Example sentences of "people [vb base] [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is also considered unlucky to pay the whole of a doctor 's bill , a superstition which may prove important as the years go by , considering what some people say is happening to the NHS . |
| 2 | Thousands of people have been practicing step aerobics , but over-enthusiasm could leave them flat on their backs . |
| 3 | These comprise several features : employment has fallen in most branches of manufacturing and in some parts of the service sector ; land has been diverted from residential use by office expansion , road construction and slum clearance ; more mobile people have been leaving to escape the poor physical environment and the social problems ; new private house-building has been discouraged by high costs , land hoarding by local authorities and uncertainties about sales potential ; and falling household size has reduced the capacity of the overall housing stock ( Cameron , 1980 ; Evans and Eversley , 1980 ; Kennett and Hall , 1981 ; Lawless , 1981 ) . |
| 4 | Even in the best years for agriculture , people have been leaving the land because the trend is towards larger units , maximising productivity and getting the best out of the work force . |
| 5 | People have been scrambling up Cust 's Gully for over 100 years , and in dry conditions it should pose no problems — although it is not particularly attractive and I only included it because it was such a traditional route . |
| 6 | Explaining the proposals , MCC secretary Col John Stephenson said : ‘ We have had to cater for all cricket , so it may not seem to be as tough as some people have been demanding . |
| 7 | People have been telling me that ever since I was a small boy . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I 've been fed up for the last few years and people have been telling me I am in danger of wasting my time . |
| 9 | ‘ I have no real idea what people have been telling you about my involvement with MI6 at the time . |
| 10 | Occasionally City police would leave a little note saying , ‘ People have been stealing rugs out of cars , I think you ought to lock yours ’ . ’ |
| 11 | During the past week there have been several occasions where people have been meddling with candles and other things in the church , including the money boxes yet again , and so it is with some sadness that I have decided to keep the church locked during the holiday period . |
| 12 | Ever since Robert Owen or Proudhon , people have been inventing alternatives to cash ; and the lesson of the failure of them all is that , to have the slightest chance of being useful , they should be local , mutual , voluntary , and , above all , simple . |
| 13 | He sent two screamers past Oxford keeper Paul Reece and declared : ‘ People have been slagging me off , saying I ca n't play and talking about my disciplinary problems . |
| 14 | A few lucky people have been realising a lifetime 's dream — mounting the footplate of the world 's most famous engine . |
| 15 | Over the last 20 years people have been buying as opposed to renting and once they own something they want to keep it separate . |
| 16 | ‘ People have been buying the Mirror as a souvenir , snapping up five or six at a time . ’ |
| 17 | Clearly , while an increasing proportion of the population have been buying their houses , working-class people have been buying the cheapest housing on the market . |
| 18 | And county consumer protection officer David Holliday says despite extensive publicity only a trickle of people have been using them . |
| 19 | People have been struggling to explore and clarify those patterns in recent years . |
| 20 | County are in danger of suffering their second relegation in successive seasons , and Pavis said : ‘ People have been writing to me asking when I 'm going to sack the manager . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ People have been writing them off as long as I can remember , but they love nothing better than proving their critics wrong , ’ he said . |
| 22 | ‘ People have been writing them off as long as I can remember , but they love nothing better than proving their critics wrong , ’ he said . |
| 23 | They call him the mystery man with a record for his mystery girl ; people have been writing in wanting to know more , women especially , but Amis does n't have the will to respond . |
| 24 | She notes that there is a difference between the stories people have been producing and traditional fiction . |
| 25 | This is even more welcome since all through autumn people have been repaying debts from the free-spending 1980s . |
| 26 | Can I just ask you , in the past few weeks we 've all heard , and in fact I 've cited some figures in this programme , that , you know , people have been staying away . |
| 27 | For years , people have been calling for sixth form studies to be broadened and updated , but now the pressures for change have become urgent . |
| 28 | The vast majority of obese people have been eating a normal unhealthy diet , and changing is a matter of education and attitude as well as trial and error . |
| 29 | Dozens of disabled people have been taking to the water learning how to sail . |
| 30 | He says hoardes of people have been taking photos of the sunflowers . |