Example sentences of "[adj] people [to-vb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I need different people to control those strategies . |
| 2 | They are simply told to imagine that the adjectives had been used by 6 different people to describe another person , and to use these traits to form an impression of that imaginary person . |
| 3 | I have too much faith in the British people to accept that . |
| 4 | something wrong with all the people that allow a few people to do this ? |
| 5 | Montgomery had seen too many such people to feel more than a token sympathy . |
| 6 | They pay clever people to do that for them — people who , collectively , go under the name of the Cabinet Office Assessments Staff . |
| 7 | It is not even a question of God inspiring people to exploit these opportunities when they arise . |
| 8 | The on the only thing is sometimes if you a if you ask some of these people to do these things I know it 's not a lot of responsibility but do you reckon it goes to his head ? |
| 9 | If , for example , eligibility for a grant for education , or for council housing , or for employment in the public service , or for a place for a child at a school of first choice , were to be assessed by reference to the citizenship record of the applicant , then this would put considerable pressure on many people to perform these ‘ voluntary obligations ’ . |
| 10 | Indeed , UAPT have considered , as an identifying factor which would virtually avoid the problem , filing date of birth ( following the example of a Dutch computer-based credit reference bureau ) ; but the reluctance of many people to give this information in this country is an obstacle . |
| 11 | This has led many people to argue that , under the conditions of the global capitalist system , industrialization is only possible for developing countries where bureaucratic authoritarian regimes can organize the production process , and particularly the labour force , to satisfy the demands of the transnational corporations and the world market . |
| 12 | Of course , if wealth is defined in this very broad way , then we would expect very many people to possess some ; in fact the most recent figures still show very striking inequalities in wealth distribution . |
| 13 | Sonia : So why take it out on the black people then , she 's told black people to do many things , she 's even called them monkey . |
| 14 | In covering the story they had suggested that dope-smoking in squats might not be a good idea , and that Hell 's Angels might be good people to discourage such provocative acts . |
| 15 | The provision of family allowances , which could have been interpreted ( at least indirectly ) as encouraging people to have more children , hardly commended itself . |
| 16 | Booksellers were the right people to instigate such promotions : ‘ what a bookshop has , more than any publisher , is authority ’ . |
| 17 | To allow for this , there is a special tax form for retired people to reclaim any tax they have overpaid on investment income . |
| 18 | So it 's not , it 's not a question of any one government , or the voluntary organisations or the companies putting pressure , it 's a question of all of them working out mechanisms by which they can persuade more and more people to join this particular movement . |
| 19 | That requires more people to carry out the Conservative Government Acts of Parliament , and we are bound to employ more people to do that . |
| 20 | ‘ Maybe in the short term it is an advantage to a few people working in the car industry but it only encourages more people to generate more pollution . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Trespassing is not a criminal offence and we want more people to understand that . |
| 22 | ‘ Well , some people say he died in the town , always trying to make a broom that would last ; others say he just gave up and wasted away , others that he got somebody else to make the brooms and found somebody to provide better twigs , and got people to sell the brooms in other towns and cities , and hired more people to make more brooms , and built a broom-making factory , and made lots of money and had a splendid house made … |
| 23 | Erm , then we all just worked at getting pieces out on paper , all that was going fine , and then I assigned two more people to stick all the pieces together and trying to create sentences from it , and I think the only time that I , we lost it was like , right at the end we were like looking for a few words to make our sentences make sense . |
| 24 | And few would disagree that , given the fanaticism and sheer ferocity of tabloid prejudice , it would be unreasonable for gay people to expect that Labour should adopt our cause as an election issue . |
| 25 | So in later years , when opportunities might arise for young disabled people to have some choices and to have more say , they have no basis for such autonomy . |
| 26 | The first people to reach this remote peninsula were the Old Stone Age people who sought shelter in caves such as Hoyle 's Mouth near Tenby and Priory Farm Cave at Monkton . |
| 27 | I said how surprising it was that even in a small society like ours we should be able to throw up any number of superior people to replace those lost in the normal or abnormal attrition of life . |
| 28 | Often , even after insisting that everyone goes back to the launch point , there will be barely enough people to hold all the gliders down , turn them around and re-park them if the wind changes . |
| 29 | She 's got other people to do all that for her . |
| 30 | " People are always telling other people to do that kind of thing , " said Clelia , " it must give them a vicarious thrill . |