Example sentences of "people [vb base] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The overwhelming majority of Ulster 's people remain implacably opposed to this diktat and its contention that our land must be jointly governed by the English and Irish bureaucrats . |
| 2 | For all these variations , however , there persists in many localities a ‘ neighbourhood effect ’ whereby working class people appear consistently drawn towards the politics of the middle classes and employers of their area . |
| 3 | The 1949 Representation of the People Act effectively brought to final fruition the principle of " one person one vote . " |
| 4 | People seem better dressed , and there are more cars in the streets , and fewer beggars and blind men selling lottery tickets . |
| 5 | I usually call myself half German because people get so fed up with all the Germans who say they 're Austrian . ’ |
| 6 | We started everything from scratch , which is nice , because people get so stuck in their ways : you walk into a professional studio and things are always done in a certain way . |
| 7 | ‘ A lot of people get really worried about what other people are doing . |
| 8 | So often people become almost paralysed by the apparent enormity of the tasks to be undertaken , that the only way to give the necessary support is to help them to partialise the tasks . |
| 9 | Surprisingly , people become so involved in the task that they rarely notice that you are setting up in a different way . |
| 10 | Large groups of people become so fascinated with the internal workings of their own organization that they are continually tinkering with it . |
| 11 | ‘ The loss of a pet can be just as upsetting as the death of a member of the family because people become so attached to them , ’ she said . |
| 12 | Generally , people become more worried about these matters as they get older . |
| 13 | There is the danger that young people become permanently criminalised . |
| 14 | ‘ People come here aged maybe 50 or 60 and their blood pressure goes down to what it was in adolescence , they are no longer constipated , digestive problems seem to disappear , their sex lives improve , their eyes are shiny and they have a feeling of optimism instead of carrying a heavy load of despondency . |
| 15 | ‘ People have probably begun to wonder by now why I spend so much time in the club , ’ he said evenly . |
| 16 | Weller , at No 21 with Uh Huh , Oh Yeh , — his first major hit in four years — says : ‘ People have probably known more about my politics than my music . |
| 17 | In the absence of functioning technology , people have obsessively tried to imaginatively invent it in advance , to anticipate the cultural apocalypse it will bring . |
| 18 | The acting returning officer for St Ives says that , to start with , most of the complaints about proxy voting came from the residents of old people 's homes , but that other people have since said that they too were denied a vote . |
| 19 | However , people have since realised they have been lured into a debt trap aimed at bringing the working class to heel , with unemployment the main weapon . |
| 20 | Another 14 people have since died in two apparent revenge attacks on vehicles in the area . |
| 21 | He was n't badly hurt but people have since told me that shock sometimes starts the onset of diabetes . |
| 22 | The funds are , of course , still open and it is appreciated that many people have already sent donations direct to the Royal Homeopathic Hospital . |
| 23 | Several people have already indicated a desire to give practical service towards the Camphill Project and this is something I hope we will be able to take up . |
| 24 | Sixty people have already lost their jobs at the Norfolk Smokehouses food processing plant . |
| 25 | Dr Williamson , a consultant from Southampton , is to head the new unit , for which South Durham people have already given more than a quarter of a million pounds . |
| 26 | Millions of people have already discovered the magic of walking and are walking regularly for fitness , slimness and health . |
| 27 | Perhaps the cosmological density is well below the critical value ( despite the anticipation of theorists ) or perhaps models of cosmological nucleosynthesis must be revised ( as some people have already asserted ) . |
| 28 | This has led officials from the Department of Antiquities to offer rewards to anyone who helps them recover a lost item , as happened in Kirkuk where some people have already received between two and three thousand Dinars ( less than £1 ) for turning items over to the Department . |
| 29 | I know many millions of people have already asked , but when is Lemmings coming out for the 64 ? |
| 30 | Local people have already suffered appallingly from the dangers of the Cubatoa industrial park with its 23 major factories , attracted to the region by a government policy promising no pollution control . |