Example sentences of "of a [noun sg] of people " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among possible sources of such information is the proposed follow-up in their early thirties of a sample of people born in 1958 — the members of the National Child Development Study , another national cohort study similar to that of the 1946 generation described above . |
| 2 | The magazine is a team effort consisting of a core of people at Craigforth who ensure that the magazine is produced . |
| 3 | The death of a planetful of people could hardly involve any more than that . |
| 4 | They passed through a small station and she caught a glimpse of a couple of people standing on the windswept platform , but other than that there was nothing to see . |
| 5 | If universal education is a genuine ideal ; if , unlike the Greeks , we may claim to believe in such a thing as a democratic intellect , then we must stop thinking of a kind of people , a ‘ work-force ’ who will obediently slot into the place society has for them , trained as a kind of technological army . |
| 6 | Seems she just stepped off the pavement to get in front of a row of people and … ’ |
| 7 | I used to be a hunt supporter , I used to be a hunt follower I gave up because I object to an attitude of a society of people that life is disposable having seen wounded fox hounds and that is the proper term having seen wounded fox hounds despatched with a revolver because they 've got a broken leg having charged full pelt across a public road and hit a motor car coming the other way and fortunately not injured the occupants of the motor car having seen the damage that a pack of hounds in full cry can do to land that they are not entitled to be upon because fox hounds ca n't read . |
| 8 | Given the likely involvement of a variety of people as a Decision Making Unit in purchase decisions , and the likelihood of particular contingencies affecting its Outcome , it will be important for the marketing function in supplier companies to : * understand how buying decisions are made ; * understand how the Decision Making Unit is constituted ; find out who are the most influential figures in the decision-making process . |
| 9 | But he did it , right in front of a roomful of people . |
| 10 | He 'd called her Rory earlier in the evening — when they 'd been dancing , when he 'd kissed her and made her completely forget she was in the middle of a crowd of people . |
| 11 | Whether this pattern of usage of solicitors is evidence of a restricted perception of the sorts of matters with which solicitors deal or of a failure of people to approach solicitors knowing that they could help is unclear . |
| 12 | A clause was dropped from the proposals which would have deemed " inexpedient " the calling of a Congress of People 's Deputies during the transition to a new constitution . |
| 13 | For Oakeshott , politics is ‘ the activity of attending to the arrangements of a set of people whom chance or choice have brought together ’ . |
| 14 | The teacher shows a genuine photograph of a group of people who travelled together on the Oregon trail . |
| 15 | Once again , the fiction of Hollywood merged with fact ; scenes of fantasy portrayed on celluloid for entertainment — like those in Easy Rider had become , it was said , the acted-out realities of a group of people whose minds had been expanded to breaking point , until they performed deeds so indescribably vile that it barely seemed possible that one human being could inflict such wounds upon another for no apparent reason . |
| 16 | From somewhere upstairs came the sound of a group of people singing songs from their own province . |
| 17 | At its simplest , ethnography involves the researcher in describing the way of life of a group of people . |
| 18 | These photographs tell the story of the everyday lives of a group of people about whom very little , if anything , is generally known . |
| 19 | My impression was of a group of people who were seriously interested in the subject and deeply concerned about it . |
| 20 | How would you feel about standing up in front of a group of people and telling them something about I mean in her situation telling her class or even the whole what you were doing . |
| 21 | I mean we do n't whether she sort of it does n't say whether she volunteered to go and talk to the people in the school , but even so it 's quite it takes quite a lot of doing to stand up in front of a group of people you do n't know and talk about the work . |
| 22 | It should be whether or not it is addressing the defined needs of a group of people . |
| 23 | It explains that ‘ the picture that emerges is of a group of people who were keen to engage in farming on their own account and who established themselves on a smallholding , often many years ago , but who have failed to progress beyond this first step in the farming ladder . |
| 24 | That was actually what he said , and he did then go on to say that you know he is one of a group of people who I think they call themselves the appointments committee and that their job , where appointments are concerned , is crisis management . |
| 25 | Each team is composed of a group of people from a particular ‘ faulty ’ area , whose task it is to resolve any problems once and for all . |
| 26 | In terms of presumptions , the Act did enforce performance in a specified manner ( a fine ) but this gives way to the first exception , the obligation was imposed for the benefit of a class of people , factory employees . |
| 27 | What is required is a fresh start in Europe , a new vision of a confident , outward-looking , interlocking commonwealth of democracies , the very opposite of a continent of people sullenly subservient to unelected and anonymous officials operating from some distant and foreign city — the future lot of the citizens of Europe unless the process is consciously and rapidly redirected . |
| 28 | To give an example of how inadequate official testing can be , at Swansea , where a hell of a lot of people use the sea for recreation , until 1989 it was not disclosed that the official testing point in the sewage outfall pipe was above the point where commercial waste was joining the system . |
| 29 | From the point of view of a lot of people , Vecchi did n't only have to get himself caught . |
| 30 | That 's not true of a lot of people this morning . ’ |