Example sentences of "[pron] other people " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only thing I would add is that you need to find out what you are good at ; you need to find out what it is you can contribute which other people ca n't and that is something which only you can find out for yourself . |
| 2 | The German critic , Bernd Witte , recalls that in 1980 , Cannetti gave an interview in which he explained why he embarked on this autobiography in which other people are so important . |
| 3 | Phobia sufferers often find themselves virtual prisoners in their own home , unable to do those things which other people class as ordinary . |
| 4 | I notice things which other people often miss |
| 5 | This information may also influence the way in which other people perceive the child and , consequently , the way in which they interact with the child on an individual basis . |
| 6 | One way in which other people can help in daily life is by giving us feedback when we have unconsciously lapsed into our familiar stressed pattern . |
| 7 | Grades , percentages and category labels are hopelessly inadequate to convey the load of meaning that we sometimes believe we are putting into them and which other people desperately try to get out from them again . |
| 8 | For a man who found it difficult to write for more than three hours a day it was one way of passing time but , more importantly , as he explained in an address in 1951 , it was necessary for him to hold a job which other people considered useful ; he had so little confidence in his own work that he did not want to risk wasting all of his time upon it . |
| 9 | Think laterally all the time and pro-actively seize the opportunities which other people will inevitably miss . |
| 10 | It seems reasonably clear , however , that patterns of satisfaction and dissatisfaction in basic needs during this infantile period have important effects on the emerging personality and on the ways in which other people will be seen in later life . |
| 11 | ( a ) in saying ‘ Something appears white ’ you are making certain assumptions about language ; you are assuming , for example , that the word ‘ white ’ , or the phrase ‘ appears white ’ , is being used in the way in which you have used it on other occasions , or in the way in which other people have used it . |
| 12 | On Thursday morning , the children went to fetch the presents which other people had promised — eggs , meat , tomatoes . |
| 13 | Other people 's houses always intrigued her by the contrast they offered to Greystones ; she would see suddenly — with detached interest and quite without envy or criticism — the extent to which other people 's preoccupations differed from her own . |
| 14 | In the parents ' houses the Dynmouth Hards crept upstairs and into bedrooms in which other people slept , considerate because in their homes they were required to be . |
| 15 | Operational balances were reduced ( and advances increased ) by the fact that the borrower wrote cheques which other people paid into their accounts at other banks . |
| 16 | It was this habit of self-mastery which made one expect him always to maintain a standard of behaviour which other people felt themselves excused from emulating . |
| 17 | I thought that there must be something wrong with me , and I had to do something to prove that I was not just a thing which other people used , of value only because you , Papa , are so enormously rich . |
| 18 | ‘ The images which I like best are the ones which other people like — which have the best response . |
| 19 | A story which can help pupils to discuss the role of ritual , and the way in which other people can misconstrue it , is that of the little fox in the Legends of Moses . |
| 20 | I think that that trend is , on the whole , a fairly healthy one , and it 's meant the schools have begun to be far more conscious about their responsibilities , not just in general , but , but about particular responsibilities , erm responsibilities such as erm dealing more effectively with handicapped pupils , dealing with ethnic minorities and so on , again erm issues which other people in the series will be talking about . |
| 21 | In the home you 're a wife , a mother , a daughter , an aunt , a grandmother , a niece , but you 're only defined in relationship to somebody else and your function is mainly one of servicing other people , of creating a context in which other people live . |
| 22 | ‘ What we 're offering you , ’ the Hare-woman said — and her voice was almost gentle — ‘ is a choice between knowing who other people think you are and knowing who you really are , inside yourself . |
| 23 | You other people and you 've obviously got time to start preparing your thoughts . |
| 24 | ‘ I always thought awards were something other people got . |
| 25 | Something other people like the N woman ) could n't ever understand . |
| 26 | ‘ Something other people ca n't give you . |
| 27 | erm because it 's something other people have and now , now I 'm quite happy with myself and feel a lot more sure about the way I think and what I want |
| 28 | she did n't say well er my husband brought me here because it was a decision that she had parted , it was a choice she had made as well and so she , she excepts her responsibility , she excepts her blame and she goes to return so there was , there was this sense of confession and , and confession can be costly when we 've got to admit that I was wrong , I did wrong , I was mistaken , I went the wrong way that could be a costly mistake and , and , and er costly experience for us to go through , but surely the , the true sign of repent is that we do acknowledge our sin , we acknowledge our failure , that we acknowledge what it means to god , we ca n't shift that blame onto somebody else then also consider not just the cost that Naomi had to pay in going back , but also there was a cost for Auper and for Ruth as well as Moabias there would be little joy for them in Israel , they were foreigners , they were strangers , there would n't be much hope for happiness for them , there would be very little likeliness for them ever getting married in or remarrying er in , in Israel , they would n't be able to worship there own god , they 'd be taken from one culture to another , there 'd be taken from one language to another , what was it gon na be like for them , alright , perhaps whilst they were living with Naomi perhaps she could pull a few strings for them , but what happens when she goes and they are left by themselves and yet it would appear that with Naomi making her decision to return that they too these two daughters in law they decided to go to Bethlehem with her and it tells us that they set out together but perhaps they had n't thought it really through because their not totally committed to us and as they come towards the frontier and their gon na pass into in , back into Judah with their few miserable possessions that they 've gathered together , Naomi again considers the consequences facing these two young women , Auper and Ruth , they continued with her , as she pleads with them to go back home , Judah is no place for a foreigner , Judah is no place for somebody to come unless they are part of gods people , and I 'm reminded of again of what it tells me in , in the book of acts , that in the early church , that people were actually frightened , frightened to join with the disciples , they were frightened to join the church , there was no room for , for stragglers , there was no room for hangers on , there was no room for those who went just because they thought it was gon na be the next , the in thing to do , but folk were actually frightened of joining because they knew they had to put their lives right , they knew they had to live holy lives , they knew that god had to be lord and master in their lives and unless they were willing to do that and be committed to him they were actually frightened of joining and one of the great weaknesses of the church today is that it becomes and it can becoming our thinking and nothing more than just something we join , something we belong to , something we go along to er as like a club , like an association , but that 's not the picture we see it in the New Testament , it is a very exclusive body , it is a very exclusive grouping , a grouping of those who have committed themselves to Jesus Christ and that 's why not every body is a member of the local church , not every body who goes to church on a Sunday is a member of a church to Jesus Christ now they know if they are , but other people may not know , they know and the lord knows , I know if I belong to him and he knows if I belong to him other people may not , I can put on the act , I can look as though I 'm playing the part , I can go through the routine , I can , I can , I can fool every body , but he knows and I know , and he knows and you know and so Jesus said not every body who says lord , lord on that day will I acknowledge and recognize and so for Ruth and Nao er yes Ruth and Auper it was gon na be different of course for them as foreigners in Judah especially when Naomi goes and she pleads with them go back home , Judah is not place for Moabias , she knew what it had been like to be a foreigner , she knew what it had been like to be an alien land in an alien culture in a different religion with a different language she had known the bitterness of it all , she pleads with them go back home she prayers for them the lord bless you , the lord you know be gracious to you and so on , but they refused and again Naomi puts it to them , to please go back and Auper reconsiders and she takes the counsel and advice of her mother in law but no so Ruth and Naomi turns and says look your sister in law 's gone back , she 's gone home , you go as well , you ca n't do it , its a too greater price for you to pay , its a choice you must n't make , a decision you must n't make , your gon na have poverty , your gon na have loneliness , your gon na have hardship . |
| 29 | Others have had to do it other people in other countries . |
| 30 | And say it other people . |