Example sentences of "[noun pl] on [adj] people [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am not against the use of antibiotics — as a Nurse I see many infections managed effectively by their use and have used antibiotics on other people 's fish many times . |
| 2 | Ian Timaeus ( 1986 ) suggests that the family demands on older people 's services may actually increase in future . |
| 3 | The growing popular discontent , together with mounting evidence of serious effects on local people 's health , is seen as a key reason behind the decision to go ahead with the Temelin reactor [ see above ] . |
| 4 | It is a matter to which statutory services in those areas most affected should be paying serious attention now , since adverse effects on old people 's support systems are predictable . |
| 5 | Without you I 'd have to leave my stillborn poems on other people 's doorsteps , wrapped in brown paper . |
| 6 | We do n't like the orthodox approach — but what right do we have to try out our home-grown experiments on other people 's children ? |
| 7 | However , some professionals may criticise the new guidelines for undermining the Children Act 's principles on young people 's rights , opening the door to abuses such as pin-down . |
| 8 | You come back and place your hands on various people 's foreheads until eventually you say the right number . |
| 9 | ‘ Are they trained to sharpen their bayonets on other people 's brickwork ? |
| 10 | Not having met the man , and basing his conclusions on other people 's prejudices , Charles decided that young Steen 's main offence was that he was not his father . |
| 11 | Freud is reluctant to say that there would not be unforeseen consequences if the restrictions on young people 's sexual activities were altered , for human beings seems to devise conventional restrictions upon sexual life in all cultures . |