Example sentences of "be [v-ing] to people " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not just in harsh action ; increased concern about children is almost always part of a larger concern about people in general , but when horrible things are happening to people it is not unusual to focus on children and try special pleading on their behalf . |
| 2 | We 're objecting to the fact they have 28 hours of airspace that they 're devoting to people in need and yet they 're not allowing the people who are in need to say what their needs are . |
| 3 | ‘ When you see people weeping as they sing the swelling choruses of Jerusalem , ’ says Peter Morgan , director-general of the Institute of Directors , ‘ you 're listening to people who hate everything about industry and have a bucolic dream — and who are also Fabians , and see business leaders as slave-drivers . ’ |
| 4 | Do not be afraid of using your own jargon — the words and phrases dealing with your expertise — provided you are reporting to people in your own profession . |
| 5 | Let those involved in violence — who plan it , carry it out or are in any way responsible for it — realise the damage that they are doing to people living in the district . |
| 6 | Have you considered the harm you may be causing to people , tearing up the past in this way ? |
| 7 | You could even say that you should worry if a child reaches the age of seven or eight without ever using swear words , since he or she may not be listening to people perhaps not even to you . |
| 8 | I 'm going to be speaking to people on the little red round table . |
| 9 | Er and as for budgets erm you know I 'd , I 'd be saying to people come on you 're not buying a raffle ticket , let's talk serious funding . |
| 10 | Cos I think it 's important that er the the the theatre actually talks to the people who actually use the why are you saying we should n't be talking to people then ? |
| 11 | Therefore , they try to conceal the fact that they are talking to people , sometimes by giving the impression through non-verbal behaviour that they are issuing directions , or by calling at their homes . |
| 12 | If you are talking to people you will talk in a quite different mode from that which you will adopt when you 're writing . |
| 13 | ‘ I 've been talking to people about this , 'cos everyone thinks the video is so sexy , you know . |
| 14 | I mean how can you justify talking to her about that when the efficiency is improved since she has n't been talking to people ? |
| 15 | When talking about the elderly in this sense we are referring to people in an advanced age group of well over eighty . |
| 16 | That seems to me to be a very moving description of somebody who is preaching to people , not from any sense of superiority , but rather from a sense of human concern and caring about the people that she is addressing , and this makes the way in which George Eliot writes about her very different from the way in which other methodist preachers have been described either as ranters , erm or as people who are so caught up in what they are saying themselves that the fail to make any pay any attention to the people that they are addressing . |
| 17 | I think er it 's tragic what happened to Ray and I think it 's also tragic what 's happening to people . |
| 18 | The Minister , however , does not give a damn about what is happening to people on the lowest incomes ; he does not even understand what is happening to local government . |
| 19 | What is happening to people 's involvement in work ? |
| 20 | By and large it 's according to people 's occupations and you start with A which will be professional people , surgeons solicitors etcetera . |
| 21 | He is smiling because behind the machine he is not taking the brunt of it , and because he is an earnest yokel who does n't realise what he is doing to people . |
| 22 | And that 's what 's threatening to people , because it is looking for a direct response ; it 's looking to form a dialogue . |
| 23 | Labour is offering to people who are presently enjoying the benefits of compulsory competitive tendering a promise to scrap it . |
| 24 | He felt no competitiveness with other writers and was encouraging to people younger than himself . |
| 25 | What was happening to people living ordinary lives in a so-called civilised society ? |
| 26 | ‘ I started playing guitar when I was fourteen , ’ says Rowland , ‘ and I was listening to people like Roxy Music and David Bowie . |
| 27 | I was turning to people I did n't know that well and confiding in them , and I could have been led down any garden path . |
| 28 | The trouble was she was talking to people on camera and you did n't hear anyone laughing or anything embarrassing . |