Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] [adj] people " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the consequences of a latter approach could lead to accumulative change in the appearance and nature and character of the countryside so that you get something rather different than most people 's perception of a countryside being there for its own sake . |
| 2 | Sometimes this label may come from a sense of being less-educated than other people , or less articulate . |
| 3 | They can be as immodest and as positive as you like — although the risk of being embarrassed if other people find them has to be taken into account . |
| 4 | These demographic forecasts for the numbers of older people are much more reliable as these people are already born . |
| 5 | We 've all had the unnerving experience of something going wrong when thirty people are sitting waiting for us to start . |
| 6 | As a result , although the coverage is not as lively or interesting as it would probably be if the editors had more freedom , it is not nearly as stilted as many people feared ; it is certainly much better than the terribly restricted and monotonous presentation of the Canadian House of Commons . |
| 7 | A group is more enduring and supportive than two people interacting socially but is looser or less structured than an organization . |
| 8 | More real than other people because her face was so familiar , although she was a stranger . |
| 9 | I do not suppose that the ultimate mental component of the universe is some spooky , all-embracing mind that is more real than flesh-and-blood people , nor that we should treat the state or community as a real person with a distinct interest or point of view or even welfare of its own , nor that we can ask the range of questions about a state 's principles — for example whether it accepted them freely or was misled or misunderstands them — that we can ask about aspects of a real person 's moral life . |
| 10 | Although we never transformed the inquiry process into anything approaching a people 's tribunal , we did turn it into something much more accessible than many people had ever conceived . |
| 11 | whilst the group who have made the move from the hospital to the community are not typical of the hospital population — they are generally not as dependent as the average person in hospital — they are certainly much more typical than those people who are moving out of hospital elsewhere in England and to some extent in Scotland . |
| 12 | It is perhaps dubious to argue that a prayer or worship becomes more efficacious if more people join in , but there is no doubt that man was created a social animal and ritual that is shared is ritual that becomes more meaningful . |
| 13 | The result is that ageism is at its most vicious when older people compete for limited resources , for they are often denied equal access — solely by virtue of their age . |
| 14 | ‘ Time management is crucial when young people have so many demands in the 1990s , ’ he added . |
| 15 | I would be grateful if other people were not chatting . |
| 16 | I think that 's awful if young people |
| 17 | She will joke about herself and is not touchy if other people risk a mild tease about colour . |
| 18 | Ezra can be mistaken — more thoroughly mistaken than most people — but he has never been venal . |
| 19 | So we have the disappointing conclusion , from the point of view of prevention , that people with a neurotic type of personality are more likely than other people to develop clinical neurotic symptoms when faced with adversity . |
| 20 | They were much less likely than younger people to be interviewed by job centre staff , and , if interviewed , they were more likely to be told their prospects of getting work were nil . |
| 21 | If you feel inadequate or less worthy than other people , try this very simple exercise . |
| 22 | SHOWBIZ stars are twice as likely as other people to die in accidents and three times as likely to commit suicide , according to an American researcher . |
| 23 | Black people on average are almost twice as likely as other people to be victims of assault and women are almost twice as likely again as men to be assaulted . |
| 24 | In diabetic patients , however , triglyceride concentrations are an important predictor of coronary heart disease , and patients with non-insulin dependent diabetes are twice as likely as non-diabetic people to be dyslipidaemic , hypertriglyceridaemia being the commonest lipid abnormality . |
| 25 | if you talk to drug users who will tell you coming off drugs or withdrawal symptoms are not as hard as many people believe that they are . |
| 26 | Isabel Lavender had always been less good than most people at losing face , since she had never learned how to compensate for it , she had never learned to wallow , to conceal partial humiliation in an expression of total defeat . |
| 27 | This will be investigated to see whether this is an optimism bias in which individuals perceive they are less vulnerable than other people to negative life events or whether this is an illusion of control bias which people overestimate their own abilities . |
| 28 | 5 FUTURE TEACHER TRAINING COURSE The potential teachers day held at Potters Bar did not generate enough local interest to become viable although several people from a wide variety of locations are showing interest — . |
| 29 | But since the scheme is a good one , and since it is only viable if some people sacrifice a lot , it is a justified scheme , even though one may be called upon , according to fair procedures , to contribute much more than the antecedently expected sacrifice . |
| 30 | Quantitative information , even of limited accuracy is often useful if enough people collect it . |