Example sentences of "people [modal v] [vb infin] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Information and theory is needed so that people may continue to be motivated , and so that occupations can give the meaningful career development that for most persons is still essential to feelings of self-worth . |
| 2 | The three questions in the centre concern the proper focus of RE , attending to what religious people may consider to be central to religion : the questions of definition , integrity and truth . |
| 3 | It gives a new and cruel twist to community care that people may have to be shipped perhaps as far as Birkenhead to find a community home . |
| 4 | This is an association of interested parties , individuals and organisations , who have joined forces to provide fund-raising facilities , logistic support and whatever other assistance is found to be necessary to give effect to the hopes of all the parties concerned that a self-sufficient village for the care of physically and mentally handicapped people should come into being in Atea . |
| 5 | Another criticism he makes is that it has an uneasy relationship with such values as justice which some people should consider to be important in human life . |
| 6 | So he said yes you know , they say well if you want to be paid it means people 'll have to be sacked and all this , well you know ! |
| 7 | People might aim to be remembered as ancestors by the continuation of their descent group , to have freedom from domination by others , or to have power for themselves , not profit . |
| 8 | Some people might object to being classified as a personality ‘ type ’ . |
| 9 | Many of the actions performed by many women , according to the misogynists he likes to write about , are performed by many men , and many ugly people would appear to be just as happy , and just as emotionally fulfilled , as many lovely ones . |
| 10 | I would presume people would interpret to be contiguous with the district boundaries , where a district boundary straddles that line . |
| 11 | It would n't last , because it never did , and the end of October might even bring the first tentative snows of winter — but until then people would continue to be caught out , and to shiver and sweat as a penance for their gullibility . |
| 12 | This can be seen in a qualitative way by considering the party game in which participants guess how many people would need to be asked their birthdays , on average , to find two with birthdays on the same day . |
| 13 | It estimated that up to 10,000,000 people would have to be moved from low-lying coastal areas of East Anglia ( UK ) , Bangladesh and the Netherlands , or that an immediate start would have to be made on building 360,000 km of sea defences to protect them . |
| 14 | A report by Chinese scientists in the Chinese People 's Political Consultative Committee claimed , however , that flooding would not be effectively controlled , that silt would regularly incapacitate turbines and that 1,000,000 people would have to be moved . |
| 15 | While it can not be compulsory for your child to be involved in Compact it is reasonable to assume that most young people would wish to be involved since Compact supports them in achieving standards of attainment and behaviour that schools are striving to raise . |
| 16 | It seems to me that you 're a bunch of people having fun doing what you do , and I think a lot of people would like to be able to say the same . |
| 17 | The British Royal Navy also is a source of national pride , and though it may not be as true today , ‘ Britain rules the waves ’ is a claim people would like to be able to make . |
| 18 | Most bereaved people will talk of being quite sure they have seen the person who has died walking along the street and have called out to them before realizing that it could not be so . |
| 19 | One hopes that a more charitable view of homosexual love is gaining ground ; until it is more widespread than now , the main problem for homosexual people will continue to be the outlook of the " straight " majority . |
| 20 | While government policy fails to link housing policy to other social policy areas , local government fails to integrate disabled people 's housing needs into their mainstream activities and housing and social services departments fail to work together , disabled people will continue to be condemned to institutional care or imprisoned in housing which unnecessarily restricts their lives . |
| 21 | Salespeople must be able to work and communicate with people in a variety of positions and be prepared to tailor their selling approaches to satisfy individual needs , e.g. specifiers will need to be convinced of the technical merits of the product , production people will want to be assured of guaranteed deliveries and buyers will be looking for value for money . |
| 22 | Certainly they make demands on social and medical services , and it is possible that severely mentally handicapped people will have to be looked after for all their lives . |
| 23 | You 'll need to register the death , of course , and lots of other people will have to be notified too . ’ |
| 24 | If we calculate bills on that basis , the bills of all the affected people will have to be reissued . ’ |
| 25 | How can an environmental impact assessment state that there will be no likely impact when British Rail has to admit that people will have to be temporarily rehoused ? |
| 26 | January 1989 : The consultants report that the DLO 's deficit will in fact be £7-5m — and if , as the law requires , it is to earn 5% on capital , 600 people will have to be sacked . |
| 27 | As a result , people can expect to be on the waiting list for about seven years whereas under the Labour Government it was about one year . |
| 28 | Few people can fail to be impressed by the rate of growth of both the animal protection and environmental movements in the last twenty years , or by the extraordinary change in public attitudes with which this growth has been associated . |
| 29 | The workshop will explore ways in which people can learn to be more creative in their lives and in worship , and once again tickets , priced at £1.50 , are available at the door . |