Example sentences of "people are [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ People are nibbling , ’ he says . |
| 2 | Often there 's a lot of , that people erm do or do n't do that you , you ca n't erm go along with when people are wanting terminations of pregnancy or , or they 're thinking of leaving their husbands and going off with somebody else then you just have to listen to what they say and put the facts as you see them in front of them . |
| 3 | It was just like her , to be super-efficient after an emergency , when normal people are wanting to curl up somewhere soft and ease their battle wounds . |
| 4 | Some people are wanting to bury some body here . ’ |
| 5 | Brenda said : ‘ I think people are wanting to take more responsibility for their own health . |
| 6 | Everyone is telling Mr Honecker what he should do , the East and West Germans openly , the Soviets more subtly : ask yourselves why people are leaving and save your country through reform . |
| 7 | People are leaving Paris at the rate of some 20,000 a year , chased out by soaring property prices and the shortage of rental accommodation — especially of flats big enough for a family . |
| 8 | About 10,000 people are leaving each month in this way , and the government is granting exit visas faster than America can admit them . |
| 9 | ‘ The number of people becoming unemployed has eased over recent months and more people are leaving unemployment and getting back to work , ’ she said . |
| 10 | More people are leaving the large cities than are arriving in them . |
| 11 | A second classification is transfer growth , which means people are leaving other churches in order to join ours . |
| 12 | People are getting fidgety people are leaving can I just . |
| 13 | West Belfast had a bad image ; there is a climate of fear and people are leaving . |
| 14 | With regard to leaving electrical equipment on overnight , Mark , erm once or twice be nice if you already be bought it to my attention that people are leaving things on erm , now , when we 've had this discussion that most of these items are safe . |
| 15 | If people are leaving severed heads in fonts and monkeying about with regimental relics after hours they 'd need keys and naturally it 's awkward for Charles if … ’ |
| 16 | Every month 300,000 people are leaving unemployment . |
| 17 | The results of our education reforms and improvements in the 1980s are being shown by the way in which our young people are leaving higher education with qualifications . |
| 18 | Thousands of people are flying out of Britain to celebrate the New Year in the sun and snow . |
| 19 | Somewhere people are drumming — it must be at the far end of the village , because at times the rhythm is distinct but when the wind takes it it becomes muffled , merging with the roar of the full monsoon river . |
| 20 | ‘ People are adjusting to the new exchange rates and hoping the franc devalues . ’ |
| 21 | A group of physically handicapped people are protesting over plans to charge them for using day centres . |
| 22 | ‘ A lot of the violence stems from the fact people are expecting a decision today [ yesterday ] , ’ said one senior British source , arguing that the pattern would only be repeated if ministers postponed their decision for another month . |
| 23 | Piontek said : ‘ People are expecting a new Lineker to come through straight away and that is not possible . |
| 24 | Lots of rich pretty people are expecting me downtown . " |
| 25 | Direct observations on what people are expecting allow a second and stronger test of the rational expectations hypothesis . |
| 26 | It is this rise in the average level of prices above the level people are expecting , P , which stimulates the rise in output : on the typical island suppliers are tending to find a price higher than they guess the average price level to be and are responding by increasing their output and , since this is happening typically and not merely on one island , aggregate output is stimulated . |
| 27 | It implies a level of inflation higher than people are expecting . |
| 28 | ‘ It is manifestly unjust that a privileged few should continue to accumulate excess goods , squandering available resources while masses of people are living in conditions of misery . |
| 29 | One reason for this is that mentally handicapped people are living longer , and this is balancing out the reduction in admissions . |
| 30 | ‘ These people are living outside reality claiming we are poor . |