Example sentences of "[adj] people ['s] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SI is calling for the UK to ban the importation of cheap coal produced at the expense of tribal peoples ' lives and livelihoods . |
| 2 | And if you volunteered for five years I know you got fifty pound for that which was a hell of a lot of money , a year 's wage in some peoples ' eyes that was you know . |
| 3 | I 'm very glad to see that there 's quite a lot of nurses here , and I presume that quite a lot of those are women nurses , and I think that this is terribly important , and I think a useful thing with this new service could do is to go out and talk for instance to the meetings of women 's organisations , to old peoples ' clubs in the afternoon , and actually ask people what they would like , and get them talking in a nice informal way , rather than waiting for somebody to let them know what they think , because I do n't think they 're going to get it . |
| 4 | Thus the immediate practical relief offered was two days of day care at a progressive old peoples ' home , where Stanley was encouraged in his piano playing to make a lively contribution . |
| 5 | Ongoing counselling offered the opportunity to explore further areas ; regular reviews at the old peoples ' home are part of the necessary monitoring of the situation . |
| 6 | After consultation with the ward staff of the hospital where he was , and with the speech therapist , I drew a small house , his , and a large building , an old peoples ' home , and asked him to point to where he wanted to go . |
| 7 | A group of residents in an old peoples ' home may between them be confronting many occasions of loss and death ; the handling of these matters requires sensitivity too . |
| 8 | The study sample did not differ significantly from the totality of new referrals in terms of age distribution , sex ratio , or referring agency , apart from having a lower proportion of referrals from old peoples ' homes ( 8/100 v 10/378 ; χ 2 =4.87 ; p<0.05 ) . |
| 9 | There has been a great deal of national publicity about the plans of the Labour-controlled Nottinghamshire authority to close 12 old peoples ' homes . |
| 10 | PLANS to close eight old peoples ' homes in Co Durham are disgraceful , says Peter Bergg , the Liberal Democrat prospective Parliamentary candidate for Darlington . |
| 11 | A Darlington couple have pledged to save one of the town 's old peoples ' homes from closure . |
| 12 | As one Afro-caribbean elder said in an old peoples ' club : ‘ It is not only the climate that is cold in England ’ ( Grant , 1988 ) . |
| 13 | If anyone is interested in playing for an Old Peoples ' Class on Friday mornings , starting in September at Dulwich , please contact . |
| 14 | It also calls for the introduction of land reform outside the forests , to stem the flow of landless settlers , such as " slash-and-burn " farmers , on to tribal people 's land . |
| 15 | The recording started with the news-reader announcing that Harriet Shakespeare had replied to Free People 's demands . |
| 16 | A selection of samples of different people 's handwriting were collected and encoded . |
| 17 | And they 've been smashing all different people 's ones . |
| 18 | Such an approach takes into account different people 's knowledge and skills levels , their varying educational , cultural and life experience . |
| 19 | Such behaviour may depend at least partly on the teacher 's skill in setting up situations which will elicit the best from each child : most people are shy in some situations and confident in others , and different people 's responses to the same situation may vary sharply . |
| 20 | We can not say whether such changes are good or bad without making explicit value judgements about the comparison of different people 's welfare . |
| 21 | And erm I did n't get the actual job I went for but they put me on the , on the relief register so that I go round to different people 's homes or different big hospitals and different Mencap homes relieving people when they 're on holiday or if they 're short of staff or something like that . |
| 22 | Not just Jewish people , all different people 's cars . |
| 23 | and that 's why when we experience different people 's training you get different sort of views and feelings from it because their learning style is actually pushing through sometimes sometimes it suits us and sometimes it does n't . |
| 24 | It 's just different people 's ideas of what matter is made from , and how waves travel , it 's really mind-boggling . |
| 25 | It 's all to do with the way different people 's minds work . |
| 26 | Because of the way the audience is made up , and because of different people 's viewing patterns , it requires a very heavy campaign to get anywhere near 100 per cent coverage of the audience . |
| 27 | Many had taken advantage of a vote before unification by the Volkskammer ( former East German People 's Chamber ) granting special status to Soviet Jewish immigrants . |
| 28 | In northern Schleswig-Holstein , the extreme-right German People 's Union ( DVU ) captured 6.3 per cent of the vote , while in southwestern Baden-Wurttemberg , the like-minded Republican Party pulled in 10.9 per cent — both dramatic increases over their showings of 1 per cent and less in those states four years ago . |
| 29 | The extreme right-wing German People 's Union ( DVU ) , taking advantage of recent anti-foreigner disturbances to denounce " bogus asylum-seekers and criminal foreigners " , increased its representation to six seats [ for 1987 elections see p. 35722 ] . |
| 30 | Two extreme right parties gained representation for the first time in their respective Länder , the Republicans ( led by Franz Schönhuber ) in Baden-Württemberg and the neo-Nazi German People 's Union ( DVU ) ( led by Gerhard Frey ) in Schleswig-Holstein . |