Example sentences of "[adv] [n mass] have [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er Now a lot of things in Lakehoff 's paper perhaps people have disagreed with since then such as the things about tag questions and hedges erm I mean some studies have said that if you look at the actual modality of tag questions , like we said before , the actual function of it |
| 2 | It is just a decision that two grown up people have come to . ’ |
| 3 | And I 'm sure that this report on the health action area is going to show some fairly , erm give us some fairly staggering erm revelations about about the health of Oxford citizens that 's going to surprise people at large when they find out how badly people have fared over the past ten years when we 've had the Tories in office who 've really done their very , very best to make the health divide of this country in a very poor state . |
| 4 | It is invariably one whereby people have applied for those grants , they have gone through all the normal assessment criteria , which apply to any other art form , and if we feel that they adequately cover all those sort of areas then we respond , but as public body we have to be aware that groups , in applying to us , must fulfil the conditions that we lay down . |
| 5 | Well people have rung into this programme saying that they 've been put off visiting graves because this man is there . |
| 6 | Maybe people have to look at alternatives and non-governmental ways to change things . |
| 7 | In the West at least people have identified with a threatened world and the pressure groups have been the first instruments of that identification . |
| 8 | Empirical studies have taken three forms : ( a ) controlled experiments , usually observing how selected persons respond to higher benefits ( negative taxes ) ; ( b ) questionnaires based on random samples , and ( c ) econometric studies using data on how people have responded in the past to tax changes . |
| 9 | The sixth pie in 1896 was baked to celebrate the jubilee of the repeal of the Corn Laws , a pretty flimsy excuse but as Mr John Netherwood explained , ‘ When people have felt like baking a pie , they have made one and found the excuse afterwards ’ . |
| 10 | Expenses cashier Fiona Smith has been collecting the small change when people have returned from overseas business trips and holidays over the last six months . |
| 11 | And I was hoping to cos I can quote you instances where people have trained in the health service , and they 've been told nineteen seventy four seventy five , when you complete your training , you 're not guaranteed a job in this health authority . |
| 12 | The shipment was greeted with delight by the local community where people have died of starvation during the harsh highland winter . |
| 13 | ‘ In a changing environment , where people have to work for a living , it is not so easy to give all your spare time to running golf . ’ |
| 14 | But most recently people have moved from the city centres to new houses in the suburbs , or to dormitory towns . |