Example sentences of "[vb infin] people ['s] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The failure to prioritise needs realistically or to genuinely recognise people 's individuality sometimes leads to competition for resources which badly damages the educational chances of some individuals . |
| 2 | This would preserve people 's ability to take payment method into account when choosing their jobs , and maintain the present guarantee for existing workers that their payment method can not be changed against their will . |
| 3 | At the same time we can expect people 's interest in green issues and concern for their local environment to grow . ’ |
| 4 | Some girls used to knit , the Africans would do people 's hair , but that was it . |
| 5 | Do you see people 's power reaching into every corner of society ? |
| 6 | The m public consultation meetings and the exhibition were advertised in the local press and I believe on the radio as well , so word of mouth I think in , in the event did overcome that but I can understand people 's feeling that they were excluded and it was not deliberate , it was an oversight . |
| 7 | specifically , a reference group may influence an individual person 's behaviour : * by establishing " conventional " patterns of behaviour and purchase satisfaction ; * by influencing individual expectations and aspirations , which will shape people 's attitude towards consumption and satisfaction ; * by defining and shaping individual personal taste ; * by supplying the consumer with information about particular products or services , in situations where the individual has minimal prior knowledge . |
| 8 | Can I just draw people 's attention to the very last point which was made in case any one sending large sums of cash through the post office , erm , it , it 's been running for a long time |
| 9 | Er well Chairman I do n't think that erm E two erm as proposed will weaken people 's ability to challenge our District Local Plan policies . |
| 10 | This can affect people 's willingness to report certain crimes , which has contributed to recent increases in the official statistics for racial attacks , domestic violence , and child abuse . |
| 11 | exercise that you do in terms of assertion in terms of helping build people 's assertion is what we call a broken record exercise , okay where one person wants something and the other person is trying to change their minds , okay , you get it in conversation when people do n't take you seriously and you 've asked for something and they do n't take you serious they try and avoid the point , they try and change the subject . |
| 12 | Now , that is not required to access the site so that actually would compete , I suspect , to funds against this committee and er and that might influence people 's decision on how far to go with the road . |
| 13 | To recap then , there are two ways in which some awareness of credit costs may influence people 's shopping : their subjective impression of comparative costliness , which tends to be reasonably realistic ; and their objective awareness of interest rates and so forth , which tends to be sketchy , and — given American experience — even with increasing familiarity after implementation of Consumer Credit Act quotations and advertising regulations is likely to remain divorced from their actual understanding of the cost of individual credit transactions . |
| 14 | It 's time to stop playing the Tories at their particular game ; it 's time to produce policies that will fire people 's imagination , and a more radical Labour Party that leads in ideas and innovation and does n't merely follow . |
| 15 | Although the distinction is useful and well recognised , it does not of course constrain people 's behaviour . |
| 16 | By refusing to include theory , the department is , in effect , refusing to declare its own theoretical standpoint : it must have a standpoint , for it is impossible to judge or measure the correctness of someone 's ‘ affective ’ or ‘ quasi-sensuous ’ response ; yet English departments do examine and judge people 's performance , just like any other department . |
| 17 | And erm so we the the way we work it out ourselves , is that we do n't actually pay people 's fuel bills . |
| 18 | He said : ‘ I think the election result will have a very positive effect because it will restore people 's confidence . |
| 19 | This in its turn would change people 's pattern of purchases away from that which reflected their true preferences . |
| 20 | Although Wesker expresses the utmost admiration for Shakespeare , he was determined to write an original work which would change people 's perception and create a new Shylock . |
| 21 | The seasons , if they are important enough , can grab people 's attention in the way that you would n't if the programmes just went out over a period of 16 or 20 weeks . |
| 22 | Cos certainly you , sometimes you get the feeling do n't you that okay being in the crowd or the group may reduce people 's self-determination and self control , but the result is mayhem . |
| 23 | Giving a place a special label , and , in some cases , fencing it off , may raise people 's awareness , but offers only a flimsy barrier against developers . |
| 24 | It would be reasonable to expect from this that over a few years , our APR disclosure regulations broadly similar to the US Truth in Lending Law — will raise people 's knowledge of APRs well above the present level , and confirm them in their belief that disclosure of APRs is important . |
| 25 | It can release people 's imagination and energies in a way which brings real job enrichment . |
| 26 | The transplantation of organs such as heart , liver and kidneys can save people 's lives , and the transplantation of corneas can save people 's sight . |
| 27 | Jebir was arrested on Jan. 28 , shortly after releasing an open letter to Boudiaf which claimed that he was being used by a " junta " which had seized power and which was set to " shed people 's blood " behind his back . |
| 28 | I do n't think we should threaten people 's conception of their immortality unnecessarily , and I 'm perfectly certain we 're all quite safe . ’ |
| 29 | To put it another way , reducing income tax will increase people 's capacity to afford more leisure . |
| 30 | Right , so it will be sel self defeating , job creation in the urban areas will be self defeating and most of the , the reason why that was particularly important because historically most of the job creation schemes that governments have put in place with or without aid in developing countries is in the urban areas , you know , it 's the erm subsidized industrial plants , subsidized erm manu manufacturing industry , right so that the import substitution industries er have been set up with government and or aid money , foreign aid money and what Harrison Todaro was saying you 're wasting your time putting money into these big projects , right , because that only in that only in erm exaggerates th the migration problem because it really will increase people 's perception of er job possibilities in the urban area , they think there are jobs being created by government there , that will happen as another , as another stimulus er let me just draw a little diagram what Harrison Todaro was saying right we 've got time here such to say horizontal axis marks the lifespan of some representative migrant , then you 've got wages , wages in the agricultural area and wages in the urban area like let's just say that this is the wage rate in agriculture , right . |