Example sentences of "[adj] people have [vb pp] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some people have made a god of it . |
| 2 | Some people have mounted a coup d'état . |
| 3 | Nevin said : ‘ Some people have put a question mark over our away form but we have n't always got what we deserved so to beat a side of Leicester 's calibre is very heartening . |
| 4 | All these people have discovered a passion for one of the most popular recreational sports , sailing , and as you can see , you can take it up at any age . |
| 5 | I think there 's also the type very often these people have left a family , a wife and children behind |
| 6 | I mean these people have had a pay freeze since November nineteen ninety and these grievances were as a result of a new pay structure last year that actually worsened the terms and conditions since nineteen ninety , but till then we 've been making steady progress in getting better improvements and we 've gone backwards . |
| 7 | More than two thousand people have signed a petition opposing the merger . |
| 8 | The explicit or implicit argument is that elderly people have experienced a constriction of economic liberty in modern Britain because of the sometimes deliberate and sometimes unconscious course of development of social welfare and employment policies . |
| 9 | Many people have employed a variety of mouse and rat poisons without stopping to think that the initial effect of such toxins is to slow down the victim which then becomes an easy target for a hunting cat . |
| 10 | For instance , how many people have watched a woman carrying a load of shopping and a three year old child , or cleaning up after an incontinent elderly relation , and still been able to maintain that some jobs are too heavy and dirty for women ? |
| 11 | Many people have drawn a parallel between Salengro 's death and that of Pierre Bérégovoy , until recently France 's prime minister , who committed suicide on May 1st . |
| 12 | Nearly 170 people have signed a protest petition and local Coun Ken Corbett says it will be too close to newly-built flats for the elderly . |
| 13 | Around 2,500 people have signed a petition calling for a swimming pool in Bedale . |
| 14 | One of the most striking results of the research was that young people have identified a lack of educational programmes , as well as of programmes that examine the emotions , affections , sexuality and identity of people of their own age group . |
| 15 | Others , including a senior civil servant in the education ministry , Eberhard Boning , see the unwillingness to take risks as a symptom of a more widespread complacency in German society ; the current generation of young people have experienced a combination of material well-being and an insecure and threatening world scene ; both factors detracting from incentive for personal achievement . |