Example sentences of "[modal v] be [vb pp] [prep] people [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Women 's Royal Voluntary Service organiser for more than 38 years , Eileen says : ‘ Honours should be given to people who decide to work voluntarily in the public interest . |
| 2 | Alistair Darling , Labour MP for Edinburgh Central , said : ‘ I think Scotland 's future should be decided by people who live in Scotland , pay taxes in Scotland and have a personal stake in the nation 's future . ’ |
| 3 | The charter says these positions should be filled by people who reflect the population in terms of race , gender , sexuality , and disability . |
| 4 | The term ‘ mixed race ’ should therefore not be used by administrators or professionals , and should be discouraged among people who want to provide homes for black children . |
| 5 | Moreover , to say that a set of activities and skills partakes of the general discipline of librarianship is not the same thing as saying that all people who have ever been trained as librarians can perform them , or that they must be performed by people whose training is only that of the professional librarian . |
| 6 | ‘ But I deplore the thought that very large chunks of public expenditure could be devoted to people who are no more dependent on farming for their livings than you or me . ’ |
| 7 | Those with a second home should pay at least double the community charge for the area , then they would be making some recompense for taking up properties that could be used for people who need them . |
| 8 | If homoeopathy is such an individual way of treating you — for example , one person with influenza may have quite a different medicine from another person with it — what is the value of homoeopathic remedies now seen on many chemists ' shelves which could be used by people who are not aware that the choice of a remedy has to be selected according to a number of factors , not just by a simple set of symptoms ? |
| 9 | Questions like this may be asked by people who assume that you have the same sort of lifestyle as they do , or who are clumsily trying to find out whether you do . |
| 10 | They would be let to people who , for one reason or another , wanted to spend some time in the country away from the pressures of the modern world and are prepared to live very simply . |
| 11 | Just imagine the abuse with which they would be showered by people who would tell them : ‘ Since it is easily possible for the economy to grow at 4 , 5 , 6 per cent or any other figure you like , the public are being cheated of the growth of public expenditure which they have a right to enjoy by this niggardly Government which is only counting on being able safely to increase public expenditure at a rate of 2 to 2and1/2 ; per cent . ’ |
| 12 | The government announced on Oct. 30 that compensation would be paid to people who contracted the HIV virus from blood transfusions during 1980-85 , or to their families . |
| 13 | I hope that point will have been made and certainly in future appointments , whenever they occur , some consideration will be given towards people who will be sympathetic to the ecumenical scene . |
| 14 | The clothes will be given to people who face temperatures as low as minus 20 . |
| 15 | The company hopes that the watch will be bought by people whose jobs require accurate timing , such as television directors . |
| 16 | In the United States , Well man ( 1977 ) has shown how anti discrimination legislation in the sphere of employment can be supported by people who reject it in the field of housing . |
| 17 | In Bali , we are also told , life can be spent among people who daily interact with the forces of good and evil in nature . |
| 18 | An event when enthusiasts can parade their pride and joy … a time when their hours of endless polishing chrome can be enjoyed by people who share their love for these unique examples of American automobile history . |
| 19 | The primary–secondary continuum has the advantage that it can be managed by people who are at home with schoolteachers , parents and families . |