Example sentences of "people [vb base] [be] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Clearly , while an increasing proportion of the population have been buying their houses , working-class people have been buying the cheapest housing on the market .
2 The vast majority of obese people have been eating a normal unhealthy diet , and changing is a matter of education and attitude as well as trial and error .
3 Recently some people have been trying a different approach , seeing if they can change the nature of the atoms such that fusion can occur at a useful rate even at room temperature .
4 Millions of people have been given the same chance to own a real share in the nation 's assets .
5 Surely it 's true that everyone who changes his or her life because of crime — from those afraid to go out at night to those afraid to go into the parks they pay for — surely these people have been denied a basic civil right .
6 Several hundred people have been attending a nightly candle-lit vigil , and there has been one other small protest .
7 People have been studying the behavioural functions of the brain for something less than two centuries and , for much of that time , their efforts have been hampered by a combination of inevitable ignorance and adherence to implausible psychological theories .
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