Example sentences of "be [conj] people ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The short answer is that people 's motives for using media do not seem to have changed much from 1945 to 1990 — whether to combat loneliness , find out what was going on or just relax . |
| 2 | The idea behind IntelliDraw is that people 's needs change , and it should be possible to adjust the drawing process to take that into account , rather than start from scratch . |
| 3 | An important premise of this book is that people 's actions are socially constrained , although not socially determined ; people make decisions which are based on an awareness of the potentialities and limitations of certain courses of action . |
| 4 | ‘ This is the first thing of any scale that we have attempted , ’ admitted David , ‘ but the good thing about the ARC is that people 's anxieties are shared . |
| 5 | One of the big problems about erm teaching people what Darwin really said is that people 's concept of evolution by natural selection is er contaminated by ideas which were actually originated , not by Darwin , but by the founder of British sociology , Herbert Spencer , whose dates were nineteen twenty to nineteen O three . |
| 6 | A second , but equally fundamental , principle is that people 's lives should not be in forfeit because of the ideas they choose to express . |
| 7 | this the , what makes me laugh is that people 's intelligence , they walk along a street shopping and as soon as they walk into a restaurant they sit down and start smoking |