Example sentences of "people [be] talking " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gangs and guerrillas are talked of Wealthy people are talking of escape from a Caribbean version of James Baldwin 's ‘ the fire next time ’ . |
| 2 | I 've lived in this town long enough to know that when people are talking about a picture in a certain way you do n't need to spend a lot of money on hype , just a little in the right media and the nominations start piling up . |
| 3 | Of course people are talking pretty big at the moment but half of them are as ready to drop as I am . ’ |
| 4 | If a cat enters a room where several people are talking , it is very likely to make for the one person there who has an abnormal fear of felines . |
| 5 | Even my most basic pre-set question ( ’ How many people are talking ? ' ) proved to be over their heads , so I rewound the tape and tried again . |
| 6 | These can be thought of as five somewhat different shapes , but it must be remembered that when people are talking they will be rapidly moving shapes . |
| 7 | Obviously it is likely to be quiet in an empty hall or in a field ; it is likely to be noisy when a crowd of people are talking together all at the same time . |
| 8 | Speechreader X is positioned as advantageously as possible , when two people are talking : |
| 9 | People are talking about millions for the other two but clubs can forget it as far as Newcastle are concerned . ’ |
| 10 | What 's good about the debating is that people are talking about the rights and wrongs of bolting as a practice — and that has to be welcomed . |
| 11 | IBM was perceived as the winner , just as today , even the things it does right are in trouble because IBM is perceived as the industry 's most emphatic loser , and more and more people are talking seriously about the company being in danger of going the same way as Prime Computer Inc , Wang Laboratories Inc and Control Data Corp . |
| 12 | It is important when people are talking about quality adjusted life years to realise that the Q.A.L.Y . |
| 13 | Or it can be done outside the classroom — in any place where people are talking and you can listen . |
| 14 | I believe in running a department where sales and publicity people are talking to each other all the time . |
| 15 | I get on and do things while other people are talking about them , ’ she said without an ounce of boastfulness . |
| 16 | Yeah I agree with that , if you know somebody well , especially if you know somebody well and if you work with people and you communicate with people you build up trust , and if the communication 's there and people are talking to each other and passing on information , information 's going round and round trust 'll be there , the only time trust disappears is when somebody feels somebody 's keeping something back . |
| 17 | I mean a few people are talking , how many of you agree with that ? |
| 18 | Lots of people are talking about far better results than that — and we have had a good start — but we have to keep our feet firmly on the ground . ’ |
| 19 | and like what accent people are talking at |
| 20 | Well , well as people are talking in the house cos I 'm getting behind with the tapes . |
| 21 | Right when you know what the terms are what people are talking about what they mean when they say petrol engine or a diesel engine . |
| 22 | Oh it 's not a con consistent many people are talking . |
| 23 | People are talking about emotions more . |
| 24 | telephone conversation took place , as if two deaf people were talking to each other on a rowdy main road , but fragments of conversation filtered through as Frau Nordern repeated what Karl , presumably , was saying . |
| 25 | The ‘ White Rose ’ itself evidently gave rise to rumours , widely circulating in Bavaria and in many other parts of Germany ‘ about large demonstrations of Munich students ’ , unrest , and even revolutionary feeling in Munich , ‘ and people were talking about graffiti and fly-leaf propaganda with a Marxist content on public buildings in Berlin and in other cities ’ . |
| 26 | If the scanners were to be believed , two people were talking about the same matters in similar terms night after night . |
| 27 | One day I was in the wheelchair and people were talking to John and Jo but ignoring me . |
| 28 | Few people were talking about Robert 's paintings . |
| 29 | Few people were talking and the silence of night cast its pall over the city . |
| 30 | At last I can reveal the full Brian Deane Riding Through the Glen song — in the absence of life on the pitch , people were talking about it ( no need to sing it , sadly ) . |