Example sentences of "by a [noun sg] of people " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were probably other factors at work , which have since slipped automatically into place , but the needs expressed above were evident , being expressed by a range of people , and provided a justification for investing time and resource in trying to establish a partnership with industry . |
| 2 | We may ultimately have people pulling together plans where they assessment is done by a range of people outside social services . ’ |
| 3 | A total of 12,500 entries was received from 19 countries in all categories of the competition , which was judged by a panel of people picked from all areas of US life . |
| 4 | The drums lead us through the warren of narrow alleys to a courtyard whose entrance is blocked by a knot of people . |
| 5 | Glasgow also had a weekly deaf column in the Glasgow Evening Times , written by a variety of people . |
| 6 | Two bedroomed flats can be bought by a variety of people . |
| 7 | From the annual diocesan Year Book you will see that the diocese is promoted and organised by a variety of people , priests , religious and laity . |
| 8 | It has been stocked by booksellers , and it has been purchased by a variety of people . |
| 9 | The object was to prevent takeover by a rival paper , or even by a consortium of people opposed to NoS and its politics which might try to build up a majority shareholding . |
| 10 | There 's things that we are doing like I 've been told by a couple of people this evening the autumn programme they think it 's very good very progressive very enjoyable I thi that that to me that reinforces the autumn programme by several people so people who here are people here this evening feel they we say something about what is n't on the agenda or what is on the agenda but I think that 's what the meetings for but I do n't think it 's a bad exercise to talk to the people who actually pay come in the building I mean I think that 's a valid exercise . |
| 11 | Peter Mantle thinks so , and MEG is heartened by the fact that the handful of farmers in the area who are sitting on the fence and hoping to make a fast punt out of an imminent El Dorado are outnumbered by a mass of people for whom gold holds no allure . |
| 12 | Florence was surrounded by a press of people . |
| 13 | She came stumbling back into the dining car followed by a commotion of people yelling behind her . |
| 14 | Since the Life Peerages Act 1958 the hereditary nobility have been reinforced by a trickle of people , usually fairly elderly , whose titles do not pass on to their heirs . |
| 15 | So many people wanted to get close to him that wherever he went he was followed by a crowd of people . |
| 16 | A leader of Socialist Left , a radical pressure group , said the confirmation in office of the old team was ‘ a serious mistake , because it signals the endorsement of an economic policy criticised by a lot of people ’ . |
| 17 | A leader of Socialist Left , a radical pressure group , said the confirmation in office of the old team was ‘ a serious mistake , because it signals the endorsement of an economic policy criticised by a lot of people ’ . |
| 18 | ‘ I have made a lot of good friends here and have been very warmly welcomed by a lot of people . |
| 19 | Piper explained : ‘ I have already been written off by a lot of people and a lot of critics and I can understand Benn being favourite . |
| 20 | ‘ I think it 's pretty well known that some of the ones that are going to get a particularly close look are the ones I mentioned , either because they are not being competed in by a lot of people in a great many countries , or they are expensive , and so on . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ The letters also show that , at the end , Elvis knew what was happening all around him — that he was being used by a lot of people . |
| 22 | ‘ Last time I got booed by a lot of people was in '82 , but this year I was booed a couple of times . |
| 23 | ‘ I find it frustrating the way we 're perceived by a lot of people , ’ explains Jim Bob . |
| 24 | We shall just have to pretend it 's not there , there 's not , there 's not quite as bad as when I had to speak for Amnesty on Radio Essex last year and it was live , as every word , every word I spoke was being you know being heard by a lot of people and that 's , that was very , that was very intimidating . |
| 25 | I just happened to be seen by a lot of people every night . |
| 26 | A member of our group had this to say about the writing of this paper : ‘ It will be worth doing if it gets read by a lot of people . |
| 27 | Now I do n't believe that this issue has been aired wide enough it 's understood by a lot of people what the problems are going to be these problems are n't gon na occur in the next ten years , they will happen in twenty years ' time . |
| 28 | A football match could be watched by a lot of people , especially if it is televised , without reducing the quantity consumed by any individual ; but exclusion is possible — the ground holds only so many , and the club can refuse to allow the game to be televised . |
| 29 | Certainly when it was finished nearly 200 years ago , it was intended to be seen by a lot of people . |
| 30 | The redistribution of income and wealth has been matched by a realignment of people 's political allegiances with an increasing number of those with modest resources allying themselves with the most prosperous sections of the community . |