Example sentences of "people had [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When you saying , you saying that people had two points in their lounge |
| 2 | ‘ During the war , ’ he said , ‘ people had other things to think about . |
| 3 | Working people had new expectations as to just rents and as to the housing conditions they should enjoy ( encapsulated in the political slogan " homes fit for heroes " ) . |
| 4 | The people had black things which clicked , like they did in the Zoo sometimes . |
| 5 | On a recent visit to a day centre , where a large number of old people had regular baths , I was told that bath time was a time for confidences and chats . |
| 6 | We knew that some people had more money than others , and some people had bigger houses than others , but consideration of status was something unknown to us . |
| 7 | That 's not because people had bigger families , it 's because they pack them with young , poor parents , ghettos for women and children . |
| 8 | It is believed that the Yukagir people had many languages and dialects at the time of the Russian conquest , although only a small remnant of this nationality survives today . |
| 9 | Russia felt under threat from attack constantly , and the Russian people had many sacrifices demanded on them , and were kept lean and hungry . |
| 10 | See most people had good intentions , whenever they got a whole lot of stuff from the Cooperative , they would say I 'll lay so much by every week and I 'll have it at the end of the quarter . |
| 11 | Young people had 14 accidents , three more than in 1990 , but the number of injuries to older riders fell from 19 to 17 for the same period . |
| 12 | In fact all the games mentioned were inexpensive , they had to be , few people had spare cash for inessentials . |
| 13 | When I grew up , young people had various ways of intimating to each other a desire to become better acquainted , but playing footsie-footsie was not generally one of them . |
| 14 | I 'm fed up too but I suppose we should n't grumble , ’ Sarah said and Anne agreed that other people had worse troubles . |
| 15 | Brenda Acton , a seemingly competent and well-organized person , had a habit of talking about various events in her life as if other people had prior knowledge of the circumstances leading up to these events . |
| 16 | Murphy ( 1982 ) reviewed 100 cases and concluded that depression among older people had similar causes as for younger people and was focused upon major life events such as bereavement . |
| 17 | Another task was the provision of training in servicing the project 's Landrovers as the local people had little experience . |
| 18 | Some courtiers were intelligent , some had the desire to educate themselves , but in the whole these people had little interest in politics , beyond a vapid enthusiasm for the status quo which treated them so well , and an unthinking conservatism , which led them to dismiss anyone with views to the left of their own as " Communists " . |
| 19 | These people had little training in interviewing , in handling client relationships and in understanding what a service business was about , and many clients were understandably put off by such individuals . |
| 20 | Following this clue , they studied the antibody-producing blood cells of young and old people and found that cells made by older people had four times as many plasmids as ‘ young cells ’ ( Nature , vol 301 , P 394 ) . |
| 21 | A few careful people had private records of their own , having either remembered the names or recovered them from copies , and took pride in preserving the memory of their aristocratic origin . |
| 22 | They argue , on pragmatic grounds , that judges must sometimes act as if people had legal rights , because acting that way will serve society better in the long run . |
| 23 | We must ask what strategy a self-conscious and sophisticated pragmatist judge would adopt in pretending that people had legal rights . |
| 24 | On the other hand , his political opponents suffered too : Lord Lytton 's speech was so bad that many people had great difficulty in understanding him , and because his deafness did not allow him to take part in debates , everyone was often forced to wait until the next day for any reply from Lord Lytton because he would insist on reading what had been said in Hansard , the Parliamentary publication , before making his own speech . |
| 25 | She said that it was increasingly important that people had easy access to information . |
| 26 | Erika was still not completely sure what the text meant but one thing about it was clear , people had better things to do than to dwell on the past and surely — it came upon Erika in a flash of intuition — surely the State was doing just that : not , of course , leaving the dead unmourned , and certainly not forgetting the evils of Fascism , but moving forward — preaching a socialist gospel — and not merely preaching it , doing it : making a fairer , better , juster Germany . |
| 27 | This is confirmed by more detailed research evidence , for example Wenger 's ( 1984 ) study of elderly people living in rural North Wales , where she found that married and infirm people had distinctive patterns of personal support , where the spouse was the main helper for every task mentioned . |
| 28 | erm simply because erm the later in the market it was obviously important that erm people had some substance all be it very small er |
| 29 | If two people had some disagreement she could find a way of softening that situation . |
| 30 | Bob asked whether people had any preferences or dislikes for individual items of food such as the tapioca pudding he was about to serve . |