Example sentences of "people [pron] [vb base] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is consumed by the challenge of the world 's highest peaks , but this has been accompanied by a geographer 's fascination with visiting new places : a curiosity about the metaphysical undercurrents that accompany great risk ; a need to plumb the capabilities of mind and body and a corresponding empathy with mountain peoples who confront such tests in their everyday struggle with life . |
| 2 | The sample of groups used by Collier and Rosaldo , upon which they constructed their model , skewed the data ; for they were all peoples who place immense value upon' Man the Hunter and Warrior' , and who also elaborate ritually upon the violent , destructive , and fertile potential in men . |
| 3 | For it is an ethnic conflict , between peoples who see each other at close range . |
| 4 | yes yes , yes I was surprised people I suppose most people have seen those before actually |
| 5 | It is almost as if the catholic Irish people become a people of God in Old Testament terms , in a way similar to the Northern Calvinists , a people which have overriding power to set up their domain . |
| 6 | You 've got eleven people you need four groups you do n't have four groups it 's not worth doing is it ? |
| 7 | the other point was obviously people that you may know which may be able to help me in my business , people you feel this information obviously it was of interest to you |
| 8 | Now the effect is that if you make a decision from London , if you impose a decision from London , the people you impose that decision on are very very demoralised . |
| 9 | I do n't think the people who advocate these policies understand that you have every wish to put the decision off . |
| 10 | Attention is restricted to the non-base category of the response variable ; in this example , it is the proportion of people who attend selective school that is at issue , and the shadow proportion who do not attend is ignored . |
| 11 | The people who attend those centres can still live in their own homes because of the support staff who work from those resource centres . |
| 12 | He and Valerie looked at each other as cordially as two people who loathe each other can . |
| 13 | This could account for the weather sensitivity of some people who show either depression before a storm , or pains in joints and injuries . |
| 14 | ‘ Bear in mind there are people who suffer lifelong injury which can never be put right . |
| 15 | Similarly , there can be damaging consequences from repeated drug use , smoking , caffeine ingestion , gambling , excessive exercise , overwork , slimming , overeating , forced vomiting and from making inappropriate relationships but this does not mean that all people who suffer damaging consequences are necessarily addicted to any of these processes . |
| 16 | It also showed that these consequences occur not only in those who are severely injured , but also for the very many people who suffer minor injury or are uninjured . |
| 17 | I object er er yes I would like to , I would like to er second the resolutions , this , there is er , there is er a certainly a great deal of concern within the community both those er who live within reach of , of , of , of car boot sale erm er sites in particular the ones that are regular and also the people who attend them and get ripped off , that we need to do something about er bringing er the er , er at to add , add to law into range of , of the people who of , of people who er er of of people who er sell er of people who sell those goods at these at these functions . |
| 18 | Most significant things , from marriages to murders , happen between people who know each other well , so the best way to reach people is by word of mouth in the right places . |
| 19 | Either a representative sample of the population being studied or a judgement sample ( that is , chosen for a particular purpose rather than at random : often it is an already-existing peer group or network of people who know each other ) is interviewed , and recordings of speech are analysed . |
| 20 | We passed a few minutes in the exchanges that usually pass for conversation between people who know each other slightly and have no real business connection . |
| 21 | Often people who know each other well communicate by memo . |
| 22 | ‘ Prompt , Miss , ’ he said and seemed gone at once , leaving her only halfway up the steps , with the great door still to negotiate , not to mention a butler and a huge hall beyond and all the alarming noise made by people who know each other very well . |
| 23 | Attendance Allowance is paid at a lower rate to people who require personal care or attention by day or night , and at a higher rate to those requiring care by day and night . |
| 24 | A free laundry service for people who require frequent changes of bed sheets |
| 25 | Er , I have people who get this set and then instantly reorder everything , plus everything else that 's available . |
| 26 | Many people who seek professional help for problems of depression , anxiety , stress , relationship difficulties and related issues have discovered the importance of problems they have experienced in connection with their parents . |
| 27 | Many of the people who seek these kinds of help are those who , while living and working in ( apparently ) normal circumstances , find themselves crippled by unusually strong injunctions . |
| 28 | Yet people with more or less stable impairments , struggling to make their way as oppressed citizens , do not usually appear in professional eyes to have much in common with the majority of bewildered , vulnerable people who seek medical help . |
| 29 | On the BBC 's Breakfast With Frost programme , Mr Rushdie said : ‘ The people who analyse these threats tell me that the level of threat has never diminished . |
| 30 | People who consume fibre-rich diets do not tend to have many of the diseases associated with the developed countries . |