Example sentences of "of people [v-ing] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While the number of people drawing such assistance grew steadily during the post-war period , the size of this group has exploded since 1979 . |
| 2 | What are the main obstacles in the way of people taking more control over their own health and health care and have we examples of this struggle from which we can all learn ? |
| 3 | The notion of people sending each other greetings cards in the future with ‘ Happy Music Day ’ complete with pithy , humorous and probably quaintly vulgar subtext is an amusing one . |
| 4 | In our 1979 survey , these were the proportions of people rating each of five factors as the most important in their most recent decision to use a particular type of credit ( Appendix 1 , Table 33a ) : |
| 5 | But Mrs Standing said : ‘ This is yet another example of people believing all the bad publicity about the estate . |
| 6 | It was a case of people ringing each other up and going — ‘ Guess what … ’ and waiting for the reactions . |
| 7 | There are other good vignettes of people telephoning each other to say goodbye , huddling in corner stores and generally acting as they do in scary SF movies . |
| 8 | In this time I have noted the steady increase of people pursuing this activity and an equally heavy resistance to the sport by landowners and fishing groups . |
| 9 | I AM sick to death of people decrying this year 's GCSE results . |
| 10 | There 's a lot of people ordering that one . |
| 11 | And a lot of people answering that question will just assume it 's a right angle |
| 12 | The home can , therefore , be seen as a potentially significant source of ontological security , even if large numbers of people finding such security in the same place at the same time can itself lead to much anxiety . |
| 13 | It 's going to put the erm actual availability up quite a bit of people having that fax there |
| 14 | This was getting serious , the clatter of people talking all at once dies down until there 's silence . |
| 15 | Which is why I think the government is authoritarian , why you have secret police and gulags and so on , because they ca n't afford to tolerate large numbers of people saying this is n't what the revolution was supposed to be about . |
| 16 | erm and but what is he striding out there in front of people saying this is where I see the vision for the country leading us . |
| 17 | If the agent knows that a publisher , a record company and a manager have all invested , at least he or she can feel there are a number of people needing this act to be successful . |
| 18 | I mean , I 've seen lots of people doing this and er they 're not dead yet , so , here goes ! |
| 19 | And at Sussex , there are quite a number of people doing these sorts of experiments , what , about six or eight different people doing experiments in low temperature physics ? |
| 20 | but I got upstairs and it was just a lot of people going That was weird though like couples disappearing in rooms and sort of |
| 21 | The percentages of people applying this comment to each of the six credit types were as follows : |