Example sentences of "[adj] people [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet the fact that many primitive peoples regulate interpersonal relations with a fair degree of predictability and humanity , without the help of a centralized political system , is one that most anthropologists would now endorse ; however , unlike Engels , they do this without pointing out the political implications of such an observation . |
| 2 | The worldwide picture for tribal people remains grim . |
| 3 | I need different people to control those strategies . |
| 4 | We seek to establish in the health service a system of decision-making which allows different people to reach different conclusions subject to some basic principles which clearly must underlie the delivery of socialised medicine . |
| 5 | Either have one person reading the story , or have different people reading different parts . |
| 6 | We know that different people hold different views about moral issues that they all treat as of great importance . |
| 7 | Bartholomeus ( 1974 ) presented dichotic pairs of melodies sung by different people repeating different letter sequences . |
| 8 | Different people make more use or one sense than another : they may see more than they hear ; or they may feel more than they see , even though they have sight . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Sometimes different people have conflicting frames of reference that can lead to problems of understanding . |
| 11 | Different people have different reasons for wanting or buying an electro-acoustic . |
| 12 | Different people have different severity of addictive disease . |
| 13 | However , different people have different long term objectives , and different ways of saving for them . |
| 14 | Different people have different ideas about funeral directing . |
| 15 | You know like I say there is quite a lot of trust and erm I think Yona and me are sort of aware er we 're very much united in the feeling that we do n't we do n't want things to erm you know we want everybody to be involved and obviously different people have different things to offer . |
| 16 | This example is an interesting one because different people have different views about whether or not it is in fact " illegal " . |
| 17 | Different people did all these jobs . |
| 18 | The old Welsh laws , dating from the middle of the tenth century , make it clear that the oxen were not to be used in the afternoon ; and as Seebohm points out a cyvar ( or co-ploughing , where different people contributed different members of the ox-team and the plough itself ) ended at noon . |
| 19 | Er there 's a sense also in which memories may not be an individual phenomenon but may be a collective phenomena and if you listen to families reminiscing about things or people who 've know each-other for a long time reminiscing about things , different people supply different details , they contradict one-another , they erm fill things in , they say no it ca n't have been then because um because that was the Christmas when Uncle Sydney had his kidney stones and um y'know stuff like that . |
| 20 | With so many people eager to show their wares , the exhibition has been split , with different people showing each week . |
| 21 | So different people want different things and get turned on by different things . |
| 22 | The term ’ perceptron ’ has been used by different people to mean different things , but its definition seems to have stabilised by now . |
| 23 | Most English people have some small amount of French . |
| 24 | Business Networking salons is a scheme for interesting people to meet other interesting people , devised by ageing ex-hippie Jerry Rubin , who is now a stockbroker . |
| 25 | Sadistic people derive perverse pleasure from the suffering of others and may seek out situations in which they can inflict this . |
| 26 | The case has become even stronger as British people gain more opportunities to participate in foreign lotteries — thus increasing the risk that funds which we could put to good use in Britain will be diverted abroad . |
| 27 | But is Mr Kinnock wise , having trimmed — having trimmed to a wiser policy , but all the same egregiously trimmed — is he wise to insist that the British people respect Labour for the changes it has made ? |
| 28 | The British people know that ; they are well aware of the dangers of Britain being in a second division in Europe , and they do not want to be left behind . |
| 29 | In Great Britain , the high cost of the Battle of the Somme had led to the fall of Asquith on 11 December 1916 and to his replacement as prime minister by David Lloyd George , in whose leadership the British people placed high trust . |
| 30 | That , undoubtedly , is why the British people hold this Parliament — if not its Members — in such affection . |