Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] be [n mass] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Bear in mind there are people who suffer lifelong injury which can never be put right . |
| 2 | At present there are people who choose to display a green learner plate for a period of time after they have passed their test , but this is only optional and may lead to other coloured learner plates being sold which then may not be taken seriously . |
| 3 | Younger neighbours may be glad to ‘ sit in ’ for one evening a week too , if you can give them some service in return , such as looking after their child for a morning while they go shopping , although of course there are people who will help with no expectation of reward , if you make your need known to them-perhaps more of them than you imagine . |
| 4 | Of course there are people who come from disadvantaged backgrounds ; of course we must do what we can about it . |
| 5 | Then erm , of course there were people who lectured on er gate courses on elementary German , there was a friend of Doctor , who used to go out and , to units and erm give lessons in German and erm there were , there was a unit of Polish erm soldiers stationed , they had an armoured train , believe it or not , which was erm parked at Saxmundham and erm every so often , particularly at night , they used to trample up and down the line . |
| 6 | For example there are people who are developing new plastics on industrial contracts erm within a department with our school . |
| 7 | Hess has protected them , although in theory they are people he should not even know . |
| 8 | In cystic fibrosis there are people who are severely ill for whom it would be justified to try treatments even at a very experimental stage . |
| 9 | In journalism there are people who 'd do it to get a story ! |
| 10 | It is not even possible to determine how far these observed patterns can be ‘ explained ’ in sociological , economic or political terms ( no doubt there are people who would also see a genetic component here as well ) . |
| 11 | erm In other areas erm of the press there are people who actually maintain equipment . |