Example sentences of "[ex0] [be] people [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Land is never derelict while there are people to feed . |
| 2 | You know what it costs to run , switch the lights on , you know what it costs to run a conveyor belt for goodness sake , and yet it , and if , if you , if you lose money on , on shifting one parcel , I know if you shift a hundred thousand you might make something , but the chances are high that you wo n't , and , and I mean there are people shifting more parcels than us , I know that , they ca n't make any money out of it . |
| 3 | Des Burke , Burmin 's Managing Director , was reported to be confident of dispelling opposition : ‘ Of course there are people jumping up and down … |
| 4 | There are people to see at the Embassy , a number of them friends of mine . |
| 5 | population , whereas in a public library there are people using the , some of for life so therefore you ca n't even send year in and year out they have to constantly changing |
| 6 | In the darkness and silence of Duval-Leroy 's cellars in nearby Chalone sur Marne , you 'll find more bottles of Champagne than there are people living in London — some 12 million bottles all told , ageing quietly along two and a quarter miles of underground alleyways and lanes . |
| 7 | There are people living today who will tell you how , for a brief , terrible space , they looked straight into that world . |
| 8 | And there are people living longer and needing them . |
| 9 | There are people prepared to pay for quality . ’ |
| 10 | I hope and pray that you will win — God willing , you will because you have all the ability in the world — but I have discovered over the last few days that there are people prepared to go to great lengths to stop you . |
| 11 | But I 'm sure there are people listening who are thinking , ‘ Well , how much is all this going to cost if I want some advice ? ’ |
| 12 | She 's out enjoying a Saturday shopping trip — there are people coming to dinner tonight , and when she 's stocked up on the basic necessities , she 'll choose some extra delights from the delicatessen . |
| 13 | Mr Chairman I believe I have the floor and I would also say that contrary to what we 've just been told there are people employed by what was called and three to four hundred people are employed , they 're not effected other than fifteen people , fifteen people were not effected by this statement and there are some hundred and eighty people who still work for and connected with the project . |
| 14 | There are many more support staff in the British National Health Service than there are people caring for patients . |
| 15 | Now upstairs there are people working , so when you get to the far end we ask you do n't go straight upstairs , if you can wait please and we 'll we 'll we 'll all you 'll all go up in the room together , . |
| 16 | ‘ I think it 's a point worth making that there are people walking around with English voices who are Scots . |
| 17 | ‘ Now those players are saying , ‘ we are producing the goods ’ — and while there are people knocking on the door , they 've got to open it . |
| 18 | Chiaro in her chapter on " Framing Word-play " says " There must surely be as many joke formulae as there are people to tell them " ( p. 61 ) ; " surely " I think not , or there would be no sense of the formulaic . |
| 19 | There are people going around claiming they make ‘ special ’ vacuum tubes … |
| 20 | There are people going around claiming they make ‘ special ’ vacuum tubes … |
| 21 | They 're transcribing it all , there are people going to transcribe all of this , write it all out , attach grammatical tags to us , and this body of work is going to be , t available to students of language , and so on . |
| 22 | She said : ‘ There are people going hungry , but the majority are genuine cases of people struggling to make ends meet . |
| 23 | ‘ I dreamt we were made of gold , ’ Creed said , ‘ and there were people trying to melt us down . ’ |
| 24 | The comics come from all over the world and there were people queueing up to see it when we opened last Saturday . ’ |
| 25 | ranging from when I went to Leeds to that seminar and there were people excited about the Festival and you know , two weeks before the Festival speaking to Jane in London , said oh we 've had a lot of you know and I said well I 'll get back to you in September and tell you |
| 26 | ‘ There were people throwing glasses around and men urinating in our gardens . |
| 27 | Anyway , so what if there were people smoking a little — everybody does it , the teachers in school do it … ’ |
| 28 | In the hazy distance there were people riding horses , strung out along the waterline . |
| 29 | There were people taking drugs at that party , I could smell it . ’ |
| 30 | There were people holding each other . |