Example sentences of "[art] people [v-ing] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So he swept the paths and repaired the fences and at lunchtime most days would go and sit by himself on the benches , watching the people watching the animals , and sometimes looking at his old friend the golden eagle , who was growing old with him . |
| 2 | It is , however , a very personal and supportive communication and , from a historian 's point of view could have the advantage of showing more about the people writing the letters than the scientific work under discussion . |
| 3 | However , if Microsoft can neither be bothered to put the basic information in its literature , nor inform the people handling the upgrade , should I be looking elsewhere for an alternative ? |
| 4 | The people receiving the cheques deposit them in their banks . |
| 5 | It will be out in the field , where the people receiving the information can make sensible decisions as to how to act on that information . |
| 6 | Whether this pattern represents the movement of the people using the axes ( an unlikely hypothesis ) , the exchange of gifts between adjacent groups of people , or some sort of trade probably based on a barter system , is difficult , if not impossible , to prove ; but the movement of the finds themselves can not be disputed . |
| 7 | Computer systems are often under-exploited , largely because the people using the systems are not aware of its possibilities . |
| 8 | They knew all the people entering the hall , and those that occupied seats close to them smiled and spoke to them . |
| 9 | It is possible , too , that one or two of the people overseeing the survey may occasionally have talked to real teachers about the project 's objectives and methods . |
| 10 | It is possible , too , that one or two of the people overseeing the survey may occasionally have talked to real teachers about the project 's objectives and methods . |
| 11 | Of course reason struggled hard to maintain its accustomed position and simultaneously you knew that the People passing the wire slept somewhere and that the news on the wireless meant friendly troops nearer or further away . |
| 12 | The people filling the board room steamed gently as they sat huddled together on the rows of chairs arranged neatly in front of the big desk . |
| 13 | The people selling the stuff had never come across haggling before and they were left thinking that it is the norm in western society . |
| 14 | She said the people selling the vouchers could not be described as real fans . |
| 15 | The people running the country were the great landowners and bureaucrats of the old empire , who were themselves a class mainly created by the large-scale bankruptcies of the lesser gentry in the first half of the nineteenth century . |
| 16 | The point about a public corporation was its midway status between the politicians and their civil servants on the one hand — and the people running the broadcast services day to day on the other . |
| 17 | So , the businessman goes across the road to the people running the schools , and says , ‘ These are the jobs we want filled , if you can teach the children these skills we will give them priority if they come to us for a job when they leave . ’ |
| 18 | The people running the CEGB came from a generation who believed in the power of technology to solve problems , in motorways and in growth of consumption . |
| 19 | One would also tend to accept verbatim reports of judicial court proceedings , evidence given before special committees of enquiry , so long as one can genuinely believe that the people keeping the record were quite impartial and skilled in their work and that all they took down has been printed without editing . |
| 20 | ( The letter has no connection with the people mounting the poster campaign . ) |
| 21 | Every day thousands of returnees from occupied Kuwait are still entering Jordan , putting pressure on the country 's resources and causing friction between the people fleeing the country . |
| 22 | Im sure the lower divisions are better as the people doing the rating wont know much to have a ‘ feeling ’ , and look at results — and get a more mathmatical figure . |
| 23 | What we did at that point , was to get together a task force of people to examine the idea and where it was going : the people doing the work and the people who were likely to understand the most likely market — put them together in one room to reason their way through to the fact that we really ought to drop the project . |
| 24 | That 's , that 's , but , but actually if they look at the DOPACS times , for the people doing the work , the surveyors and the designers , they can do their work in two months which is spread out over a year . |
| 25 | But spreading the work out though actually extended the administration costs and not giving start and finish times that were fairly tight , so the people doing the work allowed them to make their own judgments on when it was going to be done . |
| 26 | Nowhere does anyone question whether these developments benefit the people doing the work . |
| 27 | The economics and efficiency of a personal injury practice in the future will be determined by the people doing the work . |
| 28 | Well I get involved in it in so many different ways erm this is a difficult one , but one of the things that happens is that a number of teachers , both from the area and elsewhere , erm do advanced courses at the university and as part of these courses we have a unit on evaluation , and for this they will choose some area of their school work which they and their colleagues — and I emphasise that this is something they do have to involve their colleagues back at school in very much — erm feel it would be useful to look at and then they try and discuss with their colleagues what aspects of it are important and significant and what ought to be seen , and they bring this discussion back and we all discuss together there 'll be different teachers working on different problems the different ways in which they could approach this problem and how they might most usefully be able to do it and at the end of the exercise they will have found out quite a lot about this particular area of teaching and very often we find that the people they 've consulted have themselves got quite interested in it and begun to realize that it 's not being done in a way that 's there to threaten them , they 're not sending a report to the headmaster or the Chief Education Officer or anything like that — it 's for the benefit of the people doing the work themselves . |
| 29 | Teesdale District councillor Phil Hughes , who also represents Bowes parish council on the accident prevention panel , said : ‘ The people doing the roadworks have taken adequate measures and could not have put up any more ‘ no overtaking ’ signs or 50mph speed limit signs . |
| 30 | The people making the Laws think only of first-class rugby , with first-class players and referees . |