Example sentences of "[adj] people in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Passamaquoddy tribe , traditionally one of the poorest peoples in the US , stand to make millions of dollars from their invention . |
| 2 | Here , in splendid isolation , emerged a tribe of Polynesians who were prepared to address problems such as this , and who moreover were one of the few peoples in the world to develop a system of writing . |
| 3 | They had pointed out that a road in this area would open up the rainforest to clearance by settlers , with the consequent loss of habitat for gorillas , elephants and other threatened animal species , and the disruption of the livelihoods of traditional tribal peoples in the area . |
| 4 | The meeting passed particular resolutions condemning the uncontrolled logging in Sarawak and the continuing harassment of tribal peoples in the state . |
| 5 | The dominant idea in the liberal ideology of English is that of ‘ universality ’ ; great literature is universally ‘ great ’ for different peoples in the world and at different times in history . |
| 6 | I think that recently we seem to have had such , so many changes in the health authority , so many different peoples in the post who all seem to be doing the same sort of thing , who 've got the Family Health Services Authority set up , but it would seem to me that some of the things that are on this piece of paper are things that I understood were being done by the Family Health Services Authority . |
| 7 | We regard as priority communication in solidarity among the struggling peoples in Asia , especially women and ‘ Dalits ’ . |
| 8 | It has , however , been contained by an environment in which President Nyerere 's political leadership promoted a strong national ideology , and in which , for reasons which lie in Tanzania 's nineteenth-century history ( including both the replacement of traditional authority by trader barons and the unity achieved among some peoples in resisting German colonialism ) localism has been much less strong than among many African peoples . |
| 9 | we are helping the Amazonian Indians and tribal people in Malaysia in their fight for survival by generating worldwide publicity for their cause , and campaigning to protect their rainforest lands ; |
| 10 | The more pejorative epithets have disappeared in the post-colonial literature , except for one or two extreme examples like Kon Muang Nan ( 1978 ) who holds the view that the shifting cultivation practised by tribal people in northern Thailand is the most dangerous national problem and one which undermines national security . |
| 11 | Plant down , with natural blood as an adhesive , is often used to form the design ; or ochre ( blood of the earth ) which has always been intimately associated with ceremonies of fertility , the invocation of rain , etc. , by tribal people in most countries , who , like the Aborigines , regard the earth as a living , breathing entity , its underground watercourses being seen in a similar light to the human arterial system . |
| 12 | The overwhelming majority of victims are from the poorest , most disadvantaged sectors of Indian society — members of Scheduled Castes ( or Dalits ) and Scheduled Tribes ( or Adivasis ) , tribal people in the northeast of India , migrant workers , landless labourers and others who are poor and underprivileged . |
| 13 | Mari Marcel Thekaekare has been working for the last seven years on a project she and her husband started , working with tribal people in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu . |
| 14 | They set fire to houses and some of the younger people are taken to prison and tortured for information about the Shanti Bahini ( there are now about 2,000 tribal people in prison without trial ) . |
| 15 | Survival International , in co-operation with Minewatch , has published details of activities by some of the world 's major industrial companies which it claims are responsible for causing serious damage to the traditional lands of tribal people in the Americas . |
| 16 | Polling was cancelled in some villages because all their inhabitants had fled the escalating violence , which has killed 140 people in five months . |
| 17 | Until recently it was reckoned that men and women on average had sex with 6 different people in their lifetime . |
| 18 | While the pervasiveness and uniformity of television news made it unlikely that it would influence different people in different ways , the press seemed likely to influence different readers in very different ways . |
| 19 | Also , God deals with different people in different ways as He sees fit . |
| 20 | Different people in the group will be given specific roles such as time keeper , secretary ; and there will be explicit rules of behaviour such as only speaking through the chair , considering one idea at a time , recapping frequently from the secretary 's minutes and so on . |
| 21 | Unless and until more knowledge is gathered concerning the aspirations , capabilities and limitations of schools and the people who work in them , and until sufficient flexibility is built into syllabus planning to allow for the necessary variations that are inherent in planning and providing learning for different people in different contexts , the gap between prescription and reality will remain an unconscionably wide one . |
| 22 | But remember that alcohol affects different people in different ways . |
| 23 | Different moral considerations might apply for different people in the face of similar moral dilemmas . |
| 24 | A more satisfactory explanation might be that different moral considerations apply for different people in similar situations . |
| 25 | The message of this popular song is that sounds are used by different people in different ways . |
| 26 | People can love different people in different ways . |
| 27 | However , since tests are always used by different people in different settings , it is also necessary to know something about the extent to which the same tester may achieve stable scores , when the test is given to the same person on different occasions , or the extent to which the scores from different testers would be comparable if they were to test the same individual . |
| 28 | Where a carer feels in conflict with the demands of different people in the household , or even has two dependents , the stress is much greater . |
| 29 | Conflict is personal in that it affects different people in different ways . |
| 30 | It allows for a multiplicity of different causes acting in different combinations on different people in different situations ( it even allows that every particular criminal act may result from a unique constellation of antecedent causes ) . |