Example sentences of "large [noun] [prep] people " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would think there must be a large part of people out there that could benefit from their estates is n't there ? |
| 2 | Repeated surveys have shown that a large majority of people remain convinced that Britain is much more strike-prone than other industrial countries , that strikes cause severe economic disruption and that they are a major contributor to the country 's industrial decline ( Taylor , 1980 , p.13 ) . |
| 3 | What is important to a large majority of people takes second place to the market . |
| 4 | What Marx wants to stress here is that although Germanic tribes form quite large groups of people they do not form any kind of community with communal property , as was the case in the ancient city states ; they are merely ad hoc agglomerates . |
| 5 | There is no room to squeeze in more runways , and no large groups of people in the advanced countries would tolerate vast new airports in their back yards . |
| 6 | ‘ Businessmen are in daily contact with large groups of people in their factories and offices , ’ he said . |
| 7 | Large groups of people are unthinkingly accepting what is sometimes harmless nonsense but can just as easily be fraudulent propaganda or dangerous ideological evil . |
| 8 | However , if there is more than one speaker , each has to be provided with an individual microphone , and the speech signals therefore have to be fed to the camcorder via an audio mixer ; hence , tie-clip mikes are not suitable for use with large groups of people . |
| 9 | Large groups of people become so fascinated with the internal workings of their own organization that they are continually tinkering with it . |
| 10 | Politics tends to develop and generate within all large groups of people , but in the bad organizations which I have described politics dominates everything . |
| 11 | The arrival of large groups of people at the same time will always mean pressure on the reception staff , hall porters and other departments . |
| 12 | Although normally quietly spoken , he would be most courageous in facing hostility in discussion , even from large groups of people . |
| 13 | I hated speaking to large groups of people and normally would have avoided it at all costs , but I found that I had thought so much about this that telling other people was a relief . |
| 14 | Yes , we 're very very pleased actually , I mean we were pleased with the fact that we were able to contribute to it because one of the nice things about working , for us , working for the Jordanian water authority , was that the Jordanians themselves have put so much commitment into this er situation , they 're , so much of their own resources and energy has gone into looking after , you know , very large groups of people who really are of no benefit to the country whatsoever . |
| 15 | The great city — say at this period a settlement of more than 200,000 , including a scattering of metropolitan towns of more than half a million — was not so much industrial ( though it might contain a good many factories ) as a centre of commerce , transport , administration and the multiplicity of services which a large concentration of people attracts and which in turn swell their number . |
| 16 | In Western populations a fairly large proportion of people develop difficulty in utilizing carbohydrates in their diets during middle age . |
| 17 | The reason is this : a large proportion of people who exploit new information do not buy additional stock ; instead , they simply do not sell . |
| 18 | Apart from thinking of this sort , a large proportion of people report some odd perceptual experiences — not dreams , strictly speaking , but quite different from the ordinariness of waking consciousness . |
| 19 | Whatever the quality of recruitment of barristers and solicitors , is my right hon. and learned Friend aware of the deep weakness in the British legal system in that justice is readily available to the poor who can get legal aid and to the rich who can easily afford it anyway but that to a large proportion of people in between it often seems barely accessible and yet they have to pay taxes to provide justice for others ? |
| 20 | A large proportion of people employed in the borough — 23 per cent . |
| 21 | Many Americans would prefer to think that Lee Iacocca singlehandedly saved Chrysler from bankruptcy than to accept the real story : a large team of people with diverse backgrounds and interests joined together to rescue the ailing company . |
| 22 | I try to make art that is open to a large group of people . ’ |
| 23 | A large group of people was standing just beyond the wrought-iron gate . |
| 24 | His method is to record what happens , over the course of sixty years of the narrator 's life , to the large group of people that he meets and meets again during this period ; what they made of themselves and what he made of them . |
| 25 | The most important overt reason was this ‘ discovery ’ of a large group of people who were being effectively denied legal representation . |
| 26 | Truthfulness and openness without fear of the consequences is a most difficult trick to turn within a large group of people . |
| 27 | Well , if you consider that one in a hundred people in Britain means over half a million people , you are talking of a large group of people , who must have something in common to make them buy your product . |
| 28 | There is only one other large group of people defined in Britain as civil servants that is concerned with the implementation of the social policies discussed in this book , and that is those involved in the employment services . |
| 29 | Er I was in the credit and I was with a large group of people there and they seemed very happy and I think we were fair , we 'd got good conditions . |
| 30 | His sweeping gesture seemed to suggest that ‘ we ’ was a very large group of people indeed . |