Example sentences of "[adj] people have [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most English people have some small amount of French . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | With the overall decline in fertility elderly people have fewer children than in previous generations ( Phillipson and Walker , 1986 , p. 4 ) , and will be turning to a wider range of friends , relatives and neighbours for help and support . |
| 5 | Many busy working people have this quality of appeal , workpeople who will share an interest in what they are doing in an office or down a hole in the street . |
| 6 | We realize and experience with you the difficulties that most working people have these days . |
| 7 | But , just as adult people have many facets to their personalities , so too does the adult within . |
| 8 | Self-employed people have more leeway about how much tax they pay . |
| 9 | Few young people have much business sense … ’ |
| 10 | Young people have many calls on their time and inclinations . |
| 11 | ‘ But why , you ask me — why did these two young people have this heroin in their bags ? |