Example sentences of "[n mass] who [verb] [adv] be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | People who lived longer were more likely to have spent some or all of the last year of their lives in residential homes . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , the people who lived here were only comfortably rich , not seriously rich like those who lived , say , in the Bishops Avenue . |
| 3 | Letters flooded in from people who had often been cruelly affected by the system we were examining . |
| 4 | Many people who had never been abroad before were happy to let the tour operator take the strain and send them off on holidays where everything was organized for them . |
| 5 | They have a very fiercely competitive system , and some people say that you have to start preparing for this at nursery school erm and it 's a question of going to the right schools , going to the right training colleges , though it 's not so much a question of going to university , although you do have to have a university degree in most cases , but they have special training establishments with a tough competition to get into it , and as a result of this the people who come out are very highly selected , and think of themselves as being very professional , very competent , they have a great deal more self confidence , in some ways , than our British civil servants do . |
| 6 | But er in fact it 's probably an advantage because the people who come in are generally they 're very friendly they 're they 've got a good spirit amongst themselves . |
| 7 | I tend to favour the idea that people who have not been out of business too long could probably play a valuable role , although I accept that , if someone has been out of active business life for two or three years , his contacts and awareness of up-to-date affairs may have changed . |
| 8 | It was known , also , that the old lady had been friendly with his mother ; and anyway , being a bachelor and retired , he could usually be counted on to take sufferers to hospital in emergency , or bring them home ; as well as visiting murderers in prison , and other tasks ( often called do-gooding by people who have never been remotely in need of that particular little world ) . |
| 9 | She studied law , was called to the Bar in 1974 , and — falling within the top 5 per cent of all people who have ever been psychometrically tested for verbal critical reasoning skills — would have made a marvellous lawyer . |
| 10 | Some elderly people who have always been very flexible like being ‘ popped in on ’ without prior warning , but most people as they grow older much prefer all the events in their lives to be regular and predictable . |
| 11 | ALTHOUGH any couple can try , people who live together are more likely to be familiar with each other 's body odour . |
| 12 | People who think negatively are often proved right . |
| 13 | ‘ People who drink heavily are probably knocking twenty years off their lives . ’ |
| 14 | Well I do n't think it 's , I do n't think it 's terribly good actually to be able to be telling other people who has already been here , erm |