Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] people [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm this can only exasasberate er an already difficult situation chairman , I do wonder whether the , the people that British Rail are trying to attract to use the service and , and do bear in mind that this County Council recently voted ten thousand pounds in subsidies er to er towards British Rail to enable people to travel on a Sunday . |
| 2 | People talk about reading and about literacy , but they do not spend the money to enable people to achieve that . |
| 3 | the bloody massacre in Bangladesh quickly covered the memory of the Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia ; the assassination of Allende drowned the groans of Bangladesh ; the war in the Sinai desert made people forget Allende ; the Cambodian massacre made people forget Sinai ; and so on and so forth , until ultimately everyone lets everything be forgotten . |
| 4 | Home Helps give care and practical support to enable people to stay in their own homes ; their work includes helping with domestic tasks , shopping , preparing special diets , washing and ironing , making beds , advising on how to keep warm and safety in the home . |
| 5 | PEARL JAM played a free concert in Seattle 's Magnusson Park to encourage people to register to vote in November 's US presidential election . |
| 6 | The National Radiological Protection Board wants people to take notice of the new figures but not to panic about them . |
| 7 | The reason for this is not so much that it was beyond some people 's capacity to do imposition and so on ; but rather that it cost employers money to train people to do such tasks . |
| 8 | I would have to ask whether it is right to use the measure to reward people who did something two years ago , or whether it would be better to use the money to encourage people to continue the process in the future . |
| 9 | It would be unusual in the West to find people living next door to each other with so large a difference between their incomes . |
| 10 | The belief of the City Council is that , notwithstanding there are clearly difficult traffic problems in the city , there is more opportunity to encourage people to use other more environmentally friendly modes of travel by locating development in and on the edge of the main urban area , a view that 's supported by P P G thirteen and the research document onto planning , transport and planning emis planning and transport emissions on which it was based . |
| 11 | It 's a vital rule allowing people to talk freely , including sex offenders . |
| 12 | ‘ A secretary will ring up and tell us a professor has people coming to lunch and so we 'll get on with that . ’ |
| 13 | This happened most nights and he had grown to think that it was an easier and more interesting way of travelling , particularly as his looks and his load of schoolbooks and his thinness caused people to stop . |
| 14 | The Consumers ' Association has produced an action pack Finance Your Future to help people make financial decisions prior to retirement . |
| 15 | The concept of standard drinks or units is an attempt to help people understand how much they are drinking . |
| 16 | The tragedy prompted people living in the area to campaign for road improvements . |
| 17 | Lyle Shelton in Bearcat Rare Bear started people talking about the 500mph mark , with a winning average speed of 481mph . |
| 18 | Instead the club encourage people to join the membership scheme , which gives priority when buying tickets ( and gets you into the West Stand ) , and with which you may be able to buy tickets at away grounds on the day . |
| 19 | Mr Chaskalson has long been known as a human-rights lawyer defending people charged under South Africa 's apartheid and terrorism laws . |
| 20 | A 40-second advert showing people reaching their destinations will be broadcast in the Yorkshire television area at the end of May before going nationwide . |
| 21 | IN a bid to get people to sign the electoral register , from today Darlington council is sending out leaflets about the electoral register and postal and proxy votes . |
| 22 | There should be increased spending on public building , services and industry to get people working again . |
| 23 | My speech impediment makes people think I 'm a bag of nerves , but it 's not true . |
| 24 | In the meantime the Health Board advised people to take precautions against overexposure to the dust , such as wearing masks if they had to go out in it . |
| 25 | The pound would then no longer be an isolated currency , to which greater risk attaches , necessitating a premium rate of return to induce people to hold it . |
| 26 | the bloody massacre in Bangladesh quickly covered the memory of the Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia ; the assassination of Allende drowned the groans of Bangladesh ; the war in the Sinai desert made people forget Allende ; the Cambodian massacre made people forget Sinai ; and so on and so forth , until ultimately everyone lets everything be forgotten . |
| 27 | Together with his determination to encourage people to maximise their potential , he considers this the key to his success in reaching his present position as Assistant Operations Manager with Knowsley Contract Services . |
| 28 | So I 've said before that erm Mill wants people to vote just in the same way that people cast their votes in a jury on the basis of what 's right . |
| 29 | A high percentage involved people aged between 17 and 24 . |
| 30 | You see I 've got with me in the studio here Stan Bowes , who 's the head of marketing for the Thames and Chilterns Tourist Board , and Stan has just been explaining to us that there is this campaign to encourage people to take holidays in this country . |