Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [adj] people " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of the older houses and walls are built of cobbles from the sea shore , and there is a fair amount of new building to accommodate young people and those who wish to retire here . |
| 2 | Appealing to employers to make special provision to enable older people to continue or , indeed , return to employment , the Ministry offered the help of its industrial rehabilitation units in cases where lack of confidence and low morale were obstacles to the re-employment of older people . |
| 3 | Many asylum seekers are middle class , but one need only visit Brick lane to see Bangladeshi people who are suffering a great deal because they are poor . |
| 4 | It was suggested that the auction should be held in the open-air to enable more people to take part but William Dunlop objected , insisting that the venue be strictly adhered to as arranged . |
| 5 | The decision to include married people in this was both practically and theoretically crucial . |
| 6 | Each basic but spacious apartment sleeps 2–4 people , with two of the beds in the lounge/dining area . |
| 7 | The sentence disappointed many people whose prejudice had wanted him hanged , including those pamphleteers who had established his guilt long before any trial . |
| 8 | Ward learning is however a gradual process , and the student can easily overlook the value of discussions of patients ' progress , the care supervised by a senior nurse and the opportunity to observe experienced people at work . |
| 9 | English fiction loves such people ; it never tires of the lurch , of such areas of darkness . |
| 10 | Very often they just need the opportunity to meet other people in a similar situation , and in so doing learn to form new relationships again , but in a safe and caring atmosphere . |
| 11 | Although during the years I worked there I had the opportunity to meet many people , mainly the farmers who were our principal customers , I can honestly say that my job was the most boring and monotonous I could possibly have had . |
| 12 | By living in a private house the student can be independent while having the opportunity to meet British people and to live in a British environment . |
| 13 | For example , although they might see the same people every night in the pub , that was not a planned attempt to see those people but an unplanned consequence of going to the pub . |
| 14 | In October 1913 the institution housed 206 people , made up of 107 men , 87 women and 12 children . |
| 15 | The rural sector had been dependent on external aid to support these people , and was in any case unable to employ all of them . |
| 16 | The YPLL panel study asked young people : Where do you go and what do you do if you just want to be alone to think ? ’ |
| 17 | Protestants believe that Protestantism produces better people and a better society , and this belief is held by even those people who have ceased to have any active religious commitment . |
| 18 | While in the last century there was still some attempt to embrace all people in Ireland as the Irish nation , now the nation subsists in the Irish catholic population . |
| 19 | If your experiment involves other people ( e.g. if you are comparing different readers ' responses ) , you need to consider ethical issues which arise , including ( a ) getting their permission to use the results ; ( b ) showing them the results and explaining them ; ( c ) not using their names when you report the experiment ( even if they have given permission for this , there is unlikely to be any point ) ; ( d ) the ethical problem that sometimes an experiment is best conducted if the test subjects do n't know what it is for ; that is , if there is a " secret agenda " . |
| 20 | This on the surface may not seem to be hostile to religion , but it causes severe re-interpretation encouraging many people to regard religion as little more than a culturally derived dressing-up game . |
| 21 | This process continues until one side has three people in one line . |
| 22 | First , reminiscence highlights older people 's assets rather than their disabilities . |
| 23 | The Church of England has set up a working party to investigate the possibility of placing advertisements on radio and television in a bid to attract more people to the Church . |
| 24 | The R&A 's full-time staff remains minute : eight executives plus a support staff of 16 ( the USGA has 200 people ) . |
| 25 | One American psychologist surveyed 659 people to count up some 21,000 examples of everyday irritations and annoyances . |
| 26 | And whilst in a Shakespeare play well , let me just give the , give the ex erm example that if this was a Shakespeare play for example , and you , you had all these characters in disguise conning other people and whatever , by the end of the play everybody would be out of their disguises and marrying each other and all the bad people would have been consigned , you know , to stage off |
| 27 | Despite an approaching typhoon which ordinarily would have left the streets deserted , the march attracted 40,000 people - the largest political demonstration locally for 20 years . |
| 28 | Community leaders decided to build homes for rent to help young people brought up in the village stay in the area . |
| 29 | A particular , and not infrequent , problem arises when mental infirmity leads old people to behave in ways which are difficult for neighbours to tolerate . |
| 30 | It took a long talk from one of the Sisters of Charity to make him realise that God had given him the gift of his voice and he was to use his gift with religion to help these people . |