Example sentences of "be [adj] people " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are dishonest traders about unfortunately , just as I suppose there are dishonest people in most walks of life but we like to think that in Nottinghamshire they are in a s small minority . |
| 2 | Right , okay , what we 're saying here is that the mum and the dad are normal people , they do n't have any problems , but they have got each of them have got abnormal gene and they 're going to have a family , the first baby that they have gets two normal genes , one from each parent , you only get one gene from each parent , fuses so that makes two genes so the baby has two genes , right , the first baby gets two normal genes , right and that baby is normal , which is very clear right , so here we have written this baby is not P K U affected and is normal and does n't actually carry the gene any more , does that make sense to you ? |
| 3 | Some of the screws are normal people , though . |
| 4 | The vast majority are normal people , fed up with what 's going on up here . |
| 5 | Remember these are posh people . ’ ‘ |
| 6 | The kind of situation which we find in most of West Africa , where side by side there are patrilineal peoples and matrilineal with identical technological achievements , occurs again and again in many other parts of the world . |
| 7 | He told them : ‘ You are weak people , you will always be weak people unless you can arm yourselves with the strength and courage required to gaze back into the questioning eyes of children ’ . |
| 8 | They are rich people , independent people , egotistical people and often extraordinarily unperceptive people . |
| 9 | From April 3–12 , the Tidy Britain Group are inviting people all over the country to take part in the National Spring Clean 1992 . |
| 10 | If we are to support children in their reading we need to encourage them into libraries , to assure them that libraries are pleasant places , and that librarians are pleasant people equipped by education , training , attitudes , and commitment to serve them . |
| 11 | Then she said in a small , flat voice , ‘ If you 've got problems , then there are professional people who can probably help you . |
| 12 | In the cities , where competition is intense , to be seen to be involved with clients at the top of the commercial ( and to a lesser degree social ) tree , publicity will take very different forms , but whether it comprises the full page recruitment advertisement or a high ranking in some statistical table devised by the editors of a legal journal , a bigger than average spread in a legal directory or an article by one of its partners explaining some development unique to the firm , the message will be the same : we are professional people of the highest calibre who run their practice efficiently and with success ; we have earned the respect of our fellow professionals and the esteem of our clients who are themselves of comparable stature to ourselves . |
| 13 | ( ii ) Changing house — See p95. ( iii ) Charging clause — If any of the trustees are professional people ( such as a solicitor ) or such a trustee is likely to be appointed in the future , the trust document should contain the usual charging clause . |
| 14 | We are civilized people , after all . ’ |
| 15 | place where they they were like getting er ones that had been smashed up , and doing and they said that the people that are doing it are top people ! |
| 16 | Now some doctors could conceivably still be frightened off , but we must presume , I think , that doctors are literate people , that they can understand what the law is if it is told to them , and the medical societies and other groups are making available to them the workings of this particular Act . |
| 17 | Downing Street has said that the Prime Minister warned President Clinton to make sure the American missile attack on Iraq was ’ limited and proportionate ’ bearing in mind there are British people in jail there . |
| 18 | John , in terms of theology , are British people interested in theology at all ? |
| 19 | Lee 's role in golf has been entertaining people , treating the game like a stage . |
| 20 | They are flash people who have money to throw about , and not all the money they throw about is honest money . |
| 21 | Tory , no novelist , provides the criticism a novelist may sometimes make of himself : ‘ Writers are ruined people … . |
| 22 | What are unemployed people to do ? |
| 23 | To take an obvious example , the drafter may draft the terms referring to the parties as 'seller " and " Buyer " ; if a clause is then incorporated from a different document , referring to " the Customer " , it may give rise to difficult questions of interpretation : prima facie it will be assumed that " the Buyer " and " the Customer " are different people . |
| 24 | Asking for trouble to put steps like that where there are old people . |
| 25 | Why then are old people abused by those who look after them ? |
| 26 | There are old people , spouses and other relatives , caring for each other ; middle aged or ‘ younger ’ elderly people , mostly women , caring for the old ; and a variety of relatives , neighbours and friends , not in the same household , who perform some tending activities . |
| 27 | For instance , discharges frequently run from septic tanks in the grounds of country cottages , many of whose occupants are old people who have the sympathies of field men , since most of them are believed to be badly off . |
| 28 | Most of his patients are old people with lots of money who just want a little fuss made of them . |
| 29 | ‘ When I read reports in newspapers I get terribly upset , because I know what it feels like , that those are real people experiencing those things , ’ says Alexandra . |
| 30 | How can he ever think tiny people are real people with real thoughts ? |