Example sentences of "people who [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He thought that if people such as the Iroquois of North America practised a particular type of agriculture it could be assumed that their institutions were the same as those of long dead prehistoric peoples who had a similar level of technology . |
| 2 | Those people who show a strong respect for authority and who expect negative criticism often dread making presentations to their superiors ( see Chapter Four for more on authority and criticism ) . |
| 3 | He remembers : ‘ He was one of those people who had a firm sense of the system and how it could be made to work . |
| 4 | I was talking to a civil servant in the Ministry of erm Energy the other day , and he said that he reckoned out of several hundred people working there there were about fifteen people who had a scientific or engineering background , and therefore were able to talk with some degree of expertise perhaps and certainly knowledge about the matters that they were discussing . |
| 5 | In my experience most people who suffer a myocardial infarct have been under pressure with associated exhaustion and fatigue for a prolonged period . |
| 6 | The same study found that people who read a daily paper were more likely to watch the news on TV than people who did not . |
| 7 | And there is a high proportion of people who know a good deal about what they are looking at and may even have seen it before . |
| 8 | It sounds convincing but , as I have already noted , most people who know a particular species well quickly develop a good intuitive sense from an animal 's bodily and facial postures of whether it is likely to attack or escape . |
| 9 | ‘ Many spend two years in the sixth form and get nothing at all , and it is hard for people who get a low grade at A-level to realise they have actually done very well . ’ |
| 10 | The Minister of State spoke about overcrowding and the cost of adding a supervision requirement to the new sentence ; with Mayhew , in a phrase that was to gain increasing currency on the Conservative benches , pronouncing that whereas a great many people who get a suspended sentence , and their friends , think that they have got away with their crime , the effect of ‘ a short , sharp and I hope , nasty taste of prison ’ would linger on . |
| 11 | I would go as far as to argue that , however well-intentioned and humanitarian the people who undertake a socialist revolution , the logic of their ideology , which is of necessity reflected in the institutions which they create , makes totalitarianism inevitable . |
| 12 | Because these men who knew with such unquestionable certainty the difference between right and wrong , and who blithely described the garotters as creatures capable of responding only to the fear of physical pain , were people who knew a great deal about physical pain . |
| 13 | It is a known fact that most people who attempt a new diet or exercise regime fail on Day 3 . |
| 14 | THE majority of farmers have done so much to ensure quality food , a healthy environment , a beautiful countryside and the welfare of their animals , yet too often , they are still viewed as the people who make a handsome profit producing food mountains and destroying the environment . |
| 15 | Most people who take a personal pension in place of SERPS will qualify for an extra 2 per cent payment by the DSS on top of the minimum contributions . |
| 16 | " For people who take a sober view of life , " he said , " a person is liberal who is prepared not to take thought for his personal interests but to expend all his energy on standing up for the juridical independence of every citizen and the freedom of every action which does not undermine the well-being and the tranquillity of society " . |
| 17 | They strike me as people who take a keen pleasure in the beauty of the natural world , and in the strength , swiftness and cleverness of animals ( even those of no use , or downright dangerous , to Man ) . |
| 18 | I think of all those using this channel : – people who gave generously , of their good money ; people who gave their physical strength ; people who gave limitless time ( even their annual leave from work ) ; people who managed a little time after work ; people who baked ; people who prayed ; the member who supplied the entire plant stall ; people who counted ; the little girl who devised an amusing quiz as her ‘ channel ’ ; people who served , and often withstood the cold winds of George Street ; people who used their artistic talents for communication ; people who lovingly restored the Church afterwards ; our engineer , who invented a ‘ chair-lift ’ for us , and then , literally , put his shoulder to the wheel – and the bright spark who had fired him with the notion ; and finally and uniquely , the couple in Trinity , part of whose house is always given over to storing books so that this channel may be kept open . |
| 19 | From 1 November 1991 , people who hold a partial help certificate ( AG3 ) under the NHS Low Income Scheme will be able to put their patient contribution towards the cost of a private home visit by their optician . |
| 20 | For readers there were books and rooms set apart as libraries , and there were people who learnt a great deal and people who read furiously and learnt nothing . |
| 21 | Another scale of wholesale charges for unused equipment is also useful for people who like a particular product so much that they genuinely want to buy it for themselves , albeit at a preferential rate . |
| 22 | Questions are asked by people who lack a particular piece of knowledge , and questions are addressed to people who are assumed to be more knowledgeable about that topic . |
| 23 | We will give the first 100 people who apply a FREE copy of our broadsheet on " Pesticides : Waging War on our Countryside " . |
| 24 | There are people who have a good pension when there in retirement , do n't there department , I 'm the only one that 's elected . |
| 25 | They actually are welcoming good material in various senses , and in particular , they will welcome people who have a good story , a nice item , which they 're prepared to come and record , either in the studio , or record on a Ewer somewhere on tape . |
| 26 | But the kind of songs I really want to write — and I 'm not saying I will — are the kind The Frank & Walters and the Lemonheads write , the sort of people who have a genuine love for other people and can see past all the crap that goes on . ’ |
| 27 | People who have a second property may also be liable for the Standard Community Charge/Poll Tax . |
| 28 | There are also younger people who have a long term chronic illness or handicap ; people who have been Psychiatrically ill ; people who have a mental handicap . |
| 29 | People who have a poor immune system through diseases such as Aids or because they are taking medication are also at risk . |
| 30 | They are written by people who have a slackening grip on the friendly hand of reality . |