Example sentences of "people [vb mod] [vb infin] [to-vb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some people may not want to send Christmas cards or eat meat at least once a week ( two of Townsend 's indicators of conventional British life ) : the implication is that Townsend grossly exaggerates the incidence of poverty because he ignores the fact that people may choose to do without such things . |
| 2 | Leaving aside any suspicion that people might tend to agree with any suggestion put to them that they should have more information , how helpful can this information be in practice ? |
| 3 | Furthermore the British people might begin to clamour for drastic changes in foreign policy if they were asked to undergo yet more austerity . |
| 4 | ‘ People would love to live at this height above the ground , ’ said Basil Spence . |
| 5 | I imagine most people would want to get into this area in the smallest way and so with the smallest product , the postcard . |
| 6 | Lord Fraser was pressed by MPs with examples of rises in contributions that people would have to pay towards legal aid and said : ‘ I am not shrinking from the fact that there will be increases in the contribution for some people . ’ |
| 7 | Mr Chairman could I ask a question because one of the things that I 've found missing this evening is specific things that people would like to see in this playhouse or perhaps specific things that we used to do and that find are missing and the last I have n't heard the word gallery mentioned from there much at all what do we think about the gallery ? |
| 8 | In 1990 many people will prefer to look like Parisian poets than American businessmen . |
| 9 | Of course , some people will refuse to co-operate at all , but once an interview is under way most people will be prepared to answer questions so long as they seem genuine and relevant . |
| 10 | Some people will want to quarrel with this analysis ; but for our present purposes its accuracy is less important than the use Miller makes of it . |
| 11 | Some people will have to pay for some services . |
| 12 | Surely , in the early years after retirement , fewer people will need to go into such homes . |
| 13 | It is a defensible pattern in what might be called ‘ low-theory ’ fields , where people can learn to practise in some way and with some success without any theoretical preparation for what they are doing , although they may have had some relevant training at a lower level . |