Example sentences of "people [verb] [prep] [v-ing] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | With all this technology literally at our fingertips , many people insist on using the computer keyboard as if it were mechanically connected to the printer . |
| 2 | I am delighted to be asked to deliver Lynda 's speech to such a large body of people committed to helping the disadvantaged and to be able to say a few words about how government is meeting the challenges that it faces in the developing world . |
| 3 | IT IS POSSIBLE to reduce the amount of salt people consume by making the hole in the salt shaker smaller and placing the shaker out of reach . |
| 4 | The unusual violence was blamed by Lutheran church sources here on the frustration of a trainload of young people prevented from crossing the now-closed border to Czechoslovakia , and the chance of clambering into the West German Embassy in Prague . |
| 5 | While most people worry about paying the mortgage in the event of unemployment , a serious accident or illness prevents more than 2. million people working at any one time , contributing to around million days of work lost per year . |
| 6 | " If long putters enable more people to play without jeopardising the integrity of the game , we think they ought to continue to be used , " Bloch said . |
| 7 | people seem to finding the sort of first-aider . |
| 8 | * Appoint competent people to help with implementing the health and safety arrangements |
| 9 | Polls show the number of people opposed to relinquishing the mark has grown to 56 per cent without a sign that a peak has been reached . |
| 10 | Why do many young people think of leaving the valleys of mid-Wales ? |
| 11 | Weick ( 1985 ) says that , because people persist in simplifying the world , they do not see the differentiations between organizations and within organizations over time . |
| 12 | The Assembly also adopted an amendment extending the amnesty to people convicted of slandering the state ( Article 157 ) . |
| 13 | Local Office Managers run offices in which 80% of our people work in delivering the service ( see next page ) |