Example sentences of "[verb] and [adj] people " in BNC.
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| 31 | A number of adults and children , members of a breakaway Seventh-day Adventist cult , have left the compound since the siege began and 95 people still remain , many of them Britons and Australians . |
| 32 | He ended by saying that the prospect of a Labour government was a beacon of hope for millions of striving and oppressed people throughout the world . |
| 33 | LAURA STONE , of the Liverpool Notre Dame Association , who sent us this report , commented : ‘ Let us remember all lay and religious people who are away from their own countries and families , working for those less fortunate than ourselves and bringing in the Good News from afar . ’ |
| 34 | A social institution is ‘ legitimate ’ if it is perceived as morally justified ; the problem with the penal system is that this perception is lacking and many people inside and outside the system believe that it is morally indefensible , or at least defective . |
| 35 | Widely commended for its environmental stance in Europe , the same standards have not been applied in the company 's operations in Ecuador , where roads were driven into virgin forests , rivers were so badly polluted that they caught fire , fish were dynamited and local people forced off their lands . |
| 36 | There were lots of things to do and more people to do them with . |
| 37 | Forty years later , when viruses were better known and several people had attributed viral origins to some tumours and perhaps leukaemia , the paper was rediscovered . |
| 38 | Exercise and elderly people |
| 39 | Machine-guns and explosives were found and 41 people were to face charges . |
| 40 | ‘ The records were being altered , a new accounting system was being introduced and key people were moved from positions of authority . |
| 41 | Twenty-four people were arrested and two people wounded . |
| 42 | Nobody knew where he went and most people forgot him . |
| 43 | Two men , aged 25 and 21 , died and four people were injured when two cars collided near Knutsford , Cheshire , late on Saturday . |
| 44 | The alleged offence is connected with the blaze at the Littlewoods department store in Chesterfield , Derbyshire , on May 7 , in which the couple died and 38 people needed hospital treatment . |
| 45 | A CAR driver faces charges after three women died and 23 people were injured in a weekend coach crash . |
| 46 | The force has already spent £428,000 on extra officers to deal with the second incident in which two children died and 53 people were injured . |
| 47 | In the thin atmosphere , faces became puffy , eyes almost disappeared and some people 's sight was affected . |
| 48 | millions involved and other people who are running dodgy companies |
| 49 | Every employee in every enterprise must be involved in a new partnership so that trained and talented people can use the most modern technologies to create top-quality products . |
| 50 | Some will be scholarship holders , sent abroad to study by their own governments in order to Increase the supply of educated , trained and skilled people in their home economies . |
| 51 | We also recognise that highly trained and motivated people are critical to the achievement of our objectives . |
| 52 | It is expected that this trend will continue , with further reductions in the number of hours worked and more people taking early retirement . |
| 53 | Well I 'm not sure I mean it 's interest I mean the the Council erm with another the Council looked upon attendances of the things Council do and many people who use the facilities in Harlow will argue we do n't get anything like this where we live and we always find it like that you know it 's that sort of mentality where people in Harlow may or may not say well course you get it in Harlow we expect it it 's just there it just saves we know it 's getting them people to use it but I talk to people I 'm sure people who live in Harlow or the Council to people and Harlow people tend to think well yes yes it 's all with always it 's always there . |
| 54 | You know that as well as I do and those people do n't seem to be given the encouragement to move on to another profession . |
| 55 | The ferreting season has just ended and those people with no more than a passing interest , perhaps a failed interest , will then be keen to dispose of their stock rather than feed and maintain them to the start of another season . |
| 56 | Prior to this , in the 1960s and 1970s , most senior jobs had in fact been advertised and senior people , even at chief executive level , would expect to find their next opportunity by looking in The Sunday Times . |
| 57 | It 's a fiendishly clever system for making sure the human race continues and most people over twenty never have a tranquil moment . |
| 58 | In the ensuing massacre , eleven men , Narcissa Whitman and two children were savagely killed and forty-seven people captured , later to be ransomed . |
| 59 | An Army officer was killed on April 24 in Bilbao and three police officers were killed and five people injured when a car bomb exploded in Bilbao on May 24 . |
| 60 | A man was killed and two people were injured by a car bomb at a Renault car showroom in Pamplona on Nov. 14 . |