Example sentences of "[adj] people [subord] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stephen Moon says 20 months is a longtime and they will be different people when they get home |
| 2 | I agree with the hon. Member for Chichester that it does not matter to the British people whether they have a pound sterling or an ecu in their pockets if their level of prosperity is being maintained and enhanced . |
| 3 | Those little shops are loved by the British people because they are conveniently located just around the corner . |
| 4 | I do n't like old people unless they are still children . |
| 5 | If you ask old people whether they ever think of themselves as old , they tell you it is only when they are ill or feeling very unhappy . |
| 6 | I presume you 've asked the old people whether they want their countryside to be destroyed or not ? |
| 7 | Old people because they do n't move around , what else do n't they do ? |
| 8 | Well I think there is , there are n't many problem with the trained people because they 've been trained in the same areas as oneself and therefore understand what you 're on about . |
| 9 | A Job Club is a three week course for unemployed people where they learn techniques of job hunting , curriculum vitae preparation , and interview techniques , and are supplied with free stamps and free telephone calls during their time in the Job Club . |
| 10 | The Pharisees and Scribes would not eat with the ordinary people as they considered them to be irreligious . |
| 11 | Policies and actions should not be dictated by widely held but largely unexamined preconceptions , since the distorted images which they can produce are to the detriment of ordinary people as they age . |
| 12 | But the wards are staffed twenty four hours a day , nursing staff are always about , we have dedicated security staff who can be called at a minute 's notice , and staff are obviously aware on kid 's wards how sensitive security is , and will be challenging people when they come on to the wards . |
| 13 | To the north-west of Lake Baikal it was the Evenkis who absorbed Ket people as they advanced westward to the Yenisei and beyond . |
| 14 | I can imagine there 'll be one or two unhappy people if they find out I 've even taken you walkies let alone tried to help you plug the blueness into reality . |
| 15 | In 1973 Esquire magazine asked a number of famous people where they had been ten years earlier when they heard that John Kennedy was assassinated . |
| 16 | We need to take extra care when talking to elderly people because they may not see or hear so well . |
| 17 | A watchdog group reckons many viewers will think of black people when they see the furry orang-utan in the electricity commercial . |
| 18 | The maid had retired , tossing her head at the thought of such low people as them gyppos having the sauce to interrupt the master at his supper . |
| 19 | The Health Authority had a policy of retiring people when they reached the state retirement age . |
| 20 | Stephen Ross phoned in from Cardiff , he says can Labour lower the consent for gay people if they get in ; Mike Collins from Chesterfield says he 's not had a job for 11 years , has to pay for all sorts of things , he wants some action from Labour on long-term unemployment … ’ |
| 21 | There is little point in consulting people because they may not agree with you . |
| 22 | Seeking to translate this question of morality to local issues , I asked the question , did the candidates agree that it was morally wrong and perhaps a misuse of public funds for local councillors to claim that there was no money available to install gas central heating in the homes of elderly disabled people when they always found money for hospitality allowances and trips abroad for themselves . |
| 23 | For even if we achieve the objective of a full franchise then the purpose of that full franchise will not work for disabled people if they do n't have full access to polling stations , they only then have the alternative of using postal or proxy votes and not exercising their franchise in the same way that able-bodied people er will do and their full right are part of the measure that I 'm seeking the house to agree that I should pursue . |
| 24 | There is a good case for excluding these economically inactive people since they can not really be described as capable and available for full-time work . |
| 25 | That was our marking , all our ships used to have the blue and er I think blue and yellow in the square , cos they hired these the people who do er you know suppose hire them off now would be the erm the Dutch people cos they 're the people what er , they deal in all that type of thing , big dredging , that 's how Rotterdam was built |
| 26 | At the same time , in theory they wish to accept that Ulster protestants form part of the Irish people while they actually do not accept them in practice . |
| 27 | The replacement of mainframe use by desktop computing in recent years means that scholars working alone do not have as much contact with computer-learned people as they used to do . |
| 28 | The one I 'd considered earlier , but they refuse single people because they would rattle around on their own . |
| 29 | All these features are as relevant to running a high-quality home for mentally disordered people as they are to selling hamburgers , and many services are now devising rules for ‘ human ’ care which can be monitored in exactly the same way , covering aspects of the physical environment , care practices and procedures and ‘ customer satisfaction ’ with the service . |
| 30 | Things are not altered so quickly or coarsely by common people as they are by fashionable people … |