Example sentences of "[det] people [vb base] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You might like to count your way through out loud , some people like to sing and , if you do have a full-length mirror you can exercise in front of , then watch yourself . |
| 2 | So some people like to think that the point has moved one place to the right . |
| 3 | Therefore , some people prefer to say that the defining predicate p is only a sufficient condition : |
| 4 | The TV constantly inserts its images and thoughts into our minds and some people come to feel that the news reader is talking directly to them . |
| 5 | On the other hand perhaps by its continued prohibition , despite widespread social use , some people come to believe that other even more dangerous drugs are relatively harmless . |
| 6 | Some people seem to think that Luke wrote an early draft of his Gospel containing only the material from ‘ Q ’ and ‘ L ’ ( this is called Proto-Luke ) . |
| 7 | Erm , one thing some people do know that are in this room , and others do n't , and he 's quite embarrassed about this , on the way home from the conference , Matthew and I had a very , very bad accident , on the motorway and we 're both very , very lucky to have survived actually , erm , but erm , unfortunately during the course , well after the accident , Matthew was breathalysed and found to be over the limit and he 's in court actually in the Birmingham area on the twenty second of February , and we 're hoping that he gets off with a very light sentence , but er , we 're both very , very lucky to be here today . |
| 8 | However , some people have argued that , since hens continue to lay eggs under these conditions , there is no evidence that they need more space . |
| 9 | Some people have felt that this borrowing from Dorothy and others shows a certain egotism on Wordsworth 's part , but it was his method as an artist to absorb things into himself , and think of them for a long period before writing them down ; nor is it necessary to maintain , in any case , that the ‘ I ’ of a Wordsworth poem is necessarily the poet himself — it may stand as a universal shorthand symbol with which the reader can equally identify . |
| 10 | Some people have said that if they joined the t&g or ACTT the strike would have been over much quicker . |
| 11 | Some people have said that the N H S should be financed from the tax payer 's money and not through what is , it is n't quite a charity , but basically other means . |
| 12 | Meetings are , of course , an important part of work ; indeed some people have calculated that they spend at least 60 per cent of their time in meetings of one sort or another . |
| 13 | Some people have calculated that there must be life elsewhere , on the following grounds ( I wo n't point out the fallacy until afterwards ) . |
| 14 | In these hard and unforgiving times , some people have struggled as they 've never had to before . |
| 15 | He will make us aware of the great hardships some people have to endure when they realise that to become a Catholic means making a tremendous sacrifice in their present lives . |
| 16 | Indeed , some people have suggested that it was so difficult as to have been impossible , but this is to underestimate the intelligence and ingenuity of our forebears . |
| 17 | ‘ Some people have suggested that people end up going as fast as 70mph , ’ said Mr Rose . |
| 18 | In the absence of any satisfactory or complete explanation of mass strandings , some people have thought that the whale are committing suicide . |
| 19 | Rather oddly , some people have thought that the answer to this question is a self-evident " no " . |
| 20 | These people seem to forget that results do not mean a thing in football and are only of secondary interest to a manager . |
| 21 | I 'm , I 'm , quite amazed that , that , the question has even been asked , you know , that er that , that , er is this a good thing , I mean er presumably the people that are arguing that it 's not a good thing and that are concerned about events are actually condoning imperialism , er these people seem to think that it 's okay for a country to be occupied er like Poland was occupied by Germany and Czechoslovakia and France , that 's okay er and in fact you know we should just turn a blind eye to it and just let it carry on forever . |
| 22 | These people do exist and I paint what I see . |
| 23 | These people do exist and I paint what I see . |
| 24 | On the other hand , you can have something like the gang of four in China that creates such tensions and anxieties in the society and so many people get to feel that things have gone from bad to worse , that you get a shake up and change in the regime . |
| 25 | Arguments about merit have never really gone away , and many people have felt that the extra effort put in by the best students need to be recognised . |
| 26 | How many people have said that they 're going so far ? |
| 27 | Kumi ( 22 ) , said : ‘ Many people have heard and read what happened and have offered us all kinds of help . |
| 28 | Many people have viewed and bought a house in a quiet lane during the summer , only to find , in October , that the lovely field behind the house in fact belongs to a school and is filled with playing children for most of the year . |
| 29 | While all TNCs are domiciled , for legal purposes if no other , in particular countries , many people have argued that some TNCs are actually more powerful than most nation-states . |
| 30 | How many people have owned or handled this object ? |