Example sentences of "[v-ing] people [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I personally do n't get any joy from seeing people reproduce their records exactly on stage ; I want to see something which is special for the night . ’ |
| 2 | It also remains to be seen whether better preretirement and health education programmes will play a part in helping people prepare constructively for old age and to make a realistic appraisal of the matters which are and will be of greater importance to them than sea air . |
| 3 | Implicit in the use of the problem-solving approach described above is the aim of helping people acquire coping skills which can be used not just to solve the current problems but also to deal with some of those that may occur subsequently . |
| 4 | Mr Hellawell points out that they play a vital role in helping people cope with the trauma of crime . |
| 5 | HEADLEY architect Jack Warshaw is pinning faith in the success of his new practice on the growing desire to protect the environment , by helping people prevent damage to their most valuable assets — their homes . |
| 6 | DARLINGTON council has drawn up a list of businesses which are helping people stop smoking . |
| 7 | The Citizens ' Advice Bureaux are used to helping people sort out their debt problems . |
| 8 | I can not stress enough how important it is for teachers to realise that because drama is such a powerful tool for helping people change , as teachers we need to be very sensitive to the emotional demands we make on our students . |
| 9 | Every one of the nine sources was rated best for information on the issues and worst for helping people decide how to vote . |
| 10 | But the factors influencing ratings given to television for helping people decide how to Vote were different . |
| 11 | Television scored best on helping people decide how to Vote if they found politics interesting during the campaign but had lacked a general interest in politics in the mid-term . |
| 12 | Television , newspapers , PEBs , party leaflets , and personal conversations were all most useful in helping people decide how to vote if they found politics interesting during the campaign but had lacked a more general interest in politics in the mid-term . |
| 13 | Every one of these nine sources was rated better for providing information than for helping people decide how to vote . |
| 14 | ‘ Most of our day is spent helping people fill in bankruptcy forms , ’ Mrs Snowball added . |
| 15 | Because it just took so much of our energy last time helping people fill in forms and everything . |
| 16 | ‘ Enabling and partnership are concepts we now live with day to day , ’ he said — ‘ helping people help themselves . ’ |
| 17 | Helping people get on and share their differences amicably |
| 18 | This has been a prison of good general health helping people get back in society in the most helpful way to them and society as possible |
| 19 | The cut back of social services by public agencies has meant for us , and I 'm sure for you , er the church becomes more and more important in helping people survive and live more fully . |
| 20 | Harriet 's explaining that she gives a service , something about helping people realize their dreams . |
| 21 | Its main focus is on helping people find solutions to current work problems , but in such a way that they learn whilst doing this . |
| 22 | A SIMPLE but clever idea for helping people learn computing comes from Research Machines , in European application 69 522 . |
| 23 | Any use of any resource in education is only right or wrong in relation to its success or failure in helping people learn . |
| 24 | An outstanding American teacher of music speaks from her own experience of young children ( Upitis 1990 : 2 ) : " We have one strong factor in our favor in taking on the task of helping people become musicians , and that is , in some form all of us are already musicians . " |
| 25 | He feels that the church should be helping people overcome problems rather than making money through showing the church to tourists or buying paintings . |
| 26 | There is much experimentation on letting people set their own targets . |
| 27 | We all know how the week runs away with official interviews and calls , and how difficult it is to remember all the people with whom you ought to keep in touch , but when I think of the number of things which people of different types , like Lady Londonderry and Lady St Helier and others , have got settled by letting people meet at the dinner table , I despair of a man who never sees even those who have been longest in office on any occasion . |
| 28 | I was bitterly ashamed of what I was doing , or letting people do to me , but also of course I got to like it , and even crave it , in a manner of speaking . |
| 29 | Chairman , it 's always been this Committee 's policy over the twenty years , the twenty odd years that I 've been here , back here ru runner , that erm , so far as the food side is concerned , er , we should be , our policy should be based on the information , the truth , the whole truth , and nothing but the truth , and letting people make up their own minds . |
| 30 | Apart from lecturing on the outdoors at South Manchester College , Brian was a founder member of the Challenge Club — aimed at letting people realise their full potential through outdoor activities . |