Example sentences of "people are [verb] to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The point is that working people are bound to be concerned about issues which can not be tackled effectively without central government involvement , issues such as mass unemployment , inflation , industrial decline , poverty , the social effects of government expenditure cuts . |
| 2 | About 1.7m people are reckoned to be unemployed in Vietnam , and the pay of 1.2m civil servants is stuck at an average of 80,000 dong ( $10 ) a month . |
| 3 | We saw in the main street the corpse of a woman already gnawed by dogs ( people are beginning to be afraid of dogs ) . |
| 4 | Look happy — other people are waiting to be friendly . |
| 5 | Such people are going to be disappointed with what follows , for I shall merely continue to look critically at some of the concepts to which she has given prominence . |
| 6 | I do n't think people are going to be disappointed if they miss out . |
| 7 | When you get to about 13 or 14 , you begin to realize that your colour , even if you had n't thought about it much , means that other people are going to be different to you . |
| 8 | There is an assumption behind all this that size does matter , which seems to be belied by the fact that IBM 's enormous $60,000m a year bulk has been unable to save the company — but IBM 's problems all arise from the fact that the company 's business is so hopelessly slewed to one sector of the market , with products that fewer and fewer people are going to be happy to own . |
| 9 | But I 'm aware that people are going to be suspicious of another band mixing guitars with dance beats . |
| 10 | One hundred and twenty people are thought to be dead and more than fifty are injured in what 's thought to be China 's worst air disaster . |
| 11 | When people are attempting to be different for the sake of it , I find it incredibly irritating . ’ |