Example sentences of "people [be] [v-ing] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | erm we have a welfare state , which erm ensures that very few people are living at absolute poverty — you do have shoes to wear , you do have some sort of food to eat — which was n't necessarily the case in the nineteen thirties — and people have had different education and training , their lives are very different . |
| 2 | However , many people are living in abject poverty because of the poll tax . |
| 3 | I mean and usually it will you see most people are looking to past students when they mark . |
| 4 | I find many people are looking for serviceable fabrics and colours they will not tire from quickly . |
| 5 | So many record companies are only interested in kids — but there has been a change , more people are listening to classical type music at an earlier age . |
| 6 | He steers himself into the current of warm air rising above the chandelier , and is carried effortlessly upwards , past floors where people are sitting at little tables and eating ice-cream out of metal goblets . |
| 7 | Summarizing reduces ambiguity by pointing things out explicitly and helps to reduce the likelihood that people are agreeing to different things ( see Agreeing on page 3 ) . |
| 8 | I WAS so pleased to read that people are reverting to real Christmas trees instead of the ghastly , glittering artificial things that have been popular for so long . |
| 9 | Of course , it is always possible to say that people are suffering from false consciousness ( women , for example , are continually suffering from the illusion that they are not being exploited in the home ) but that is surely too patronising a view to be taken at all seriously . |
| 10 | People are suffering from physical and mental problems , sometimes resulting in being taken to mental hospital . |
| 11 | Well I think er yeah I definitely have to agree with you that we 're not hearing enough of them but I suppose more and more now people are starting to record you know a little bit more of the older stuff and I think what 's happened on the pop scene that they 've absolutely dried up as regards er creating new music you know and people are going into computerized music now and you know everything is played on the one machine and it 's getting like a er I do n't know it 's as as if you do n't really have to be a musician any more . |
| 12 | The COSE people are working on multiple areas beyond the five or six initially outlined at the announcement . |
| 13 | The COSE people are working on multiple areas beyond the five or six initially outlined at the announcement . |
| 14 | Confronted with the Government 's ideological measures , however , people are working in good faith and , in some cases , raising money in good faith , in an attempt to put a buy-out together . |
| 15 | Was I then being unfair when I said that , you know , in my view , we still have n't totally got our act together , there 's still room for improvement , and the thing is , you see , people are travelling to other countries . |
| 16 | ‘ Many people are dying with great indignity and with great suffering , ’ said John Oliver , general secretary of the Voluntary Euthanasia Society . |
| 17 | In today 's modern society more and more people are turning to Low Alcohol and alcohol-free drinks to help achieve that moderation . |
| 18 | With the uncertainty about oil prices and the expense of both gas and electricity , many people are opting for wood-burning stoves These have long been a favourite in Northern Europe and America , and they can be amazingly efficient in heating most of the house , quite apart from being decorative . |
| 19 | And er this is one of the er new things that 's happening really er with BAUS this year is that er people are coming from far and wide and chairing session so I 'd like to welcome Stuart very much indeed . |
| 20 | Buckingham Palace is at one end of the Mall , and at the other end people are sleeping in cardboard boxes . |
| 21 | And a handful of critics is beginning to wonder whether Ireland has not concentrated a little too hard on attracting inward investors at the expense of building a strong home-grown computer and electronics industry : after all , the policy of rallying all centres of higher education to turn out highly-skilled hardware and software engineers has been a great success , but should n't more of those people be working for Irish companies ? |
| 22 | At one end of Fifth Avenue , people were living in rat-infested hovels in conditions only drug pushers want . |
| 23 | one of the reasons for introducing the community charge that and it 's ironic that it was just possible , especially in nineteen erm ninety erm that the community charge was meaning wa was bringing about a change where people were voting on local issues , the prime local issue of course being what would be the level of the , of the community charge . |
| 24 | There is a real danger that the sheer scope of the Darwin industry will encourage us to forget that other people were thinking about organic origins at the time , but were exploring very different ways of trying to understand the development of life on earth . |
| 25 | Oh I know , w when we were going we , I stood in the gangway alongside you and I could see , as they were swaying , people were pushing onto other people who were sitting down . |
| 26 | To exclude the influence of how people might feel about different types of lender or types of credit , the information was confined to the terms of the loan — so that in effect people were choosing between rival credit terms possibly within a single credit type . |
| 27 | Despite the reported ‘ need to hear the voice of the Führer again ’ , Hitler 's traditional speech on 30 January 1942 , the anniversary of the ‘ seizure of power ’ , left some feelings of disappointment , since people were looking for comforting or encouraging words about the state of the war in the east and not for just another stereotype repetition of the Nazi Party 's glorious history . |
| 28 | When you got in there at seven thirty , Chris was n't there and the books were n't there and people were waiting around ready to get off . |