Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] people at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are fewer status differentiations between organisation members and more opportunities for people at the bottom to influence those at the top . |
| 2 | The arrival of large groups of people at the same time will always mean pressure on the reception staff , hall porters and other departments . |
| 3 | Without the support of people at the top , no one is likely to confront organisational defensive routines . |
| 4 | Not only were other Sussex towns strongly characterised by the number of £2 assessments , usually on goods , but Bury St Edmunds and Newbury , also county centres , had a smaller proportion of people at the bottom of the heap than their immediate neighbourhoods , though at the latter , the suburban hamlet of Speenhamland was crowded with poor . |
| 5 | There is increased recognition that concentrating limited national training resources at the professional or university level is not likely to have much impact on the service needs of people at the grass roots . |
| 6 | It aimed to meet , as only religion can , the most basic spiritual needs of people at the end of their tether . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm one of the team of people at the Foreign Office that will be constantly working on Michael 's case . |
| 8 | You know , that there was a group of people at the top , Ministers , perhaps , who had an interest in keeping relations between Copts and Moslems on the boil . |
| 9 | It is equally relevant when providing a nursing service for people at the other end of the lifespan — the elderly . |
| 10 | His sister had been restless and Dunbar had had to fight queues of people at the bar to buy drinks in the interval . |
| 11 | At 9.30 in the evening there 's a small queue of people at The Palace club at Hollywood and Vine , a dump about half the size of London 's Town & Country with a quarter of the atmosphere . |
| 12 | Delays in decision-making can be a difficulty as it takes time for problems at the bottom to come to the notice of people at the top , and for ideas at the top to percolate to the bottom . |
| 13 | Instead of reporting the number of people at the gig , journalists query the 2 or 300 empty seats in the hall and question whether the band is really gaining popularity . |
| 14 | I met a number of people at the consultation who concurred with that view . |
| 15 | Regarding paragraph nine Chairman , no doubt you , you would tell us if there 's been a response on this , because this does seem a useless step forward er , to increase the number of people at the coalface as it were , and self-financing , and no doubt we shall hear in due course about this . |
| 16 | The gesture was a symbolic expression of the abhorrence felt by growing numbers of people at the threat to the future of the African elephant posed by a particularly bloody trade and will have gained widespread support . |
| 17 | Just after my birthday in September 1922 , we came out from afternoon school on a Tuesday and , on reaching the corner of St. Martin 's Church Street , saw quite a lot of people at the bottom of St. Ann 's Street . |
| 18 | Last night there were a lot of people at the gig who were here the first time around and they can relate to what we 're doing . |
| 19 | from Gladstone and Gannon , and er he gave an awful lot of people at the S U and at Alcuin J C R a lot of grief over the provost , who then wrote them a letter saying I , Jim am the fault of all this and just generally made the students look even dafter for |
| 20 | A guy on Christmas holiday in the wilds of the state of Maine reports that there was a line of people at the bookstore buying copies of the new 385-page $25 book , Inside Windows NT , which gives an architectural overview of the beta package . |
| 21 | ‘ The problem for people at the USTA and the LTA is that they are too far removed from what is going on in tennis to know what is really required , ’ he says . |
| 22 | The women pointed out that many of the most able graduates were women and that it was shortsighted of the establishment simultaneously to be moaning about the lack of people at the top and disenfranchising half of medical graduates . |
| 23 | There was quite a scrum of people at the bar giving their orders for large post-prandial brandies and ports and the commissionaire waved me through . |
| 24 | ‘ So , we are really talking , I believe , about developing democracy and accountability and power for people at the very grassroots of the community ’ . |