Example sentences of "[adj] people [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I need different people to control those strategies . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Different people did all these jobs . |
| 5 | With so many people eager to show their wares , the exhibition has been split , with different people showing each week . |
| 6 | Most English people have some small amount of French . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | That , undoubtedly , is why the British people hold this Parliament — if not its Members — in such affection . |
| 10 | I have too much faith in the British people to accept that . |
| 11 | The nation-state is inevitably becoming weaker as power goes both up to Europe and down to regions and districts , but it has a long life yet , and the British people have many uses for it . |
| 12 | There is certainly a case for enforcing the law more strongly to prevent under-age people buying such weapons . |
| 13 | It is clear that expenditure on old people dominates all other items , followed by expenditure on the unemployed . |
| 14 | The application of QALY theory would result in old people having less chance of cardiac surgery than younger people for two main reasons : firstly , the operation is likely to have a higher mortality and morbidity for older people ; secondly , older people have in general a shorter life expectancy and therefore fewer life years to gain from the operation . |
| 15 | As spouses and relatives and friends of their age move away , or die , old people look more and more to their few surviving relatives and neighbours for affection , friendship and reassurance and can easily become very dependent on a small number of people for social contact . |
| 16 | But , in the nature of things , old people spend much more time indoors . |
| 17 | On May 9 the Council ruled the term " Corsican people " unconstitutional on the grounds that the Constitution recognized only the " French people comprising all French citizens without distinction as to their origin , race or religion " . |
| 18 | Our trained people do that ! |
| 19 | ‘ We must beware lest unscrupulous people exploit these areas of misunderstanding and divert our attention from the really important task , which is our common defence of the kind of freedoms we hold so dear : the freedoms for which this noble university so proudly stands and for which so many of its sons gave their lives in foreign fields . ’ |
| 20 | Not that the early wandering people needed any formal system of feng shui , because , as they lived and moved under the direct influence of the earth 's subtle energies , its principles were naturally integrated in their lives . |
| 21 | ‘ When I read reports in newspapers I get terribly upset , because I know what it feels like , that those are real people experiencing those things , ’ says Alexandra . |
| 22 | But Rosie had come first , and real people mattered more than fantasies . |
| 23 | They pay clever people to do that for them — people who , collectively , go under the name of the Cabinet Office Assessments Staff . |
| 24 | It is not even a question of God inspiring people to exploit these opportunities when they arise . |
| 25 | The fact that Japanese people save more of their incomes , for instance , might lower borrowing costs for Japanese companies . |
| 26 | It 's like white people make these generalisations about our culture , without really understanding it . |
| 27 | We children were always told to emphasise the " full " of the wash lest people think we were dirty , and given that most white people thought all black people were dirty it was a counter to any racialist-type thoughts that people might be harbouring . |
| 28 | These unfortunate people have more comprehension of the nastiness of the Saddam regime than the member for Northampton North , who gives ‘ rugby spectator ’ as one of his hobbies in Who 's Who . |
| 29 | They should be discharged with a care plan , containing details of the services organised and names of key people providing those services . |
| 30 | The evidence seems to indicate that the ancient people operated some such technology to effect changes in earth energies . |