Example sentences of "people [am/are] [adj] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of the people are obliged to wear wet handkerchiefs to protect themselves from the strong fumes of sulphur . ’ |
| 2 | Does the work move to them , or are cars made so expensive that people are obliged to live close to their work , as they were for much of this century ? |
| 3 | If people are unwilling to recognise this it represents a failure of church leadership rather than political leadership . |
| 4 | Asked if he accepted Mr Hume 's word , Mr Trimble replied : ‘ I think a very serious question-mark — I am sorry to say — has to be placed against Mr Hume 's motives , because he is persisting in talking to republican paramilitaries at a time when other people are anxious to see positive dialogue taking place . ’ |
| 5 | The police investigation into the missing money continues tomorrow with a meeting with the Charity Commissioners … but the supplies donated in good faith by thousands of people are likely to remain rotting until the mystery resolved . |
| 6 | As this blood is responsible for carrying oxygen to the brain , some people are likely to become morose or depressed as a result . |
| 7 | Many of these people are likely to have serious psychiatric problems . |
| 8 | It seems that younger people are likely to have more contact with the community ( to go on exchanges , visits etc. ) and have more use of the language ( at school , with peers of the second language community ) . |
| 9 | If Christmas or the Summer holidays are approaching and people are likely to make bigger cash withdrawals , banks may decide to hold more liquid assets . |
| 10 | Elderly people are likely to exercise better judgement whilst using buses and to become more assertive in conveying their intentions to drivers . |
| 11 | These are actually contribution thresholds below which people are entitled to free legal aid . |
| 12 | People are unlikely to pay much more attention to his decisions just because there has been some fiddling with the constitution . |
| 13 | The people in the company who will have to run the system , the manager or director in whose department the system will be installed ought to be involved in the selection process , but such people are unlikely to have much knowledge of computers and computer software although they may be familiar with word processing and spreadsheet systems running on microcomputers . |
| 14 | People are quick to articulate such criticisms in gossip but even here there are constraints . |
| 15 | People are afraid to use those Park erm Rides . |
| 16 | Most people are accustomed to follow linguistic rules more or less slavishly , but in this case they would be glad to change if only someone gave them a new set of clear rules to follow ( an earlier work by Miller and Swift was subtitled ‘ New Language in New Times ’ : it seems they take the optimistic view that we are living in a postfeminist world ) . |
| 17 | People are sensible to ignore these fruitless attempts at philosophy and ‘ content themselves with daily experience ’ and common sense , even if this is merely ‘ feeding upon acorns ’ . |
| 18 | We realise that there are many problems caused by people who are n't able to park er in a restricted area er and we need to ensure that people are able to do that satisfactorily and safely . |
| 19 | The academic , intellectual types also have a cultural background and are interested in aspects of the arts , and erm we are very fortunate , I think , also in that people are able to give more time than perhaps business people , and so a number of the members of the committee are university people and we are able to use the Gardner Arts Centre , which has become quite an exciting area , in that it 's open to experimental production , so therefore we attract a lot of the London critics . |
| 20 | She explains : ‘ People are able to describe new places to me . ’ |
| 21 | We are certain that you will be aware of how some people are able to achieve more than others , cram so much more into a working day , and do it with seemingly little effort . |
| 22 | Pedantic people are prone to do this with minor typing errors or spelling mistakes . |
| 23 | Trevor East , the new producer of The Match , explains the decision to wait for late autumn : ‘ People are reluctant to watch televised football or anything else on a sunny afternoon . |
| 24 | The theme of the drama — that timid people are apt to lead empty lives — must have appealed to Dustin , who was determined to overcome an inherent timidity and lead a fuller existence . |
| 25 | This unit will be conducted by Mrs Chris Smith , Pastoral Director at Ushaw , and people are welcome to attend this as a complete course in its own right , or as the first stage in the longer course which contains five further units . |
| 26 | Plainly , the simplest case is that where people are willing to hold that expanding stock of deposits which results from other people 's decisions to borrow . |
| 27 | People are willing to pay high for the privilege of killing , ’ he said , grimly . |
| 28 | Mr Major defied the wise saw which says that the British people are happy to pay more tax in order to get better public services , and played the issue of Labour 's higher taxes for all it was worth : it was worth the difference between an overall majority of 21 and a hung Parliament . |
| 29 | One implication is that people are unable to take full account of , or possibly even imagine , all future situations that might require changes in the terms of a transaction . |
| 30 | they say even though unemployment rates are very high now , people are prepared to wait ten years before they get a job . |