Example sentences of "[adj] people [vb mod] [vb infin] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Keen-sighted people can distinguish them both with the naked eye . |
| 2 | I did that when I was seven and different people can do it at any time . |
| 3 | Some people would leave it at that ; but not Alice : there would be a second coat . |
| 4 | Some people would do it in a very extrovert way . |
| 5 | That young man sitting on an old man 's knee ; some people would think it improper . ’ ‘ |
| 6 | Some pe some people would think it was n't worth it , but erm |
| 7 | Some people would say we were deprived . |
| 8 | Some people would say they 'd do the seven days , but I do n't like prison . |
| 9 | Some people would say they had a lot in common and no doubt in some ways they have … except I 'm sure that Philippe … |
| 10 | ‘ Some people would say she killed herself . ’ |
| 11 | Erm you know , some people would say you know , er seeing the kind of publicity that has had , that it would be it might be quite risky to er to o open the business of a building society here . |
| 12 | Oh , I know some people would say it was May and December , but I thought it was a lovely relationship . |
| 13 | But basically the idea , erm , is I think well represented by er , by Rousseau , and it 's a view that has been very influential , for instance , in modern education , and some people would say it explains the disaster that erm th that some people think er modern education is . |
| 14 | Some people would say I make a lot of money out of them but I paint them with sincerity . |
| 15 | Some people would say I make a lot of money out of them but I paint them with sincerity . |
| 16 | She said the report , from the Committee on the Medical Aspects of Food Policy ( Coma ) , ‘ does not support the view , as some people would have us believe , that sugars , at usual intake , have a direct adverse effect on general health . ’ |
| 17 | I quote from what Sir Allen Sheppard of Grand Met said yesterday : ’ One thing which no one could predict a year ago was exactly how long the recession would last This recession has not been an exclusively British phenomenon — as some people would have us believe . |
| 18 | VISUAL display units are not the radiation hazard some people would have you think , according to E. A. Cox , Her Majesty 's Principal Inspector at the Health and Safety Executive . |
| 19 | What we 're hoping to do in this exhibition is to make people realize that science and technology is not as difficult as some people would have you believe , and that it can be fun . |
| 20 | Indeed , some people would argue they are worse , if anything . |
| 21 | Well some people would claim it is endemic . |
| 22 | For that reason , however inadequate some people may regard it , I was a firmly convinced supporter of Biafra and made various futile efforts during the war to persuade Harold Wilson to a like view . |
| 23 | ‘ And though some people may damn me irrevocably and for ever , in the nature of things my profession and my work will open new relations to me , that much fresher for not having been frozen , hardened , and made sterile by old prejudices . ’ |
| 24 | Some people may find they need more complicated items such as hoists or units that fit into the bath to raise and lower the bather using air or water pressure . |
| 25 | Some people may find it too exciting ; certainly , there is something to be said for being on the side of the road away from the steep drops into the valley , which means driving eastwards by this route and not westwards , or into Bigorre not out of it . |
| 26 | I have attempted to reply to the point raised by the hon. Member for Sedgefield by putting on record the reasons why some people may find it difficult to understand why no prosecution was pursued . |
| 27 | cos some people 'll tell you and some people wo n't . |
| 28 | ‘ Yes , I know some people might think we are because we occasionally partner each other , but you should have known better — or perhaps not , since you never had any scruples about being a party to another man 's infidelity six years ago , which leads me to believe that this show of conscience on Cavell 's behalf is just that — show ! |
| 29 | Some people might think they will be forgotten . |
| 30 | Some people might think you were too smart for your own health . ’ |