Example sentences of "[adj] people [am/are] [adj] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are certain that you will be aware of how some people are able to achieve more than others , cram so much more into a working day , and do it with seemingly little effort . |
| 2 | Mr Major defied the wise saw which says that the British people are happy to pay more tax in order to get better public services , and played the issue of Labour 's higher taxes for all it was worth : it was worth the difference between an overall majority of 21 and a hung Parliament . |
| 3 | The people in the company who will have to run the system , the manager or director in whose department the system will be installed ought to be involved in the selection process , but such people are unlikely to have much knowledge of computers and computer software although they may be familiar with word processing and spreadsheet systems running on microcomputers . |
| 4 | It seems that younger people are likely to have more contact with the community ( to go on exchanges , visits etc. ) and have more use of the language ( at school , with peers of the second language community ) . |
| 5 | The academic , intellectual types also have a cultural background and are interested in aspects of the arts , and erm we are very fortunate , I think , also in that people are able to give more time than perhaps business people , and so a number of the members of the committee are university people and we are able to use the Gardner Arts Centre , which has become quite an exciting area , in that it 's open to experimental production , so therefore we attract a lot of the London critics . |
| 6 | Pedantic people are prone to do this with minor typing errors or spelling mistakes . |