Example sentences of "[adj] people [v-ing] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With so many people eager to show their wares , the exhibition has been split , with different people showing each week . |
| 2 | The gossip pegs Monday July 27 as the day DEC could announce additional layoffs with some people saying this round could force out as many as 15,000 people worldwide along with the closure of maybe ten manufacturing plants . |
| 3 | There is certainly a case for enforcing the law more strongly to prevent under-age people buying such weapons . |
| 4 | The application of QALY theory would result in old people having less chance of cardiac surgery than younger people for two main reasons : firstly , the operation is likely to have a higher mortality and morbidity for older people ; secondly , older people have in general a shorter life expectancy and therefore fewer life years to gain from the operation . |
| 5 | On May 9 the Council ruled the term " Corsican people " unconstitutional on the grounds that the Constitution recognized only the " French people comprising all French citizens without distinction as to their origin , race or religion " . |
| 6 | Getting on with what you should be doing that can only see a few people doing that who are actually getting on with what they should have been doing while you are waiting . |
| 7 | About ten people a day kill themselves by suicide , maybe maybe one in a thousand people who take Prozac get bad reactions to it , but that has to be seen in balance , in the balance of a large number of people deriving a lot of benefit and maybe a few people having some bad reactions . |
| 8 | ‘ When I read reports in newspapers I get terribly upset , because I know what it feels like , that those are real people experiencing those things , ’ says Alexandra . |
| 9 | I , I actually think they probably did use up all that was possible available to them at the time , and so , in some ways , this is against the spirit of the policy , although the policies have been changed , and I hear what Councillor said about improvement to the place , and so I do n't think we 'd serve any useful purpose in stopping these people doing this , because they 're probably not the people who were responsible for the flagrant disobeying of the rules at the time . |
| 10 | They should be discharged with a care plan , containing details of the services organised and names of key people providing those services . |
| 11 | adoption , and possibly a thousand people wanting those four babies ! |
| 12 | A detailed study revealed that in Britain approximately 1,600 accidents caused by dogs result in human injury , with about 17 people dying each year as a direct consequence of such incidents . |
| 13 | DEC has named Unix whiz-kid Alan Nemeth , the technical leader of DEC 's Unix development , a corporate consulting engineer , one of only sixteen people holding such a title at the firm . |
| 14 | I grew up with gangs , we 've had gangs in South Central LA since the beginning , but there was not as many people killing each other . ’ |
| 15 | Mr Lang said , in comments to The Scotsman : ‘ The statistics suggest that , with more people achieving more qualifications than ever before , this is the golden age of Scottish education . |
| 16 | If he thinks recovery for emotional injury is unjust , he will have made the future less unjust in the only way that counts for him : fewer people will suffer the injustice of being made to compensate for this sort of injury , which is better than more people suffering that injustice . |
| 17 | For a moment he was a billion people seeking some slight recompense for the waste of their lives . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ It will mean disabled people doing all their shopping in these wheelchairs . |
| 19 | ‘ The only people doing any laughing are the gypsies that sell it to you , ’ she 'd retort . |
| 20 | There are too many other people doing that , and I feel sad there are n't people making serious statements . |
| 21 | Aye , well , we 've got a lot of new people starting this week |
| 22 | As a constable at Easton explained , ‘ I could stand at that comer there and catch a hundred people breaking some law or other in one shift , no bother . |
| 23 | This is what marriage should be , I thought : two people comforting each other in the dark . |
| 24 | She shades her eyes to see better two people clutching each other in evident close camaraderie who to the best of her knowledge had never even met . |
| 25 | It 's not often you find yourself an enforced eavesdropper on two people screwing each other up with murder in their hearts . |
| 26 | They stared at each other for a moment , not exactly hostile , more two people measuring each other up . |
| 27 | Brief counselling is at least as effective as medication in most people facing such problems ( Catalan et al. 1984 a ) . |
| 28 | The next best thing was being given a month 's free credit , and by most people taking this they knocked the wind out of the banker 's sails . |