Example sentences of "be [adv] people [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean there 's no doubt that in human terms that child needs that fifty pence more than you do , but we do n't because I mean there 's a level in which we ca n't because we have to somehow psychologically protect ourselves , and I believe we do do that by convincing ourselves that somehow people out there are not people in the same way that we are . |
| 2 | ‘ They 're only people on their holiday , ’ she said ; ‘ they 're just enjoying themselves . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Perhaps they 're only people on holiday . ’ |
| 4 | And you 're their children , you 're not people to them . |
| 5 | We 're both people of the world , equals on the road to folly . |
| 6 | There are always people on this land : a boy sitting on a grazing buffalo , a girl cutting short , dusty grass with a sharp hand-held hoe , filling a basket to take home for the oxen . |
| 7 | And , as we observed earlier , there are still people in Britain who can ascribe a fire caused by lightning in York to God 's wrath at the appointment of a somewhat outspoken bishop — as if , amid the violence , hatred , prejudice , insensitivity and menace of the modern world , God had nothing more pressing on His mind , nothing better to do with His resources . |
| 8 | It is worth remembering that there are still people in Britain today who have never been to London . |
| 9 | There are also people of a naturally equable temperament who intuitively understand the need for preparatory mourning and adjust their lives accordingly . |
| 10 | Moreover , they are often people with long experience of the area where you live , and of your particular problem . |
| 11 | There are often people behind street crime , like car theft . |
| 12 | There are often people in the community or groups who like coming |
| 13 | It 's not good keeping the prospectuses piled up in the office just in case a casual visitor asks for one , they need to be where people with young children regularly gather . |
| 14 | Are n't people like yourselves being a little bit presumptuous and perhaps even arrogant in feeling that you can help people solve their problems in the rest of the world . |
| 15 | There are even people in berets , but no one minds . |
| 16 | ‘ There are undoubtedly people around who would like to bounce things in that direction ( towards fees ) . ’ |
| 17 | Erm were most people in those days poor ? |
| 18 | The clerks and station officials were normally people of pure Spanish descent , while the managers and engineers at the top were usually British or American . |
| 19 | These were not people with chronic or serious illnesses and yet they claimed that on most days they had some sort of ache or pain or just a feeling of being ‘ run down ’ or ‘ drained ’ . |
| 20 | The kind of people who were to live in the network of what now amounts to eight properties — six owner-occupied houses and two rented apartment schemes — were not people with severe disabilities and high levels of dependency . |
| 21 | Lesser offices remained the preserve of local men , although they were usually people of limited importance . |
| 22 | Lesser offices remained the preserve of local men , although they were usually people of limited importance . |
| 23 | ‘ There were always people around the house , like my Dad 's band , and so that 's how I learned to play bass and drums as well , 'cos it was just there . |
| 24 | The proceedings eventually started , though there were still people outside trying to get inside . |
| 25 | ‘ They were mainly people with offices or garages although I had one or two with large country houses . ’ |
| 26 | yeah I , not so , yeah well I suppose so , it 'll be nice though , it should be a good laugh being how people in the back garden talking and the lights in the back garden |
| 27 | Well the thing is though people at the top do n't necessarily see the problems that you see as problems |
| 28 | ‘ Who is going to solve them , then , ’ said Robyn , ‘ if it is n't people with power , like you ? ’ |
| 29 | The '70s thing is all over the place at the moment , it 's when people of my generation were growing up , it 's people 's memories of classic pop imagery from their childhood . ’ |
| 30 | Kinnock 's early socialism may have made him unable to appeal beyond Labour 's natural constituency , but it is why people within that constituency have trusted him . |