Example sentences of "people [verb] are " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is fatally easy to ridic-ule these attempts to trade outside the market , but the first snags that people raise are n't to do with the mutual trust involved , but relate to the attitudes of the Inland Revenue ( which insists that payment in kind is taxable ) and of the Department of Social Security with its Minimum Earnings Rule . |
| 2 | Three of the people listed are in Exeter . |
| 3 | The strengths that these people show are an ability to command respect , and to inspire enthusiasm . |
| 4 | The strengths that these people show are that they have an ability to combine a sense of concern , with a sense of order and purpose . |
| 5 | Historical materialists assert that the beliefs people hold are explained ( more than vice-versa ) by the mode of production in which they live and by their class location . |
| 6 | Two people winking are not always doing the same thing . |
| 7 | We have on our a a a as councillor er er erm was saying must earlier on her piece , sixty six to seventy five percent of people housed are homeless anyway and will be housed because of that situation . |
| 8 | Next , the things ordinary people like are dismissed as vulgar . |
| 9 | The politeness principle , like the co-operative principle , may be formulated as a series of maxims which people assume are being followed in the utterances of others . |
| 10 | that people feel are an issue cos together we have to exclude it . |
| 11 | The words people use are too often interpreted literally to signify little more than their immediate and most rational translation . |
| 12 | It is now possible , even in respectable academic circles in this country , to recognise that the concepts people use are related to the ( changing ) circumstances in which they live . |
| 13 | However , the kind of graph theory which mathematicians investigate is almost totally irrelevant for computing , and even the basic definitions which computing people use are not always the standard graph theoretic ones . |
| 14 | increasingly I think nowadays people converse in not a foreign language , because the terms that people use are familiar but meanings that they intend are not , and th th th the computer people are the worst because they use ordinary words which mean completely different things in the |
| 15 | Just as it is not illegal to own porn , nor is it illegal to be lesbian or gay ( unless you are a man under 21 ) : but the rights of both porn and lesbian and gay people to exist are strictly limited . |
| 16 | In the novel , humans keep animals to demonstrate their empathy and differentiate themselves from the robots , but the irony is that radiation has killed off almost all real species , and the goats , horses and sheep which people keep are electric androids as well . |
| 17 | It does n't give a very realistic picture ; again a lot of the costume in museums , it gives a distorted view because the clothes that people keep are generally their best clothes — their ball dresses , their wedding dresses . |
| 18 | Some useful people to call are : |
| 19 | I doubt it actually , I think they , it ought to be but I do n't think erm the people appointing are likely to look outside the immediate environs , and |
| 20 | ( If you do n't know whether or not the people pictured are employees , count them as employees ) |
| 21 | Nevertheless , despite the necessity to protect children from being misled by the stories of ‘ heaven ’ and miracles , it should be made quite clear to them that most of the stories of good works attributed to the people involved are most likely to be true , and as these people are believed to have done much more good than most , they have been given a place in the windows of the churches and in paintings and elsewhere . |
| 22 | contingency plans if you or other main people involved are sick/ absent ; |
| 23 | But the people involved are not naive , and know how such systems have worked abroad . |
| 24 | ‘ There is no doubt the people involved are lucky to be alive , ’ said a police spokesman . |
| 25 | ‘ It is as if the people involved are desperate to confirm to each other the way they feel . |
| 26 | In a normal conversation , the people involved are of equal status , and any one of them can change the topic under discussion or introduce new points . |
| 27 | The people involved are apparently drawing technical inspiration from Carnegie Mellon University 's PI project . |
| 28 | It 's really a question of knowing where the raw materials are coming from , where the product comes from and what the conditions are like there , but , of course it 's all very well saying it 's a question of what but er how many people involved are going to know that ? |
| 29 | The people involved are : [ all from Healthcare London West ] Dick Francis , Gary Stuart , Dave Burridge and Tracy James . |
| 30 | The most obvious people to approach are one 's colleagues . |