Example sentences of "people [verb] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As my hon. Friends the Members for Wyre ( Mr. Mans ) and for Thurrock have said , people expected to be protected by central Government , but we have been told by the Labour party that there will be no limit whatsoever on spending . |
| 2 | This involves analysing patterns of illness and mortality , as well as conducting market research to discover what local people perceive to be their needs . |
| 3 | People fought to be first on , children were lifted through windows ; the scene was frighteningly chaotic . |
| 4 | To me , he said in a quavering voice , ‘ When I was a young man , people lived to be fifty-five or sixty . |
| 5 | Only a minority of people lived to be grandparents . |
| 6 | Older people tend to be nearer the upper limit of any range than do younger people , but some combination of the factors mentioned can help individuals approach the lower limits . |
| 7 | At small conferences people tend to be in the mood to concentrate . |
| 8 | He says that violent death is so common that people tend to be fatalistic and unprepared to take precautions . |
| 9 | Life-positions throw light on why it is that some people tend to be winners and some losers in life . |
| 10 | There is a lot of evidence that unemployed people tend to be less healthy than their employed counterparts . |
| 11 | in addition , and perhaps against the prediction , deaf people tend to be much more field-dependent . |
| 12 | The results probably show that all subjects an relatively unfamiliar with a serial recall task involving signs and that deaf people tend to be sensitive to the language base of speech coding though they do not have a significant facilitation in overt rehearsal . |
| 13 | Disabled people tend to be under-represented in mainstream provision whether it be YTP , JTP , ACE or Enterprise Training . |
| 14 | Children and physically disabled and elderly people tend to be well served by voluntary agencies , whereas the mentally disordered , alcohol and drug abusers and the single homeless are poorly served . |
| 15 | Where interaction is high people tend to be more open , and more comfortable with the pursuit of the task . |
| 16 | It seems that people tend to be more demanding of themselves than they would ever let management be . |
| 17 | Friendly enthusiastic , yeah , did n't use any slang erm the link was there , the attention to the client 's responses that was good , I was saying to erm th th that , that sales people tend to be a bit sort of more rabbit than Watership Down , you know that they 're |
| 18 | Most burglars prefer to go to an empty house and elderly people tend to be at home all day . |
| 19 | Homeless people tend to be stereotyped but you can walk past someone in the street without realising they 're homeless . ’ |
| 20 | Well , people tend to be referred through the psychiatric services as they currently exist locally , er or through their G P . |
| 21 | So far as we have been able to see people need to be able to identify those social situations which are distinct in their culture . |
| 22 | People cease to be rational even when they 've known and worked with someone for the last ten years . ’ |
| 23 | Very few people appear to be aware of it . ’ |
| 24 | Until we demonstrate that , the case for increasing expenditure on elderly people has to be very modest , and related to what evidence we have about whether it will improve their welfare . ’ |
| 25 | Issues relating to the counsellor 's own personal and family life will need to have been processed thoroughly because counselling other people has to be impartial ( rather than be affected by issues in the counsellor 's own personal life ) and because the counsellor himself or herself may become unsettled when an issued being discussed with a sufferer may be too close for comfort to the counsellor 's personal experience . |
| 26 | He or she knows how , and can be trained , to manage fellow employees ; helping people to manage themselves is an essential core of management and managing relationships between people has to be concerned with always taking account of their attitudes and capacities . |
| 27 | Erm not only will people have to travel a lot further for treatment , as was admitted at the public meeting erm last Monday , here in Harlow but er if people want to is maybe they 'll one or two less senior f the area committee authority they will have to travel to Witham or Colchester or whatever , by absolutely execrable public transport if they do n't drive a motor car to actually attend those meetings and that 's not democratic or accountable either ! |
| 28 | We have our own tour products , such a villa holidays but most people want to be independent . ’ |
| 29 | Quite a few people want to be her friend . |
| 30 | Not many people want to be refs — there 's a lot of hassle and not much money . |