Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [adv] [adj] people [Wh pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How any reparation could be made , and talking about reparation , this business over absent fathers , er , has just killed that idea of us getting more and more in that kind of way , but I 'm sure there are many people , and I 'm not thinking about those who have been , committed an act of violence , and said , well they might do it again , but say , I 'm pretty sure people who have been committed in effect of what you could call civil crimes , that is putting their hand in the drawer , should never be in prison . |
| 2 | In practice , they are just ordinary people who for some reason — and the reason is often accidental — have become involved with the mentally handicapped . |
| 3 | I know dozens of officers with their own quirks of taste , dress and behaviour and they 're just real people who 'd be incomplete without such little fads . |
| 4 | But since they were very important people who told the original lies , they could n't eat humble pie and be seen to change their minds , so we 're stuck with the thing until the end of the next century , unless … ‘ |
| 5 | That 's why it 's only black people who will put an end to racism ; our whole experience tells us that . |
| 6 | But , once they have been signed by world leaders , it 's still ordinary people who have to make these agreements stick . |
| 7 | The book jumps constantly from Brooklyn to Harlem and in descriptions of both , it is usually black people who are involved . |
| 8 | It is always other people who are at fault . |
| 9 | ‘ It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances . ’ |
| 10 | McDunn really wants to help , I can see that , but he 's under pressure , too ; the circumstantial evidence against me is so strong people who do n't know the details of the case are getting impatient over the lack of progress . |