Example sentences of "people [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While it is true , as Table 5.1 showed , that the distribution of elderly people between different types of household is strongly correlated to their age , the link between household type and age is not a simple causal one . |
| 2 | Reminiscence can play an important part in ameliorating personal distress , and can be adapted when counselling older people through such matters as retirement , dependence , depression , ill-health , as well as coming to terms with bereavement and death . |
| 3 | The protest from South African people escalating , and the struggles of our people through such bodies as trade unions — all these factors coming together , should play a part in an attempt to put an end to Apartheid . |
| 4 | ‘ Although I had seen a few people through Plump Partners — some of whom are still great friends — romance never really blossomed for me . |
| 5 | He remembers what happened to other people through all periods of recorded time — through what he has read and been taught . |
| 6 | Cynthia Victor Relative Sins ( Bantam ) Follows connected people through different lives until the dramatic reunion . |
| 7 | Er ran into Tony who 's going to talk to his church people about religious meetings there . |
| 8 | More than 13,000 Africans study in the Soviet Union ( nearly 10 per cent of all foreign students ) , and many welcome confirmation of the killings as a sign that glasnost may end Soviet press silence on racism , and actively educate people about such matters . |
| 9 | Because if you start getting if you get bogged down with discussing people about other products they 'll think you 're either gon na be doing them |
| 10 | However , hillwalking is largely safe but there are risks and we have to educate people about these risks if we are going to improve safety . |
| 11 | His secret has been to approach ordinary people about non-controversial issues . |
| 12 | The second , and more positive , factor which may explain the fact that accountability for tragic death is not so readily attributed to the professionals concerns the status of old people as autonomous adults . |
| 13 | It is accepted by the careers service that the figures are rather crude , that they consist of people who register an interest in YT and that there are various problems about counting those people as actual demands for YT places . |
| 14 | The first of 20,000 beta copies of Windows NT have started rolling out of Microsoft Corp : Bill Gates was showing off NT on a DEC Alpha machine last week to Wall Street people as potential buyers . |
| 15 | This view remained dominant for a long time in sociology , but more recently other sociologists have become reluctant to view people as happy robots , acting out predetermined roles . |
| 16 | It supposes that the community as a whole can be committed to principles of fairness or justice or procedural due process in some way analogous to the way particular people can be committed to convictions or ideals or projects , and this will strike many people as bad metaphysics . |
| 17 | Erm , in addition to that there 's the erm there 's the U A three stuff in the first half of this year which is fourteen people for four months , eight people for two months effectively . |
| 18 | Though the principles of representative government are important to pluralists as embodying equal rights to vote , express opinion and associate with like-minded people for political ends , the individual citizen of a democracy needs to be able to join with others before an interest can be effectively mobilized . |
| 19 | And the same amount of things per head of the population will have been produced in the same ways by the same classes of people for many generations together ; and therefore this supply of the appliances for production will have had full time to be adjusted to the steady demand . |
| 20 | SIR — There has been a simple remedy , mooted by many people for many years , concerning the service in tennis . |
| 21 | The abolition of one or other of the energy standing charges has been a popular mission for many people for many years , but abolition would undoubtedly lead to a higher unit cost and as many of the most vulnerable people use the most electricity or the most fuel generally , they would in fact be net losers and not net beneficiaries . |
| 22 | They surveyed 288 people for nine months and found that in seven out of 10 cases anxiety was making hair loss worse . |
| 23 | Each week staff thank people for individual donations but also need donations on a continuing basis , such as covenants , give-as-you-earn payroll schemes , and increased income from charity shops . |
| 24 | There were really too many people for individual greetings . |
| 25 | Does YTP train people for non-existent jobs ? |
| 26 | As a result lower level or petty bureaucrats frequently have to rely upon local people for economic perks ( access to a small plot of land , or to credit on favourable terms , or the rent of a house ) . |
| 27 | All meetings were boring to him unless the participants could talk in depth and unless the debate was by a small enough number of people for personal friendships to be fostered . |
| 28 | I guess people fall in love with other people for all sorts of odd reasons , most of which are chronicled once monthly in the glossed-over pages of Hello ! against a background of stately piles and Smallbone finishes . |
| 29 | Then people , for some ideological reason , people might say , well , you know , you ca n't say one form of communication is better than another , so that say , I do n't know , I suppose , a kind of feminist belief is better than Paradise Lost or something — well , it might be more acceptable to some people for various reasons , but I say some writing is more rewarding , ultimately some things are better than other things . |
| 30 | So if we could look at those things and talk to the Government to see if it 's possible , it maybe it is n't possible then that 's a different argument but we should be seen to be doing something er to let this die on it 's own will A , will deprive other people for odd jobs and in some cases I 've met the representation two guys there who used their redundancy money for Airways to purchase er a small aircraft and are running a flying school . |