Example sentences of "to [verb] [adj] people " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the one hand , there is certainly a resistance to change and to new ideas ; academics appear quite happy to continue teaching the same old syllabuses as if there had been no ‘ explosion ’ ( Dr P 's word ) in English studies ; at the same time , there is no resistance to allowing other people within the same department to teach quite different things to students , and to do quite different types of research . |
| 2 | ‘ It was great fun and it was nice to met other people not involved in the services . ’ |
| 3 | She was not yet used to seeing black-skinned people . |
| 4 | The new careers service will not be restricted to helping young people — there will also be scope to assist unemployed adults , people faced with redundancy or those seeking a career change . |
| 5 | What this means , and what schools would look like if they were truly dedicated to helping young people become good learners , is explored in Chapter 9 . |
| 6 | SELLAFIELD has given a major cash boost to a unique local scheme geared to helping young people in the area . |
| 7 | A champion of public footpaths , he devoted much of his life to helping young people to begin walking . |
| 8 | Working outside gets him acclimatized to meeting other people before being released . |
| 9 | The argument is difficult to uphold in some respects since Furth 's argument seems to be that deprivation of experience is at fault , but he does not provide any suggestions for an approach to maximising deaf people 's performance . |
| 10 | The Big Picture is a group of artists committed to providing creative people with a forum for exploration and expressions of their ideas . |
| 11 | Evans has drawn attention to the danger of discrimination by specialty in a cost-obsessed climate , so that ‘ a geriatrician may face the nightmare that the specialty dedicated to providing old people with the best of hospital care will become an impediment to their obtaining it ’ , even though an investment in optimum treatment often yields rich dividends through the avoidance of expensive long-term dependency . |
| 12 | Once again , this approach to involving disabled people in the arts is flawed primarily because disabled people have not been consulted about what is wanted . |
| 13 | Education law is open to multiple interpretations which translate to lack of consistency in approaches to educating deaf people . |
| 14 | Then he remembered the long , toilsome months when he had worked to perfect a style of writing , giving hours to his literature and language assignments , more hours to dissecting other people 's novels . |