Example sentences of "people give " in BNC.

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1 It seems likely that as these authoritarian empires arose the simple egalitarianism of hunter — gathering peoples gave place to the stress of hierarchy .
2 When Edward Grace , the Ford manager sent over to England in 1923 to find a production site , finally settled on Dagenham , paying £167,695 for the acreage , the choice came as a surprise to some people given the geological conditions .
3 Although the CD4 counts of the 877 people given AZT were consistently greater than those of patients receiving only placebo , the first three years of follow-up have shown that the proportions of people in the two groups progressing to overt AIDS or even to death were not significantly different at roughly 18 per cent .
4 All these trades are quite healthy but they employ very few people given the innovations in cargo handling and the dominance of Scandinavian companies in shipping .
5 At Christmas people give generously .
6 Nagging ‘ but … you 've got everything now ’ , ‘ please save your life/because you 've only got one ’ … which is why people give up pop music , in the end .
7 Some people give up dieting completely .
8 Fags and mags are not the kind of things people give up lightly , and so recession has not really been a problem for T&S .
9 These organisations also have charity shops where people give unwanted goods .
10 It is interesting also to note that ‘ … people give the roots of the Petasites vulgaris , which abounds , to the cattle in winter ’ .
11 Such people give more than they take ; they tend to hide their emotions and repress their desires just to please others .
12 People give them money .
13 But the knotted tensions between people and groups of people give us plenty to think about .
14 But I can also understand why people give up trying to identify them .
15 Some people give more thought to choosing a car or a holiday than they do to choosing a career .
16 Few people give themselves the time to think clearly about their own futures .
17 These are the sort of things you might suggest that people give you for your birthday , Christmas or other religious celebration .
18 It 's at this point that so many people give up .
19 I think people give it away too much ; I do n't think they take the time to sit down and think about all aspects of being a creative person .
20 I think people give it away too much ; I do n't think they take the time to sit down and think about all aspects of being a creative person
21 Some people give the impression that they are driving themselves ( and sometimes those around them ) in a kind of non-stop desperation !
22 It 's always the same , as soon as you get success , people give you everything .
23 Some people give up their work and float through the year , but Bill did n't .
24 The 1977 US survey also shows that most people give APRs a lower place in their actual shopping than in the more abstract terms of what they say is important with regard to disclosure .
25 If you wonder why people give you a hard time , it 's because you write shit like this .
26 Jackie is , I suspect , a far more complex personality than most people give him credit for .
27 Our task is made easier if people give us as much information as possible when there has been an incident .
28 You 'd be surprised at how many people give money to the cause .
29 Many more people in the future than in the past will benefit from the kind of economic support which people give to their relatives through post mortem transfers .
30 I do not claim to be comprehensive in what follows , rather my aim has been to assess some of the main features of kin support in the past which have particular relevance to the central theme of this book — how important are duty , obligation and responsibility in motivating the support which people give to their relatives ?
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