Example sentences of "people are [v-ing] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some people are seeing the light , even from your own side . |
| 2 | If people are writing the songs , they 've got the purest view of what it 's all about . |
| 3 | Especially where those people are passing the germs down the telephone ! |
| 4 | Therefore there is a logical tendency to preclude from view the social reasons why people are using the land in such a way as to cause excessive soil erosion , and so most conservation policies do not address them at all . |
| 5 | People are using the words Oscar and Pauline Collins in the same sentence . |
| 6 | People are seeking the reassurance of police officers walking round their areas . |
| 7 | People are seeking the reassurance of police officers walking round their areas . |
| 8 | Do you think that when people are buying the insurance that they have much of an idea about their consumer power ? |
| 9 | I think more people are getting the idea of this now . |
| 10 | Other PR people are getting the push — four out of seven for example at the head office of COSTAIN the big international civil engineering and construction company . |
| 11 | People are taking the opportunity to get out when they can . |
| 12 | When other people are taking the mickey out of someone else , try to imagine how they feel about it . |
| 13 | Do n't you see by ha do n't you see by not retaliating , you 're already showing us something it 's just a personal opinion I have I 've it 's like , I du n no if you have the se erm i if people are taking the mickey out of you , ignore them . |
| 14 | I mean people are receiving the programme . |
| 15 | ‘ God bless and save us , what class of people are inhabitin' the earth nowadays . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Our people are helping the Myrcans guard the hall doors , ’ the Steward said . |
| 17 | ‘ Too many people are wandering the Dales — important people . |
| 18 | Consequently people are comparing the Community Charge which they 've got on their hands now er with an out of date rating system and they should probably add about 200 pounds to the rates they 're paying in order to get a better comparison . |
| 19 | The situation today is not that two thousand three hundred people are joining the dole queues every day but that ov every week , but over twenty thousand . |
| 20 | In the context of the new community care legislation , organisations of disabled people are increasing the pressure on central and local government to provide the necessary housing and support services required to enable disabled people to fully participate in society . |
| 21 | Coach Jim Gardner says it is a big deal because Cheltenham has n't got too many champions and more and more people are playing the game |
| 22 | ‘ By lambasting Kelly 's , people are attacking the symptoms not the root cause of the problem , ’ a spokesperson for the public relations company representing Kelly 's told Sunday Life . |
| 23 | They are superficially similar but have very different underlying meanings — different people are doing the pleasing . |
| 24 | And there well those people are doing the test first . |
| 25 | I do n't know how other people are doing the guidelines but by definition the divisional guidelines must n't say , must define who the authorised people are , or those . |
| 26 | What I think is happening , I find this interesting , people are rejecting the idea of the aesthetic , and I 'm not quite sure why ; I do n't know whether they think it 's elitist or whether they 've got no taste of their own , or what , I do n't know , but people read poems not as poems which convey aesthetic emotion , which is the way I tend to think about poems ultimately , but simply as ideological statements and political texts , or at least , things that give you some understanding of the way people thought or so on at the time … . |
| 27 | The growing trend towards fitness means more people are reaping the rewards , not only of better health , but a trimmer figure and glowing skin . |
| 28 | Is not that because this country and its people are paying the price for having a Government of unique incompetence ? |
| 29 | Mr Milburn claimed : ‘ Darlington 's young people are paying the price for this Conservative-created recession . ’ |
| 30 | My days can involve patrolling the island to make sure that people are observing the rules and that the birds are n't being disturbed either on the land or from the sea . |