Example sentences of "[adj] people [verb] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leading environmentalist Medha Paktar and 400 others were arrested to prevent them commiting samarpan ( self-sacrifice ) in protest against the dam project , which would force 250,000 tribal people to move from the Narmada valley . |
| 2 | Why are some people repelled from the twilight zone of a city and attracted to a New Town , as shown in the photographs ? |
| 3 | Some people fleeing from the south brought the news with them . ’ |
| 4 | 452,000 people emigrated from the Soviet Union in 1990 , mostly to Israel and West Germany — double the number emigrating in 1989 . |
| 5 | All told , about 2,000 people benefited from the relief programme . |
| 6 | I shall never forget the sight of all those little people emerging from the train with their gas masks in cardboard boxes slung over their shoulders , and their little cases or brown paper parcels containing their clothes . |
| 7 | Even though the obvious explanation of the abnormal rhythmicity is that these people suffer from the loss of the light/dark cycle as a time-cue , the result also indicates that the other time-cues ( social factors , activity , and meal times ) are inadequate . |
| 8 | Taken across the industry , the Treasury has confirmed that 600,000 elderly people benefit from the relief which costs the Treasury some £50 million in ‘ lost ’ revenue . |
| 9 | Many people suffer from the same disease of thinking they must be right all the time , and they must push their rightness onto other people . |
| 10 | Many people travel from the islands to the city to work , and vice versa . |
| 11 | The campaigning or action group of committed older people may not be what many people expect from the counselling process , preferring acceptance and contentment rather than possible militancy as the outcome of help and support . |
| 12 | Recent evidence from two Nuffield College researchers , John Muellbauer and Anthony Murphy , suggests that development pressures may already be having an effect with an estimated 100,000 people emigrating from the south east in 1988 because of high house prices . |
| 13 | Well I do n't mind , well I mean this is a horrible thing to say but I do n't necessarily mind people robbing from the rich but when it 's poor people robbing from the poor , it 's a really wank off , really wanky thing to do , you know , I just think it 's disgusting . |
| 14 | Just as the study of perception of the language used by deaf people starts from the discovery of difference , so does the study of memory . |
| 15 | There was one positive side for deaf people arising from the War : with so many men volunteering or going into the Armed Services , there was a desperate shortage of labour in the workplace , especially in munitions factories . |
| 16 | Those people benefit from the fact that they do not have to make national insurance contributions . |
| 17 | Depending on reactions to this first effort , there may be more tracks to ‘ get more people involved from the club ’ , but Danny is unwilling to commit himself to anything except his work as a DJ — ‘ I love it and I 'd never give it up for anything . ’ |
| 18 | Wherever possible , jobs could be created at localities of most need , but a greater worker mobility than has been displayed in the past should be expected , and where it is not obtained , financial restrictions should be exerted to encourage fit , able but reluctant people to move from the old , worked-out pockets of industry to new opportunities elsewhere . |
| 19 | East Smithfield , Nightingale Lane , Burr Street , St Catherine 's Way ; like London 's wall they hemmed in the huge dock area that had seen 11,000 people moved from the crowded houses and thieve 's kitchens , and vast amounts of earth shifted to create new hills and rises in Chelsea and Pimlico . |
| 20 | As is invariably the case in such matters , the only people to profit from the entire episode were the lawyers . |
| 21 | The only people excluded from the protection of the new law are drug dealers , addicts and transvestites . |
| 22 | The only people excluded from the franchise are peers ( they have their own House ) , imprisoned criminals , those of unsound mind , people convicted of certain election offences , and aliens . |
| 23 | The only people to benefit from the clash were the philatelists . |
| 24 | So the population is growing fairly rapidly even though about 8000 people emigrate from the region each year . |
| 25 | Quantitatively , they are by no means negligible : the 1982 census indicated some 402,000 people originated from the departements and territoires d'outre-mer ( of whom two-thirds were from the Caribbean ) and they have been one of the fastest-growing migrant groups , escaping the immigration controls on foreign nationals imposed during the 1970s and 1980s . |
| 26 | A second example of the importance of giving opportunities to other people comes from the type of head who , in pursuing the argument that good management of a school should lead to good learning by the child , watches pupils for signs that they do in some way match hopes about independence of mind , wholeness and honesty . |
| 27 | The opportunity to gain this type of employment on the island encouraged a number of young people to return from the mainland of Scotland and use the off-farm income to help set themselves up in farming . |
| 28 | Two people escaped from the house uninjured . |
| 29 | The key to Homoeopathy is that no two people suffer from the same disease . |
| 30 | More than 300 million people suffer from the parasitic infection filariasis , Cholera , yellow fever , sleeping sickness leishmaniasis and leprosy affect tens of millions of people in tropical regions . |