Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] that [adj] people " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the problem reaches even further into the local community when developers start to snap up adjacent buildings , with the direct result that local people can no longer afford to live there . |
| 2 | One of these , often referred to by the police , is the unrealistic fear that many people , particularly the elderly , have of their society . |
| 3 | I can tell my hon. Friend that local people would not mind losing the south-facing slip roads . |
| 4 | There is no direct evidence that all people have the potential for addictive disease within them and , conversely , there is evidence that addictive disease seems only to affect particular people , albeit an enormous number . |
| 5 | I remind the hon. Gentleman that 97 people have been charged with terrorist crimes during the past two months , including 11 for murder . |
| 6 | We found all sorts of different ways that different people were achieving these experiences . |
| 7 | The sense that many potential carers are guarding their own positions in situations where the care of a relative becomes a live issue in a family , is matched by the very clear message that older people in particular are wary of asking too much of their relatives , or of ‘ having ’ to rely on them . |
| 8 | He feels real anger running in his veins — a generous fury that honourable people should be so traduced . |
| 9 | Initially , in the early 1960s , these were concerned to test the social-psychological assumption that young people 's entry into work could be explained by the idea of ‘ occupational choice ’ . |
| 10 | However , during all those years of ‘ cut your carbohydrates ’ advice , which impressed itself so much on the British public that many people are still overwhelmed with guilt at the sight of a slice of bread or a potato , all high-carbohydrate foods were grouped together as culprits in causing this rebound hunger which led to excessive eating . |
| 11 | So they 're very ordinary signs that ordinary people can understand . |
| 12 | Mr Portillo claimed that people on low incomes were very low users of road fuel yet would be compensated through the RPI for the extra expense that other people would pay . |
| 13 | I would say early schizophrenia — the paranoid type that older people seem to be more susceptible to . |
| 14 | On this point they have much in common with travellers from the past : the word ‘ travel ’ comes from ‘ travail ’ and until the second half of the nineteenth century travel was such hard and dangerous work that few people contemplated it . |
| 15 | I do not draw the simple conclusion that young people have been badly treated — as they have — during the last 12 years . |
| 16 | These are not at all original or exotic but are based on the ordinary things that most people tend to eat . |
| 17 | it is a condition that can be acquired , to distinguish it from some similar conditions that some people are born with . |
| 18 | Would the existence of the quota scheme undermine the moral argument that disabled people deserve equal treatment and opportunity as of right rather than by concession ? |
| 19 | It has been convincingly argued that the image of an advice-giving agency is crucial because it is at the stage of identification of the appropriate agency that most people are obstructed on the way to the solution of their problem . |
| 20 | I think one of the problems is , that a lot of shoppers do n't realize that they 're entering into a contract and we do n't realize it for the simple reason that most people have , as soon as you hear the word contract you have a mental image of a legal document that you sign , do n't you ? |
| 21 | Whereas the standards and styles set by the peer group can set highly influential markers around acceptable and unacceptable behaviours for young people it is in individual friendships that young people find support and security , negotiate their emotional independence , exchange information , put beliefs and feelings into words and develop a new and different perspective of themselves . |
| 22 | The most obvious example is the moral repugnance that many people show for homosexuality between consenting adults . |
| 23 | John Major , placing the blame on borrowers and , obliquely , the lenders , told the House of Commons : ‘ It is a sad fact that many people over-extended their mortgage commitments and now face difficulties . |
| 24 | It is a sad fact that many people over-extended their mortgage commitments and now face difficulties . |
| 25 | IT IS a sad fact that some people seem to change in personality immediately they get behind the wheel of a car adopting an aggressive and impatient approach where every second seems to count . |
| 26 | And it says a lot for our low expectations that most people automatically go for the salt as soon as their plate arrives at the table . |
| 27 | ‘ The hard times that many people had been through had made them disillusioned and cynical . ’ |
| 28 | It is often said that alcohol is ‘ the only little pleasure that old people have ’ , which may be true to an extent , but if drinking becomes a problem then it is for the individuals to decide how much of a pleasure drinking is , and whether they want help to stop . |
| 29 | Despite all the fine statements that young people are the future of the country , they are still a disadvantaged group and will remain so until they are made a priority policy target . |
| 30 | Objective tinnitus that other people can hear is very rare . |