Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] people " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you play professional tennis , then it is even more important to have good technique because I am always saying that in a draw of 64 or 128 people , they are all watching how you play and of course they will find out what is happening with your game . |
| 2 | But we always stood roughly in the same place and we knew the forty or fifty people around us 'cos they were always there . |
| 3 | ‘ She 's killed perhaps forty or fifty people . ’ |
| 4 | It started nineteen seventy one or seventy two , it must have been , when my predecessor and I were sat down , and we said what about a band , they all said , what band , well let's have a band , and and it started just like that , and we , we managed to get the whole of the brigade alerted to it , and we had a meeting at headquarters , to which about forty or fifty people turned up , of which two had probably blown a an instrument in the past , and there was enough enthusiasm to learn and we had a , a chap who was a musical teacher in town who was would happily teach our people you see and so we went out , we had a penny , with no help from the authority or anybody else and we got every type of brass instrument for a band on tick and we said we 'd pay for it , and er |
| 5 | ‘ Photos are also a vital means of education where illiteracy is high and where marginalised people , like the Quechua Indians , do not understand the Spanish language , ’ he added . |
| 6 | Students may find 92351 The Scottish Legal Framework or 92359 People and the Criminal Law useful as complementary modules . |
| 7 | At the level of the 280 Local Labour Market Areas , the proportion of economically active or retired people in the higher socioeconomic groups — the most sophisticated measure of social status available from the 1981 Census — displays an immense range between 43.1 per cent for St Albans and 12.5 per cent for West Bromwich ( Table 4.7A ) . |
| 8 | Somewhere where strange people would charge you extortionate sums of money for things you did n't even want to have done to you . |
| 9 | Down-to-earth ‘ Call me Doug ’ Grocutt was about to invest £620,000 — creating 28 new jobs in an unemployment blackspot where 4,200 people are out of work . |
| 10 | COOK 'S NOTE : This is a marvellous starter , divided between six or eight people and served with very fine bird's-nest or capellini pasta . |
| 11 | They do n't mind having a layback grind session or eight people carving around Jacksdale as well . |
| 12 | And for a first course all you will need is either the broth from the pot-au-feu , which will have a very fine flavour and which you can thicken if you like with a little rice — there should be enough for seven or eight people — or perhaps a dish of mussels , or a light fish soup . |
| 13 | Seven or eight people — some prisoners and some guards — did n't want to run away , so they came into the room and waited , too . |
| 14 | And what they did n't understand was the basic experience of any trade union branch which says if you wan na get six or eight people elected you do n't put fourteen up . |
| 15 | Right from the first evening of video recording , when we realised that BSL ( or deaf people 's signing ) was not only a manual language , because of its animated involvement of the deaf person , it became clear that the key to understanding the learning task for deaf people lies in the examination of the language itself . |
| 16 | Cars began to draw up amid the rubble and whole families , 60 or 70 people in all , climbed out of them to view the silent barricade . |
| 17 | ‘ There could be 60 or 70 people ahead of me , but on the other hand I am playing very well , particularly over the last month or so . |
| 18 | On the first count , it is significant that a very small proportion of RB programmes is concerned with developing work with the unemployed ; moreover , much of this work is concerned not with the working-class unemployed ( who , of course , form the large bulk of unemployed people in Britain ) , but with the unemployed middle-class or professional people . |
| 19 | We stroll back along the main road , across the drawbridge , towards the first spot on the strip-a small expensive development where rich people live . |
| 20 | Did he mean free people or Free People ? |
| 21 | — and thirty or forty people walked out . |
| 22 | I have thirty or forty people who meet once a month for |
| 23 | There were thirty or forty people with more arriving all the time . |
| 24 | Now My Lords I realise that some of your Lordships say well that 's not gon na happen , but if if I could come to one other point My Lords , where I think there is fairly , fairly universal a agreement and that is on the whole smaller organisations work better and if you have a police authority for instance of thirty or forty people , that 's not a very handy body of people to work with and if it 's smaller it is better . |
| 25 | But the people who built them — the thirty or forty people possibly at the most in Oxford who built those houses — it would solve their problems and it would give them a completely new slant on life to have built their own houses . |
| 26 | The bill identifies much of the blame for the tremendously high rate of deforestation in India as belonging to the adivasis or tribal peoples , who have been systematically marginalised and impoverished for over a thousand years , and who have now retreated into the mountains and remaining forests of central India ( a close-up case study is provided of a tribal group , the Sora , in sect. 7.4 ) . |
| 27 | Chiggers — the larval forms of minute skin-burrowing mites , board passing animals , or shoeless people , from the ground or drop on them from vegetation . |
| 28 | She seems unwilling to take any lead in furthering the social unity of Britain : while willing to be photographed next to African dictators at Commonwealth summits , she is less happy about having black or brown people in her Royal Household . |
| 29 | Bristol , which hopes to grow to 10 or 12 people by year 's end and is looking for qualified X-Windows and Motif programmers , says it now has a positive cash flow . |
| 30 | Now we have a society where some people — young and old — cling with belief to the system 's formal structures , while others just drift with them looking for fun , ease , comfort , and ultimately a way out . |