Example sentences of "people [v-ing] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | So long as it maintains the idea that believers talking to unbelievers are like people explaining to the blind what it is like to see , reason may be tolerated . |
| 2 | It seems , too , that certain specific proposals in Caring for People relating to the care of mentally disordered people are something of an afterthought ; certainly they read that way . |
| 3 | It was pleasant to see people returning to the old ways , he said . |
| 4 | Colonel Durand , in command of the defences , who had only a few militia and the usual garrison ‘ invalids ’ under him , sent a desperate appeal for assistance to Field Marshal Wade , while the sudden departure of people returning to the surrounding countryside — Saturday 9 November 1745 was a market day in Carlisle — added to his difficulties , as an eye-witness recorded : |
| 5 | The gigantic man turned him slowly , against the tide of people pressing to the epicentre , and planted him squarely on his feet . |
| 6 | Wiped out by a five-hour flight to a city where riding the subway is an act of hedonism , and where the pollution on the streets works on the brain like speed , driving people scrambling to the summits of New York City 's towers of granite and power . |
| 7 | Brown demonstrates the extent to which the growth of research activities in this field has led to the emergence of improved cluster analytic methods for the multidimensional classification of people according to the type of area in which they live . |
| 8 | Memory tasks , when they involve serial recall , produce well documented effects in hearing people according to the nature of the stimulus material . |
| 9 | The National Consumer Council ( NCC ) argues that charging people according to the amount of water they use does not reflect the true cost of providing the service . |
| 10 | In holding court they reinforced a traditional hierarchy and determined its order by giving titles and decorations and by receiving or excluding people according to the standards of the crown … |
| 11 | Jack shook off his dream about Death Row and remembered that all over Dublin today there would be people waking to the first day of term . |
| 12 | The people rushing to the shelters upset ‘ Lucky ’ a bit . |
| 13 | No company stops people going to the toilet . |
| 14 | Although I am myself very much in favour of people going to the theatre and reading books it is very useful for my research for me to play devil 's advocate on these activities and to ask ‘ Why should people go to the theatre ? ’ and ‘ Why should people read books ? ’ |
| 15 | ‘ He does n't like people going to the house — because of Carla . ’ |
| 16 | Er as I said before , if we get some verbal abuse from people going to the blues , then we know that it was outsiders coming in . |
| 17 | THERE has been a big rise in the number of people going to the Sellafield Visitors Centre . |
| 18 | Pentecostal minister the Rev Colin Hill and a dozen members of his nearby Kemble Street Elim Church congregation asked more than 100 people going to the show to turn back . |
| 19 | Well for people going to the States it 's a good time to go . |
| 20 | And I believe that the growing trend erm of people going to the cinema , erm cinema owners reconverting cinemas they 've cut into three back into the large auditoria , erm will continue and a night out at the cinema has something to do with the the building you 're in , erm this building if refurbished would have a restaurant , would have a bar , would have a cinema club , would be a real asset to the town . |
| 21 | In establishing four oral rehydration packet production sites in Bangladesh , they failed to reach the majority of the Bangladeshi people owing to the inefficiencies of the production sites , the inherent inadequacies of the Bangladeshi transport network and the rural nature of the vast majority of the population . |
| 22 | It meant ‘ self-respect … the poor man 's sword of honour ’ , a fine doctrine for ‘ the many deserving people belonging to the small shopkeeping and lower professional classes ’ . |
| 23 | Sun Microsystems Computer Corp has responded to Hewlett-Packard Co 's big trade-in programme with up to 40% trade-in credit for people moving to the new Sparcstation 10/Model 30 , where Hewlett is offering a maximum 30% ( UX No 420 ) . |
| 24 | Mada Joyce also told stories of Jamaican people coming to the island as slaves from Africa . |
| 25 | Elderly parents may begin to feel tense and unsure of their previous social skills and ability to sustain long conversations with visitors , or may tire very quickly , which may lead them to start placing obstacles of one kind and another to people coming to the house at all . |
| 26 | the the flats is er a a no go area sort of thing and a kid 'll come along and spray summat on a wall and next day three kids 'll come along and spray things on the wall , so that you 've got more and more graffiti going all over the place , more and more rubbish , more and more people coming to the flats just to get into trouble . |
| 27 | There is , however , a minority of people coming to the notice of the police or courts in whom mental disorder has played a direct causal role in the offence . |
| 28 | Little wonder we 're suspicious of people coming to the front door ! |
| 29 | Erm , er so of course there was always people coming to the house connected with the Co-op educational side , you know and erm I used to sort of you kn understand it all , mother was the treasurer and sometimes the secretary would come down to see her . |
| 30 | There 's mi minus four people coming to the party tonight , they 're all crackers , okay but it works , it 's very useful it solves an awful lot of problems like you know getting rockets to the moon and things like that that we could n't do otherwise . |