Example sentences of "people are [adv] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They claimed that ‘ voices demanding Pakistan 's withdrawal ’ from these pacts were ‘ increasing ’ , and that ‘ the Iranian people are effectively campaigning for Iran 's withdrawal from the aggressive CENTO bloc , the abrogation of the military treaty with America and for Iran 's return to a policy of neutrality ’ . |
| 2 | Is n't it wonderful to realize that when we hear that noise now it 's because people are either flying for pleasure or business purposes . |
| 3 | Hannah 's film was transmitted at 10.30 p.m. on Tuesday , 30 January 1973 , to an audience approaching five million — a very respectable rating for a documentary shown at a time when most people are either retiring for the night or thinking about it . |
| 4 | For as the recession bites harder , people are increasingly looking to a rousing chorus line as a way to beat the blues . |
| 5 | He believed that some people are already moving to higher and higher planes of the mind , and there is here an endless potential . |
| 6 | Eventually we said , ‘ the people are already queuing outside the hall , the concert starts in half an hour . |
| 7 | The postponed Val d'Isere and Saalbach downhills will be staged as early as possible in the New Year : low-level Garmisch will be the first notional beneficiary , but people are already talking in terms of Are , Sweden , in March . |
| 8 | People are already querying from time to time the de decision judges make . |
| 9 | We can not park at the weekend and people are already parking on the grass verge . ’ |
| 10 | Most of us are still thinking about our Summer holidays , but one group of people are already preparing for Christmas ! |
| 11 | These people are already preparing for that . |
| 12 | The results indicated overwhelmingly that people are nowadays looking for a colour that has the versatility of white , but which displays its own unique warmth and character . |
| 13 | ‘ My people are upstairs talking to Beryl and going through Francis 's room , looking for anything which might explain why he was murdered . |
| 14 | people are just looking for a diversion so erm |
| 15 | If they 're split , you ca n't have people from the field going into dealing with national account managers when my people are also dealing with them . |
| 16 | People are again looking at plants for new drugs to fight illness and disease . |
| 17 | Many people are precisely dispensing with Christianity because they can no longer believe in it . |
| 18 | Tony Busby , general services section leader with BP Chemicals , says : ‘ I came here because people are always popping into my office to seek advice on what choice to make . |
| 19 | It 's a problem people are always thinking about , but never wholly solve . |
| 20 | And : ‘ I hear people are always writing to her about the deaths of their hearts . ’ |
| 21 | People are always running after me with things . |
| 22 | I think also in those very tough times ahead I think it 's a very difficult decisions to be made about what services are provided erm , and what operation people are actually going to be able to have done and I wonder how much local people are gon na have a chance to say anything about that in the situation in which their health service their health authority is based so far away . |
| 23 | I think that perhaps some people are still looking for the Great White Hope , as they did in the days of John L. Sullivan , the first black World Heavyweight boxing champion . |
| 24 | We lost ours a long time ago , but some people are still clinging to it , as they would to a piece of wreckage , in the hope that it will remain afloat . |
| 25 | Making records is a lot of fun , too , because you know that you have it there forever , and after you 're dead , hopefully , people are still listening to it . |
| 26 | People are still dying in every gutter . ’ |
| 27 | Six months later , those people are still waiting for their redundancy payments . |
| 28 | Trading at Sherwood has been strong , showing that people are still spending on low ticket underwear despite cutting down on outerwear . |
| 29 | Mould this lot of nonsense down , because me as a boilermaker had to live forty four years and there ai n't enough people are still working to be able to run the sections . |
| 30 | People are still talking about it . |