Example sentences of "for people to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did n't want to exacerbate what he saw as an existing weakness of his own in that respect , and although he was not censorious of other people , I think he was genuinely quite frightened of it , and at one point in the Arts Lab , when there was quite a lot of speed pills , amphetamines , going around amongst the young people there , he did speak out very strongly one evening against it , saying that he personally did not want anything like that around anything he was closely involved with because he felt that it was not a good thing for people to be speeding and it created the sort of vibes that might end up causing problems . |
| 2 | That it 's unnatural for people to be tied up together in families for years and years . |
| 3 | These new towns proposed all over the country have been called ‘ a solution in search of a problem ’ by the CPRE — in other words a solution to a non-existent problem , as enough land has already been put aside for people to be housed . |
| 4 | An alternative is for people to be selected by the person pointed to by the organizer 's foot . |
| 5 | It is better for people to be able to grow and develop in relationships than to suffer the burdens of isolation and constant temptation and the threat of seeking relief through clandestine and casual relationships . ' |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm Too Sexy ’ borrows one section from Jimi Hendrix 's ‘ 3rd Stone From The Sun ’ ( Hendrix 's estate asked for an ‘ inspiration ’ credit rather than money , apparently because they 're most keen for people to be directed to his music ) . |
| 7 | People whose parents baptised them into the Roman Catholic Church will probably be counted as Catholics all their lives — even if they never go to church ; for people to be counted as Baptists , however , they will have to have expressed a strong commitment to their faith and to have undergone adult baptism . |
| 8 | We do it when we decide what it is acceptable for people to be able or unable to do . |
| 9 | However , it does present an opportunity for people to be empowered , for example in assessing needs , planning and implementing responses , even though these responses will not solve the totality of the problem . |
| 10 | This may seem self-evident , but it is not unknown for people to be carried along by the atmosphere of an auction , or the sales patter of a dealer . |
| 11 | Now some of you were nodding there and some of you were smiling , it might be that you actually would quite like to say you know that I believe it 's wrong for people to be born disabled , handicapped . |
| 12 | Shortly after his appointment as Minister of Housing in October 1964 , he telephoned me on a Sunday morning to say that he was having great trouble with his civil servants because he wished to promote an anti-eviction Bill , which would make it impossible for people to be evicted from their premises without special precautions . |
| 13 | I think it 's made it more difficult for people to be monitored when they 're er taking medication . |
| 14 | What he says is that erm you know when he was writing of six hundred and fifty eight seats in parliament , I do n't know how many there are now , but he says if we allowed for people to be paid , then we have as it were six hundred and fifty eight prizes to people 's six hundred and fifty eight jobs for people and he says and this is rather astonishing to hear , to read this is that it will attract adventurism of low class to er parliament if we pay members of parliament . |
| 15 | What is more , under a system of capitalism where people are employed by others to do a specialist task , it would be totally impractical for people to be paid in food , clothes , cars , electrical goods , tickets to entertainments of various kinds and so on . |
| 16 | Cos the doctors er still have that sort of element of kudos for for people to be associated with . |
| 17 | Now if you are an extrovert and gregarious person like Jane and a Sagittarian , then perhaps we have something going for us , but it 's very , very unusual , for people to be organised and sales orientated . |
| 18 | We 're also going to consider that Cambridge does have very high housing costs in terms of mortgages and that in the city , whereas it may be reasonable in other areas for people to be able to have the opportunity to buy . |
| 19 | He says it 's something for people to be proud of . |
| 20 | Such schemes would , says Mr Blunkett , provide an incentive for people to be in work and a disincentive to those who might refuse a place on a community programme . |