Example sentences of "people [be] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within each State , of course , the accidents people are in close touch with their own airworthiness authorities , but it would have caused disruption if the accident investigators of the UK had contracted the airworthiness authorities in the USA thereby cutting the others out of the information loop . |
| 2 | Much of this land area and many of the people are in developing countries , especially in Africa , South America and central Asia . |
| 3 | " I know , tonight , in some regions of our country , people are in genuine economic distress . |
| 4 | Some of the people are in terrible disrepair . |
| 5 | What percentage of people are in each of these two largest groups ? |
| 6 | How many people are in each SPRED group ? |
| 7 | Well a lot of people are in good health and they drop dead do n't they ? |
| 8 | Unfortunately researches show that only two per cent of people are in this category and , therefore , qualify as ‘ all round ’ learners . |
| 9 | Many people are in this situation of trying to find time to care adequately for parents in their own home , while running their own jobs and family . |
| 10 | Plenty of people are in this situation . |
| 11 | Not many people are in this weather , are they ? |
| 12 | And of course they 're not so hard pressed as people are in these big cities ! |
| 13 | Um in particular there 's this constructive false memory syndrome that erm people are in some ways quite keen on . |
| 14 | Across the borough , about 27,000 people are in full time employment and 10,200 in part-time employment — about 37,200 people in all . |
| 15 | Although the terms by which police officers refer to black people are in common use in various other social contexts , they seem to be more commonly used within the Met than in most other groups : there can be few other groups in which it is normal , automatic , habitual to refer to black people as ‘ coons ’ , ‘ niggers ’ and so on … |
| 16 | ‘ The very reason people are in those wards next to that car park is to recuperate in peaceful surroundings . |
| 17 | Yes I know , but he he said people are in last week ! |
| 18 | ‘ If people are in any doubt then they should retreat , just turn around , ’ he said . |
| 19 | There seems nothing in the present arrangements to prevent two similarly disabled old people being in adjacent rooms in a nursing home , one of whom has her lifetime earnings bled down by ‘ community care ’ while the family of the other looks forward to an undiminished inheritance courtesy of the NHS . |
| 20 | Yeah all the Irish people were in that hall and welcomed us because we were from Ireland , New Zealand , over in New Zealand |
| 21 | With a smile at Alice of real gratitude , neighbourliness , she said that she was glad Alice was there , glad that decent people were in poor No. 43 at last . |
| 22 | However , while people were in general very willing to cooperate in the data collection , it should be added that it was not always possible to collect all items of information at each stage : for example , a very severely demented person might not be able to respond to questions at all ; it was not always possible to find a medical practitioner with up-to-date information about a person 's medical condition ; respondents sometimes refused to perform all the action tests ; it was occasionally impossible to find a key informant to give , for example , information about services received by a dementia sufferer or about his/her housing circumstances . |
| 23 | Before doing so , some longer-run historical trends need to be mentioned briefly , because implicit in much of the writing on the social creation of dependency is the belief that elderly people were in many ways more independent in a pre-welfare state age . |
| 24 | The majority of SSDs knew how many disabled people were in local authority institutions , but only two knew how many were in health-authority-run facilities , and five how many were in private and voluntary establishments . |
| 25 | Richard Rampton QC , for Count Tolstoy , cross-examining Lord Aldington , said : ‘ These people were in mortal fear of being returned to their homes . ’ |
| 26 | Details of a confidential government report sponsored by the Ministry of Agriculture were published in the press in May , containing the estimate that over half the population was living below the breadline and that 2,000,000 people were in urgent need of food aid . |
| 27 | A few old people watched with impassive faces , as though they no longer felt anything , but most of the people were in high spirits , talking and laughing . |
| 28 | But people were in last week ! |
| 29 | ‘ Last time I got booed by a lot of people was in '82 , but this year I was booed a couple of times . |
| 30 | The extreme poverty of the Cuban people was in stark contrast to the wealth of foreign investors in the country , and Castro began the redistribution of the land , much of it American-owned , to peasant families ( pp. 137 ) . |