Example sentences of "[conj] [n mass] be [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The figures we found are not significantly different to those anywhere else where people are looking for the problem . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ What we have said in the McFarlane Report is that people are calling for the earth , we ca n't give it all but we can give them a substantial part . |
| 3 | One of the other things I found that people are conflicting in the paper erm is of people having to travel further erm if I can just yes , on pa , on page three , paragraph this is the choice that seems of the area and the travel and on page four , paragraph one the version says that local people will still get a choice of i in the London hospitals . |
| 4 | What 's good about the debating is that people are talking about the rights and wrongs of bolting as a practice — and that has to be welcomed . |
| 5 | In a separate appeal issued on the same day to the Lithuanian people Gorbachev said that developments in their republic were causing " extreme concern and bewilderment " throughout the Soviet Union , and that people were calling on the Soviet government to use " economic , political and administrative measures " to defend the USSR Constitution and the country 's integrity . |
| 6 | But UNHCR officials in Sarajevo denied a statement by Ms Foa that people were running after the agency 's trucks in the city and begging . |
| 7 | Happily , after rectifying it and laying down coconut matting ( ! ) , the year ended with a small surplus , although £100 was owing on the building , and £140 had been spent on the Club 's first tractor ! |
| 8 | I think this is why they ca n't sell cos they keep building on and people are going in the newer ones and not buying the ones that are lived in . |
| 9 | This decision , which honours Cape Verde , has been interpreted by us as a recognition of the unwearying efforts the Capeverdian government and people are making in the struggle to build a new society based on social justice , progress and equal opportunity . |
| 10 | ‘ Whereas previously we could get the money from the DSS , now there is a long , cumbersome process to go through and people are falling by the wayside because of it . |
| 11 | The door of the plane was open and people were coming down the steps one after another . |
| 12 | The national press and media were travelling on the plane with Mrs Thatcher , but the local photographers and journalists were going directly to the airport ahead of time . |
| 13 | Companion stuff from the new album — a gloriously lolloping ‘ Step It Up ’ , the pre-packed next single ‘ Ground Level ’ — rubs slick shoulder with pre-acceptance vintage like ‘ Lost In Music ’ , and the show goes on and on until people are dripping off the walls , and the last kind of urban excitement we need is a joke security alert on Charing Cross Road , which means we are all shepherded out of the Marquee 's tradesmen 's entrances like nuisances , sticking to each other and sapped of claustrophobic dancenergy . |
| 14 | If people are chatting before the formal start of the meeting , then get involved in conversation — it will warm you up . |
| 15 | But basically if people are relying on the print in that policy |
| 16 | Despite the cold , the atmosphere in the carriage was very stuffy , and it was more interesting to stand out here , even if people were pressing against the windows and sitting about on boxes and suitcases . |
| 17 | Ah , but is this only because people are suffering at the other end ? |
| 18 | ‘ But is n't it the case , ’ I ask him , ‘ that while people are piling into the cinemas to see the worst exports of Hollywood , they are also piling in to see our own films , such as Alan Parker 's The Commitments , which has after all just won the Bafta award for best film . ’ |
| 19 | Well , well as people are talking in the house cos I 'm getting behind with the tapes . |
| 20 | Even when people are sitting in the chairs I think I could push them over , and bigger things too , much bigger things than chairs and tables … |