Example sentences of "[is] [verb] to people " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's given to people in the last years of this century who will make a difference to the plant in the next century . |
| 2 | That seems to me to be a very moving description of somebody who is preaching to people , not from any sense of superiority , but rather from a sense of human concern and caring about the people that she is addressing , and this makes the way in which George Eliot writes about her very different from the way in which other methodist preachers have been described either as ranters , erm or as people who are so caught up in what they are saying themselves that the fail to make any pay any attention to the people that they are addressing . |
| 3 | I can not understand why positive support is given to people whose only objective in life ( in their own words ) is to ‘ fuck the system ’ . |
| 4 | The result is that little attention is given to people 's own experience and understandings of these processes and the fact that such understandings in turn lead to ways in which they attempt to improve their circumstances within the constraints and opportunities with which they are faced . |
| 5 | At the moment it is confined to people who have more sheep on their claim than quota . ’ |
| 6 | The whole system of railroad travelling is addressed to people , who , being in a hurry , are therefore , for the time being , miserable . |
| 7 | I think er it 's tragic what happened to Ray and I think it 's also tragic what 's happening to people . |
| 8 | There is something insulting about the way in which a stranger can visit a place which is forbidden to people with infinitely more interest in such a journey . |
| 9 | The Minister , however , does not give a damn about what is happening to people on the lowest incomes ; he does not even understand what is happening to local government . |
| 10 | What is happening to people 's involvement in work ? |
| 11 | ‘ A lot of the credit for that goes not only to the photographers themselves who have argued their case for greater prominence , but a great debt is owed to people like the editor Harold Evans who pioneered the creative use of photography in papers . |
| 12 | But all over Britain , in far less august surroundings , every day equally serious damage is done to people playing all sorts of sport from karate to table tennis . |
| 13 | By and large it 's according to people 's occupations and you start with A which will be professional people , surgeons solicitors etcetera . |
| 14 | For instance a telephone listening service is offered to people in distress by associations such as the Samaritans and Befrienders . |
| 15 | Marcelle Tweed , 50 , is used to people mistaking her 27-year-old husband Paul for her son . |
| 16 | But it 's the first time he 's broadcast to people OUTSIDE campus . |
| 17 | It 's really good because management 's the same no matter where it is , but in the Health Service there are sometimes specific problems and this course is geared to people working in the Health Service and that can only be a good thing . |
| 18 | He is smiling because behind the machine he is not taking the brunt of it , and because he is an earnest yokel who does n't realise what he is doing to people . |
| 19 | And that 's what 's threatening to people , because it is looking for a direct response ; it 's looking to form a dialogue . |
| 20 | If a correction is made , consumers have the right to demand that it is notified to people who have had information during the previous six months . |
| 21 | It 's left to people working in education to discover those applications in their own disciplines . |
| 22 | Mobility Allowance is paid to people who become unable to walk or virtually unable to walk before the age of 65 . |
| 23 | Labour is offering to people who are presently enjoying the benefits of compulsory competitive tendering a promise to scrap it . |