Example sentences of "people who [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed easier to do right by a people who wanted nothing than by peoples who clamoured for what you were not at all sure you wanted to give them . |
| 2 | The aim is that those young people who opt for early leaving would themselves be substantial gainers . |
| 3 | These breed clubs have regenerated interest in the people who had for some reason left the breed and have now been asked to return to spread their knowledge to the younger members . |
| 4 | ‘ They are a people who ask for little but who are enormously and genuinely grateful for any help ’ , wrote one official who witnessed a terrible drought in Masailand in the early 1960s : ‘ They live a hard life uncomplainingly . ’ |
| 5 | The way in which individual credit granters decide whether or not to lend to people who ask for loans or credit affects the general pattern of credit use . |
| 6 | Most people who ask for advice about a decision are really seeking condemnation : that is to say , condemnation of the choice they do not want to make but have not the courage to reject . |
| 7 | Strappy black platform sandals will be an essential this year , but there are many other sandals around for people who Go for sling-backs with heels or a ballerina look with comfortable flatties , which team well with jeans or leggings . |
| 8 | I mean you see them walking around particularly people who go for the big dogs , you see them walking around with a big thick necks , the tattoos , the er the boots and the jeans rolled up . |
| 9 | In 1991–92 , 27pc of people who came for advice from MARC owed more than £10,000 — compared with 8pc owing that amount the previous year . |
| 10 | It draws people who come for a fun day out and it provides for the serious ornithologist . |
| 11 | Er Madam Speaker I entirely agree , I entirely agree with my ho honourable friend er the absence of the social chapter in Britain accounts in part for our higher levels of employment and the reforms which we carried out in the eighties and the figures speak for themselves , as do the er people who speak for industry for example when Black and Decker announced their intention to bring their operations er fully into Britain out of Germany , a company spokesman said anyone familiar with this sit situation in Germany will grasp that because of costs it is become very difficult to do business there . |
| 12 | Mr Baker said many of the 45,000 people who applied for refugee status in Britain last year were bogus . |
| 13 | Of this large number of people I have known of only a small handful of people who opted for a non-Christian funeral . |
| 14 | She added that the number of people who opted for cremation was increasing although there was still a section of society to whom cremation was unthinkable . |
| 15 | Aleksandr Nikitenko spoke for many intellectuals when , in 1852 , he privately advised people who thought for themselves " to completely scorn this stupid nonsense , this contemporary life , while consoling yourself ( if you can ) with faith in a brighter future " . |
| 16 | Equally there seem to be many people who stay for a short period , and then just move on . |
| 17 | Yeah we have a little bit of new material , we always get every year you 'll get about you know eight or ten good new songs that people write and the one good thing about the people who write for us is that the songs sound like they 're they 're old songs which is ideal you know . |
| 18 | There are of course exceptions of those who are neither councillors nor magistrates er and are prepared to do these jobs , but there are n't very many in relation to er the numbers of people that would be required for this sort of task and there are many other activities for which there are required , like school governors who like helping on various health bodies and er they have n't got the time to do them all , and if they have , they probably are n't suitable , because I have to my Lords that a lord of people who volunteer for these sorts of tasks and I have experience of them are n't people that locally we would like to have sitting on these various bodies and we have to discourage them one way and another . |
| 19 | MORE THAN four out of five people who apply for planning permission get it . |
| 20 | So , people who qualify for maximum benefit will still have to pay one fifth of the Community Charge . |
| 21 | ‘ If you add up the people who voted for him and those who voted against him and those who did n't vote , you have to decide if that is a vote of confidence in him or not . ’ |
| 22 | The people who voted for what are called ‘ extremist ’ and ‘ fascist ’ parties in France and Germany seem to have mostly done so , however mistakenly , for one reason only : fear that the stability of their countries is threatened by unassimilable immigrants and bogus ‘ asylum-seekers ’ . |
| 23 | Sir , — Can I thank the 20,033 people who voted for me last week . |
| 24 | The people who voted for the puppy are up in arms . |
| 25 | The most this can mean is that the people who voted for the party did so knowing that it was planning to do certain things , and that therefore these voters can be assumed to have consented to those plans . |
| 26 | She said : ‘ These clothes are a definite must for people who live for the night . |
| 27 | Many people who call for benefit increases in a discussion on whether or not to operate a minimum wage , mysteriously lose their voice in debates to enhance welfare payments ( Sam Brittan and Joe Rogaly , both from the Financial Times stable , are honourable exceptions to this rule ) . |
| 28 | The novel has a contemporary setting and is about people who meet for an extraordinary dinner party . |
| 29 | Conversely , where there is an oversupply of manpower of a particular kind , one may find downwards substitution , e.g. graduates working in ‘ non-graduate ’ jobs , leading sometimes to a ‘ cascade ’ effect whereby people who trained for a particular level of work are systematically displaced by those more highly trained . |
| 30 | These are people who run for buses and put their hands in their pockets to ensure their change does n't jump out . |