Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] people [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 In contrast , the nearest most deaf people got to the War was to receive training in rifle practice and to learn how to dig trenches in case the Germans managed to invade .
2 Ms Davidson suggests that PR is now valued more than ever before and this is reflected in the number of highly qualified people coming into the industry .
3 The boom in golf is player-led , with more young people coming into the game and many older people also taking it up .
4 Well local people protesting in the area say they 'll fight the scheme and they plan to lobby the meeting of county planners at ten thirty in Northallerton this morning which has been called to discuss the scheme .
5 The most notable people connected with The Spinnery were Annie Garnett and her sister Frances .
6 We have heard something today of how West Belfast is a marginalised area in terms of employment and training , and if that is the case , then disabled people lie on the margin of the margins .
7 The pledge was perfectly designed to register the horrified rejection of war with which very large numbers of otherwise unpolitical people responded to the various war scares of the later 1930s .
8 There were mentally deficient people housed in the institution as well as chronic sick and destitute . ’
9 To combat ageism , therefore , we need knowledge and understanding of the effective adjustments which so many very old people make in the face of radically changed situations , physical , social and emotional .
10 These two sources of evidence suggest that the discharge of long stay patients from the declining mental hospitals is not the main factor contributing to the increase in the numbers of mentally ill people living on the streets .
11 UZ Two very large people marrying after the prime of life
12 Very lonely people turn to the tranquillising help of alcohol particularly , according to psychiatrists , men who live alone .
13 One concern is that as the numbers of very aged people increase in the population , so those offered a place in a home are increasingly dependent .
14 Once the ‘ ordinary ’ needs of daily life have been successfully provided , mentally disordered people living in the community need regular skilled review of their mental state to ensure that medical , nursing and psychological expertise is used to best effect to minimize the impact of the disorder .
15 We are now charging frail elderly people , physically and mentally handicapped people to go to the day car facilities that they so value and so need .
16 She went home once a month to combat any such suggestion , and told her family that there were very amusing people living on the Thames .
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