Example sentences of "people [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Given that a good deal is also known about how people successfully adapt to bereavement ( Parkes and Weiss , 1983 ) , a possible format for intervention programmes is already available . |
| 2 | To be a good business man is the epitome of development and these learned people secretly aspire to that goal . |
| 3 | ( It was just as well I did n't know at the time that Jack would once have been called a psychopath , which to most people effectively means ‘ murderer ’ ) Untreatable ? |
| 4 | The Scottish people overwhelmingly rejected their policy . |
| 5 | But his people overwhelmingly support Saddam Hussein . |
| 6 | But what stands stark and clear , above all speculation , arguments , discussions and justifications , is the fact that anything which allows itself to be used to sustain such atrocious misery can not possibly be anything but a travesty of a ‘ religion ’ within the meaning of that word that all right-minded and honourable people intensely desire . |
| 7 | The figure represented the absolute minimum considered necessary by the government and the UN to provide basic food needs for 1,400,000 people worst affected by the civil war . |
| 8 | the people worst affected are , are suddenly resisting |
| 9 | Thus the typical people criminally victimizing and forcing us to fear each other and fracture our sense of ‘ community ’ are young uneducated males , who are often unemployed , live in a working-class impoverished neighbourhood ; and frequently belong to an ethnic minority . |
| 10 | But most people duly come surely make an appointment ? |
| 11 | Apart from their resident populations , over the years they have served as a ‘ dumping ground ’ for people forcibly removed by the South African government from ‘ white ’ areas . |
| 12 | It may be held at that important time of the first anniversary of the death , and is thus at the time when the people most bereaved may be thinking of re-engaging in life . |
| 13 | Very arrogant academically , and one of the people most opposed to the women 's support group in the English faculty . ’ |
| 14 | The people most affected by them — office workers and passers-by — have little or no influence on their design , and are dependent on the benevolence of the developer and on planning laws . |
| 15 | If , therefore , human beings as a whole progressively delayed the age at which they reproduced , the ‘ death-genes ’ would , over the course of the generations , be gradually filtered out — for the very simple reason that people most affected by ‘ death-genes ’ would die before reproducing , and hence would be unable to pass on the fatal genes to the next generation . |
| 16 | UNDERSTANDABLY there has been much wailing and gnashing of teeth over the demise of West Malling ( West Malling Lament , October issue , et al ) but I am amazed that the people most affected by its loss made no attempt to save it from destruction . |
| 17 | Mothers of young children seemed to be the people most affected . |
| 18 | The people most affected by AIDS are those in the highly productive years of life . |
| 19 | Often , the people most committed to the use of charismatic gifts are those most inept in evangelism . |
| 20 | These people rarely volunteer for investigation in controlled EEG studies . |
| 21 | It was much more segregated than the police force and people rarely served in their home area . |
| 22 | Shy people rarely make good in public relations . |
| 23 | If you can catch a case in the early viral phase then a shot of hyperimmune serum is curative , but people rarely bring their dogs in until that phase is over . |
| 24 | People rarely asked for your invitation card . |
| 25 | PROSPEROUS people rarely die of cholera . |
| 26 | Elderly people rarely speak out and abusing carers deny that their behaviour is abusive . |
| 27 | They were sturdy beggars , Hugh told them , a sort of people rarely found in the forest , vermin whom the verderers would have been well able to control without an expedition had it not been for the outlaws . |
| 28 | MARRIED people rarely look at each other when they talk . |
| 29 | Downstairs if you came in the front door ( which people rarely did ) you would find a large room on each side . |
| 30 | Poor people rarely left either a will or an inventory , but thousands of people of moderate means did so ; the ordinary farmers and craftsmen are well represented in this class of record . |