Example sentences of "people [prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Plans to lease timber rights from indigenous peoples for extremely low prices were also criticised . |
| 2 | Personally , from a personal view during those years I was erm going for a neutral stance on the conflict because it did n't help any cause and it only hurt and harmed the peoples of both Iraq and Iran . |
| 3 | This vast geographical area — stretching from China to the Balkans and from India to the northern tip of the Caspian Sea — is inhabited by peoples of infinitely diverse cultural , religious and ethnic origins , whose only common feature ( apart from occupying territories along the old silk route to the East ) seems to be their desire and ability to elevate rug-making from a functional craft to an expressive and deeply satisfying form of art . |
| 4 | Our role in defeating Germany and Japan , and in saving Greece and Turkey from Soviet take-over , undoubtedly gave us an exaggerated view of our capacity to help other peoples with quite different backgrounds . |
| 5 | Those peoples with less elaborate technologies and a narrower range of effective communications and intercourse live much closer to the wild ; for them , it is the antithesis of the mastered , lived-in realm of normal everyday social intercourse . |
| 6 | Erm as er you went on as er as far as referrals were concerned and the objections that were raised you , you apacked really and , and , and went through and overcome those and at the end of the day you , you got the , you got really what you er what you were aiming for that er to get him to , to speak to these people between now and the next appointment so you could er , you could come back . |
| 7 | You 've just not got to put people through too many hoops that they do n't wan na go through . |
| 8 | So you may know , there was n't very many rich people about anyway . |
| 9 | ‘ There are plenty of British Legion people about here today , and you 'll find those who will tell you this is bad , ’ he said . |
| 10 | Now they er you know it 's a bit of a bloody , bloody dowdy operation , I mean er , one of the things I try and talk to people about here |
| 11 | There were a lot of people about everywhere , but no one looked my way twice . |
| 12 | There 's a few people about now . |
| 13 | There were a few people about now : walking their dogs , jogging in tracksuits along the firm sand out by the water 's edge . |
| 14 | Such mutual respect , of course , is one of the fundamental elements of high morale , dependability and efficiency , and I count myself fortunate to have been associated with such people for over a quarter of a century . |
| 15 | She has enjoyed working with older people for nearly 20 years as a social worker , a researcher and most recently as Director of Age Concern Scotland . |
| 16 | Doctors at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford have only just started to keep a record , but so far they treated six people for barfly injuries . |
| 17 | If a number of people for purely social or philanthropic reasons agreed upon a joint plan of action , the purpose of which was not to make a profit , this would not be a partnership . |
| 18 | It is not a recent development ; there have been mentally handicapped people for as long as there have been people , and efforts to cope with their presence have been proceeding since the last century . |
| 19 | There have been mentally handicapped people for as long as there have been people but , before the industrial revolution in the nineteenth century , public awareness was low . |
| 20 | Counselling is concerned with maintaining the quality of life of older people for as long as possible . |
| 21 | The truth is Mr Chairman that community care had as it 's major objective extending choice , give the chance to stay at home to many people for as long as possible , to eliminated the unwanted percentage of residential placements . |
| 22 | But I hope the articles in this issue of the magazine will say to you , as they do to me : you can fool some people some of the time , but you ca n't fool most people for ever . |
| 23 | But A&R people do not stay A&R people for very long if they do n't have an eye on both money and art simultaneously . |
| 24 | But I mean is gon na struggle cos he ai n't had many people for very long , has he ? |
| 25 | ‘ He had to be to fool so many people for so long . |
| 26 | So decide to meet a certain number of people for so many minutes each day , and gradually increase this over six months . |
| 27 | But is it not the only fair way to describe a policy that deceived so many people for so long ? |
| 28 | What is useful is the idea that research and study in a particular field or discipline can proceed for many people for quite long periods in a relatively routine or normal way , without continually digging up the roots . |
| 29 | This has been generated , perhaps , more by past failures than by any great desire on the part of the majority of people for more participatory forms of decision making . |
| 30 | The true proportion of people worth less than £2 in the vale was probably closer to the 32.7 per cent in Barton near Bristol hundred than to the 14.8 per cent in Whitstone , just south of Gloucester . |