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 ? |