Example sentences of "it [be] the [adj] people who " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's the same people who who who go round , six hotels |
| 2 | It is the ordinary people who are suffering in the recession . |
| 3 | It is the ordinary people who are hurt . |
| 4 | It is the more-educated people who most use complementary medicine , thus helping to dispel the idea that it is ‘ unscientific ’ and used only by the uncritical ; and about 10 per cent of clients going to complementary practitioners are referred by doctors or paramedics . |
| 5 | When Hun Sen , himself a former Khmer Rouge commander who fled to Vietnam , gives his list of eight Khmer Rouge leaders whom he absolutely refuses to include in any political deal , it is the same people who studied together in Paris in the 1950s , fought in the jungles from 1967 , captured Phnom Penh in 1975 , led the government of Democratic Kampuchea from 1975 , and fled to Thailand in 1979 after the Vietnamese invasion . |
| 6 | In cast terms , the eight per cent that had to be found had the monetary value of £2 million and the agreement was that the top 15 executives had to fund half of it — the reasoning being that it is the senior people who will motivate the company and when they have had to put that amount in themselves , it concentrates the mind . |
| 7 | ‘ It is the white people who are the heathen . ’ |
| 8 | But it is the British people who are having to pay the price of their mismanagement of our nation 's affairs . ’ |
| 9 | ( 1988 ) , implied that it was the prejudiced people who did not ‘ like ’ black people or did not ‘ want ’ them in Britain . |
| 10 | ‘ We were really nervous , ’ says Michelle West , ‘ but we found that it was the nervous people who stuck with the project . ’ |
| 11 | It was the older people who were the saddest . |
| 12 | It was the Jewish people who first conceived of a single God , who was all-powerful and , in return for worship and obedience , could be expected to reward virtue and punish vice . |