Example sentences of "[adv] people [be] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Perhaps people are being nave , ’ says Simon Muggleton , ‘ but these guys have the patter and the manners and they can be very convincing . |
| 2 | If something is popular then people are being conned . |
| 3 | But the launch comes at the start of Cholesterol Countdown week , when people are being urged to eat less fatty meat . |
| 4 | ‘ They can be much more loyal and they also know when people are being genuine towards them . ’ |
| 5 | In the end they found five such factors , of which they felt the most important were the increase in the number of high-status jobs in industrial societies , and the increasing importance attached to qualifications rather than family connections when people were being promoted to higher job levels . |
| 6 | A kind , sympathetic understanding of where people are is the best pastoral attitude we can have . ’ |
| 7 | The downstream area , where people are being resettled , has problems enough without the additional burden of silt . |