Example sentences of "a [noun] that [adj] people " in BNC.
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| 1 | If everyone can learn to understand , however , how wars can be started so easily , there is a hope that more people might work to prevent them . |
| 2 | How would it look if I suddenly disappeared for weeks — leaving a gap that other people would have to fill — because my wife 's grandmother is ill on the other side of the world ? ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I think it is a shame that more people are not convinced by the results that care in the community is producing and are not prepared to move over in greater numbers , ’ says Mrs Polson , who was also a sister at Aycliffe Hospital during her 10 years there . |
| 4 | She was being led to a place that many people had heard about , but only a handful of desperate , hunted souls had actually seen . |
| 5 | But Mr Desmond Fennell , QC , chairman of the Bar , claimed there was a danger that many people needing legal help would have access only to a ‘ more expensive Jack of all trades , ’ while specialist skills were reserved for the privileged few . |
| 6 | But yesterday , on his 91st birthday , Trafford , whose wife died in sheltered accommodation four years ago , told a community nursing conference in London that , though a Tory voter all his life who thought most of what Mrs Thatcher was doing was good , he saw a danger that old people might be heading back towards the workhouse if the Government went ahead with NHS cuts and changes in community care . |
| 7 | ‘ And newspaper is a product that most people believe is readily degradable . ’ |
| 8 | The growth of slimming clubs is a reminder that many people find it helpful to lose weight if they 're part of a group where they can swap stories and share experiences — but slimming clubs do n't necessarily work for everyone . |
| 9 | The dependence/independence continuum in the model of living serves as a reminder that all people experience change of dependence/independence status for the Activities of Living in the normal course of the lifespan . |
| 10 | Since 1979 we have sought to create an accountable local government system capable of delivering high quality local services at a price that local people are prepared to pay . |
| 11 | A tongue that left people in no doubt of their responsibilities but delivered in impeccable style , seen by everyone as a proper ‘ gent ’ . |
| 12 | Everyone said afterwards it was a miracle that more people had n't been killed or injured . |
| 13 | The result is a tendency to ‘ blame the victim ’ , a belief that older people have caused the plight in which they find themselves . |
| 14 | I have a theory that most people believe that they are shy and you hear the most extraordinarily extrovert people being interviewed on television and radio and confession they are really shy ! |
| 15 | This can be a method that some people use to assert themselves . |
| 16 | Maths is a subject that many people find difficult . |
| 17 | It is n't a subject that most people like to dwell on ; it may never even have occurred to you . |
| 18 | It is n't a subject that most people like to dwell on ; it may never even have occurred to you . |
| 19 | It is a truism that charming people often have something to hide — usually their total dependence on others ' good opinion . |
| 20 | For instance , deliberately setting Sarah Tobias ( Jodie Foster ) up in the extreme of a situation that many people — women and men — would say was ’ asking for it ’ , and graphically giving the lie to that pernicious concept . |
| 21 | It is a science that ordinary people feel powerless to influence but which will nevertheless have a bearing on every major site in the London area . |
| 22 | The association has had calls from hundreds of sufferers after a report that 17 people on human insulin have died this year . |
| 23 | Using leftovers and store cupboard items , you will have made a meal that many people pay several pounds for in restaurants . |
| 24 | It 's a principle that most people , including myself , aspire to , and usually claim , but which very few , including Gordon , actually have . |
| 25 | A spokeswoman for the independent Kings Fund Institute said : ‘ There 's a myth that old people have been getting fitter . |
| 26 | And yet , of course , that derogatory , throw-away term of abuse does sum up a position that some people choose to adopt in defence of the natural world and its species . |
| 27 | The next day we went to Breckland to look for a bird that some people think of as ‘ a bit of a bustard ’ . |
| 28 | What a queasy period those inter-war years now seem ( I am looking at the chicken curry ) , the old hatreds and prejudices simmering and bubbling nicely with all the dark , irrational fears surfacing in a way that rational people like Cohn-Casson believed had long ago been rendered obsolete by the evolutionary nature of society . |
| 29 | He took his argument further than that based on the existence of the pluralist society whether of his day or ours , and drew attention to the crucial question of truth-claims which can not be publicly demonstrated in such a way that reasonable people may not disagree . |
| 30 | Passing sentence , Mr Justice Latham said : ‘ Adolescent emotions boiled over in a way that older people would have been able to cope with . ’ |