Example sentences of "[prep] what people actually [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it 's been adapted , it 's been worn by an ordinary person doing everyday things , and I think that 's , it 's something that 's , it 's very important to remember when you 're studying Victorian fashion and Victorian costume , that actually a lot of the documentary evidence gives a very biased picture and that to find clothes like this , I think you get a much more realistic picture of what people actually wore . |
| 2 | The good preservation of bodies , either deliberately ( mummification ) or accidentally ( as with bodies preserved in peat bogs ) , often gives a good idea of what people actually looked like in previous times . |
| 3 | When it is fortified by ‘ in-depth ’ interviews , and addressed to the intensive observation of what people actually do as well as what they say they do , sociological research merges indistinguishably with the work of social anthropologists . |
| 4 | At the same time , d the Tories are on their knees , some people , as I said earlier , I think it 's just as relevant in this debate , seem to have lost their way and when you took , look at what they 're proposing in terms of say , the er the fifty percent , the , the er M Ps , fifty percent of the votes for er the Parliamentary leader which of course is very consistent with , right , fifty percent of the vote , you take that along with proportional representation and what I believe you 're seeing is the number of people who have given up the ghost and are preparing to restructure the Party around coalition politics , and that 's where they 're heading , and they 're heading completely in the wrong direction because we 're more in tune with what 's going on in this country , the po opinion polls are saying fifty nine percent of the people actually I think , believe that er the Labour government is possible and will be voting for a Labour government , the alternative road is to oblivion and it 's not about modernizing , the people who 're proposing this coalition politics are n't modernizers , they 're Victorian politics , that 's what they 're about , they 're about taking us back , back before we created the Party , before we learnt the lesson that we needed to represent ourselves politically , they 're going back to , let's skil see what we get out of the Liberals , the free trade Liberals , in the nineteenth century , that 's where they 're going back , that 's not about modernization , real modernization is about making sure that the Labour Party speaks for the working people up and down this country and that 's our contribution to make to that Party and therefore we should have a role in decision making and influencing the Party that enables us as an organization to express that feeling , and that understanding of what people actually want in this country , and that 's why we 're supporting the C E C proposals . |
| 5 | This presents more difficulties for the researcher , who has to do a great deal of interpretation in order to make inferences from what people actually do to their motivations for doing it . |
| 6 | He 'd long ago decided that if you spent all your time listening to what people actually said , you 'd never have time to work out what they meant . |
| 7 | Instead the spotlight is on what people actually do , or do n't do . |
| 8 | These qualifications move away from the approach taken in many existing qualifications towards an emphasis on what people actually do at work . |
| 9 | Our results were not theoretical but based on what people actually choose to do . |
| 10 | They differ fundamentally from traditional qualifications , because they give recognition for what people actually achieve at work , rather than merely testing the ability to learn . |
| 11 | The observer must distinguish between what people actually do and what people say that they do ; that is between normal custom as individually interpreted on the one hand and normative rules on the other . |