Example sentences of "be [verb] and people " in BNC.
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| 1 | and there 's a lot of er of what people even leave their , their fortunes to look after some animal and they do n't leave it to people like er the lady sitting here who are , folk , folk are starving , but then its because people are needed and people are needed by their children , but there also needed by their men folk and I think its when they turn to being a mother to their men that , you know , even the , the love that they have , er whether its been a sexual love at one time , er friendly love becomes a very caring love and er I think that 's what we all remember erm those of us who have lost our husbands , that would like to have that , that part back again |
| 2 | Sadly , mills have been closed and people have lost their jobs , but I believe that these necessary changes have been handled with sympathy and understanding . |
| 3 | I mean there have been the usual number of pollution incidents and they seem to increase every year , er and a lot of those to deal with er as you say , I think one of the things which is , which is good is that public consciousness has been raised and people are much more aware of what they drink and what 's in their rivers . |
| 4 | If Christmas or the Summer holidays are approaching and people are likely to make bigger cash withdrawals , banks may decide to hold more liquid assets . |
| 5 | Professor Ian Craft , of the London Gynaecology and Fertility Centre , said : ‘ The law needs to be amended and people need to be aware of the problem . ’ |
| 6 | If not , if the public decides against it , if they are unmoved by it , then the Glass will be broken and people will stop talking about it , which could quite easily happen in twenty years or ten years , or even sooner . |
| 7 | One of the purposes of capital gains taxes is to prevent individuals from avoiding tax by converting their income into a capital gain : individual choices could be distorted and people might , for example , seek assets like oil paintings as opposed to bonds . |
| 8 | Land for miles and miles around could be ruined and people would be badly affected ’ . |
| 9 | And he generally worked it during the hours of daylight , when he could be seen and people could liaise with him . |
| 10 | Hostages were to be freed and people returned to the villages from which they had been deported . |
| 11 | My guess is that in about twenty or thirty years ' time , it would be reprinted and people would start to re-think , oh well , perhaps this is not so |
| 12 | But then the system 's there to be abused and people abuse it . |
| 13 | In the depressed countryside there was a considerable fund of labour to be tapped and people flowed from the uncertainties of seasonal rural poverty to the equally depressing conditions of the Brighton back streets . |
| 14 | Anyway , he always told himself that this would be the last time ; this time he would find some really good job in which he would get on really well and his talents would be appreciated and people would like him and he would surprise all his Tormentors , so there would be no reason to go through the whole fraught and sapping business of signing on again . |
| 15 | It is also hoped that other urgent areas of need can be identified and people can be put in touch with appropriate resources or agencies to address these . |
| 16 | Power should be equalised and people should be properly equipped to operate in a marketplace that would otherwise treat them unfairly . |
| 17 | This means that those underlying factors are unlikely ever to be tackled and people will come to distrust a government that disregards their needs . |
| 18 | because er the roads are choked and I think that er public transport in the city should be improved and people discouraged from using their cars in our city . |
| 19 | The lights are on , lifts are working , computers are calculating and people are at work in hospitals . |
| 20 | In Ondo , Kano and plateau States new television establishments already exist , staff have been recruited , contracts with equipment suppliers have been signed and people have been sent abroad for training . |
| 21 | They date from a period of cataclysmic turmoil , when Palestine was ravaged by war , the Holy City and most sacred shrine of Judaism was destroyed , all records were scattered and people 's memories of events were blurred or modified by more recent occurrences . |
| 22 | They leak information about convoys to members of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament , resulting in convoys being disrupted and people 's lives being put in danger . |
| 23 | I suppose one of the things I use to demonstrate it most clearly is that for many years I s I gave lectures on communications and one of the things I used to say in those lectures was I did not know , and I was stressing that sense what came first if newspapers write stories in a particular way , because that is what the public wanted or do public want a particular type of story and that 's that newspapers round-up and I stopped posing that question when Rupert Murdoch bought the Melbourne Sun because Rupert Murdoch bought the Melbourne Sun and introduced a lot of sex-type stories you know stories about brothels and madames whipping people and goodness knows what else and the sales rocketed and there we had almost a captive example of change in the design of change in the type of stories that were written and people , people were buying it and so you have an issue of you know that your content was actually being by what your readership wanted . |
| 24 | In the tradition of Western philosophy there have always been those who longed for a society in which injustice and poverty were abolished and people able to share their material possessions . |
| 25 | Locally grown vegetables were condemned and people complained of nausea and dizziness . |
| 26 | Heard him say that sirens were blowing and people were donning gas masks and moving into sealed rooms . |
| 27 | On the contrary , it is time to treat religion as something strange and outside the ordinary run of life , something which , mysteriously , has had a vast effect on people , over which wars were fought and people were burned and persecuted , and which still has an effect on people ; something which can not be reduced to mere kindness at the old people 's parties or village jumble sales , but which has inspired some of the most splendid painting , writing , music , and architecture ever to be produced by the human imagination , and is still capable of producing martyrdom , cruelty , and sectarian passion . |
| 28 | Small industries were destroyed and people driven to the cities where they were forced to switch from home-grown food to imported processed food . |
| 29 | Gerald Sutherland , 41 , said : ‘ For a few seconds the doors were shut and people were really panicking , then they opened and passengers rushed out as quickly as they could . |
| 30 | Villages were raided and burned , cattle were driven off , growing crops were trampled , hay stocks were fired and people were taken captive . |