Example sentences of "[be] one [prep] [adj] people " in BNC.

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1 If you 're one of those people who 'd rather err on the safe side , the best advice is to avoid meat products which use scraps from cattle bones , such as pate and some cheap sausages .
2 You 're one of those people everybody adores .
3 Cos people generally do n't , I mean I do n't know , it depends how , well it depends if you 're one of these people that can walk in and not care that you look completely different to everyone else .
4 John Byrne , of Frenchgate , Richmond , will be one of 100 people to be invested in the Order of St John in the Grand Priory Church in London on February 20 .
5 If you think that you may be one of these people , there will be a form for you to complete and return to us .
6 You may be one of those people who is easily swayed by a superficially attractive candidate with a strong personality , or you may be someone who is most influenced by the person you last spoke to .
7 Harris , Heston claimed , may appear to be very strong , but he ‘ does seem to be one of those people who seemed to enjoy ill health .
8 You might be one of those people .
9 Parker turned out out be one of those people whom Glass only saw ‘ through the windows of the clubs I could n't get into . ’
10 Or would you be one of those people who only ever saw the worst of everything , because they are around are n't they ?
11 True , she was old , but Sara had always imagined she would be one of those people who lived to be a hundred and had a telegram from the Queen .
12 ‘ I happen to be one of those people who likes to see the game played at its highest level and a great opportunity has now been lost for Scotland .
13 Equally , an educational technologist can be one of several people : 1 .
14 I 'm an administrator by background , and I think that 's interesting , because one of the things that we are trying to do in the health service is to open up our management posts to people of all professions , and to recognise that management is not the prerogative of any particular group , but that we 're looking for the right people to manage our services from wherever they might come , and I 'm one of three people who has a responsibility to the senior manager in the community at the top , for the managing on a day-to-day basis the health services in Oxfordshire .
15 I 'm one of those people who , if I went into a gym , could be making Schwarzenegger movies .
16 ‘ I 'm one of those people who can eat and drink what I like and not put on weight , so I had to do it by weight training and build up the muscle weight , ’ he adds .
17 I 'd like to say I 'm one of those people who waited seven years to have my daughter , who 's now eight by the way , but I mean erm I was one of those people when I heard about IV coming in I thought this was a great thing !
18 Er I 'm one of those people that took a two year er low pay rise , to put me into the Health Service when my husband was ill .
19 ‘ I 'd like to offer to help , but I 'm afraid I 'm one of those people who faint at the sight of blood . ’
20 ‘ I am one of those people ’ , he has said in the past , ’ who must take exercise not only to be able to give of my best , but just to survive — I mean , I ca n't function without it .
21 I suppose I am one of those people with drive , I was always the one who started the groups . ’
22 I am one of those people whose money burns a hole in the pocket whenever anything promising arrives on the market .
23 since I am one of those people who do something the wrong way round , if there is the slightest opportunity , I also inserted the needle incorrectly the first time only spotting my mistake when I read on and found that I could not follow the next instruction if my needle was at the back of the work .
24 Well I think I would wait Stefan until the oily film had gone off the top of the water for tender plants but then I am one of these people that would always tender plants with tap water anyway because you never know what 's in do you in rain water , anything can congregate in a pot , it can be infected with all sorts of things and I would just use this water on the garden in the first twelve months or so or use it on shrubs and things like that if it was required and then go on to er things like perennials but then you could use it on almost anything but with the proviso that you may have contamination in that water if it 's from Water Board .
25 If you are one of these people , I suggest that you stop reading this and move on to the next chapter .
26 Suppose you are one of those people who really hates any form of organised exercise , what can you do ?
27 It might be an idea to consider whether you have ‘ programmed yourself ’ to be an insomniac by telling yourself that you are one of those people who ‘ never finds it easy to fall asleep ’ .
28 But , if you are one of those people who has to read a great deal — in connection with your job or because you are studying — then you will soon begin to appreciate the benefits of being able to read more quickly .
29 ‘ Would James have been one of those people , by any chance ? ’
30 and erm but erm even so getting to and from the bus was a bit of a problem , unfortunately I 've never had erm been one of these people who have got the nerve to erm go about a great deal by themselves and erm being up in London you know , immediately before the war I had erm , it was n't very easy getting about so erm and erm I was n't very
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