Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [adv] [adj] people " in BNC.
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| 1 | His orders are to kill as many people as he can , ’ I answered . |
| 2 | Getting prisoners to realise there are people worse off than themselves , is the main idea behind a 3-day event at Stoke Mandeville. 30 of them have been helping mentally handicapped people of all ages simply to enjoy themselves . |
| 3 | Well they would be o , they 're representing too many people for them to misbehave . |
| 4 | Erm well erm I I normally work four days a week but I 'm not working today because we 're having about twenty people around for a buffet supper tonight so I 'm very busy cooking . |
| 5 | But they 're making dead sure people think seriously about the idea . |
| 6 | It has been shown how elderly people move closer to those who can help them sustain their independence , rather than aiming to move in with relatives . |
| 7 | ‘ We are expecting about 300 people at the supporters ’ club after the funeral because Dennis was such a character and everybody who went on away matches knew him . ’ |
| 8 | Managers say Stoke Mandeville has simply been treating too many people . |
| 9 | However I must start by saying that er the County Council are giving so many people the hundred and twenty nine thousand people who signed contingence . |
| 10 | If we are to understand why older people do not respond to situations in more logical , less self-damaging ways , we must try to understand the system of prediction which the individual is using . |
| 11 | ‘ He had to be to fool so many people for so long . |
| 12 | In our next issue we will be examining why some people still resist the pressure to pick up after their dogs . |
| 13 | Argus will be taking on other people 's technology as well and is currently in negotiations with several firms , he insisted . |
| 14 | Argus will be taking on other people 's technology as well and is currently in negotiations with several firms , he said . |
| 15 | The majority of SSDs are placing physically disabled people in residential accommodation outside their own community and have little knowledge about them . |
| 16 | The individuals interviewed were asked how many people had participated in the most recent assessment and review they had attended and how long these usually took . |
| 17 | A ROYAL visitor is to see mentally ill people brushing up their social skills and learning relaxation techniques at a Darlington centre next The Duke of Gloucester will visit the Mind centre in Borough Road , Darlington , which was opened last year by the Bishop of Durham , the Rt Rev David Jenkins . |
| 18 | The scene in Belfast is growing as more people start realising that you have to put some effort in to make it work . |
| 19 | It 's recording how many people |
| 20 | The USAF itself is stationing about 2000 people in Britain to supervise and operate the missiles . |
| 21 | The problem is increasing as more people live longer and is thus quite urgent for practical reasons . |
| 22 | A second essential component in all such programmes is winning over local people . |
| 23 | Every day the virus causing AIDS is infecting more young people . |
| 24 | ‘ I think that it is tremendous that the Australian Wine Bureau is offering so many people the chance to play tennis competitively at great venues and I am looking forward to passing on a few tips to the winners — before joining them in a celebratory glass of Australian wine . ’ |
| 25 | We are not convinced that the object of the exercise is to make yet more people to become like ourselves ! |
| 26 | Next to the court was Mr. Stone 's Grocery Shop which never seemed to do much trade — it opened late and closed early — the stock was limited so few people patronised it . |
| 27 | In 1988 the celebration meeting was numbering around 2000 people and facilities at the school at which the meeting was taking place were being stretched . |
| 28 | If we focus on all those clients who were still at home one year after referral , we can ask again whether the Home Support Project was sustaining more disadvantaged people than were still at home in the control sub-sample , and we can examine the interplay of a greater number of factors than those presented in Table 4.4 . |
| 29 | The need was to pick out those people who could skilfully and accurately follow instructions and do low-level clerical and administrative jobs for the metropolitan country . |
| 30 | So the tactic in a dispute was to persuade as many people as possible to lend their voice , to show concern , and to mediate . |