Example sentences of "people [pron] [vb base] to [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not doubling it , not trebling it , but to improve it by something like five or ten percent , and then the next time we go to a sales conference , you 'll be the ones winning the prizes , instead of the people who 've to be winning the prizes , because you 'll not have to improve it by much to win the prizes do you ? |
| 2 | ‘ The people who seem to be giving us all the orders now are the very people who , um , got us into this trouble in the first place ! ’ |
| 3 | May we try to do something to make other people 's lives happier and easier — even those people who seem to be doing nothing at all to help us . |
| 4 | The Greek word for ‘ barbarians ’ means people who seem to be saying ‘ baa-baa ’ — like sheep . |
| 5 | It reveals a significant gap between the number of informal carers needed by the year 2000 and the number of people who expect to be doing the job . |