Example sentences of "people [modal v] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | The restless shifting tides of the US computer industry ensure that people may at times be down , but few are out for long , and out of the gathering gloom of the Everex Systems Inc Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings has sprung a new company , also in Fremont , California , raring to make its mark . |
| 2 | Both the monoamine oxidase inhibitors and the tricyclics were discovered empirically , but they aroused great hopes that the chemical disturbances in the brains of depressed people might at last be understood . |
| 3 | Ordinary people might at times come to the outer part of a temple and were able to participate in the festival processions . |
| 4 | But these Salvation Army people will at least try . |
| 5 | Even if most people will at some time in their lives live in a family which does conform to the cereal-packet image , they will also necessarily spend much of their lives outside it . |
| 6 | ‘ There is an indication that under Magnus Magnusson , people will at least talk ’ , he said . |
| 7 | Any progress towards the demolition of these foundations will help to promote a less ageist society and , therefore , one in which social justice for all older people can at last be achieved . |