Example sentences of "not people " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , what had survived were names , not peoples . |
| 2 | ( I meant buildings , not people . ) |
| 3 | Age , education , ideology , even strength of partisanship , had little influence over whether or not people perceived bias on television or in their papers . |
| 4 | Not people to applaud him . |
| 5 | Why should not people do as they pleased with their own bodies ? |
| 6 | And it was funny how he had looked at them all , during that funeral , and thought about them afterwards , but they had all been just strangers , not people he was ever likely to meet , or even see again . |
| 7 | The typical old person is transformed into a patronized welfare recipient , only one step removed from the ‘ poor dears ’ in nursing homes : not to be listened to very seriously , if at all , ‘ not quite whole people , not people like us ’ . |
| 8 | Because — even though most crimes are against property not people — only people can help prevent it . |
| 9 | Most crimes are against property , not people . |
| 10 | These were not people with chronic or serious illnesses and yet they claimed that on most days they had some sort of ache or pain or just a feeling of being ‘ run down ’ or ‘ drained ’ . |
| 11 | New Scientist , in a rich week , reported the successful attachment of glass fibre beaks to injured pelicans , asked , oddly , who made the Andes islands of ice ( perhaps an outbreak of creationism ) and explained why chimpanzees are not people , concluding that the chimps would probably not want to be , anyway . |
| 12 | Oh , I know some people like doing things like that , but not people like us . |
| 13 | Not people who want fun and adventures ! |
| 14 | ‘ [ W ] e must ensure that those who live in derelict inner-city areas are not people who are there because they have no choice and who would leave the moment they were given an alternative . ’ |
| 15 | SPIRITUAL — because they are not people ; they are real invisible beings , or spirits . |
| 16 | She is friendly towards them , but they are not people she can count on . |
| 17 | ‘ I respect the fact that The Jam can touch people and what they 're doing is an attempt to be ‘ real ’ — no myth or far-fetched fantasy — and it 's for real people , not people who follow trends . |
| 18 | Income seems more closely related to whether or not people have ever used any form of credit than any other characteristic : the higher someone 's income ( at least up to a certain level ) , the more likely they are to have used at least some sort of credit sometime . |
| 19 | Whether or not people had actually used a particular type of credit made a little difference to their overall attitude to its costliness . |
| 20 | The earlier OFT/ NOP surveys , although the results were not analysed in the same way to allow for differences in whether or not people gave any reaction to each credit form , and though the questions asked were different , gave a broadly similar perspective . |
| 21 | In a letter of 1955 Tolkien had rather laughed at the idea that Willow-man and the wights were agents of the Dark Lord : ‘ Can not people imagine things hostile to men and hobbits who prey on them without being in league with the Devil ! ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Generally speaking , these are not people who have met us , ’ drawls Albini . |
| 23 | National security , not people 's reputations , says Mr Clark , is the only argument against early publication . |
| 24 | Not people who are experienced in object programming , but who may be expert in legal or manufacturing objects , for instance . |
| 25 | I 'm , I 'm certainly as I was going to come on to explain and the way you will see ourselves working , is not people who sit in the Town Hall and just turn out reports , I mean the kind of work we do and the way we work means that were actually very much involved in the community groups , but I mean if it was , if it was thought to be an issue that we needed to have greater community involvement , i.e. to resurrecting that forum then that 's something that , you know , we may need to address , but I never saw it as operating like that anyway , I mean I saw it as it 's almost like in a cabinet of members mainly . . |
| 26 | Berwick et al , in their work on quality assurance activities , emphasised two principles : that the key to better quality care is striving for continuous improvement rather than identifying bad apples , and that most flaws come from processes , not people . |
| 27 | Treating people as if they were not people is not a possibility ; to try to do so requires all the resources of evil which the human mind can muster , but it always breaks down . |
| 28 | There was something in Mrs Maugham 's solid air of conscious rectitude that threw a faint shadow of guilt over everyone who approached her , though as often as not people did not know why they were guilty : her disapprovals were so vast and public , her approvals so private and ill-chartered that all immediately cast themselves as goats in the discrimination of her gaze . |
| 29 | He 's looking to see whether his company 's products are on display , whether or not people notice them , buy them . |
| 30 | I am going to be a queen , and I do not people speak to people who displease me . |