Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] [adj] people " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , because the sampling frame consists of private households only , the survey does not cover elderly people in institutional care — for example , those living in old people 's homes and those who have been in hospital for more than six months . |
| 2 | Surely people will ask us why , in 1991 , we did not recognise young people 's aspirations to travel and work abroad . |
| 3 | Looking back , it seems remarkable that only in the 1950s did white people come to accept — grudgingly for the most part — that black people did not need white people in positions of authority to lead and guide them . |
| 4 | In part , it says : ‘ I have not met bad people , I have never been robbed and whenever I left a village , people waved me with tearful eyes . |
| 5 | Speaking as someone with a job I 've got to be very careful about giving advice to people who are in a much worse situation than myself , but from the research we did erm it is clear that it 's very important erm not just to sink in and dwell on your problems , not just to erm stay at home , not meeting other people , not engaging in activities . |
| 6 | By contrast , they implied that the unprejudiced personally did not mind black people ( some of their best friends were black … ) ’ but there were all sons of other reasons , beyond their personal feelings , why regrettably it was better if there were no black people in Britain . |
| 7 | At a very general and abstract level , this must be so — indeed , it is part of the prevailing ageism , which will be discussed later , that we often do not see old people as ordinary human beings with the same responses and reactions . |
| 8 | They were meant not to infect other people with ‘ unnecessary knowledge ’ . |
| 9 | We know that custody does not stop young people committing crimes when their sentence is over . |
| 10 | This does not gainsay the fundamental proposition that it is every citizen 's duty to retain self-control — at least to the extent of not violating other people 's interests — but it does open the way to a manslaughter verdict and to sentences which are rarely longer than eight years ' imprisonment ( less than half as long as the time served by many convicted of murder ) and may be considerably shorter . |
| 11 | However , the plea continually made to us by senior police officers and members of the Police Federation and other organisations representing the police is that they do not have sufficient people . |
| 12 | That would have caused outrage if she had been an infant , since Zuwaya do not slap other people 's children . |
| 13 | Magistrates are under a constraint not to send young people to prison . |
| 14 | The official unemployment total of two two million six hundred and four thousand one hundred is more than a million short of the real figure because the tories have found thirty ways not to count jobless people . |
| 15 | It means not blaming other people about your actions and your feelings , for example ‘ You 've upset me . ’ |
| 16 | Some amazingly well organised not to mention tight people , take their notes for this meeting on the back of the last meeting 's agenda . |
| 17 | Practices would be wise , however , not to appoint unqualified people just because they seem to have good listening skills . |
| 18 | While we believe that a problem is all someone else 's fault , we are powerless to resolve it , since we can not change other people ; we can only change ourselves . |
| 19 | I could not let other people see it . ’ |
| 20 | I believe in the end that one of the casualties of taking short cuts and losing integrity is that you will not get good people coming into the business . |
| 21 | Furthermore their circumstances , such as pressures to be ‘ acceptable ’ and ‘ normal ’ , do not allow young people to rebel against the control of others . |
| 22 | Some government statements have come perilously close to saying ‘ we can not afford old people ’ and those who care for old people must not be diverted from a moral stand by economic filibustering . |
| 23 | Is it not fraud of the most cynical , wicked type that financial advisers are not telling elderly people that those bonds are dangerous and that they are likely to lose their homes within two years ? |
| 24 | But the jury decided she had not endangered other people 's lives . |
| 25 | Try not to push other people too hard , you wo n't get the best from them that way . |
| 26 | The opposite problem is experienced by those who are lacking in confidence , who feel that they should not worry other people with their problems and who , if they finally make an appointment , tend to rush through it and come away without covering all the points with which they had really hoped to deal . |
| 27 | Do not despise clever people , Mr Wormwood . |
| 28 | In a rare interview , Arkan told me he did not despise Albanian people . |
| 29 | If they do n't , they wo n't make other people feel comfortable either . |
| 30 | When they first came to this country — like my mum , when she first came she said she could n't find a place to live because people did n't want black people on their premises . |