Example sentences of "[adj] people [modal v] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Free People will be able to announce that being in a family is corrupting . |
| 2 | These are adequate for most purposes if they are used properly , since different people will be able to deduce from the answers information which is relevant to the job they want to fill . |
| 3 | Different people will be thinking about having the test for different reasons . |
| 4 | In a large team effort , different people can be working on separate aspects of a design , with changes rapidly distributed to all of them . |
| 5 | We believe that the various circumstances of different people can be calculated , and allowances made for them . |
| 6 | English family relationships are said to be less strong than those of Asians , but most English people would be deeply shocked if their grandmother or grandfather , coming to visit them , or their young brother or sister , was held in detention by people with quasi-police powers , accused of lying and then sent back ; or if their husband or wife , coming to join them after a long separation , was further delayed for years and then told that they were not the people they claimed to be and hence had no right to come at all . |
| 7 | If this should happen , and the long-suppressed voice of moderate , long-suffering English people should be heard at last , that voice might well be captured , taken over and perverted by genuine ‘ extremists ’ and ‘ fascists ’ for abhorrent and evil purposes . |
| 8 | It added that after liberation " the Kuwaiti people would be governed by " the legitimate regime which they chose and are satisfied with " . |
| 9 | However , the illiteracy rate among the Maasai people could be as high as 90 percent . |
| 10 | One very senior German official said recently to the author , ‘ Never forget , as Churchill said , the German people will be at your feet or at your throat ’ . |
| 11 | In all the confusion , it was quite possible that some people would be flying on Virgin Atlantic for nothing . |
| 12 | No doubt some people would be very glad to see that happen . |
| 13 | But Gwynedd 's chief executive , Huw Thomas , said it was already clear that some people would be unable to return home for several months . |
| 14 | answer , I mean some people would be totally happy to yeah , fine but I 'm sure there 'll be other people who , you know , I want some more er |
| 15 | Some people may be a homosexual nuisance : equally some may be heterosexually annoying or threatening . |
| 16 | Some people may be pure altruists . |
| 17 | Some people may be exempt from inclusion on the Community Charge Register and thus from payment of Community Charge , examples are : — |
| 18 | It is further recognised that words or gestures which may be tolerable to some people may be deeply offensive or threatening to others . |
| 19 | I 'm not gon na do it like that because , if I train everybody , some people might be trained and it 's a y a years before they 're appraised . |
| 20 | Fourthly erm there 's the problem of coercion that is some people might be forced to cast their vote one way or another or feel they 're forced to cast a vote one way or another erm which is something we are less erm familiar with . |
| 21 | Now Mill realizes that the objection to this is the last problem coercion , that if people 's votes are known , then some people might be able to put pressure on others to vote one way rather than another and as I said why the secret ballot was brought in in the first place . |
| 22 | Choppy Spencer is are you prepared to accept the conclusion that some people might be suggesting right now that this whole stunt of opting out is a political fumble ? |
| 23 | Sometimes it was hard for Gazzer to believe how stupid some people could be . |
| 24 | Mm yeah exactly , though some people could be ex-directory . |
| 25 | There will still be a system of rebates for people on low incomes but there will no longer be a minimum contribution — so some people will be entitled to 100 per cent rebates . |
| 26 | Although , in theory , anyone could become infected by HIV , some people will be more at risk than others . |
| 27 | Treasurer Bernie Gaught is telling councillors that it is ‘ inevitable ’ that some people will be taken to court . |
| 28 | I mean you know some people will be particularly interested to read about what we 're doing with CAD . |
| 29 | On any one day , although some people will be withdrawing money , others will be making new deposits . |
| 30 | A lot of us are here to see how this sort of debate goes , but some people will be very competitive . |