Example sentences of "people [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The People story on Mr Mellor and Mrs Bauwens — daughter of the PLO 's chief fund-raiser — was headlined ‘ Top Tory and his pal from the PLO . ’ |
| 2 | He also dismissed the claim that Sunday opening gives people freedom of choice as nonsensical . |
| 3 | His choice for your Christmas stocking includes pig-breeder Cranswick , Capita Group which runs computer departments for local government , electronic publisher Dorling Kindersely , and pen people Platignum . |
| 4 | In the final stages of such inflation , paper money ceases to have any value and people resort to barter , and in the meanwhile the country 's financial system disintegrates . |
| 5 | At such moments of crisis , some people resort to drink . |
| 6 | It 's amaz amazing how often people resort to matchstick men |
| 7 | For elderly people assessment facilities were to be provided in each locality , with long-term care to be given in the private sector . |
| 8 | I mean personally I think one of the difficulties in the colleges is that they do still have a sense of being at schools , and when you have an atmosphere which is like school you 're tacitly given people permission to act as if they were at school , and so we have a and that activity may not always be very adult , so we have to find a way of changing the environment of the colleges . |
| 9 | Thus it may well be that French Canadian is derived historically by the addition of an adjectival sufffix to the geographical term French Canada , but it is clear that in the mind of most users the adjective is used to take a subset out of the larger class of things or people Canadian , as shown , for instance , by the general refusal in Canada to use the historically natural opposite term English Canadian otherwise than for those descended from inhabitants of Great Britain and in particular England ( see Orkin , 1971 ) . |
| 10 | Stress affects posture : often people look slumped , their shoulders sag and they hunch their back ; alternatively they hold themselves very rigid so that the muscles of the shoulders and neck especially are set ; their face takes on a fixed expression with perhaps staring eyes or clenched jaw ; muscular tics and involuntary twitches can arise ; for some people cramp is stress-related . |
| 11 | To appreciate properly the difference between a winter which the majority of people experience and the kind with which the people in the high Pennines have to cope , you need a bird's-eye view . |
| 12 | The loneliness many older people experience has been given respectability by certain social theories which either seek to give , or are interpreted as , an explanation for the isolation of older people . |
| 13 | It is nearly always possible to treat the diseases and disabilities that older people experience . |
| 14 | In general , the fewer mental symptoms people experience and the less preoccupied they are with an internal abnormal world , the more able they are to live successfully in the community . |
| 15 | One is that it makes people er it gives people experience of participation which is itself an improving matter . |
| 16 | ‘ Our purpose in coming has been to give people experience and it was always going to be a hard tournament against Brazil and Germany . |
| 17 | Many people struggle for promotion in order to enhance their status within organisations . |
| 18 | processing of video images of underground platforms to estimate the concentration of people present |
| 19 | I mean , considering there are only about five hundred people in there were just on forty people present in the room which is quite a good average or percentage of them and er a lot of the questions were quite positive and the Chairman sort of took them , there were one or two people there who obviously erm wanted to have everything either exactly as it was or whatever , but it looked very much from the conversation that I had with the ramblers afterwards that in large part this scheme could be accepted . |
| 20 | The Revolution had taken place , the Revolutioners had been singing songs , and one of the people present at this dinner , this banquet , said , what we need is something different , something new , we need a new war song . |
| 21 | One would like very often to have more erm people involved in decision making , but they simply do n't have the time to inform themselves and one or two experiments in the kind of democracy you might Brian might have had in mind , came to horrible grief where decisions were taken simply uninformed and where the small number of people present who were informed were n't able to persuade the majority and the history of education is littered with them most unfortunate examples of this . |
| 22 | This is the seventh one that I 've attended , but no doubt there are people present who 've attended even more . |
| 23 | People wave from the bank and shout our names ; heaven knows who they are ! |
| 24 | ‘ If people wave to you to stop , or if you see things in the road , you must not stop , you must drive on , ’ said Florence . |
| 25 | You pass through orchards , over farms where the people wave greetings , catch glimpses of castles that were there centuries before the railway was built and of huddled villages , then go higher through woodlands where the trees brush the carriages , and on to views of snow clad peaks shimmering on the horizon . |
| 26 | Why , people wave at me in the streets ! ’ |
| 27 | The most serious danger , however , is that the ‘ people bit ’ gets lost — plans often assume that people will work and prosecute them in logical , rational ways , which of course they do not . |
| 28 | Smaller people pogo faster , at precisely the increments a physicist would predict from the known properties of springs — although keeping them bouncing long enough to prove this was another challenge for Taylor . |
| 29 | They woke on Sunday morning and people wre going to church … they dare n't be seen in their working clothes . |
| 30 | Their subject-matter is les petites gens , the ordinary people Simenon is said to understand so well , and their tumultuous lives in which jealousy , blackmail and greed generally lead to suicide or murder . |