Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adj] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lucas 's study used data from 18 countries , and the regression equation ( 6.5 ) was estimated for each of them using annual data over the period 1952–67 . |
| 2 | The purpose of this project is to develop appropriate statistical procedures , to test them using psychological data and to make available techniques for use by social scientists . |
| 3 | They can also use them to accommodate overseas staff home on leave , or to entertain business associates , or even as retirement gifts for long service staff . |
| 4 | After the second assessment , social workers were asked whether participation in the research had encouraged them to include other people more fully in decision-making . |
| 5 | The contract 's been awarded to the Heart of England Training and Enterprise Council , which says the money will enable them to train local people and help them set up and run businesses . |
| 6 | I mean young people , old people , black people , white people , men , women and tiny children . |
| 7 | She felt that it was n't children 's job or children 's responsibility to look after the world , it was our job , and that it was not fair to make children feel responsible for doing that erm I mean that seems to me to be a legitimate viewpoint and erm but it 's one of many and I mean other people may feel that in order to save the planet , or indeed prevent wars in the future , it is important to expose children to the dangers of , you know , the current situation . |
| 8 | I mean charming people , lovely food |
| 9 | erm I agree , and I actually think these figures are relatively crude , but I mean , there is , clearly there are correlations between low income , which most I mean unemployed people have of course got , and ill health . |
| 10 | I mean perishable means , they 'll perish , they 'll perish |
| 11 | But I mean old people |
| 12 | now , you know , they 've been watching them , they know they 're a blind couple , I mean blind people feel that vulnerable that you 're asking them to go |
| 13 | ‘ It must sometimes be the case that I bring British fish back to London , but it will probably be in better condition than if it had been bought there as foreign agents insist on good transport and packing . ’ |
| 14 | I wanted to beckon him ; whenever I met local people on the road , there was never time to talk . |
| 15 | Throughout that period I 've canvassed for the Labour Party , I 've campaigned for the Labour Party , I 've argued for the Labour Party and one of the items that made me join the Labour Party and one of the items I got other people to join the Labour Party was that Labour was a mass Party , because it consisted of hundreds of thousands of individual members and it consisted of millions of trade unionists . |
| 16 | Oh dear , and er I got new pair of sheets , because they were erm they were the ones I had . |
| 17 | ‘ I hate disappointing people . |
| 18 | I hate Norwegian people . |
| 19 | I hate Norwegian people . |
| 20 | I expect young people of today would rate the fair rides of the early 1920 's quite tame affairs . |
| 21 | When I say nice people , people that well you know what 's come from all the different countries , from out there . |
| 22 | Er , it 's like , it 's like the foreman on the shopfloor for some reason , there 's a er , in the systems or whatever , er , the warehouseman er , the night porter er , when he takes over , he knows what he 's doing , he knows what I want , because I 've spoken to him about it , erm , he knows what items I want to leave for stock people , erm , and Sue , the checkout manager , she 'll know if I want extra people on the shopfloor because we 're quiet , or I expect it to be quiet , erm , she knows where they 've got to be , and I 'll come back and review it with her . |
| 23 | I do n't want to sort of wade in in response to that , I want other people to er |
| 24 | " You look so pretty , I want other people to see you . |
| 25 | Morris observes : ‘ I want Roseberry to go forward because I want other people in other places to look at what we have done and say , ‘ there 's an ordinary crew of folks who have really achieved something , what 's to stop us having a go ? ’ ‘ |
| 26 | Now awareness of other persons similarly depends on synthesizing perception of their bodies with imagining and feeling from their viewpoints , and awareness of myself on synthesizing imagination of my body from other viewpoints with perceiving and feeling from my own ; otherwise I would become , to vary Ryle 's dictum that the mind has been commonly conceived as ‘ a ghost in a machine ’ , a ghost in the company of machines , no longer aware that I resemble other people in the respects in which they resemble each other . |
| 27 | I keep Koi in the main pond and goldfish in the other and like many fishkeepers ( whom I suspect are in the same situation as I ) I felt that I would be happier with some sort of quarantine/treatment facility for use when I purchase new fish . |
| 28 | ‘ I meet famous people practically every day . |
| 29 | See I meet other people 's |
| 30 | ‘ Not , ’ Gaily said , worried , ‘ not that I meet bad people . |