Example sentences of "of [adj] [n mass] [verb] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Too many teachers of deaf people find themselves learning communication skills on the job — a slow process in the absence of total immersion in a deaf language environment — and their deaf pupils mirror their frustrations ; too many teachers of deaf people do not have a knowledge of a specialist subject and persist in taking generalist primary school approaches into secondary and further education . |
| 2 | The document talks of ’ Inaccessibility the majority of Somali people do not speak English . ’ |
| 3 | The majority of British people do not find universities attractive or accessible . |
| 4 | At the time of our patient 's presentation a survey of published works did not show any cases with both conditions , but subsequently a single case has been reported , suggesting that any association is likely to be weak . |
| 5 | Apparently , vast numbers of ordinary folk did n't agree , and that no doubt was connected with taxation policy . |
| 6 | Sir , — Both Mr. Newland and Mr. Chandler have referred to my earlier letter on prescription charge exemptions , when I pointed out that five out of six people do not pay for prescriptions . |
| 7 | This means that many of these people do not envisage spending the whole of their working life climbing the internal labour ladder of a single organisation . |
| 8 | Furthermore , recognition of the significance of environmental factors upon the well-being of elderly people does not give us a magic wand ; many of these factors are attributable to wider structural phenomena over which we and the elderly people have relatively little control . |
| 9 | Lucie McKenzie , speaking for Age Concern in Scotland , pointed out that about one third of elderly people did not claim the income support they were entitled to and therefore would not receive any extra money to help with additional heating costs . |
| 10 | ‘ The most successful relationships are the ones in which the issue of changing people does n't arise , ’ he says . |
| 11 | But a lot of other people do n't do much work . |
| 12 | Just a normal day of married life , nothing that thousands of other people did n't take for granted — but what heaven if ever that was normality for herself and Len ! |