Example sentences of "people are [v-ing] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It is manifestly unjust that a privileged few should continue to accumulate excess goods , squandering available resources while masses of people are living in conditions of misery . |
| 2 | Many individuals and even whole people are living in conditions which are ‘ an insult to their innate dignity . ’ |
| 3 | More than 870,000 people are living in families on income support in Scotland . |
| 4 | Thousands of people are living in fear of their lives in the wake of the Belfast shootings , according to the SDLP MP . |
| 5 | And this trend has sparked frequent claims that many people are living in fear , often too afraid to go out at night . |
| 6 | Perhaps it can be said that , when people are searching for meaning , they are at the beginning of a journey , not at the end of it . |
| 7 | And then he goes , he goes erm it 's , it gets erm it really gets to me when I think people are chewing around school , I do n't know what to do to stop people and I was n't chewing , yes well it looked like chewing , but I was n't chewing ! |
| 8 | and all too often erm people are taking off departments to do training but then it 's the same old thing of well it 's the needs of the business |
| 9 | and more and more and more people are looking for experience , they 're looking for vocations , they 're looking for er the sort of attributes which , you know , are n't actually overflowing when you 're unemployed in Wolverhampton |
| 10 | Such people are looking for help , not hindrance , from the Government . |
| 11 | ‘ People are looking for values which have nothing to do with success . ’ |
| 12 | But a lot of people are looking for pseudo-satisfaction through lusting after this complete stranger , and you have to accept that , fight on that terrain. , |
| 13 | People are looking for guidance . ’ |
| 14 | A lot of people are inquiring about remortgages but often when they find out what exactly is involved they are happy to stay where they are . |
| 15 | It might also appear from such an analysis that working-class people are converging towards RP back [ a ] in grass , path , and middle-class people diverging from it , when in fact there is no evidence that the usage of these speakers is influenced by RP in any way at all . |
| 16 | People are petitioning for interviews but I do not wish to talk to them . |
| 17 | In Britain 1.5m people are drinking at levels that are definitely harmful ( 50 plus units a week for men , 36 for women ) , and another 7m exceed the recommended limits of 21 units a week for men , 14 for women . |
| 18 | While this may mean that disabled people are shifting from institutions to ghettoes , it nevertheless heralds an age when disabled people are not to be cured as such . |
| 19 | Erm er whereby the green code has been allocated to some er some houses having , people are recycling through bottle , erm bottle waste . |
| 20 | Hundreds of people are queueing at cinemas across the region to see Hollywood 's new dinosaur blockbuster Jurassic Park . |
| 21 | Hundreds of people are queueing at cinemas across the region to see Hollywood 's new dinosaur blockbuster Jurassic Park . |
| 22 | The tape people are collecting on Friday . |
| 23 | As anyone will tell you , it 's easy to go over the limit , especially at this time of year when people are preparing for Christmas and buying presents . |
| 24 | While these people are sitting on committees hammering the plans into a synthetic budget which nobody can achieve , the Profitboss is out on the street making a profit , putting up prices , discounting prices , pushing the market , pulling the market . |
| 25 | Well , while two hundred thousand people are heading for Silverstone , another forty thousand are expected at RAF Brize Norton . |
| 26 | Now , after a lull of several years , the boat people are heading for Australia again , this time from Cambodia . |
| 27 | In one room two people are dancing to music which only they can hear . |
| 28 | Finally , the Rampton/Swann statistics themselves provide evidence that the educational achievements of Afro-Caribbean children and young people are increasing from year to year at a higher rate than those of other groups . |
| 29 | ‘ People are playing with fire if they contemplate the Government will just be defeated on Wednesday and everything settles down the following day . |
| 30 | One and a half million people are going without treatment for a bone disease which can cause severe pain and deformity . |