Example sentences of "people [am/are] [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 | People are sending in some really bad , obviously made-up scores : 9 million on Turrican — the most I can manage is 2 million and that 's by visiting every section and standing at the edge of the cascade , blasting everything . |
| 4 | Particularly important is the evidence that , where elderly people are sharing with younger relatives , these arrangements often were entered into in the first instance for the benefit of the younger as much as the older generation . |
| 5 | When people are moving in all directions , meeting dead ends and trying to push back to the start , it 's not only chaotic , it 's downright dangerous . |
| 6 | just trying to sort out this business of this the offices that we 're being let in the Strand Theatre that er people are moving in this week and they 've got no authority to move you see . |
| 7 | I 've got my instructions , and none of you newspaper people are getting into this college while I 'm here to stop you . |
| 8 | ‘ There has n't been a white champion for such a long time and I think a lot of people are looking toward that and want to see a white champion . ’ |
| 9 | I mean and usually it will you see most people are looking to past students when they mark . |
| 10 | ‘ More and more people are looking to this kind of holiday — a bit of walking through spectacular landscapes , punctuated by train rides , ’ says Mark Livock , product manager |
| 11 | People are looking for tastier beef and that comes from the Hereford cattle . |
| 12 | I find many people are looking for serviceable fabrics and colours they will not tire from quickly . |
| 13 | THE Property Exchange , a new company publishing a national directory of people who want to swap homes rather than sell them ( if the properties have different values , one party pays the other the difference ) says that so far most people are looking for smaller homes . |
| 14 | I know people are looking for another upset here because Sutton are a decent team , but we 're not bad ourselves . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 ) . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | People are suffering from physical and mental problems , sometimes resulting in being taken to mental hospital . |
| 21 | It says around 300 people are waiting for such accommodation equivalent to ten new schemes . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | People are grabbing at each other and pushing , pulling and scuffling , or twisting in the air with imaginary opponents , urging their own version of violence . |
| 24 | The COSE people are working on multiple areas beyond the five or six initially outlined at the announcement . |
| 25 | The COSE people are working on multiple areas beyond the five or six initially outlined at the announcement . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | First , on education and training , more young people are graduating from higher education than ever before — the number is up by nearly one third since 1979 . |
| 29 | In other words , more people are surviving to 60 , and enjoying the kind of lifespan which has never been all that rare , but which is now much more common , simply because so few humans die at or just after birth , in the first five years of life , and so on . |
| 30 | ‘ Many people are dying with great indignity and with great suffering , ’ said John Oliver , general secretary of the Voluntary Euthanasia Society . |