Example sentences of "people are [verb] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Professional outlooks and personal feelings about cases and people are bound to be affected . |
| 2 | The point is that working people are bound to be concerned about issues which can not be tackled effectively without central government involvement , issues such as mass unemployment , inflation , industrial decline , poverty , the social effects of government expenditure cuts . |
| 3 | About 1000 white people are believed to be infected . |
| 4 | Between three and five hundred people are believed to be in detention solely for exercising their rights to freedom of expression , association or assembly or their right to leave the country . |
| 5 | About 1.7m people are reckoned to be unemployed in Vietnam , and the pay of 1.2m civil servants is stuck at an average of 80,000 dong ( $10 ) a month . |
| 6 | This is because older people are assumed to be less flexible , less motivated and more ‘ tired ’ than those in their 20s and early 30s . |
| 7 | And , however badly Ratner appears to have screwed up the company 's finances — and public image — some people are said to be still willing to give him financial support . |
| 8 | so if blind people are trying to be on the same level terms with sighted people , then , you know , why should they get an |
| 9 | We saw in the main street the corpse of a woman already gnawed by dogs ( people are beginning to be afraid of dogs ) . |
| 10 | ‘ People are beginning to be totally frustrated with Government inactivity , ’ he said . |
| 11 | They believe that since the Age of Aquarius started , people are beginning to be a lot nicer to each other a lot more responsible , caring and understanding . |
| 12 | Now , he finds people are beginning to be more open about their sexuality , and consequently he has been promoting the activities of the centre for sexual problems in Istanbul . |
| 13 | Look happy — other people are waiting to be friendly . |
| 14 | Why does he not call in the authorities that he mentioned — there are others — to identify the problems that confront them and which lead to properties being left empty when clearly , a large number of people are waiting to be housed ? |
| 15 | Thinking of , for example , those summer vacation sessions you used to have with the Berlin players in Saint-Moritz in the 1960s and '70s , I am sure one day people are going to be looking back to all this as some great Golden Age that has now gone for good . |
| 16 | Such people are going to be disappointed with what follows , for I shall merely continue to look critically at some of the concepts to which she has given prominence . |
| 17 | But I 'm aware that people are going to be suspicious of another band mixing guitars with dance beats . |
| 18 | THE Queen might last for a considerable time but people are going to be questioning the role of the monarchy more and more . |
| 19 | ‘ And after all the controversy involving Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis this summer , Lancashire and Surrey will be well aware that people are going to be looking at their performances . |
| 20 | When you get to about 13 or 14 , you begin to realize that your colour , even if you had n't thought about it much , means that other people are going to be different to you . |
| 21 | There is an assumption behind all this that size does matter , which seems to be belied by the fact that IBM 's enormous $60,000m a year bulk has been unable to save the company — but IBM 's problems all arise from the fact that the company 's business is so hopelessly slewed to one sector of the market , with products that fewer and fewer people are going to be happy to own . |
| 22 | ‘ But do n't fed any sense of anticlimax , because everyone here wants to meet you , and all sorts of parties are being arranged , and several people are going to be calling you in the morning . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Well , I do n't know , ’ says Charles , ‘ but I met this girl in television the other evening , and she said people are going to be dropping off your Matterhorn thing like fleas off a dog . ’ |
| 24 | If we get panic people are going to be crushed to death and there will be mayhem in the car park . |
| 25 | Well I meant to say , if , if , if we , if there is an assurance that elderly people are going to be helped , and there 's going to be a day centre there , I think we do handle the elderly pretty much anyway in this county , I would be certainly prepared to support it . |
| 26 | We we it 's it 's always difficult in January to say how many people are going to be there to take part , but we last year it was about about five hundred I think . |
| 27 | I do n't think people are going to be disappointed if they miss out . |
| 28 | ‘ Despite what people say , I think it will be a long time until black people are going to be in a position to do that . |
| 29 | Cos people are going to be sending you messages on it |
| 30 | er Again it 's difficult to say , the information has been leaking out from the talks , er it does n't look as though a pay formula is being included but Roger Pulne , er even on the onset of this dispute guaranteed the members er that any deal that was struck with management would include a pay formula and er if the deal does n't come out with a pay formula after the ballot as I say , I think people are going to be very disappointed and let-down by our union negotiators . |