Example sentences of "[adj] people [adv] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 When I read out ‘ La Parure ’ to a writing class , I noticed that the penny dropped with some people just before the author disclosed the secret .
2 And there are some people actually on the beach as well , which I think is important because we 've got a lot of empty area here , fairly featureless area , but it 's nice to have these two or three people er dotted around on the beach .
3 I saw lots of British people all over the stadium , waving huge Union Jacks .
4 That land is extremely valuable , and what 's more I would suggest that the three people here at the table with me go back to the Property Committee , to which they belong .
5 There were three people only in the school : myself , the young man and my driver .
6 and it grown and that 's it , no , they 've got ta bombard it with chemicals and all sorts , they want more and more but what 's the good of producing more and more , but all these people all over the world dying of hunger
7 With more than a thousand people already on the waiting list , they 'll be offered bed and breakfast .
8 My clubs travel everywhere with me and through golf , I have met the most extraordinary and fascinating people all over the world .
9 Because of the large number of elderly people now in the population it is inevitable that much of the discussion will concern their needs , but they are by no means the only people who need personal care .
10 Black spectators stood and applauded as the sentences were imposed and Hawkins 's father later described the prison terms as " a small joy for myself but a great victory for black people all over the city " .
11 In exactly the same way , too many people are looking into the mind of the homosexual rather than considering the repugnance that is caused to millions of decent people all over the country … .
12 From April 3–12 , the Tidy Britain Group are inviting people all over the country to take part in the National Spring Clean 1992 .
13 But it ca n't be denied that in the days following the concert — which was seen by one-and-a-half billion people all over the world groups watched their LPs , new and old , surge healthily up the charts , taking their bank balances to new heights .
14 He appeared to be inviting various people forward for an introduction .
15 It could have been made by the indigenous people immediately after the conquest , or alternatively features such as the teeth could have been cut much later on the head .
16 It had been started with two friends by Adrian Cotterell , Polytechnic journalism drop-out , and although the two friends had themselves dropped out after the first twelve months Cotterell had managed to keep enough people together for the place to stay in business .
17 The author of the Life of Wilfrid , who represents Wilfrid as persuading the king and queen to accept the word of God and as preaching to a people who had never before heard the Gospel , undoubtedly exaggerates the paganism of the southern Saxons , for Bede reveals from non-Wilfridian sources , first , that Aethelwealh had married a Christian princess and had been baptized himself and , second , that a number of ealdormen and thegns had likewise received baptism , with the priests , Eappa , Padda , Burghelm and Aeddi ministering to the common people either at the time of Aethelwealh 's conversion or subsequently ( HE IV , 13 ) .
18 Julian and I have decided that our business is to look after our own people here in the country . ’
19 This denial is so certain that other people close to the sufferer may even come to doubt their own certainty that there really are problems or they may even come to doubt their own sanity .
20 When family members , or other people close to the sufferer attempt to give feedback it may be resented and resisted by the reactivated denial system and lead to the opposite of the desired effect .
21 The Symposium considered how the Church can communicate more effectively to young people today for the benefit of their safety and emotional health .
22 The recession is hitting young people hardest in the North-East with unemployment among under 25s growing faster than across the working population as a whole , said Steve Pickering , regional secretary of the General , Municipal and Boilermakers Union .
23 I emphaasise that those figures are all random , and they show that hundreds of young people all over the country are denied a job or a YT place .
24 Dick Van Dyke 'as an absurd fake Cockney accent , yet young people all over the world still thrill to 'is performance in Mary Poppins .
25 Relationships between two people anywhere in the world can be expressed in terms of a dyadic contract ( Foster 1967 ) .
26 Situated between the two levels will be 19 hospitality boxes with full catering facilities for up to 200 people together with a club lounge and offices .
27 It was the wedding of the century , the fairy tale that excited , fired and fascinated people all over the world .
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