Example sentences of "[Wh adv] people " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Whenever people visit our house , they try them on . |
| 2 | Whenever people discuss the enterprise culture , they point to the Asian corner shop . |
| 3 | Writers have to be relevant to what is taking place , whenever people are fighting for their self-determination . |
| 4 | Only she lived in the posh part , called Hove , and whenever people said ‘ You live in Brighton , do n't you ? ’ it was normal to reply ‘ Hove , actually ’ until it almost had become the name , Hove-Actually . |
| 5 | So it would certainly be naive to think that whenever people felt unhappy erm it was er was some kind of pathology and that , that evolution could n't explain it , and it may just be that the women feel a bit fed up because of hormonal changes and it does n't awfully much , it 's just one of things you pay for being a mother . |
| 6 | That is erm whenever people look for an analysis of something , here I 've been looking for an analysis of individuation , there 's a tendency to consider candidate analyses one by one , singulatum . |
| 7 | erm Sorry , I think we 'll just stick with Faulkner for a moment , because I think that leads us on to the constant tragedies of battle casualties , which were obviously very much brought in into Oxford whenever people were wounded outside they were often brought in to Oxford to be cared for , there was a hospital out of Yarnton too , but a great many were cared for all over Oxford , and the greatest of course were buried at Christchurch . |
| 8 | The time may have come to urge a historic settlement , whereby people in Essex can hang each other to their hearts ' content so long as they do not interfere with traditional sporting practices in the rest of the country . |
| 9 | Rather , it is an unconscious , gentle process whereby people who want to be loving attempt to be so by telling little white lies , by withholding some of the truth about themselves and their feelings in order to avoid conflict . |
| 10 | I mention this variety of rites , which are in process of preparation , because the main route whereby people are introduced to and grow in the light of the church , baptism as infants , confirmation in early teens , leading to faithful communicant life , that route is no longer followed by quite a number in our fellowship . |
| 11 | In addition , in some systems which have operated from time to time in the UK and elsewhere , there is a procedure whereby people are asked attitude questions about the product before the show and after it , and given the opportunity to select the test product ( from a list ) as a prize or gift . |
| 12 | Conversely , where there is an oversupply of manpower of a particular kind , one may find downwards substitution , e.g. graduates working in ‘ non-graduate ’ jobs , leading sometimes to a ‘ cascade ’ effect whereby people who trained for a particular level of work are systematically displaced by those more highly trained . |
| 13 | Land reform can involve one or both of the redistribution of land ownership and alterations in the conditions whereby people occupy land . |
| 14 | I mean I think that what that article is directing , you know , it 's main thrust towards is the importance of providing support and the importance , I think , of providing an avenue whereby people can deal with those sorts of problems . |
| 15 | It is invariably one whereby people have applied for those grants , they have gone through all the normal assessment criteria , which apply to any other art form , and if we feel that they adequately cover all those sort of areas then we respond , but as public body we have to be aware that groups , in applying to us , must fulfil the conditions that we lay down . |
| 16 | I think what 's very striking about the report which the students ' union have recently published and are circulating around the university , is the extent to which they have tended to define sexual harassment as being as much or at least as much a problem between students , a problem of behaviour between students and a problem of the sort of atmosphere in the colleges in terms of how that affects how peoples lives feel and and how they are how their behaviour what sort of behaviour is acceptable . |
| 17 | A study of how people react in real life when affected by any kind of emotion and mood soon reveals how the movements of the whole body can change . |
| 18 | ‘ I do n't understand how people can abort a wanted child . |
| 19 | That was supposed to be a funny song , and I ca n't understand how people could n't see it . |
| 20 | I do n't mind you at all , but the boys they 'd be suspicious of anyone who 's not a member of the police force , and that 's how people will see you : you 're not a member of the force ’ ( FN 23/10/87 , p. 20 ) . |
| 21 | Whenever he thought about this in later years , his memory would go back to the Cuddesdon time and the shock of seeing a House of Commons pretending that it knew how people ought to say their prayers . |
| 22 | It is a place to which resort , during the formative years of early adult life , those desirous and capable of learning how people engaged in the pursuit of knowledge for its own sake go about their business . |
| 23 | That 's the time when you can work out how people deal with their roses and the pruning and there are lots of other things flowering then , too . ’ |
| 24 | It is too important in that it enables children to understand how religion influences individuals and societies , and to explore how people form their own beliefs and values — including atheism . |
| 25 | I do n't know how people are going to get through the winter . |
| 26 | There 's no accounting for how people ( mis ) use pop . |
| 27 | It was a time before I began to understand her a little better and realise that a lot of this was actually a sort of ‘ attention-getting ’ — a bit of theatre just to see how people would react — to manipulate situations a little . |
| 28 | New research also stresses empirical work , using controlled experiments to see how people behave in real bargaining situations . |
| 29 | Yet nobody knows how people will react if some suddenly get a lot richer and some a lot poorer . |
| 30 | But look more closely at the statistics , look at what is really happening on the streets and in the shops , look at how people 's lives are changing , and it becomes clear that things are not nearly as bad as they are painted . |