Example sentences of "[vb -s] people " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would be difficult indeed to argue against the T & g being allowed to merge into the G M B. This organization represents peoples who work in the same type of companies , very often within the same workplaces that we work . |
| 2 | This research aims to provide evidence on whether the experience of claiming benefits saps peoples ' independence and initiative and undermines incentives to seek jobs and work hard at them . |
| 3 | Berlin army joins people 's cause . |
| 4 | It is I would suggest much easier to respond to the complaint in the line of service sir than it is in one round more complex technical services with contractors and sub contractors and the like , with whom we 've had to deal , so there is that to be borne in mind as well , erm I think I know about some of the response to be responded to that , but it does generally valuable this talk , this discussion cos it does show the degree of viability of exposing the service to , your making problems of this nature , it immediately challenges people to come back and say what about it , you promised this , you promised that and you 're not performing , this , this is discussion is a live example of the |
| 5 | The pronouncement of big statements is anathema to Juliana because she feels her point of view changes from time to time and she 's afraid of saying too much in case she alienates people , but she does admit to finding life in America ‘ scary ’ at the moment . |
| 6 | What about like contraception should be integral part of it , and abortion and the options open to you , but I think it 's very important that we are taught it , we 're taught it in a heterosexual basis , and that 's just not the case , and that just alienates people any more , really more from a very early age . |
| 7 | The problem with ballet is it alienates people because it is culture . |
| 8 | Yeah well the thing about Simon that 's excellent is that he just accepts people for what they are and he does n't judge people |
| 9 | What worries people is the idea that these differences , however valuable , are in any way naturally determined and therefore out of the control of the individual . |
| 10 | The other side beats people , humiliates them , escalates its campaign to deny them their rights . |
| 11 | Firstly , karateka are not allowed to bring their own coaches with them to training sessions because experience has shown that the presence of other coaches breaks up the training atmosphere , and causes people to separate to far corners instead of remaining together . |
| 12 | The causal explanation must be that old age causes poverty , not that poverty causes people to be old ; in a cross-tabulation of age by poverty , it is more natural to examine the proportion of each age group who are poor rather than the proportion of each income category who are old . |
| 13 | Massacre have a singer who can do that belching voice which normally causes people to vomit up their intestines and a tendency to change tempo at random . |
| 14 | The constant visibility of cult members committing suicide is likely to lead us to think that there is something about the cult that causes people to take their own lives . |
| 15 | For control theory the question that requires answering is ‘ what causes people to conform ? ’ |
| 16 | This is the same set of attitudes which causes people to clear out the unwanted gear out of their lofts to send to Ethiopia rather than enabling the Ethiopians to get the best training possible as irrigation engineers , doctors and agricultural scientists and economists . |
| 17 | Disorderly conduct bears the same significance as it does in the section 5 offence , and is likely to involve conduct such as shouting or singing in such a way as to alarm persons near by , uncertainty of gait , staggering , lurching or swaying , and behaviour that causes people to take evasive action . |
| 18 | Credit , the debt level , presses on everyone and causes people to save and struggle rather than spend . |
| 19 | Certainly not , and I think that that 's one of the things that causes people to be to switch off when you mention computers and think ‘ oh , I ca n't understand that ’ because their experience at school perhaps was that they could n't understand mathematics anyway . |
| 20 | The general social action approach thus emphasises fluidity and change in social interaction ; it has a conception of the individual that emphasises people 's creativity and capacity for innovation . |
| 21 | It , too , wants people to be literate and complains that its offers to help have been ignored . |
| 22 | So the cross proceeds from a forgiving God who wants people to be reconciled to him . |
| 23 | He wants people to make their own choices , and not pay too much tax , and the United Kingdom to stay in one piece . |
| 24 | ‘ He made his money in them , ’ Patrick gravely explained , ‘ and now he tries to pretend he did n't , because he wants people to think he 's always been rich . |
| 25 | I do n't want readers getting the wrong idea about this letter , but the compulsion to write came on seeing people like Jeff Young , who thinks I Should Be So Lucky is a good song ( well , it probably is , if you 're 10 years old ) ; Norman Jay , who does n't want bands to get in touch if all they want is a record deal ; Mick Clarke , who ‘ wants people to tell him what he 's listening to is good ’ , then only signs people he likes , etc . |
| 26 | He wants people to be able to rent them , with shops free to buy and let them out like videos . |
| 27 | One prisoner writes of another in his block : ‘ He has an IQ that 's slightly above freezing temperature Fahrenheit but he knows that he was wrong and he is not as dumb as he wants people to believe . |
| 28 | He wants people to remember his genius , and at the Australian Open he issued a reminder to all of just how great he still can be . |
| 29 | ‘ He wants people to have a square deal just because he did n't have one . ’ |
| 30 | The right hon. Gentleman wants people to let him spend their money rather than spending it themselves . |