Example sentences of "be [det] [adv] [adj] people " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 'll like the village , I 'm sure , and there are some awfully decent people scattered about . |
| 2 | And there are some wonderfully positive people among those who have permanent disabilities or terminal illnesses so it is not just a case of being one of the ‘ lucky ’ ones . |
| 3 | Evidently , there are some very decent people out there . |
| 4 | Just as infants are totally dependent for physical and emotional care on parent figures , so there are some very old people , and others who are terminally ill , for whom this total care is now necessary . |
| 5 | There are some really nice people here . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ We 're such very different people … even Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire never ended up together ’ |
| 7 | ‘ They 're all rather sad people , ’ she said , ‘ and they must be getting under my skin , because I quite mind about them . ’ |
| 8 | I said that I think you 'll find , Ron that Trudy if she married would have to give up her late husband 's occupational widow 's pension so that the way you 're going on now , where you go and stay with her for two or three days at a time is far better oh no , no , no , she 'll be able to keep her pension I said I very much doubt it then I said people are so jealous that if she does marry you and he does n't tell the firm I bet that one of her dear neighbours will oh no they 're all very nice people round where she lives , I thought there 's no good arguing with Ron ! |
| 9 | They 're all very nice people . |
| 10 | The embarrassing thing is that we 're all very right people so the place is a mess , er , and it takes us a quarter of a day before we realise that we 've been burgled , because things are actually slightly neater than when we left the previous day . |
| 11 | If , if you like the characteristics which you will show most of , and we 'll do a little team characteristics test a bit later this morning , but the characteristics which you will show most of are one , that you are fairly gregarious person , you like being the , the salesman is a , a loner and be quite a lot more to life , so you 're fairly gregarious people , and even though there are degrees of it , you 're all fairly extrovert people as well , and those two characteristics do n't lend themselves very well to being organised . |
| 12 | In the autumn of 1969 the book on the Americans was published in London and New York under the title Very Lovely People ( from a remark of President Johnson to some White House visitors — ‘ Mrs Johnson and I are very happy to have you here , and we think you are all very lovely people ’ ) . |
| 13 | There is widespread agreement that there are many mentally disturbed people in prison who would be better off in hospital . |
| 14 | There might be some very well-intentioned people in them , but the institutions nevertheless did discriminate . |
| 15 | There will however still be many mentally handicapped people who will be unable to find employment because of the severity of their handicap , and there is a clear danger that these young people will remain at home or be eventually placed in hospitals and homes with only superficial stimulation . |
| 16 | But there were some very good people lived down those streets . |
| 17 | I 'd accepted that I 'd joined the club — and there were some really nice people in it . |
| 18 | Well , there were n't so many old people then when we came here we were classed as one of the oldest people because er they were all very young people and you were talking about Dame Leah Manning and she came to me one day and she said we 're going to have a problem on the town because it 's a very young town . |
| 19 | Oh I I think , think that they differed in as far as they were a tiny little bit more ambitious and wanted a sort of erm a a little bit better life , but everybody even in the terraced houses they were all very respectable people , very respectable people I mean er I |
| 20 | Now you take all those , take Street and Street , they were all very respectable people and er I do n't think you could say there were any slums about at all as far as I can remember . |
| 21 | But as Celia says , the trouble is that so many people , they will only buy it in a year . |
| 22 | And as much as none of us would like that , I feel it may be , you know , it may , it will be something that will be over very quickly , er the only worry of course is that so many people will get hurt , but if that 's the way to end it all then perhaps that 's what should be done . |
| 23 | ‘ It 's all very well people telling us we are a really attractive side to watch , ’ he said , ‘ but we have been conceding the odd soft goal and that 's got to stop . |