Example sentences of "[subord] people are [verb] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | If people are chatting before the formal start of the meeting , then get involved in conversation — it will warm you up . |
| 4 | If people are exposed to the variety of opinions that normally exist in relation to any major issue , the likelihood of their being easily manipulated by unscrupulous opinion-makers is greatly reduced . |
| 5 | But basically if people are relying on the print in that policy |
| 6 | Ah , but is this only because people are suffering at the other end ? |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 8 | Well , well as people are talking in the house cos I 'm getting behind with the tapes . |
| 9 | The King 's own statements , however , show the extent to which his view of the Church was political : ‘ It is not the change of Church government which is chiefly aimed at ’ , he wrote in 1646 , ‘ ( though that were too much ) but it is by that pretext to take away the dependency of the Church from the Crown , which , let me tell you , I hold to be of equal consequence to that of the militia ; for people are governed by the pulpit more than the sword in the time of peace . |
| 10 | One explanation for the ethical crisis comes when people are asked about the standing of leading institutions over the past ten years . |
| 11 | And when people are asked for the alternatives as being in Europe , they tend to stumble . |
| 12 | 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 … |
| 13 | It 's funny how ideas shrink away when people are put on the spot . |