Example sentences of "people [vb mod] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , depending on the size of the excavation and the range of finds , more people may be engaged in the post-excavation analysis than during the actual excavation ; and whatever the size of the site , the post-excavation analysis takes at least twice as long as the excavation itself . |
| 2 | People may be influenced by rewards in two ways : |
| 3 | Accordingly , Drudy and Drudy ( 1979 ) have advocated the provision of professional and office jobs , and Gilg ( 1976 ) has advocated more jobs in office employment and tourism , as well as jobs in manufacturing , as an alternative to agricultural employment , so that not only the aspirations of the whole ability range of young people may be met ( Drudy , 1975 ) but also to increase the level of female activity rates found in many rural areas ( Moseley and Darby , 1978 ) . |
| 4 | Deaf people may be seen as handicapped and failing and our studies can easily be presented in this way . |
| 5 | Young and old people may be affected and there seems to be no way of knowing who will have this kind of problem . |
| 6 | Other people may be asked to speak , in support of what the Council has decided . |
| 7 | The level of income at which SB is received is widely accepted as a crude and basic measure of the ‘ poverty line ’ , that point below which people may be said to be ‘ in poverty ’ . |
| 8 | The counsellor of older people may be bringing together several of these open family systems ; the system formed by the older person , and the systems formed by one or more of their children . |
| 9 | Yet , on the other hand , it could just as well be argued that many people may be called Balak , and " king of Moab " specifies which one is meant . |
| 10 | My hon. Friend should consider that point carefully because people may be misled , as his constituent was . |
| 11 | The predominance of secure full-time jobs gave way under pressure of high unemployment , weakened trade unions , rising female employment , and the removal of labour market restrictions , to a more flexible workforce , which we can categorize as comprising part-time workers ( conventionally defined as undertaking less than 30 hours per week ) , home workers or home-based workers , temporary staff , and the self-employed ( frequently undertaking work sub-contracted from normal employers ) ; some of these people may be undertaking a ‘ second job ’ in addition to their main one . |
| 12 | For the purpose of asking whether a given set of people may be enslaved , or deprived of their property , or denied access to the law courts , or the like , decency is best served by remembering that these are beings as conscious and valuable as ourselves , sharing our vulnerabilities and sensibilities . |
| 13 | There is one community that is chortling to itself over IBM Corp 's worldwide shredding of its mainframe price list , and that is the big leasing companies : while any prudent data processing manager has to call in Amdahl Corp , Hitachi Data Systems Ltd and Comparex Informationssysteme GmbH to be sure that the bid is n't a rip-off , there is still the nagging doubt that other people may be getting much better deals from IBM , and the only community that sees a wide variety of deals going down is the leasing fraternity , and the big ones say their people have n't been so busy in ages ; the effect of all this is to stretch out the buying process by weeks , to the likely detriment of the IBM first quarter figures . |
| 14 | People may be moved , but no one is moving . |
| 15 | In this way normal healthy people may be tested without inducing any damage in their brain . |
| 16 | In Great Britain 50,000 people use sign language as their main language , but as many as half a million people may be hearing impaired . |
| 17 | People may be motivated by bigger rewards . |
| 18 | Leading geriatric specialists fear that old people may be denied help because they stay in hospital for longer than average — and run up bigger bills . |
| 19 | People may be tempted to look up information and act on it and then find the particular family do not confirm to expectations . |
| 20 | People may be projecting the present into the past , re-evaluating the past on the basis of the present , or being influenced by some broader underlying general forces of optimism and pessimism . |
| 21 | At these meetings , new people may be recruited to serve on branch committees , and existing committee members elected to office . |
| 22 | It admits that people may be driven to vice by desperation or cruel social circumstances . |
| 23 | In Britain alone , it has been calculated that about 200,000 people may be bitten by dogs each year . |
| 24 | Phillipson summarises American research which indicates that elderly people may be turning away from informal care based on kinship towards formal professional support . |
| 25 | Two contrasting images of the financial and living standards of older people may be identified . |
| 26 | The transition period after leaving institutional care has also been documented as a critical time , when young people may be forced to return to the unhappy home situation from which they had been removed years earlier . |
| 27 | It is hard to disregard the problem in light of the 1992 OPCS national research findings that up to 400,000 elderly people may be suffering from this type of abuse , and the stress in the community care legislation on maintaining elderly people in their own homes . |
| 28 | And people may be wondering why they 're going up by so much , when after all , the S S A , and that is the figure that we 're restricted to set by the government , is only going up by three point three percent , and half of this is for care in the community money , so that , all that care in the community money remember , pound for pound in that it 's added to our budget , is knocked off the budget of Social Security , that is not , not any extra money spent on people . |
| 29 | Erm for another reasons , which we shall get on to a bit later , there may be a great deal of confusion , er memories may not be clear or well formed , um people , according to some theories and ideas , people may be under-reporting because um y'know it helps them maintain their eq equilibrium a bit better . |
| 30 | PEOPLE may be flocking to the sales — not because the recession is ending but because they are seeing the most realistic prices in years . |