Example sentences of "people as they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The anxiety , hardship and distress suffered by people as they wait for decisions from the Home Office are obvious to anyone . |
| 2 | Securicor guards and Immigration Officers can treat people as they wish . |
| 3 | Like any other European colonialists , they were content to rely upon the services of interpreters from among the local people as they advanced farther into unknown territory . |
| 4 | To the north-west of Lake Baikal it was the Evenkis who absorbed Ket people as they advanced westward to the Yenisei and beyond . |
| 5 | But with him having on this side , because he 's so blooming awkward he 's been pressing the play switch and of course , so the tapes been turning round , have n't bothered to che , so you know , he was sort of saying well well play that tape and I 'll write their names down of the people as they speak , just the first names , you know so there 's loads of |
| 6 | THE SNORTING TRAIN sent steam swirling through the buzzing crowd of people as they swarmed from the platform into the open wagons drawn up at Leicester station . |
| 7 | Now , many people as they retrieved their fingers from the handshake were likely to tell you that their husband had just fathered an illegitimate child and ask your advice on how to proceed , or offer to give you the telephone number of their analyst/acupuncturist/homeopath/hypnotist who had been so helpful over their drink problem . |
| 8 | In the final chapter the narrator relates the actions of the new people as they flee from their encounter with the Neanderthalers . |
| 9 | He was standing at the door , greeting people as they came in , simpering and giggling and asking them how so-and-so was . |
| 10 | To put all this another way , Chicago represented for its sociologists an ideal case study area in which to test the grand theories of sociology ; the changing social relations resulting from a shift from a pre-industrial to an industrial society , the effects this had on the individual and what Goffman was later to call the ‘ moral careers ’ of people as they managed ( or indeed failed to manage ) with the circumstances and institutions in which they were caught up . |
| 11 | From what I can see , stagedivers consist of both ‘ nice ’ and ‘ nasty ’ people — the nasty attempting to cause as much pain as they possibly can by kicking and punching people as they land . |
| 12 | The the next advertising route captured the ‘ Haagen-Dazs ’ moment by conveying sensual intimacy between two people as they shared a pot of Haagen-Dazs . |
| 13 | This effectively enables the Home Office to make arbitrary decisions , deporting people as they see fit , without any independent inquiry . |
| 14 | In other camps rats lived under the seats and bit people as they sat there naked . |
| 15 | Based on our research , we concur with the earlier observation that ‘ paraprofessionals who come from the communities which they serve have been found to be more effective in working with the people as they have close ties and may have insights and information not readily available to the outsider ’ ( IASSW , 1979 , p. 8 ) . |
| 16 | By now most people do know about the Book People , the Bread and Cheese People , the Plant , Stamp and Baking People , and the Carrying People even , but not everyone knows the full history of the Cave People as they have come to be called . |
| 17 | There would then be complete agreement-consensus-on the rules of behaviour governing people as they occupy different social positions . |
| 18 | ‘ For those were troublous times , ’ he said on a downward-curving cadence , ‘ and such times have come again , but take heart : for ‘ when Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted , he said unto Moses , There is a noise of war in the camp . |
| 19 | The colours stand for different things : Guyana 's green land , its mineral resources , the country 's rivers , the energy of the people as they build the nation 's riches and their persistence in doing this task . |
| 20 | We must redouble our efforts to help the Russian people as they struggle in an effort that has no historical precedent , ’ he said . |
| 21 | Some elderly people who have always been very flexible like being ‘ popped in on ’ without prior warning , but most people as they grow older much prefer all the events in their lives to be regular and predictable . |
| 22 | ALTHOUGH relationships with parents determine in large measure our longer-term preferences , attitudes and values , during adolescence it is often relationships with friends that cause most concern and which pre-occupy the thoughts of young people as they grow up . |
| 23 | The Pharisees and Scribes would not eat with the ordinary people as they considered them to be irreligious . |
| 24 | There is no mention of it being outside the camp , and instead we are left with the picture of the tent , filled with the glory of God , travelling with the people as they continue onwards ( 40.34–8 ) . |
| 25 | Policies and actions should not be dictated by widely held but largely unexamined preconceptions , since the distorted images which they can produce are to the detriment of ordinary people as they age . |
| 26 | practical arrangements for the conducting of public worship should be finalised as far as possible before Sunday , leaving the minister free to welcome people as they arrive . |
| 27 | Joyce then had the task of making sure each child was in place for the morning " Holiness " meeting , while Captain and Mrs Burrows welcomed people as they arrived . |
| 28 | Kate Bristow commented , ‘ It is a real privilege for ACET to be asked to work with such people as they look for ways to develop an effective strategy . ’ |
| 29 | Cleaning up contamination is wonderfully labour-intensive : some old military sites being cleaned up by the Department of Energy now employ twice as many people as they did at their peak of production . |