Example sentences of "people [vb base] [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We can cut money off , let's make some easy quick decisions about cutting money off , let's chop out the arts you could do that on one line easily and I think you have to look at the long term you have to look at what happens in terms of our culture , our civilization if you do do that , how people change and to me it 's about and that was raised last night too about how an saying that they had put a limit on the cost of opera tickets forty pounds , compared |
| 2 | Some people expect that in a few decades ' time youngsters will learn from their home tutor computers and rarely , if ever , have contact with a human teacher . |
| 3 | ‘ When people say that about restaurants , ’ said my mother grimly , ‘ it usually means cockroaches . ’ |
| 4 | People say that after my first two ‘ punk ’ albums , I did a ‘ reggae ’ album ( Beat Crazy , 1980 ) , and then a ‘ swing ’ album ( Joe Jackson 's Jumpin' Jive , 1981 ) . |
| 5 | Most people say that in an ideal world they would assume to be spending roughly double on entertainment of all kinds , compared with when they were working . |
| 6 | Many people say that near Frankenhausen in Thuringia is a mountain in which Frederick Barbarossa may be found … he has been seen there many times . |
| 7 | Do n't people realise that without the Manchester scene Leeds and similar places would still be nothing ? |
| 8 | Perhaps people realise that in England these women are ultimately powerless , so they feel there is no point in helping them , or perhaps they think that the sons are to a certain extent justified , or may be it is just a matter of people not having the time or energy to do anything about it . |
| 9 | But there is a bonus to that in that people hope that by testing their ideas about the uncertain physics , by building models of that early stage , that those models will have consequences for the things that get left behind in the universe for the present , and so they might be able to test their ideas about how matter behaves at very high density by using cosmology , and that 's very important because we have no other way of doing it . |
| 10 | Intelligent people give or at least they look honestly at you and say no . |
| 11 | People vary though in their preferences . |
| 12 | The marketing people predict that in the future , the country will become more ‘ user-friendly ’ for elderly people , with telephones with large buttons , cars with larger wing-mirrors and clearer dash boards and simpler , easier , household appliances . |
| 13 | Christian Aid supports many people like and in their efforts to overcome the effects of poverty in their everyday lives . |
| 14 | It is not surprising , therefore , that most people assume that under private ownership services would be fewer , and charges would be higher . |
| 15 | ‘ Briefly , it seems that in parts of Russia and south-east Europe , some of the country people believe that in certain circumstances — to avenge their murder , for instance — the dead can walk again , unless restrained by having wooden stakes driven into their hearts . ’ |
| 16 | Some people find that by thinking about head noises they become worse ; by consciously giving them attention they are less easily forgotten . |
| 17 | It was a sad , sorry business but many people feel that at the end of the day , the decision was the right one . |
| 18 | To look at Christian dualism in this way is actually to advance an argument against God , not the Devil , and some people feel that in discrediting God such a view calls into question not only the Devil but the whole of Christianity . |
| 19 | People argue that by adopting a voluntary approach you lose the good and the bad . |
| 20 | Even if at a conscious level people think that of course that was a patriarchal age , and we now live in certain respects in a more enlightened age , the metaphors and symbols which are present will be impressed on people 's minds . |
| 21 | Once people recognise that through the process of exchange they can mutually benefit , they have no need to approve of the individual ends to which the transactions give rise . |
| 22 | Indeed , it has already been said in the pages of Early music that ‘ few [ English ] people realize that on almost every day of the school term 35 professional and semi-professional choirs sing for at least 45 minutes in our cathedrals and chapels in the very tightest form of musical discipline ’ . |
| 23 | British people realize that for better or worse their destiny is inextricably intertwined with that of the U.S. even though some of them may be reluctant to admit it . |
| 24 | The House is anxious to know whether the collection of tax by employers is relevant to where people work or to where they live . |