Example sentences of "[noun pl] of people " in BNC.
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| 1 | It rejected any idea that an organisation should ever be created to suit the individual characteristics of people . |
| 2 | It will be amalgamated with information obtained from others to provide a complete statistical picture of the characteristics of people in particular occupations . |
| 3 | The figures demonstrate something about the characteristics of people with dementia referred to psychogeriatricians : that they are on average around 80 years of age , mainly women , mainly widowed or single , quite likely to be living alone but not without the involvement of relatives or friends , and with fairly advanced dementia ( assuming that this is the implication of a score of nearly seven on a scale , running from one to ten , designed mainly to measure impairment of memory ) . |
| 4 | It is by no means uncommon for exploratory social research in an area where little work has been done to begin by looking at the characteristics of people involved . |
| 5 | Characteristics of people involved in self-cutting |
| 6 | This is a very large issue mostly beyond the scope of this book except to note that ergonomics is an exemplar of a style of thinking which is based on characteristics of people . |
| 7 | Astrology is based on many empirical observations about the positions of stars and planets , and about certain vague characteristics of people born at particular times and places . |
| 8 | Integration is viewed in physical terms ; policy increasingly concentrates on people but neglects the true characteristics of people in favour of resources-led practice . |
| 9 | This suggests that there is now a greater degree of overlap in the characteristics of people accommodated in different forms of care . |
| 10 | Amis also likes to write , as Larkin liked to write , about the fear of death , and it may be that this fear can be detected in the failure to notice here that both sorts of people are subject to it , as to other unavoidable misfortunes , and that both sorts die . |
| 11 | ‘ All sorts of people have helped : The Rural Development Commission has lent us £10,000 to top up what we raised ; all the retired , trainee and working accountants , lawyers , journalists and businessmen in the village have put in hours of voluntary work , and our grocery wholesaler Pharaoh Quirke has given us a new fascia board . ’ |
| 12 | But to show how ecumenical they were , they also once burnt an Archbishop of Canterbury ; several Prime Ministers ; Enoch Powell ; Richard Nixon ; Stalin ; all sorts of people , even poor Mr Heath , not so much because he was a villain but because it is so easy to make a guy in the semblance of Mr Heath . |
| 13 | A Downing Street spokeswoman yesterday sought to play down the significance of the meeting , saying : ‘ The Prime Minister sees all sorts of people from time to time to talk about issues that interest her . ’ |
| 14 | All sorts of people since then have speculated on how the Arts Lab started , and various different books and publications about Bowie 's career have put it in all sorts of different context , but that is how it happened . |
| 15 | There has always been an independent unionist tradition on the edges and just outside the party , supported by two sorts of people . |
| 16 | All sorts of people go to see performers after a first night . |
| 17 | M. B. There were all sorts of people in the old Chinatown area . |
| 18 | All sorts of people held their hands out to me but I do n't think I ever got anything . |
| 19 | John Madge made a useful distinction between various sorts of people who may be the subject for the sociologist 's interview . |
| 20 | How , then , do the two sorts of people differ from each other ? |
| 21 | ‘ Then I 'm sinking through the bed , and I 'm in the sea , and Dad 's with me , and there 's all sorts of people … teeth like sharks , everyone 's tearing everyone else 's eyes out … falling all over the place , putting all the eyes in a pot for their tea … ’ |
| 22 | These are marvellous opportunities to invite all sorts of people — friends , neighbours , relatives — to visit at any time between , say , eleven o'clock in the morning and ten o'clock at night . |
| 23 | I also get all sorts of people , from average riders wanting a family horse to have fun with to those whose sights are fixed at the very top . |
| 24 | Watching Jamila sometimes made me think the world was divided into three sorts of people : those who knew what they wanted to do ; those ( the unhappiest ) who never knew what their purpose in life was ; and those who found out later on . |
| 25 | ‘ The new tariffs have opened up the market and I 'm selling to all sorts of people now . |
| 26 | ‘ We 're picking clients up left , right and centre from all sorts of people who 've been charging pretty fancy fees and really failing to do any better than we do , ’ says Michael Read , head of the private client department . |
| 27 | ‘ Those sorts of people do n't tend to notice the long hours ! ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Rang up all sorts of people . |
| 29 | In a crisis , there are two sorts of people : There are those who go into a blind panic . |
| 30 | ( I 've done dozens of lectures now , in front of all sorts of people , and I always make it up as I go along , although I suppose I must have a rough idea about what I 'm going to say . ) |