Example sentences of "[adj] people [prep] the same [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Most of the surveys showing that unemployed people are less healthy than the employed are cross-sectional in nature ( comparing different people at the same time , rather than following the changes in people 's lives over a period of time ) .
2 Thus , although until recently the position of those who are tended by and ‘ tend ’ old people in the same household has been too little discussed and merits more sensitive and systematic consideration , there is a similar need for informed debate about nearly three-quarters of elderly people in the UK who live separately from younger people .
3 Police believe his attackers may have robbed at least nine old people in the same area .
4 I mean if I retrain you know , there 's a thousand people for the same job , it 's just looking very bleak .
5 Further analyses by age and marital status showed that married people less often spent any time in residential homes than single or previously married people of the same age .
6 " With so many people under the same roof , my dear , Harry will be in no danger . "
7 It 's useful when you 've got to contact lots of staff or get information to many people at the same time and allows you to put detailed information down .
8 On the basis of your experience with tenants here , and the fact that there 's so many people in the same position , I mean does that act is that
9 The same message may be sent to many people in the same system .
10 In 1981 the executive committee directed that the BDN , which had hitherto performed the dual role of addressing the hearing public on behalf of deaf people at the same time as serving deaf readers , should in future primarily be a paper for BDA members and the deaf community as a whole .
11 There seem to be more people with the same idea , as the number of bowyers listed in the appropriate journals is increasing each year .
12 If others came along and interviewed the same people on the same topics , would they get the same responses ?
13 Even horses that are full brothers or sisters , and have been handled by the same people in the same conditions all their lives , can be very different not only in looks but also in personality .
14 Spoken messages can be stored in electronic mailboxes and retrieved by telephone , and by several people at the same time — because the messages are not recorded as on a tape recorder , but on electronic pulses in the computer 's memory .
15 A quality circle usually involves relatively permanent small groups of between five to 15 people from the same work group who meet periodically to consider quality problems .
16 To view this situation as ‘ normal ’ is unacceptable , especially when other people of the same age do not suffer in this way , and when there is considerable evidence that much can be done to overcome or alleviate the handicap .
17 When the assistant is serving you , he may also be serving two or three other people at the same time and holding a conversation with yet another .
18 Differently-priced packages offer different features , for example , the ability to copy in a number of other people on the same transmission .
19 ‘ It has been a long wait in a queue behind many other people with the same idea who wanted new homes in their neighbourhoods , but it has definitely been worth it .
20 On the one hand , there is certainly a resistance to change and to new ideas ; academics appear quite happy to continue teaching the same old syllabuses as if there had been no ‘ explosion ’ ( Dr P 's word ) in English studies ; at the same time , there is no resistance to allowing other people within the same department to teach quite different things to students , and to do quite different types of research .
21 It also makes sense to ask around among other people in the same field to see if you can pick up any extra information about the firm .
22 It was extremely difficult for me to write down one good characteristic about myself , let alone ten , and it was quite evident that whereas I saw myself as perpetually black , I saw my wife , Joyce as shining white and a lot of other people in the same colour .
23 ‘ And as it is the first case to come up in Scotland , it could help other people in the same circumstances . ’
24 Other people In the same way as you are insured , we will insure any person you allow to use your caravan .
25 It always helps to attend a group where you get the support of other people in the same situation as yourself .
26 ‘ There 's a lot of other people after the same thing , ’ Gloria explained .
27 When there is a face-to-face conversation and a third person joins in , the speechreader , who can not see two people at the same time , tends to become isolated while they chat together .
28 They were in the car when Emma said quietly , ‘ You can love two people at the same time , ca n't you , Mammy ? ’
29 Peggy paused before answering , ‘ Yes ; yes , you can love two people at the same time . ’
30 So yes , her daughter could love two people at the same time .
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