Example sentences of "of the people [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though the basic broad principles of the hierarchy are observable from its inception , probably toward the end of the fifteenth century , it was only gradually that it became elaborated ; and it was only with elaboration that the hierarchy tended gradually to become more rigid and to exert an increasing influence on the attitudes both of the ulema toward their own aspirations and of the people toward the ulema . |
| 2 | Because of the visits to the footplate to see the controls , and also the food cooked traditional style on the shovel , most of the people at the party will have exchanged a few words with Roger and gained an impression of the sort of cheerful , obliging chap he was . |
| 3 | ML : It 's real in the minds of the people at the time . |
| 4 | He says more than a quarter of the people at the base were American . |
| 5 | Rose knew many of the people on the platform even though she had spent half her life in Scotland and she responded to each greeting with warmth , careful to watch that her friendliness did not grate on Moran . |
| 6 | I felt that the majority of the people on the Waverley were more familiar with that form of travel . |
| 7 | For seconds he lay stunned , conscious only of distant sounds , like the booming of heavy surf , and the cries and screams of laughter of the people on the beach ; except the cries and screaming became one , the voice of Lawton and the booming surf was it . |
| 8 | The audience for his James Bond movies adds up to one third of the people on the planet . |
| 9 | I think that violence is economic suicide and as well as being destructive of the people on the ground of their economic well being , I think it lets those responsible off the hook . |
| 10 | I work in a newspaper that used to be male dominated and now I would say three quarters of the wo , three quarters of the people on the news desk are now women . |
| 11 | The first Panel Survey of a selected number of the 300 households in each Study Area has been implemented , providing interesting insights into the changing lifestyles of the people on the land . |
| 12 | The main themes that Bukharin pursued were : ( 1 ) the need to cut down on the excessive unproductive consumption of the state bureaucracy ; and ( 2 ) the need to draw the widest possible strata of the people into the planning process and into controlling the state . |
| 13 | ‘ Most of the people into the swinging lifestyle are upper-middle-income people with something to lose . |
| 14 | By admitting the mass of the people into the competitive party system , the liberal state did not abandon its fundamental nature ; it simply opened the competitive political system to all the individuals who had been created by the competitive market society . |
| 15 | Bishop O'Brien reminded the meeting that the Pastoral Council was meant to be a means of bringing the thoughts of the people to the Bishop . |
| 16 | Law educates and adapts the mass of the people to the goals of civil society , defined through ruling class , notions of morality and custom . |
| 17 | That is why metaphor is so useful to communicate the experiential world of the people to the reader . |
| 18 | From the point of view of the people of the Gorbals in the Thirties , fox-hunting and psychoanalysis would have been practically indistinguishable concerns of the rich in the Sassenach South , of the ‘ high heid yins ’ of the world — an expression of the poor in Scotland then , which Ralph Glasser uses . |
| 19 | Stewart is a traveller , one of the people of the road — among them , tinkers , pipers and folk-singers — in whom an oral culture has survived to the present day . |
| 20 | He had a vision of the people of the country , walking and walking in endless droves , like pilgrims , across a battlefield shaken by the explosions of guns ; and as the smoke blew into their eyes , the people turned , desperate to see their homes again , but behind them a great dark channel had opened , with torn precipitous sides , and there was no way back … |
| 21 | It is entering the mainstream to satisfy the demands of the people of the north and east , whose high turnout in last November 's election was seen as a cry for peace . |
| 22 | The Christian and the caring humanist can not remain unconcerned for the plight of the people of the Third World who live so close to starvation . |
| 23 | Statistics ( Table I ) indicate that one in ten of the people of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland works in agriculture , although in practice the presence of small scale and often part-time farming means that probably one in five receive part of their income from agricultural activities . |
| 24 | The duty of the people of the West Bank was to await liberation through armed struggle . |
| 25 | Three brief case studies illustrate the related issues of population growth ( without significant outmigration ) , stagnant production , poverty of most of the people of the area concerned , and environmental decline . |
| 26 | It was the First World War because it affected most of the people of the world . |
| 27 | The Museum illustrates the social history of the people of the north of Ireland . |
| 28 | We still have some way to go but if this magnificent generosity continues we can be sure that the future of the Cathedral is in the safe hands of the people of the Diocese . |
| 29 | ONE OF the amazing aspects of the crisis caused by the decision of the government to close over half the pits , and make more than 30,000 miners redundant , was their apparent surprise at the reaction of the people of the country . |
| 30 | The group supported the idea of a socialist republic in Morocco , and backed the right of the people of the Western Sahara to self-determination . |