Example sentences of "[v-ing] to people " in BNC.
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| 1 | These will be useful in any event in explaining to people what the problem is and discussing what the possibilities of re-use are . |
| 2 | Now the key to explaining to people doing any particular project , are which procedures is the quality plan . |
| 3 | ‘ That congregational aspect — which is a pretty Presbyterian word and I quite like the connotation — of the emotional effect of things happening to people while they 're gathered together , that was the big thing in the early acid clubs , that feeling that you were in a place with 200 people all going the same way as you , all into being there , enjoying being in this mass of people … … |
| 4 | I think that the other worrying feature about the potentially obsessive nature of programming is the point Dr Frude makes about it happening to people who are already ‘ introverted and socially inept ’ . |
| 5 | What was happening to people living ordinary lives in a so-called civilised society ? |
| 6 | Not just in harsh action ; increased concern about children is almost always part of a larger concern about people in general , but when horrible things are happening to people it is not unusual to focus on children and try special pleading on their behalf . |
| 7 | The Minister , however , does not give a damn about what is happening to people on the lowest incomes ; he does not even understand what is happening to local government . |
| 8 | What is happening to people 's involvement in work ? |
| 9 | I think er it 's tragic what happened to Ray and I think it 's also tragic what 's happening to people . |
| 10 | The pamphlet also includes a checklist for parents with three quarters of the items relating to people and relationships , with few items concerned with facilities or materials . |
| 11 | Another source of ambiguity is that task analysis is often used as a generic term covering any study and description relating to people at work . |
| 12 | Literary sources may be even more valuable , especially those relating to people like the Romans who held pearls in exceptionally high regard . |
| 13 | Broadly he identified two categories of reform : those relating to people ( designed to produce changes in civil service culture ) , and those relating to institutions ( designed to clarify arrangements for resource management ) . |
| 14 | ‘ THE most disheartening thing is that I have always had a really strong idea about what I want the group to be and I 'm not very good at relating to people who think that their version of what my group should be is more important than mine , ’ complains Stuart Adamson , singer/guitarist with Big Country . |
| 15 | Hotels will sometimes offer a ‘ T or P ’ booking to people , usually regular business clients who are only able to reserve their accommodation at very short notice . |
| 16 | I just stayed there listening to people moving around upstairs . |
| 17 | You could even say that you should worry if a child reaches the age of seven or eight without ever using swear words , since he or she may not be listening to people perhaps not even to you . |
| 18 | Also , listening to people 's conversations can be very enlightening and suggestive of ideas . |
| 19 | Roith spent his first nine months within the government listening to people . |
| 20 | ‘ I started playing guitar when I was fourteen , ’ says Rowland , ‘ and I was listening to people like Roxy Music and David Bowie . |
| 21 | ‘ When you see people weeping as they sing the swelling choruses of Jerusalem , ’ says Peter Morgan , director-general of the Institute of Directors , ‘ you 're listening to people who hate everything about industry and have a bucolic dream — and who are also Fabians , and see business leaders as slave-drivers . ’ |
| 22 | Social care in a group care setting covers the time spent talking with and listening to people , hearing their stories , nurturing and encouraging them in the effort to make sense of the later stages of life . |
| 23 | It is a paradox of modern-day business that , with time-saving devices such as desk-top computers , satellite telecommunications , electronic mail and supersonic aircraft , many managers find even less time to devote to essential profit-making activities — such as thinking and listening to people . |
| 24 | We absorb ( i.e. learn ) a great deal of French vocabulary , grammar and syntax by listening to people speaking French without making a conscious effort to learn the language . |
| 25 | He forgot for a moment that it was pot and thought of nicotine , and then of cancer , cells in delirium , the inroads that living would make one day even on this varnished little icon of the exempt : the flab of tiredness , children , overwork , sitting up too late at night listening to people , indulging buoyant childish appetites as a device to sustain good nature against foreshadows of the senile self . |
| 26 | Hours you spend on that phone , listening to people pour out their problems ! ’ |
| 27 | More intense review than that provided by a test of arbitrariness will be necessary in order to ensure that the agency does not just go through the motions of listening to people . |
| 28 | With output in the construction industry falling to its lowest level for six years and the industry predicting a further 50,000 job losses this year , when will the Secretary of State stop his policy paralysis and start listening to people in industry who know what they are talking about ? |
| 29 | A few people came back with ‘ O Jesus ! ’ or ‘ Yes , Jesus ! ’ but nobody was ready for talking in tongues or , indeed , listening to people talking in tongues , which I have often thought is much the more taxing of the two options . |
| 30 | Stop listening to people , such as Mr Kinnock , who has now written out to C L Ps telling them that they should be changing the way that the unions are linked to this Labour Party , not at all . |