Example sentences of "[adj] of [art] [noun pl] people " in BNC.
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| 1 | She ca n't ever get over some of the things people do , things that happen , every day . |
| 2 | And delighted Liverpool manager Graeme Souness said : ‘ John Barnes is a determined man , and he 's keen to prove that he can keep his international career very much alive , despite some of the things people said last week . |
| 3 | ROS : ( Nervy , loud ) Well , I 'm not really the type of man who — no , but do n't hurry off — sit down an tell us about some of the things people ask you to do — ( The PLAYER turns away . ) |
| 4 | By focusing on some of the difficulties people may encounter we do not wish to suggest that life is nothing but problems , nor to imply that these problems can not be overcome . |
| 5 | Mr Chairman I 'm , I 'm a little bit concerned about er number two er there 's something that is , we promised to reply straightforward written enquiry with without sort of commenting on whether it 's two weeks , two days , or whatever , I am a little concerned that some of the replies people show me that have had from Highways Department , erm , they really whoever writes them do n't go into any detail , I 've had , I 've seen letters recently where , where somebody said it will be dealt with in about four weeks ' time , well that 's okay , maybe they 've good and valid reasons why about four weeks is about right for their particular problem , but they do n't know why it 's gon na take four weeks , they say oh god they should be able to do that in a couple of days there 's no problem it 's an easy little job , I , I feel that the , our officers when they reply they should give some amount of detail and if they give a time span in which they 're gon na put something right , they should say why it 's gon na take that long . |
| 6 | Some of the stories people had told me in that room would make your hair stand on end . |
| 7 | ‘ The music company wanted new product fast before the headster time ended so I dashed it off one afternoon after I 'd dropped some A. Goodness , some of the interpretations people came up with ! |
| 8 | There were n't so many of the prejudices people have about education , or social status , or wealth . |
| 9 | Many of the things people say and write can be divided into facts and opinions . |
| 10 | The notion had not been popular with many of the arts people in the Council , and he recalls one lady saying in a meeting that she would ‘ not give up one page of Beowulf for all the science in the world ’ . |
| 11 | Good advisers will remind clients that one of the reasons people want money in the first place is to gain the freedom to live where they like |
| 12 | I mean generally they you know , I , that 's one of the things people cut back though is n't it ? |
| 13 | erm that 's a clumsy , and perhaps you might say a rather German way of putting it , but seeing religion as one of the things people do , one of the things that we can understand now that we 're good at understanding history — we can understand how society works , we can understand that a person is interested in religion for psychological reasons because he is a certain kind of person , comes from a certain kind of family , and so from all sorts of angles religion is being understood and the cost is that it 's not such an absolute thing as before . |
| 14 | one of the groups people |
| 15 | Now are any of the sectors people consider match that or fail to match that criterion ? |
| 16 | Have you ever read any of the tales people told in ancient Greece ? |
| 17 | Now are aware that are losing the agency stuff therefore services should improve generally but this is mostly and the business travel , you know duty travel , cruise positioning that sort of thing , to the extent that erm and two of the ops people paid a visit to last week for a liaison meeting and one thing that I thought was absolutely remarkable that came out was in respect of complaining that they could never get through to anybody in erm in , they could n't get a reply from the extensions and they could n't send messages or anything . |