Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] other people " in BNC.
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| 1 | Very often they just need the opportunity to meet other people in a similar situation , and in so doing learn to form new relationships again , but in a safe and caring atmosphere . |
| 2 | If your experiment involves other people ( e.g. if you are comparing different readers ' responses ) , you need to consider ethical issues which arise , including ( a ) getting their permission to use the results ; ( b ) showing them the results and explaining them ; ( c ) not using their names when you report the experiment ( even if they have given permission for this , there is unlikely to be any point ) ; ( d ) the ethical problem that sometimes an experiment is best conducted if the test subjects do n't know what it is for ; that is , if there is a " secret agenda " . |
| 3 | And whilst in a Shakespeare play well , let me just give the , give the ex erm example that if this was a Shakespeare play for example , and you , you had all these characters in disguise conning other people and whatever , by the end of the play everybody would be out of their disguises and marrying each other and all the bad people would have been consigned , you know , to stage off |
| 4 | Mr. Croucher replied that under the present law it was up to the applicant to notify other people of their intention in writing . |
| 5 | Power is the capacity to affect other people 's behaviour with or without their consent ; it allows for the deployment of resources to achieve ends . |
| 6 | The qualities looked for in a higher civil servant are : intelligence ; fluency of mouth and pen , particularly in producing a persuasive argument and in composing a good ministerial speech ; the capacity to induce other people to carry out a policy that perhaps they do not much wish to carry out ; a political ‘ nose ’ ; the ability ( in a Department or a local or regional office ) to organise those beneath him or her ; and capacity for hard work ( many of those at the top work extremely hard ) . |
| 7 | His ability to see through human failings , his capacity to analyse other people 's annoyingness , his rich sense of comedy and satire , had as yet only found their outlet in letters to Greeves , and to a lesser extent in such collections as P'dayta-Pie . |
| 8 | In addition to academic qualifications they will expect you to demonstrate that you have the intelligence to understand the demands of their businesses , the fluency to communicate ideas to others and the flexibility to develop other people 's ideas . |
| 9 | Being a top sports person requires a certain amount of selfishness , so this mission was a wonderful opportunity to help other people for a change . |
| 10 | But Folly hardly noticed their faces , even though it was normally one of the highlights of the job to see other people 's pleasure . |
| 11 | His domestic happiness meant that his desire to see other people waned somewhat , and there were certain friends who felt themselves to have been " cut out " of his life . |
| 12 | This is what we should be working towards when work is being shared : creating a desire to see other people 's work because it matters within the drama ; because everybody 's work affects everybody else 's in some way . |
| 13 | Suzanne Moore rightly condemns Judge Rant 's reference to ‘ brute homosexual activity ’ , but she still reserves the right to consider other people 's consensual sexual choices distasteful and disgusting , even while rejecting the idea of criminalising them . |
| 14 | A constant need to control other people normally arises from deep insecurity and a lack of confidence in the self — a fear of being left and disbelief in the self being lovable . |
| 15 | It is not clear whether this motivation arises from a pragmatic desire to influence other people in order to achieve common objectives , or whether social interactions act as a catalyst for the child 's intrinsic curiosity about language as a system for communicating with other people . |
| 16 | Decision : the need to deter other people from carrying out similar acts outweighed the effect of the sentence on the appellant 's future prospects : the appellant 's personal position came second to the public interest in deterring others minded to act as he did . |
| 17 | The desire to make other people do what you want ? |
| 18 | This case may be an example , more physical than usual , of what Arnold Wesker calls ‘ Lilliputianism — the poisonous need to cut other people down to size . ’ |
| 19 | Some offer a chance to meet other people and share activities and a meal ; others offer specialist care , for instance to people with dementia . |
| 20 | Many of the residents have led sheltered lives and do n't normally get a chance to meet other people in the community . |
| 21 | I got up at six , spent all day cleaning other people 's houses , from 8.30 a.m. until 4.30 , with half an hour for dinner , for £25 . |
| 22 | ‘ It took us quite a while to persuade other people just how much tennis in general could benefit , especially in those countries where Government grants are dependent on Olympic membership , if tennis was once again a member of the Olympic family . |
| 23 | The fifth pattern is that of a web movement when the decision of one person triggers other people with whom he is in contact . |
| 24 | The social worker should interview the client first , and obtain permission to contact other people . |
| 25 | Did the father know other people here independently of his daughter ? |
| 26 | This insatiable hunger to know other people 's business alarmed her , for she was the least inquisitive of mortals . |
| 27 | The treasures of a man who spent his life helping other people discover valuables in their own attics attracted interest from all over the world . |
| 28 | And we can join together in groups and as a society to treat other people or other groups very badly indeed . |
| 29 | The triangle represents other people . |
| 30 | A train driver follows printed schedules and rules controlling speed and safety ; a typist processes other people 's material in accordance with pre-ordained standards of tidiness and literacy ; accountants are accountable to their clients and are governed by rules of ‘ professional ’ conduct , and so forth . |