Example sentences of "people [vb mod] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Young and old people may be affected and there seems to be no way of knowing who will have this kind of problem . |
| 2 | Two business people may be chums . |
| 3 | People may be moved , but no one is moving . |
| 4 | Those whom it has encouraged are the likes of Saddam Hussein , who are fundamentally correct in claiming a link between the two occupations — hardly a flattering analogy but one for which many people may be about to pay for America 's 30 years of pusillanimity in the Middle East . |
| 5 | Often the most useful thing we can do is something obvious and practical that other people may be overlooking in their attempt to be helpful . |
| 6 | The British people may be astonished how quickly all the ground so painfully won over 13 years is lost again , and how speedily we slide back towards collectivism and dependency , becoming a society in which the only competition is between rival rows of begging bowls at the knees of the state . |
| 7 | It does not seem to take into account that many people may be quite grateful to have restrictions imposed on their sexual behaviour , while others can perfectly well get on with what they want to do and keep quiet about it . |
| 8 | My drama group people may be rather dim , but they 're generous . |
| 9 | People may be influenced by rewards in two ways : |
| 10 | The people may be very nice , but this is n't a social visit . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | They refer to airborne concentrations of materials to which the majority of people may be repeatedly exposed without adverse effects . |
| 14 | Thus adult people may be dominantly oral types , taking everything to them ( engulfers ) or gift-givers or miserly people of the anal type . |
| 15 | Thus the processes that affect ordinary people may be only microprocesses of everyday life . |
| 16 | Although panel interviews can seem intimidating , some of the questions you are most worried about may get forgotten because several people may be less well organized than one . |
| 17 | For example , people may be understandably reluctant to commit their personal financial details to paper , or discuss the real reasons why they may have left one of their previous jobs . |
| 18 | Such people may be keen to work , but unable to find jobs because none are available in their occupation or in their geographical area , so that re-training or re-housing would be necessary to increase the chances of employment . |
| 19 | In this situation , people may be unemployed because : |
| 20 | People may be surprised , and in fact say that they have no ambition or goal in their Christian life . |
| 21 | This also gives information and current figures for other types of allowances which elderly people may be able to claim , such as those for the registered blind , allowances for the cost of a resident housekeeper ( relative or non-relative ) , and allowances for elderly people who are maintaining a daughter who has to live with them to care for them because of their age or infirmity . |
| 22 | People may be tempted to look up information and act on it and then find the particular family do not confirm to expectations . |
| 23 | PEOPLE may be flocking to the sales — not because the recession is ending but because they are seeing the most realistic prices in years . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Other useful people may be the secretary of a committee you 've served on or someone you 've done temporary work for . |
| 26 | And many older people may be quite right in refusing the prospect of change — it may be in their best interests . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Some older people may be pre-occupied with these negative aspects of their lives , where the counsellor will be dealing with a lack of personal satisfaction and fulfilment , failed relationships , unfulfilled hopes , and even perhaps with events that elicit feelings of disgrace and shame . |
| 29 | In areas of geographical mobility people may be neighbours who are culturally strangers . |
| 30 | Information from any of these people may be helpful in completing an assessment and planning future care . |