Example sentences of "is that [adv] [adj] people " in BNC.
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| 1 | One reason for this is that mentally handicapped people are living longer , and this is balancing out the reduction in admissions . |
| 2 | IT is seldom remarked how curious it is that so many people need to find a meaning to life . |
| 3 | One good result so far , though , is that so many people were mystified by acronyms being bandied about ( SNUPPS , NII , AGR and the like ) that the secretariat for the inquiry had to produce a list of them . |
| 4 | But the worst aspect of this whole affair is that so many people do not care about the quality of life for old people . |
| 5 | The idea is that only rich people who have saved more than 1,000 roubles in high-denomination notes will be hurt . |
| 6 | ‘ A woman whose response to Chernobyl is that only thirty-one people were killed , who can dismiss as unimportant one of the world 's greatest nuclear disasters which put thousands in hospital , exposed a hundred thousand or more to dangerous radioactivity , devastated vast areas of land , and may result in deaths from cancer amounting to fifty thousand over the next fifty years , is totally unsuitable to be trusted to work in an atomic power station . |
| 7 | The legendary American publisher Bill Targ got it right : ‘ The trouble with the publishing business is that too many people who have half a mind to write a book do so . ’ |
| 8 | The trouble is that too many people in the Labour party are more concerned with scaring than with caring . |