Example sentences of "[adj] people [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This could account for the weather sensitivity of some people who show either depression before a storm , or pains in joints and injuries . |
| 2 | There were also cutbacks in the numbers of beds provided and , as a result , some people who had major operations had been released from hospital after only three days . |
| 3 | Like transitional relief , community charge reductions will provide payments to some people who face high increases because of the changeover from rates to community charge . |
| 4 | But some people it took three weeks to do I do n't know how the hell it did that , and I did n't even know |
| 5 | There are many — kissing gates which are too small to allow me through , pathways which drop steeply at the edge so I ca n't move to the side to open the gate , well-meaning people who put deep grit or gravel onto the surface of the path , making my progress slow and tiring , and deep mud where horses and motorbikes have also used the path . |
| 6 | For example , it would be interesting to know how far they would be prepared to deliver service to frail old people who present particular problems , if they can make a living with easier clients . |
| 7 | Many of the old people who did this job sixty and seventy years ago told me some of their experiences . |
| 8 | There were a few people who had private laboratories , and who were like Lavoisier amateurs of fully professional competence ; and there were those who lived by consultancy . |
| 9 | A third group consists of unemployed people who take casual jobs in catering for want of any alternative . |
| 10 | After a public appeal , more than 800 people who have regular nightmares flooded the Nightmare Research Unit at Bethlehem Royal Hospital , Beckenham , Kent with pleas for help . |
| 11 | The second explained them as a protest against society by deprived people who saw violent attacks upon the forces of law and order as a way of calling attention to their grievances . |
| 12 | The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives . |
| 13 | On my two visits I met many ordinary people who have great respect and affection for their prime minister . |
| 14 | Since 1991 health authorities are meant to have ensured that mentally ill people who need continuing care are monitored on formal care programmes . |
| 15 | Similar strategies are adopted by the non-indigenous people who leave temperate environments to live temporarily in polar regions ; they make small physiological adjustments , but rely for safety on good clothing , housing and food , and constant alertness to risk . |
| 16 | The researchers selected 35 people who ate spicy food regularly and gave 19 of them 32 solutions containing different amounts of capsaicin and sugar . |
| 17 | Well and also I 'd like to throw in my , my views of these people who advise young children on their careers . |
| 18 | There are many cases in service industries , in consultancies , in the financial services and in high technology where heads of functions and sales-driven people who generate tremendous sums of money for their companies are paid more than the person who is actually managing and running the business . |
| 19 | Not all people who use enforced vomiting as a method of avoiding the consequences of overeating ( or who use it simply as a method of slimming in order to follow the dictates of fashion ) are necessarily suffering from bulimia . |
| 20 | Similarly , there can be damaging consequences from repeated drug use , smoking , caffeine ingestion , gambling , excessive exercise , overwork , slimming , overeating , forced vomiting and from making inappropriate relationships but this does not mean that all people who suffer damaging consequences are necessarily addicted to any of these processes . |
| 21 | The essentialist view of homosexuality seeks to forge links between all people who enjoy same-sex relations , regardless of gender , race , age , class or period . |
| 22 | When in the 1960s poverty was ‘ rediscovered ’ in the UK , it became clear from research findings that those elderly people who had occupational retirement pensions derived from their previous employment were least likely to be living in poverty , as then defined . |
| 23 | Thus the traditional retirement resorts have already experienced a large increase in the number of very elderly people who place extra demands on health and residential care facilities , to the extent that in places like Worthing , Hastings , Eastbourne and Clacton around one in eight people were aged 75 or over in 1981 . |
| 24 | There is evidence from America that costing by ‘ Diagnosis Related Group ’ may provide a disincentive to offering support and aftercare to elderly people , as average figures for ‘ cost per case ’ may not take into account the higher costs incurred by some elderly people who need longer recovery times or more aftercare . |
| 25 | This was only part of a general sort of pattern as it were , where people were beginning to impinge on their lives , there was another well-known local alcoholic there who was knocking on doors trying to get money off people , and there 's several elderly people who gave this woman money , because they were frightened that if they did n't something would happen to them . |
| 26 | It also showed that these consequences occur not only in those who are severely injured , but also for the very many people who suffer minor injury or are uninjured . |
| 27 | There must be many people who knew this state of financial insecurity but she found that she did not want to think about them . |
| 28 | One of the chief pleasures was seeing the reunion of many people who had first-hand experience of travelling or working on the Line , and met against after many years . |
| 29 | Many people who seek professional help for problems of depression , anxiety , stress , relationship difficulties and related issues have discovered the importance of problems they have experienced in connection with their parents . |
| 30 | That connection does not go down well with many people who vote Liberal Democrat . |