Example sentences of "people [vb base] [to-vb] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Most people tend to gather at the track and do the group session , without even stopping to think what the training effect is doing to their body , or how they are going to progress next week , or the week after . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ These are more the sorts of descriptions that people tend to use about the experience of working for me . ’ |
| 3 | Having become established , people tend to work within the tradition for reasons which are never properly articulated . |
| 4 | ‘ We are treading very cautiously because it is a very vexed question , and people tend to react from the gut , rather than the head , ’ he said . |
| 5 | Current behaviour depends not just on current and expected prices , but also on the quantity constraints that people expect to face in the future . |
| 6 | She said : ‘ Too many people want to go to the festival and we have just not got the space to accommodate them . ’ |
| 7 | Chairman , the last speech was really explaining what I want to get over the fact that so many people want to talk on the issue and to complicate the issue . |
| 8 | People want to save in a currency that does not depreciate every year as much as the pound has done over many years . |
| 9 | Because of the size of the data this is a large commitment to space which is only worthwhile where a large number of people want to look at a lot of the data . |
| 10 | Certainly the request of staff then could turn into of the panel erm but but I think at the same time if people want to look at the structure so that they have a complete view of the structural organisation |
| 11 | The second point is on correspondence , I 'm absolutely certain that when a member of public writes in to any department , not necessarily highway , he expects and needs an immediate response , now I know you have , you have started the acknowledgement of our system , but I think it 's , it does n't go far enough , an acknowledgement card that simply says the thing is received and is receiving attention , needs to then indicate the individual to whom that matter has been passed for attention and that leads me to the third point and I think the general complaint on the public is that local government is seen as faceless people and I think we have to get in our mind to name people within our department , there 's not one mention about it in our promise , I think we need , unless I 've not read it , but I think , I think we , yes , but I think we need to mention people by name , senior people within the department who will respond to particular things and certainly where public comes into contact within the offices we must get around to wearing a name badge who says who that person is , people want to relate to a person and I think we can do that if we try . |
| 12 | Another old argument is that ‘ manly sports ’ help to keep people fit to fight for the Crown if necessary , whereas fights which involve maiming rob the Crown of able-bodied men for the armed forces . |
| 13 | That gives us two hours to get there and two hours to prepare before Mait 's people begin to arrive for the ceremony . ’ |
| 14 | However , although people seem to agree on a hierarchy of symbolic rewards , this apparent consensus is not the sum of people 's personal evaluations regarding the relative importance of different jobs , but a reproduction of what they have been socialised into accepting and which , when asked , they reproduce as though this sort of thing is a matter of fact . |
| 15 | If you 're really rocking and rolling in the art department and you 're allowing some of the experiments to see their way into print , even if they 're not so , they do n't have that slick veneer that people seem to want in the marketing department , progress results and the rawness helps and the thing that makes Jack Stoffagers pages so wonderful is that they are unfiltered , you have the feeling that it 's the printer talking to you , determining something that he 's read , you know , he wants you to read . |
| 16 | You know , i i you need to be full to fill up that area because well , you know yourself , people like to stand around the bar do n't they ? |
| 17 | I was in Bristol recently and I went to a bar there which is packed every night people pay to go into a club to go in there . |
| 18 | How many people try to compensate for a sense of inadequacy or restore their personal confidence by going and buying themselves something whenever they feel miserable ? |
| 19 | We shall see how stress arises as people attempt to cope with the undermining of self-confidence and self-esteem that ensues . |
| 20 | Fewer people desire to live in the north of England and even fewer in northern Scotland . |
| 21 | Some people prefer to yell at the start of their movement to frighten their opponent and increase their own confidence . |
| 22 | Most people prefer to drink in the evening . |
| 23 | I usually start at the walls because I find it easier to think up the general colour scheme first , but many people prefer to start with the floor because they automatically think of carpet and presume that this will be the most expensive item . |
| 24 | ‘ Otherwise the same two people have to sleep on the floor all week . |
| 25 | Shock that people have to live from the garbage heap of a richer surrounding economy . |
| 26 | Roycroft and Smith worry about perverse incentives : the fact that hospital treatment costs nothing , while people have to pay for the home care that will keep them out of hospital . |
| 27 | Do n't eh , do the , do the Dutch people have to pay for the schooling ? |
| 28 | This is the community charge which most people have to pay in the area where they live . |
| 29 | ‘ In a changing environment , where people have to work for a living , it is not so easy to give all your spare time to running golf . ’ |
| 30 | There are many issues people have to address in the aftermath of courtship which are in contrast to the wishes and hopes experienced during it . |