Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [n mass] [verb] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Too many teachers of deaf people find themselves learning communication skills on the job — a slow process in the absence of total immersion in a deaf language environment — and their deaf pupils mirror their frustrations ; too many teachers of deaf people do not have a knowledge of a specialist subject and persist in taking generalist primary school approaches into secondary and further education . |
| 2 | The document talks of ’ Inaccessibility the majority of Somali people do not speak English . ’ |
| 3 | The majority of British people do not find universities attractive or accessible . |
| 4 | At the time of our patient 's presentation a survey of published works did not show any cases with both conditions , but subsequently a single case has been reported , suggesting that any association is likely to be weak . |
| 5 | Apparently , vast numbers of ordinary folk did n't agree , and that no doubt was connected with taxation policy . |
| 6 | Sir , — Both Mr. Newland and Mr. Chandler have referred to my earlier letter on prescription charge exemptions , when I pointed out that five out of six people do not pay for prescriptions . |
| 7 | This means that many of these people do not envisage spending the whole of their working life climbing the internal labour ladder of a single organisation . |
| 8 | Furthermore , recognition of the significance of environmental factors upon the well-being of elderly people does not give us a magic wand ; many of these factors are attributable to wider structural phenomena over which we and the elderly people have relatively little control . |
| 9 | Lucie McKenzie , speaking for Age Concern in Scotland , pointed out that about one third of elderly people did not claim the income support they were entitled to and therefore would not receive any extra money to help with additional heating costs . |
| 10 | ‘ The most successful relationships are the ones in which the issue of changing people does n't arise , ’ he says . |
| 11 | But a lot of other people do n't do much work . |
| 12 | Just a normal day of married life , nothing that thousands of other people did n't take for granted — but what heaven if ever that was normality for herself and Len ! |
| 13 | This has not yet been discovered and we do not know what the machines are for — rather as nineteenth-century people did not know about plutonium and nuclear reactors — so we do not know what such developments will lead to in terms of aesthetic and economic considerations , and eventually the effects on the landscape and the settlements in it . |
| 14 | Rapid turnover in junior staff does not disturb continuity if the working relationship is between the general practitioner and the consultant rather than the house officer . |
| 15 | Have you noticed that most NDBs in the UK have frequencies that end with point five of a kHz — i.e. 350.5 , and maybe you have also noticed that almost without exception , the ADF receiver in light aircraft does not tune to these half kHz but only to whole numbers of kHz ? |
| 16 | I WAS interested to read that one in five people does n't sleep well . |
| 17 | Although I generally agree with this statement , the continued denial of risk for patients exposed to HIV-infected HCWs without scientific data does not reassure the population . |
| 18 | It is clear that Lenin 's references to ‘ primitive democracy ’ and the delegation of state functions to ordinary people did not mean that he thought there would be no place for administration in a socialist state . |
| 19 | Thus the excess found among young people does not extend to the older age groups . |
| 20 | So I mean by , by all means do n't take any of this for , for granted . |