Example sentences of "people [vb base] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Communist sympathizers like John Strachey saw Communist affiliation as " the indispensable foundation stone upon which a Peoples Front for Britain can alone be built " . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | But other scientists , together with indigenous leaders , stress the need to ensure that the local forest peoples benefit from their own knowledge . |
| 5 | In Teheran poor peoples wait in long lines in the snow for paraffin . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Australian Aborigines , Pacific Islanders , American Indians , etc. , and all so-called ‘ primitive ’ peoples live by this principle . |
| 9 | In other countries , the indigenous peoples live in a state of siege . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | For as long as ordinary people remain on the Island , this pub will not change . |
| 13 | Opus declined to say how many people remain with the company or how many boxes it actually put in the field . |
| 14 | This was a vital necessity , otherwise the nation would remain backward , introverted and its people remain in a state of psychological subjugation . |
| 15 | How long do older people remain in hospital ? |
| 16 | In pressure-group politics the struggle for civil rights is controlled by the active few , while the mass of disabled people remain in their traditional passive relationship to others . |
| 17 | When they reach retirement age , most people qualify for the basic pension , which is normally uprated once a year to keep in line with price rises . |
| 18 | Changes in contribution conditions mean that higher paid people qualify for benefits faster than lower paid people and this especially affects women who make up the majority of low-paid workers . |
| 19 | Lots of people qualify for help with their Council Tax whether it 's exemptions , discounts or rebates . |
| 20 | Ergonomics can not be simply the adaptation of technology to suit invariant properties of ‘ man ’ , people change with technology . |
| 21 | Some people change for the better . |
| 22 | Hundreds of people sit at cafés on the pavement on either side of the road enjoying the sights . |
| 23 | This suggests that you should sit at arms length from your monitor and should n't site desks so that people sit near the back of monitors . |
| 24 | ‘ How many people sit in a theatre ? |
| 25 | Against this background of craters and devastated buildings people sit in the sun at cafes open again for a town which has nothing else to do but drink coffee and wait for the future . |
| 26 | These people account for 25.3 per cent of all spending on clothing and footwear , 21.6 per cent on household goods and 31.3 per cent on leisure . |
| 27 | When I explain that I read books for a living , people launch into a frenzy of apologetic explanation : ‘ I do n't have the time ! ’ ; |
| 28 | This chapter pursues our general theme of exploring locales and localities as the context of interaction between people and the understandings people gain through such interaction . |
| 29 | Thus older people predominate among long-term claimants : 75 per cent of people aged 60 and over have been receiving Income Support for three years or more , compared with 40 per cent of those under 60 ; elderly people comprise 60 per cent of those receiving this benefit for five years or more . |
| 30 | Our menu at McDonald 's offers meat , eggs , fish , bread , dairy products and potatoes — the kind of good , nutritious food most people eat at home . |