 20 | ‘ Businessmen are in daily contact with large groups of people in their factories and offices , ’ he said . |
| 21 | This American computer-produced service works from the principle that people with similar research interests who write articles cite the research of other people in their references . |
| 22 | It can also be used to study people in their public leisure activities such as at football matches or in public houses . |
| 23 | Staff are dedicated to their work and generally regard it as vocational , having to cope with frail and sometimes difficult people in their declining years , and , on occasions , the reality of death . |
| 24 | After some years the designs from the Empire influenced fashionable people in their taste , and Roman style bronze brooches and bangles , some of them made in Britain , were worn by the men and women of prosperous families . |
| 25 | After the age of 75 , the physical changes due to ageing usually become more noticeable , but some people in their seventies keep up their health and fitness . |
| 26 | The irrigation waters made possible by flooding their own homes might eventually help the people in their new . |
| 27 | People in their sixties who are on their own are also beginning to move into such accommodation , giving a good mix of younger , able-bodied and older residents . |
| 28 | We have to leave them to be independent and responsible people in their own right . |
| 29 | But some find it difficult to treat their grown-up children as people in their own right , entitled to plan their own lives . |
| 30 | Later on in this chapter you will see how it has helped specific people in their lives , but first I would like to show how the technique can help some of the more common ailments that many people suffer today . |