Example sentences of "[pron] be people " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of them are people that erm that I 've generally had contact with , in terms of starting to talk to people about it erm , other people are being kind of , what 's the word , optimistic , with the truth Likes And The Brides for example , erm |
| 2 | well I mean you 're right in a way Bob those people who seem to get on within a company some of them are people who seem to be able to say the right words at the right time do n't they ? |
| 3 | Where , where do you find love ? , if their are people out watching this programme tonight who would actually rather be in love |
| 4 | ‘ We rely heavily on the typing pool and we also use what we call the translation panel , which is people within BNFL ’ . |
| 5 | This group would also include occupational pensioners who are people who have retired early , but are still eligible for benefits or national insurance credits . |
| 6 | It stand out like a sore thumb sometimes when I 'm with them , I find people with handicapped children are real people , are people who are people with their children being , talking to them , instead of things that they can give them , you know . |
| 7 | What I am getting at is that , in these historical cases , egalitarian ideas were tied in with the presumption that the proposition " all men are born equal " can be glossed " all men ( who are people like us ) are born equal " . |
| 8 | Well , there are millions of people who are missing from electoral registers , who are people who are entitled to be registered and the problem is probably the greatest among those who are known as attainers and are qualifying for registration at eighteen for the first time in their lives , the numbers of attainers er qualifying has reduced percentage wise , year by year , especially since the introduction of the poll tax and has not been rectified by the measures that remove the poll tax . |
| 9 | He told them : " I thank you once again for what you have demonstrated : that you are people who can be counted on , especially in difficult moments . " |
| 10 | Do you think Elvis understood that you were people who needed to make a living on a day-to-day , month-to-month , year-to-year basis ? |
| 11 | And what k what kind of response did you have erm from from erm tenants of the flats , I mean how how did you were people people generally friendly . |
| 12 | After all , as Pasternak said , we are people who meditate upon death and thereby create new life . ’ |
| 13 | They think we are people who just put things in envelopes — there is a certain snobbery about it . ’ |
| 14 | For we are the real power — we are people power and we must win in the end for we are indestructible — ‘ |
| 15 | We are people of Minya . " |
| 16 | ‘ Well , for a start , we must try to make Biff understand that we 're people . ’ |
| 17 | And , we 're people too . |
| 18 | erm well I mean I think there 's a problem for adults as well as children in that we I do n't think it 's helpful to cover ourselves in guilt about erm what happens to the suffering that other people experience , arguably erm in order to maintain us in the living standards , you know , we 've learned to expect , but at the same time I think that the situation in the world is only tolerable to us psychologically because on some level we convince ourselves that erm those people who are starving and those children who are in a hysterically trying to keep themselves out of the way of shrapnel and hiding night after night in freezing cold shelters in Baghdad are not really people and not really children in the same way that we 're people and our children are children , and do n't feel things in the same way . |
| 19 | After he leave school he had set up some sort of agricultural commune thing , he was always a man like that , saying we were people must make the most of we community skills and thing , but he get squeeze in that farming business and last I hear of him he had gone in the hills and become a guerrilla . |
| 20 | I could not understand at the time why they thought we were Germans , but I later discovered that they knew we were people from a border and the only border they could think of was the one with Austria , which for them was the same as Germany . |
| 21 | If you were to tell me that there are people , like the man upstairs to whom you now threaten to turn yourself in , who actually do have a strong sense of themselves , I would have to tell you that they are only impersonating people with a strong sense of themselves — to which you could correctly reply that since there is no way of proving whether I 'm right or not , this is a circular argument from which there is no escape . |
| 22 | On the other hand , he wrote , there are people like Goldberg , like Moss and McGrindle , who believe in nothing , except perhaps in personal power and glory , though they would like to believe in something ‘ higher ’ . |
| 23 | ‘ At the moment this is not always done and yet there are people who , if they 'd been approached , would have been willing to give permission . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ There are people who are ‘ smokers and proud of it ’ who are coming up against the trend that the rest of society wants to see . ’ |
| 25 | There are people who never leave home without one , while others feel ridiculous wearing something on their head . |
| 26 | There are people out there who really do see him as the pioneer of a computer-generated escape from reality . |
| 27 | There are people prepared to pay for quality . ’ |
| 28 | There are people now in the Wag Club whose musical digestive systems would probably collapse if they were to be inadvertently fed a powerchord . |
| 29 | SURPRISING : there are people in New York who say that the city is too rude . |
| 30 | There are people out there who will use any excuse to cause trouble . |