Example sentences of "people [am/are] [verb] [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 | In FI , such people are tolerated by some : either because they are good company or because they provide ‘ services ’ , whether these be the producing of Mercedes cars which are then flogged off at a profit or the procuring of girls . |
| 4 | Young people are placed in open employment and trained and supported by social service teams . |
| 5 | The sociological question here , then , is the way that black people are integrated into white society and the effect that their separate cultural identity has on the rate of integration . |
| 6 | older people are involved as fellow students and teachers in schools ; |
| 7 | In early societies relationships between people are governed by such things as their gender , their age , and their family relationships ( these Maine called status relations ) , while in more advanced societies they are governed by contractual arrangements which are not concerned with the status of those involved , but only with the matter which brings the individuals together . |
| 8 | The family is therefore the site of both primary socialisation of children and the continuing socialisation of adults , so that ‘ socialisation ’ becomes a deterministic notion of the way in which people are manipulated by existing structures of society . |
| 9 | " The fabric of family life of millions of our people has been shattered , … our economy lies in ruins and our people are embroiled in political strife . " |
| 10 | In short , statistics relating to old people are presented in such a way as to spread a great deal of gloom about the future , not only for the old themselves but for society at large . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | According to this theory , people are composed of discrete quanta that exist only in combination with those of others . |
| 16 | What does it mean to be ‘ English ’ when so many people are disenfranchised in this country ? |
| 17 | I 've got my instructions , and none of you newspaper people are getting into this college while I 'm here to stop you . |
| 18 | He told her , ‘ Some people are blessed with more weight in some areas than others . |
| 19 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 20 | I mean and usually it will you see most people are looking to past students when they mark . |
| 21 | ‘ 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 |
| 22 | People are looking for tastier beef and that comes from the Hereford cattle . |
| 23 | I find many people are looking for serviceable fabrics and colours they will not tire from quickly . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | I know people are looking for another upset here because Sutton are a decent team , but we 're not bad ourselves . ’ |
| 26 | On the assumption that people are motivated by monetary reward , it was argued that this would provide incentives for them to work harder and for entrepreneurs to create wealth and jobs . |
| 27 | In other words communism under freedom is possible only to the extent that people are motivated by non-economic rewards . |
| 28 | Many people are faced with serious losses . |
| 29 | Every day people are engaged in many activities with the specific purpose of maintaining a safe environment , whether at home or at work or at play or travelling . |
| 30 | Young homeless people are referred for legal advice to the centre by agencies such as the Young Persons ' Advisory Service in Bolton Street , Liverpool . |