Example sentences of "[adj] people [unc] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | A selection of samples of different people 's handwriting were collected and encoded . |
| 3 | Such an approach takes into account different people 's knowledge and skills levels , their varying educational , cultural and life experience . |
| 4 | We can not say whether such changes are good or bad without making explicit value judgements about the comparison of different people 's welfare . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ] . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | A report by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution , published on Aug. 13 , found that in 1991 there were 39,800 members of extreme right-wing organizations ( including 24,000 in the German People 's Union — DVU — for whose showing in April 1992 state elections see p. 38871 ) . |
| 12 | On March 18 two organizations which had opposed Habré — the Chadian People 's Revolution and the Original National Front for the Liberation of Chad ( Frolinat originel ) — amalgamated with Déby 's Patriotic Salvation Movement . |
| 13 | On the other hand , any interest in any part of the land , however small , does require a notice and this can include ( to some people 's surprise ) land interests as small as those shown for a new visibility splay for an access road . |
| 14 | In the thin atmosphere , faces became puffy , eyes almost disappeared and some people 's sight was affected . |
| 15 | Some people 's usage is more powerful than others ' . |
| 16 | The reason for this is not so much that it was beyond some people 's capacity to do imposition and so on ; but rather that it cost employers money to train people to do such tasks . |
| 17 | It is no surprise to find , too , that some people 's credit horizon is much more limited than others ' . |
| 18 | And some dreams , I 'm not saying Katherine 's is , I 'm sure it is n't , but , but some people , some people 's anxiety dreams are of that kind . |
| 19 | Parents believe the recession may be having an effect on some people 's ability to pay the £10,000 a year fees , but the college needs the money . |
| 20 | Therefore modern communications can increase some people 's awareness of their isolation and spatial immobility ( and , presumably , their frustrated opportunities ) . |
| 21 | That 's some people 's idea of paradise . ’ |
| 22 | Some people 's behaviour changes after they have suffered a stroke . |
| 23 | The 1980 line-up of the regular army identified by IISS consisted of eight divisions , two of them armoured , and a number of independent brigades , together with some People 's Army ( al-Jaish al-Shaabi ) formations of part-timers under the command of the regime 's second most prominent figure , Taha Yasin Ramadhan , estimated in 1980 to number some 75,000 . |
| 24 | Then I was showered with the realisation that I had spent half a working day thinking these thoughts , during which time , if I had put a foot wrong , I would have immediately proved , to some people 's satisfaction , the innate unsuitability of women for this kind of work ; and that clinched it ; and I wrote the letter and confirmed the complaint . |
| 25 | Eva was never afraid to speak her mind , and she had an uncanny knack of putting her finger right on a problem , much to some people 's discomfiture . |
| 26 | In fact , some people 's remembering of the exact colours and their proportions might be so far out as to scramble the possible building of any picture . |
| 27 | Orb music sets the imagination going , and some people 's imagination runs a lot further than others … ’ |
| 28 | This would provide , in some people 's view , a fairer competition between state and private education , and lead to a reduction in the need for the state to provide such a large proportion of the service . |
| 29 | These cases may seem slightly trivial to go an , in some people 's view , murder another being but there are other cases . |
| 30 | Perhaps some people 's preoccupation with job titles on business cards is compensation for this . |