Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] to [adj] people " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hebephrenia was once used to describe a form , typically beginning in adolescence , in which the person complains of auditory hallucinations , talks in an incomprehensible way , and shows totally inappropriate emotional reactions to other people . |
| 2 | He proposes four bonds : attachment ( the extent to which individuals have close emotional ties to other people ) ; commitment ( the extent to which they see conventional behaviour , for example at school , as offering immediate or long-term rewards ) ; involvement ( the extent to which their time is taken up with conventional activities ) ; belief ( the extent to which their beliefs about what is permissible or not coincide with conventional ones ) . |
| 3 | The company was formed by Robert Southam , who also acts and directs for the company and in 1979 launched the European Summer School of Arts and Languages at Oxford , which takes place at the University and offers courses in theatre , music , dance , painting , film-making and English and French literature to young people from all over Europe , including Oxfordshire . |
| 4 | With their sympathetic , open-minded attitudes to young people , they came closest to the RCM ideal for a foster family . |
| 5 | For diverse and often disparate groupings , the language of scientificity stood as a metaphor and a referent , which condensed specific anxieties and signified different solutions to different people . |
| 6 | FREE entry to disabled people this weekend at Manchester 's Museum of Transport . |
| 7 | The most popular visitors to old people are the good listeners , who concentrate with interest on what they are saying , making the occasional encouraging comment . |
| 8 | It 's no good preaching sermons to young people about the value of labour if all they do is to guide a piece of metal into a press and tread on a pedal a hundred times a day … |
| 9 | Unlike America , Britain has nothing equivalent to the ‘ food bank ’ , through which gifts of food can be distributed on a community-wide basis to poor people . |
| 10 | I 'm a different person to different people . |
| 11 | And here is another one of the paradoxes of the Williams life , the closed compartments that ensured Ken was a different person to different people . |
| 12 | ‘ After all , words like ‘ wispy ’ and ‘ short ’ mean different things to different people , ’ she said . |
| 13 | Protecting the environment means different things to different people , but in most cases it is the individual 's own perception of what he or she wants from the environment . |
| 14 | Discussing the patient 's ‘ auditory environment ’ Gough ( 1986 ) provides vignettes showing how noise means different things to different people and reminds nurses that it is possible to be upset by silence , for example a child in an isolation unit — a salutary reminder of the importance of individualising nursing according to the circumstances . |
| 15 | This term meant so many different things to different people that the results were almost impossible to classify . |
| 16 | While in theory all parties are agreed that the talks should cover three ‘ strands ’ — Northern Ireland , north-south and Anglo-Irish relations — one UUP source said : ‘ It seems these three strands mean different things to different people . ’ |
| 17 | Comfort means different things to different people , but when food and comfort are mentioned in the same breath , chances are that the tastes and textures of childhood will come back to visit us whether we consciously realise it or not . |
| 18 | Mobile phones are different things to different people . |
| 19 | Terms like multicurrency , multilanguage and pan-European mean different things to different people — especially software suppliers . |
| 20 | Terms like multicurrency , multilanguage and pan-European mean different things to different people especially software suppliers |
| 21 | ‘ His reputation for saying different things to different people , for working both sides of the street , is a classic politicians method . |
| 22 | Consequently , these words mean quite different things to different people . |
| 23 | Nursing as work or as a vocation can mean different things to different people . |
| 24 | However , the term means different things to different people . |
| 25 | The word community itself means so many different things to different people that its use frequently adds to the confusion . |
| 26 | The problem is that just like the ‘ moral treatments ’ of the nineteenth century , normalization has come to mean different things to different people , and professionals who have espoused the concept of ‘ normalization ’ often proselytize their views with a religious fervour which , though often motivating to fellow staff , can be alienating to those who are unfamiliar with the concept . |
| 27 | ‘ Atonality ’ means different things to different people . |
| 28 | Quality means different things to different people depending on either your job or your view of it . |
| 29 | We are told that federalism means different things to different people , that it is a benign arrangement which does not centralise but pushes power downwards to the people and the regions and that it is based on subsidiarity . |
| 30 | Speaking to the European Parliament ( EP ) after the summit Ruud Lubbers , Prime Minister of the Netherlands , said that the word federal had been dropped because it meant different things to different people . |