Example sentences of "people have [vb pp] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Citizen 's Advice Bureau says more than 150 people have applied to be made bankrupt in three months . |
| 2 | Rejecting this offer outright , Alatas said that the government would not even respond , as " the overwhelming majority of East Timor people have decided to be integrated with Indonesia " . |
| 3 | But " originality " presents a difficult problem because ( unless you are doing advanced research ) you are unlikely to be in a position to advance new facts or radically new interpretations , or even to have a wide enough knowledge of what other people have written to be sure that you are not duplicating it . |
| 4 | In modem times , many people have claimed to be able to see fairies . |
| 5 | in them because people have chosen to be there . |
| 6 | I think its very significant , here we are and lots of people have admitted to being a victim of crime but statistics show that twenty five per cent of women will be assaulted within a relationship and yet no women here has said that and that 's probably because the women who have been so assaulted feels somehow it is their own fault , its somehow shameful . |
| 7 | I think as well the young people have got to be motivated , to come to what they find here . |
| 8 | and people have got to be aware of their prejudices |
| 9 | And people have got to be able to cope with the challenges . |
| 10 | Yeah , but I mean , be honest , you , you say that , but people have got to be prepared to adjust as well . |
| 11 | What the Russians want is technical help and equipment , now our own industry is in decline er yes , particularly in machine tool industry , and I think the first thing we should do is to go over there and see what it is they actually needed , what they actually need right now , er one of your previous er correspondence , er speaker turned round and said well they 've got half finished buildings and things like that , I mean er , people have got to be put to work because people in co-ordinate employment is the only source of real wealth , but the market economy is n't interested in promoting real wealth , I mean it 's only interested in what it can get out of an economy not what it gives . |
| 12 | People have got to be involved in solving themselves the problems themselves . |
| 13 | But we all know that stories , you know , people have got to be out there at the scene taking samples . |
| 14 | And they have to move to other industries , er productive industries and service industries and er communications for example which is very run down , and that 's going to take I should think , six to nine months of really hard work and suffering , and and a political clean up at the same time , because in the schools and universities for instance , er nobody could get a job in the old days , who was n't politically reliable , and all those people have got to be moved . |
| 15 | Erm I 've mentioned accessibility , I would raise that again , I 'm a non-driver erm it 's easy to hop in a car and get from here to Chelmsford , if you want to do it by public transport it is a nightmare erm the meeting here on , on Monday which was very poorly attended , and I understand that 's been the pattern right across the area , and I do n't think the health authority is that interested in finding out what people have thought to be honest ! |
| 16 | I mean in the past in has always turned out that what people have thought to be elementary turns out never to be elementary . |