Example sentences of "people [v-ing] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | A demonstration in Yaoundé on May 4 by a reported 5,000 people demanding a democratic system apparently passed off peacefully . |
| 2 | It seems all part of life 's colourful plan that deer-watchers , like every other group of people pursuing a common goal , secure their elitism by the use of jargon . |
| 3 | Dynamique Yachts , based at Marans in the Vendée , is a brother and sister team of Ian and Chantal Jeanneau , who employ about 60 people building a range of what are possibly the largest glassfibre production yachts in France . |
| 4 | The primary reason for this move was not a desire for increased tax revenue , welcome as this no doubt was , but , rather , an expression of the Government 's opposition to people enjoying a larger income when out of work than they could take home in a wage packet . |
| 5 | Journalists wore the amused smiles of people enjoying a good argument which did not threaten them personally . |
| 6 | The Annual Banquet was on Saturday evening with 174 people enjoying a magnificent meal which included a sweet entitled ‘ Border Beacons ’ piped in with sparklers ! |
| 7 | Sensibly comparing two foods of a very similar nature , they monitored a group of people eating a ‘ meal ’ consisting entirely of wholemeal bread , which contains 8.5 per cent of dietary fibre , and compared them with a group eating a ‘ meal ’ of white bread , which contains only 2.7 per cent dietary fibre . |
| 8 | About ten people a day kill themselves by suicide , maybe maybe one in a thousand people who take Prozac get bad reactions to it , but that has to be seen in balance , in the balance of a large number of people deriving a lot of benefit and maybe a few people having some bad reactions . |
| 9 | A study of people using a shelter in Boston found that although 30 of the 68 respondents were suffering from a psychosis , only five had been admitted to hospital for longer than a year in total . |
| 10 | Transcripts of hearing people and deaf people signing a sequence of three cartoon pictures were compared in a number of ways . |
| 11 | ( Previously two or more people purchasing a property were each able to claim tax relief up to the £30,000 limit . ) |
| 12 | However he revealed that although stores were not acting improperly , police have now persuaded them to keep a register of the names and addresses of people purchasing a scanner . |
| 13 | Since then there 's been such winners as ‘ B-A-B-Y ’ ( Carla Thomas , 1966 and Rachel Sweet , 1978 ) , ‘ Baby , Baby ’ ( Eighth Wonder , 1988 ) and ‘ Baby ’ ( Halo James , 1990 ) , the Mechanical Copyright people announcing a year ago that their database , at that point , contained 81 songs called ‘ Baby , Baby ’ , 22 titled ‘ Baby , Baby , Baby ’ and even one called ‘ Baby , Baby , Baby , Baby , Baby , Baby , Baby ’ ! |
| 14 | Yet the next sentence which ostensibly continues the argument re-introduces a familiar theme under the guise of the critique : ‘ After all , at least antisemites restrict their hatred to one group of people representing a small , if powerful , minority of the world 's population ’ , while Ms Dworkin ‘ spits hatred at half the entire human species ! ’ |
| 15 | Anyway , so what if there were people smoking a little — everybody does it , the teachers in school do it … ’ |
| 16 | ‘ But it does n't stop people wanting a white wedding and working hard to make it happen . ’ |
| 17 | Do n't forget that THERE IS NO CUT BACK IN THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE WANTING A CLASS but future methods of provision may be varied and unfamiliar , we need to be adaptable and keep our eyes wide open to take advantage of every opportunity . |
| 18 | But soon the nature of the exodus from Vietnam had changed and the majority were people seeking a more prosperous life . |
| 19 | Finding a roof over your head has become a real problem for many more thousands of young people seeking a home of their own . |
| 20 | The year 1966 was when the number of people paying a TV licence for the first time exceeded the number paying a radio licence . |
| 21 | When all people occupying a room have checked out of the hotel , the room status is changed to ‘ not occupied ’ . |
| 22 | A DEBT disaster has struck the stockbroker town of Guildford with 500 people owing a total of more than £20 million . |
| 23 | Ever since 1979 the Government has been trying to widen and deepen share ownership , but apart from privatisations , which have resulted in millions of people owning a few hundred shares in one or two companies , it can not be said to have had much success . |
| 24 | Car ownership has slowed , with 67.6pc of people owning a vehicle , compared with 67.8pc in 1991 . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm used to people calling a spade a spade , and I do n't understand sophisticated people , ’ she said quietly . |
| 26 | There is a clear trend for the number of older people reporting a home visit to increase with age from 18 per cent of those aged 65 — 69 to 62 per cent of those aged 85 + ( Figure 7.11 ) . |
| 27 | Less than one in five people experiencing a severely threatening event or long-term difficulties will develop depression ( Brown and Harris , 1978 ) , but from a review of ten community surveys of depression using the same Life Event and Difficulty Schedule , Brown et al. |
| 28 | The Police , Home Office officials , and people holding a court warrant are the only persons who may inspect the hotel register on demand , but then only in the presence of the management in the privacy of an office . |
| 29 | But there 's , there 's people people holding a shotgun to our heads saying yeah I 'll come and do this job and I want x . |
| 30 | Prices are based on two people sharing a room . |