Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] people " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some highly placed people were in fact former pupils of his . |
| 2 | French colonialism only taught people to put on perfume and a new shirt . |
| 3 | Their more rural environments have not only attracted people there for holidays and retirement , but also induced elements of industrial growth . |
| 4 | He made a lot of sense talking about that tip and obviously persuaded people to change their viewpoint . ’ |
| 5 | To produce highly trained people with scientific knowledge and technical expertise at the highest level , not just within the science base , but throughout the economy . |
| 6 | This has long encouraged people to hold Nature in contempt with ruthless practices of commerce and technology threatening life 's very viability . |
| 7 | People get a very negative attitude , they think that these , like there was a caller recently that sort of equated nationalism with er , with you know Nazis and , that 's completely wrong , I mean , but , and , and , you 're all in the news you 're always hearing about the radical nationalist deputies as if they 're some sort of strange breed of person , but in fact they 're just like the MPs in our House of Commons , democratically elected people , sensible people who want peace , they want prosperity for their country and er , there 's , there 's no mad empire imperial ambitions , Lithuania has no need for an army or anything , but er apart from just maintaining er internal er control , but er people have a very strange attitude a very anti nationalists , I find it curious . |
| 8 | She wondered whether she heard unreal laughter as a self-inflicted punishment because she was incontinently fond of amusement and only liked people who made her laugh , no matter what their other qualities . |
| 9 | Everywhere , expensively dressed people were buying food with an air of dedication . |
| 10 | I was there and he only urged people in the flat part of the arena to dance . |
| 11 | It dealt with something about which I had been writing to Social Security Ministers for about six months — abuse of the benefit-in-kind regulations , whereby highly paid people were paying themselves in gilt unit trusts . |
| 12 | Income is the same in both cases , but monthly paid people will have a much higher demand for active balances . |
| 13 | This has not stopped people trying . |
| 14 | He has just noticed people eating ice cream on a café terrace across the street . |
| 15 | An Already Weakened People |
| 16 | He believes the government has generally down-graded people working in the public services sector over the last ten years , with university teachers having fared particularly badly as far as pay is concerned . |
| 17 | But you 've not , you 've not had people yet , why ca n't you er |
| 18 | All these forms of economic assistance encouraged passivity and unconsciously shifted people 's priorities away from the quality of human resources to the quantity of financial ones . |
| 19 | And just sort of like did , just called people |
| 20 | Labour wants the British people to be the best qualified and best trained people in Europe . |
| 21 | I suppose they felt that the viewing public needed to see a nice little clump of easily identified people , which on first glance they could decide whether they liked or not . |
| 22 | People only wish to see doctors when they are sick , but the National Health Service has not encouraged people like me to seek preventative health advice . |
| 23 | Hollywood , said Hall , had already discovered people 's interest in the rich and ‘ rags to riches was filmdom 's bread and butter ’ . |
| 24 | They are listed in the Creative Handbook but most are only interested in already established people . |
| 25 | Mark rose from his chair fully aware that politicians believed themselves to be the best informed people in the world , which made them a very sceptical audience for any speaker . |
| 26 | But it 's all changed now , there the best paid people in the ruddy country . |
| 27 | Right handed people washed the left hand more thoroughly and vice versa , and they missed some parts of their hands while washing , eg. the wrists , under finger nails and under rings . |
| 28 | Bird song has always fascinated people . |
| 29 | Indeed , involvement in a group can sometimes be the only way to encourage more withdrawn people into a counselling situation , especially those people who feel too awkward or vulnerable in a one-to-one situation . |
| 30 | She has always considered people to be of prime importance no matter how elevated her position . |