Example sentences of "people [vb base] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and the final year I think there 's sort of less on the timetable but people tend to do more work for it and do a project as well but in the , in the first year erm you know it 's not that difficult to , to pass it erm er and there are always the , the , the referred papers in September so if you 're , if you 're keen |
| 2 | People tend to invest more time deciding on a house purchase or what car to buy than deciding what to do with their lives and how to develop themselves . |
| 3 | You might very well say that you were the greatest law lecturer in the world , because people tend to say these things about themselves . |
| 4 | Most people tend to remember two things about the cult 1960s television series The Prisoner . |
| 5 | People tend to remember those facts that |
| 6 | To a large extent , however , Wright thinks people tend to refresh each other . |
| 7 | People tend to admire common sense and strong business instincts rather than going for those who can out- think the competition . ’ |
| 8 | Obese people tend to have higher levels of insulin than those of normal weight , and the disadvantage of insulin is that it tends to further encourage the body to deposit rather than burn up fat . |
| 9 | Field dependence tends to arise in those who are more socialised and group-orientated in a society which emphasises order ; these people tend to have stronger perceptions and feelings for others . |
| 10 | It 's another thing people tend to make crass comments about , or crass assumptions anyway . |
| 11 | 250 They 've become accustomed What they 're forgetting is that this fits in with the stated local plan and with original proposals set out in 1989 which is n't so long ago but people tend to forget that sort of thing 328 |
| 12 | Overweight people tend to consume less fibre than their normal-weight counterparts . |
| 13 | And yet the family is often the last place where people expect to find these qualities . |
| 14 | DI 'd through a desk and recorded onto both DAT and cassette utilising the onboard amp simulator , the distortion could n't be described as amazing , but I presume this must be what people expect to hear these days , although to me it does n't sound too close to what you 'd get from a guitar amp . |
| 15 | ‘ People want to dance all night , that 's why the come . |
| 16 | I do not believe the vast majority of people want to see British industry sold abroad for jam today . |
| 17 | If people want to exchange any goods , they will do so by barter . |
| 18 | If people want to prescribe unproved forms of treatment , or to receive them , that is their choice . |
| 19 | Because it 's human nature people want to get better things . |
| 20 | Like most people , older people want to have enough income for their needs and to live in homes which they can manage and keep warm . |
| 21 | Erm you know , not just er something that is er created and left there , it 's with that erm the the thing in mind , that if if people want to have some place where they can get together , in the kind of atmosphere that they want . |
| 22 | People want to experience new things . |
| 23 | And the rag trade was also upside down ready on the trailer to come across , I wo n't bore you with the way they do their budgeting for example , but what happens is , my wife will go to one of those suppliers and say yes , a number of my people want to buy that dress so we want a thousand of them . |
| 24 | If people want to escape urban gloom I have a good suggestion : throw your TV , video and stereo through the window , lock your car in the garage and buy a bicycle . |
| 25 | Many people suggest using corrugated card for pressing and indeed , most commercially made presses are supplied with corrugated card , but I have always had enormous difficulty when using this , finding that it leaves the imprints of stripes on the flowers and leaves . |
| 26 | If you have a somewhat limited understanding of sex you may have wondered why people contrive to incorporate such things as whips , chains , handcuffs and strange costumes into their sexual relations . |
| 27 | I fear that safety standards will go down the drain as people seek to make most profit . |
| 28 | People stop to greet each other with obvious affection . |
| 29 | Indeed TQM partly evolved from the realisation that improvements can only be achieved if professional and departmental barriers are broken down , people stop blaming each other for defects and constructively work together to solve them . |
| 30 | Most people manage to avoid these areas like the plague , though they would n't have been bothered by stagediving at all — so I 'm afraid that Wiz 's well-intentioned argument that people can go near the front when there are no stagedivers fails . |