Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] people [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every one of the nine sources was rated best for information on the issues and worst for helping people decide how to vote . |
| 2 | But the factors influencing ratings given to television for helping people decide how to Vote were different . |
| 3 | Every one of these nine sources was rated better for providing information than for helping people decide how to vote . |
| 4 | I can not stress enough how important it is for teachers to realise that because drama is such a powerful tool for helping people change , as teachers we need to be very sensitive to the emotional demands we make on our students . |
| 5 | A SIMPLE but clever idea for helping people learn computing comes from Research Machines , in European application 69 522 . |
| 6 | Harriet 's explaining that she gives a service , something about helping people realize their dreams . |
| 7 | Implicit in the use of the problem-solving approach described above is the aim of helping people acquire coping skills which can be used not just to solve the current problems but also to deal with some of those that may occur subsequently . |
| 8 | An outstanding American teacher of music speaks from her own experience of young children ( Upitis 1990 : 2 ) : " We have one strong factor in our favor in taking on the task of helping people become musicians , and that is , in some form all of us are already musicians . " |
| 9 | As I say , the malais had this habit of letting people go home , then pulling them in six weeks to six months later . |
| 10 | This is a good way of letting people judge for themselves how they work . |
| 11 | It seems that in his habit of making films that are considered too long for the US cinema circuits , Cameron may have unwittingly provided film companies with a money-spinning way of making people pay to see the same movie twice . |
| 12 | One way of making people express themselves is to give them a Russian Doll . |
| 13 | We are all in the business of making people laugh — and in Carry On films there is only one way to do that — good old slapstick humour . ’ |
| 14 | Little more than twenty-four hours later , he was in hospital for an operation on damaged arteries in his legs , the price of making people laugh . |
| 15 | Michael had the gift of making people want to please him , as if by giving him pleasure they were somehow indebted to him . |
| 16 | Hospitality is the art of making people feel at home when you wish they were at home |
| 17 | And I think that the question of making people do things , that 's something in all societies which does n't change too much . |
| 18 | Picture Marilyn Monroe , unhappily being all things to innumerable men ; James Jesus Angleton , the master of double deception who drove himself crazy by outguessing himself with Kim Philby , and John Fitzgerald Kennedy , who inaugurated the image of the role-playing , idolized actor-President ; a man capable of making people suspend their disbelief . |
| 19 | ‘ We 're moving away from the concept of a spreadsheet being something an individual uses , in keeping with our philosophy of making people work together , rather than in isolation , ’ says Mr Ingram . |
| 20 | as if to underline how huge the task of changing public opinion would be , and of making people see that the hostages mattered , it had been spelled out in a television programme I had taken part in the previous November when Mary and I had been in Paris . |
| 21 | As long as the controls are there to make sure they 're not wandering around all over the place which one hears about Group 4 and their reputation for letting people go which has become a bit of a joke . |
| 22 | I personally do n't get any joy from seeing people reproduce their records exactly on stage ; I want to see something which is special for the night . ’ |
| 23 | Mr Hellawell points out that they play a vital role in helping people cope with the trauma of crime . |
| 24 | Television , newspapers , PEBs , party leaflets , and personal conversations were all most useful in helping people decide how to vote if they found politics interesting during the campaign but had lacked a more general interest in politics in the mid-term . |
| 25 | It also remains to be seen whether better preretirement and health education programmes will play a part in helping people prepare constructively for old age and to make a realistic appraisal of the matters which are and will be of greater importance to them than sea air . |
| 26 | The cut back of social services by public agencies has meant for us , and I 'm sure for you , er the church becomes more and more important in helping people survive and live more fully . |
| 27 | Any use of any resource in education is only right or wrong in relation to its success or failure in helping people learn . |
| 28 | We 're involved in letting people know about how few women there are , getting them to think about why there are so few women , training them — we have training sessions in assertiveness , public speaking — we help women get places in council , all sorts of different councils , and in national government . |
| 29 | We 're playing our part in making people feel safer . |
| 30 | And I think it sort of paid off in making people feel in the town during the year that they had a mayor , that the ceremonial actually meant something and related to them , and certainly I still find tremendous numbers of people who sort of come along and invite you to things — people who before would have probably said ‘ Oh it 's a waste of money ’ , and I think we did quite a lot to change that attitude . |