Example sentences of "[adv] people " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Boer War was on and the first sort of major conflict erm in the period of movie history , and naturally people wanted to see what the war was like . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ Perhaps people are being nave , ’ says Simon Muggleton , ‘ but these guys have the patter and the manners and they can be very convincing . |
| 4 | She had always taken for granted that unemployment was an evil , a Thatcherite weapon against the working class ; but if this was employment then perhaps people were better off without it . |
| 5 | Without these anchors , perhaps people are less likely to take good care of themselves , are more likely to suffer psychosomatic problems , and to succumb , and succumb deeply , to infections and environmental threats to health . |
| 6 | Perhaps people would get the message if the Pimlico Connection had more imitators up and down the country . |
| 7 | Perhaps people like Sheridan were born that way , as if without arms . |
| 8 | ‘ Perhaps people will start to give him the credit he deserves . |
| 9 | All too often , human beings showed a literally fatal attraction towards such poisonous powers and their sub-daemons ; as indeed perhaps people must , since those selfsame entities had agglutinated from out of the foul passions of once-living souls . |
| 10 | In my concern as Chairman of the Board was that er if very few people turned up then perhaps people might say that we did n't go around go about advertising it in the correct way what I think we actually did I 'm not sure how many people are here this evening , but I should think it 's somewhere in the region of about hundred and , hundred and fifty , so I hope that the meeting this evening sort of cross representation people actually use facilities which the playhouse offers . |
| 11 | Right , well perhaps I , perhaps people could as actually come and speak to me afterwards , if they , if they think they could help at all , that 's International Women 's Day and all the local organisations have been asked to take part |
| 12 | Perhaps people who depended as much on mammoths as the hunting bands of south Russia or central Europe did during the late Ice Age sought by such means to identify with their gigantic and awesome prey . |
| 13 | But perhaps people tell him things that are untrue . |
| 14 | Perhaps people 's minds get hard like rock as they get older . |
| 15 | Well I think it was just because of the the people who put the pressure on at that time , perhaps people who 'd been in the tenants association before , did n't see that as a priority . |
| 16 | Er Now a lot of things in Lakehoff 's paper perhaps people have disagreed with since then such as the things about tag questions and hedges erm I mean some studies have said that if you look at the actual modality of tag questions , like we said before , the actual function of it |
| 17 | Perhaps people were a little afraid of him . |
| 18 | And if , and this is not a theoretical point , it 's happened in another union , if the majority or a large number of people in that sector , on that committee are not working or have not recently worked in the sector , then tensions will begin to arise , concerning those members who are working at the moment , and say hey , hold on a minute , perhaps people working in the industry should make these hard decisions . |
| 19 | Perhaps people can only address the meeting when they hold a certain talisman ( which is passed from speaker to speaker ) . |
| 20 | Much more cost effective is n't it if things to be done once rather than have to do reading them two or three times and generally the reason that things are repeated a number of times is that perhaps people are not really quite sure or not that that are systems , yet productivity the better trained people are people who can do things , get it right the first time and they can do more work ca n't they than somebody else you are not having to pick it up as the manager responsible and put mistakes right . |
| 21 | It 's it 's a question of priorities , is n't it , the , perhaps people feel the way that I dress is not important , the work that I do and the discoveries that I make , those are the important things . |
| 22 | That 's very interesting because we 're always going back to the earlier comment that , perhaps people like scientists , like sociologists are intelligent , but not in touch . |
| 23 | What er do you ever have people you know perhaps people who are close erm dear to you who use certain language that you find erm er either or do you use methods which say getting your point across to people that . |
| 24 | Or perhaps people just like red icing . |
| 25 | I think the the key point about patriotism is one reason why perhaps people in , in Britain and so on should n't be patriotic too , but if you see the rather cynical attitude of the Western countries towards recent events , not just in Russia but right across the Eastern block , very good example was condemned , erm but when , following the massacres erm , the West has gone on to sort of do deals with the winners and cultivate links er with the people responsible for that massacre , the killing of the Soviet Union went the other way and consequently erm that 's where you know Western resources are directed . |
| 26 | I think a lot of people are put off computing by the thought that it 's very technical and very difficult to get into , and I think in some ways it still is and there 's a sort of group of experts who rather jealously guard their knowledge , so in that sense , yes , they could short cut and remove skills that perhaps people should have . |
| 27 | Perhaps people that are involved with the er the Ardley Service Station , and we 'd like to hear from any history groups , school groups , anybody that 's got an interest in that side , that would like to have their , their views er recorded . |
| 28 | Apparently people are even going back to the fifties contraceptives ! |
| 29 | In relation to support in personal crises , apparently people are more selective in seeking help both from relatives and non-relatives . |
| 30 | But apparently people insisted that one stand up to do one 's piece , and I — successfully acclimatised to the horizontal by this time — refused to pander to this sort of nit-picking , and so passed my turn on to Cousin Josh with as much good grace as I could muster . |