Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] 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 | 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 . |
| 7 | He feels real anger running in his veins — a generous fury that honourable people should be so traduced . |
| 8 | 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 ’ . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I would say early schizophrenia — the paranoid type that older people seem to be more susceptible to . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I do not draw the simple conclusion that young people have been badly treated — as they have — during the last 12 years . |
| 14 | 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 ? |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 ? |
| 17 | The most obvious example is the moral repugnance that many people show for homosexuality between consenting adults . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It is a sad fact that many people over-extended their mortgage commitments and now face difficulties . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Objective tinnitus that other people can hear is very rare . |
| 23 | Certainly the historical evidence as a whole gives little support for the quite widespread belief that older people in the past enjoyed a much more secure and respected position than they do in the present . |
| 24 | According to functionalism , it turns out that the appropriate level of description is the same as that which characterizes folk psychology , the psychological theory that ordinary people use when predicting and explaining the behaviour of their fellow human beings in the course of their everyday lives . |
| 25 | There is one community that is chortling to itself over IBM Corp 's worldwide shredding of its mainframe price list , and that is the big leasing companies : while any prudent data processing manager has to call in Amdahl Corp , Hitachi Data Systems Ltd and Comparex Informationssysteme GmbH to be sure that the bid is n't a rip-off , there is still the nagging doubt that other people may be getting much better deals from IBM , and the only community that sees a wide variety of deals going down is the leasing fraternity , and the big ones say their people have n't been so busy in ages ; the effect of all this is to stretch out the buying process by weeks , to the likely detriment of the IBM first quarter figures . |
| 26 | is strong evidence that black people are unfairly treated by the criminal justice system . |
| 27 | There is strong evidence that ill-fed people in modern industrial and Third World societies are more likely to develop some infections and succumb to them , primarily because their immune systems are less effective : the so-called ‘ synergistic ’ effect ( Scrimshaw et al . |
| 28 | The need for excessive control in conversation can come from a deep fear that other people 's ideas are threatening . |
| 29 | It was therefore with great joy that most people in Britain greeted the recent news that three Beluga whales , which are closely related to dolphins , had made their own bid for freedom . |
| 30 | She turned up and she was absolutely wonderful She just had a kind of visual imagination that most people do n't have and she had the ideas even though she did n't have any teaching techniques or anything . |