Example sentences of "people [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Parallel to the " official " summit , some 2,000 non-government organizations together with representatives of tribal peoples gathered at a " Global Forum " . |
| 2 | For as ecological awareness spread among the affluent , the national guilt over the genocide of indi-genous peoples led to an exultation of the Noble Savage , a worship of Nature , and consequently a misanthropy , in the form of deploring the existence of fellow humans . |
| 3 | At first they met fierce opposition , but the formation of the Republic and the immigration of many new peoples led to a wide open door for evangelical missionary activity . |
| 4 | possibly representing one of the peoples conquered by Augustus . |
| 5 | Communist sympathizers like John Strachey saw Communist affiliation as " the indispensable foundation stone upon which a Peoples Front for Britain can alone be built " . |
| 6 | There was thus a concrete possibility of creating a Peoples Front in Britain which would take advantage of the opposition to the National Government to be found outside the labour movement . |
| 7 | It took an advance in political maturity for Germanic peoples to cope with failure as positively God-given . |
| 8 | As peoples shift from one part of the globe to another , from one self to another , in various states of exile , dispossession and displacement , the dominant feature of the late-twentieth century has to be the search for place . |
| 9 | But other scientists , together with indigenous leaders , stress the need to ensure that the local forest peoples benefit from their own knowledge . |
| 10 | On the columns are the names of peoples defeated by Rome . |
| 11 | The idea of the organization of peoples according to descent was one of the most common in the past . |
| 12 | Thus , contemporary peoples living in distant areas are viewed as though they were relics of one 's own past ( Fabian 1983 ) . |
| 13 | Awareness of the social reality of the USSR , recognition that Soviet men and women experienced the same angst as those peoples living in pre-revolutionary societies disturbed Nizan but did not shake his faith in the ultimate justice and morality of the Soviet cause . |
| 14 | Hydro-Quebec 's James Bay development has met with strong opposition from Cree and Inuit peoples living in the region , who are supported by a growing tide of opposition from Canadian and US environmental groups . |
| 15 | This had been so ‘ from ancient times ’ ( izdrevle ) , and the peoples living within this vast area were said to be undertaking their seasonal migrations with Russian permission . |
| 16 | So I am going to suggest ways of finding out about earth energies and of understanding the processes involved , how the ancient peoples related to them , and how we may ourselves be able to build a stronger link . |
| 17 | In Teheran poor peoples wait in long lines in the snow for paraffin . |
| 18 | Prospective students are advised to consult the leaflets ‘ FB23 , Young Peoples Guide to Social Security ’ and IS20 ‘ Guide to Income Support ’ available from DHSS offices , which will also be able to provide further guidance . |
| 19 | The link between the Habsburg dynasty and the South Slav peoples began in the late thirteenth century , following the defeat of Ottokar , the Przemysl king of Austria-Bohemia by the German prince Rudolf of Habsburg at the battle of the Marchfeld near Vienna in 1278 . |
| 20 | In Russia the same effect was produced by Buryats , Tatars , and other eastern peoples encountered on the Trans-Siberian . |
| 21 | The Roman empire declined and fell , the Dark Ages came and went , new peoples settled round Vesuvius , and ultimately new towns began to spring up . |
| 22 | Three centuries of colonialism were then imposed on the peoples seized from Africa to work on its plantations . |
| 23 | So far as material culture is concerned , the Siberian peoples fell into two main categories . |
| 24 | surprising proposition is not merely that pastoral peoples do in fact show a fastidiousness with regard to the excremental functions which is totally unknown among primeval hunter-gatherers and rarely seen among agriculturalists ( although in their case the situation is complicated by subsequent introduction of domesticated animals ) , but that toilet-training and the mastery of the anal sphincter is , as we know from observation of our own children , intimately involved with sadistic instinctual trends and consists in the child accepting self-censorship of his anal and excremental drives . |
| 25 | Australian Aborigines , Pacific Islanders , American Indians , etc. , and all so-called ‘ primitive ’ peoples live by this principle . |
| 26 | In other countries , the indigenous peoples live in a state of siege . |
| 27 | ( Related to that view is the naive assumption of certain sociobiologists that sociobiology should expect to be more closely related to social anthropology than to other social sciences , because the ‘ primitive ’ peoples studied by social anthropology are nearer to nature than human beings who live in large industrialized societies . ) |
| 28 | Short of a situation of mass genocide ( Kampuchea or Idi Amin 's Uganda ) individual peoples have to be left to fight their own battles , if they are to generate genuine and lasting solu tions for their own futures . |
| 29 | Relatively little is known of the systematic knowledge which local peoples have of forest species and dynamics , and of the various patterns of traditional extraction and their consequences , yet it may provide vital information for those concerned with effective forestry , medicine , nutrition and plant product development . |
| 30 | All the peoples traded in the products of their particular region , exchanging goods by means of barter . |