Example sentences of "people [modal v] [vb infin] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As far as informal carers are concerned , the evidence that families may be unable to take on extra responsibilities , and the less certain evidence that elderly people may prefer care by professionals , with help and support from the family , rather than entirely by kin , are conveniently ignored . |
| 2 | Some people may regard painting as a childish activity . |
| 3 | Two people may suffer pain from the same apparent origin ; and yet their pain will not yield to the same analgesic . |
| 4 | Expansion of this network is greatest among the rich , where people may retain contact with one hundred to two hundred relatives . |
| 5 | The significance of this , of course , is that whatever people may think credit actually costs , and however accurate or inaccurate their notions about how rates of interest and so forth compare , this widespread satisfaction with the cost of any credit actually used — and its uniformity , from one type to another — shows that borrowers themselves do not have any great misgivings that they are being charged too much . |
| 6 | Other people may take advantage of the sense they get that we are desperate for approval . |
| 7 | Some people may take action mainly on their own initiative . |
| 8 | Subjectively , people may learn helplessness ( Maier and Seligman , 1976 ) ; have an external locus of control ( Rotter , 1971 ) ; or feel alienated from the world in which they live ( Seeman , 1959 ) . |
| 9 | However some people may find surgery has little effect : ‘ People with short necks will not benefit as much from a face lift as those with long necks , ’ says Erian . |
| 10 | Old people who are not in frequent contact with younger people may lose confidence in their ability to give as well as to receive : Younger people , anxious to please , to give and , often , ‘ not to worry mother ’ may not realise the part which they play in creating a one-way traffic . |
| 11 | Art involves personal creativity and some people may have difficulty in seeing the disabled artist as anything other than an independent and uncontrollable misfit . |
| 12 | Centralised records provide the means by which many people may have access to the same body of information , regardless of their physical situation . |
| 13 | Oh : car of menace , car of blight Cars the atmosphere ignite Greenhouse warming , Havoc forming Parkinson must see us right We 're au fait with entropy Gaia , Ecosphere , synergy Words for greening But their meaning 's A linguistic mystery Oh : politicians must invent Worship of environment Genuflecting by reflecting Words of verdant bafflement Now our water 's unfit to drink Too much aluminium and zinc No solution To pollution No-one can stand the stink Oh : public filth and pestilence Highlights private opulence Does the glitter , clear the litter All it needs is pounds and pence GOD REST YE MERRY God rest ye merry , gentle Greens Let nothing you dismay The much foretold apocalypse Is now well under way Not even Mr Gorbachev Can stop the world 's decay Oh , tidings of comfort and joy , Oh , tidings of comfort and joy We ca n't eat meat or hens or fish The farming is too cruel The only food we now permit Is foul organic gruel Irradiated food and veg Now double up as fuel Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Now everybody wants a car Though noise and fumes are vile The Iron Curtain fractures and The jams stretch back for miles Mobility and liberty Can not be reconciled Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy We think that greenhouse warming will Bring on the world 's demise If forests burn it 's not just trees but mankind too that fries But all this may be garbage Because scientists tell lies Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Consumers must buy less to reach Sustainability For galloping consumption is More lethal than TB So much for Third World dreams of fleeing Grinding poverty Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Unless we stop producing kids The planet will not cope No hope for birth controllers short of Kidnapping the Pope But since the Greens recycle people they May turn us into soap Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy In searching for clean energy The choice is pretty stark The floods that come when coal is burnt will keep us in the Ark But had Lord Marshall got his way We 'd all glow in the dark Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Dumb animals are much preferrred To flawed humanity Ill-treatment of old people may Provoke insanity But culling seals and whales is judged The worst profanity Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Now Mrs Thatcher goes bright green A highly suspect hue Her policies have after all Kept filth and squalor blue It 's just another way she 's found To tell us what to do Oh , tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy With greenhouse gases , PCBs Sulphuric acid rain This fragile globe 's environment Is going down the drain It is a cosmic punishment That we ca n't start again Oh , tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Melanie Phillips OVERNIGHT FILE |
| 14 | Also in relation to the United States , Brody ( 1981 ) offers evidence from a three-generation study of women that the youngest generation felt more strongly than the other two about ‘ grandfilial responsibility ’ , three-quarters of them saying that older people should expect help from their grandchildren , whereas less than a quarter of the oldest generation took this view . |
| 15 | So always treat those in exactly the same way as you would a normal roundabout , so that you 're coming up and always assuming that people should give way etcetera in the manner in which they should unless the roundabout directs otherwise . |
| 16 | But one of the conditions set by the Japanese government was that its people should take part only if there were a ceasefire between the warring parties . |
| 17 | It is surprising that such major intrusions by the state into the private lives of the people should take place without any clear legal authority . |
| 18 | Few areas in nutrition and medicine are more hotly debated than whether or not people should take vitamin and mineral supplements . |
| 19 | But as Rome became first an Italian and then a Mediterranean power , it became inevitable that the Roman people should have contact with Greeks and with Greek art . |
| 20 | It is vital that people should have choice in the type of care available . |
| 21 | ‘ You of all people should have faith in the saint you set such store by . |
| 22 | This Congress demands that deaf people should have access to all official information to the same extent as hearing people . |
| 23 | I believe that it is a fundamental principle that people should have access to independent legal advice . |
| 24 | We feel very strongly that people should have access to solicitors who have knowledge of immigration law , and who can protect people by explaining the difficult legislation and regulations dealing with immigration policy . |
| 25 | When the Government introduce complicated legislation , it is only right that people should have access to those with basic information about it . |
| 26 | ‘ People should remember alcohol is dangerous whether you drink it in the pub or at the Christmas carol concert . ’ |
| 27 | No doubt people must study management or business ; but until they cross the boundaries of the social or economic sciences — until the knowledge becomes such as is sought for its own sake and organised to illuminate human life and history — management and business studies are not education ; and then they are management and business studies no longer . |
| 28 | Young people must discover faith for themselves and make it truly their own if they are to find a foundation for life . |
| 29 | All these photographs tell a tragic story and people must pay attention to it |
| 30 | No doubt people must learn hairdressing ; but until the subject crosses into physiology — and ceases therefore to be hairdressing — it is not education . |