Example sentences of "[adj] people in the country " in BNC.
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| 1 | And branch spokesman Ron Lawton said yesterday : ‘ Some of the most dangerous people in the country are held in these special hospitals and that seems to be pushed into the background . |
| 2 | He said that there were a great many white people in the country and many more would come ; that he wanted the land marked out so that the Indians and white men could be separated . |
| 3 | The Treasury has responsibility for the health of the economy ; the Social Services Department has responsibility for some of the poorest and most vulnerable people in the country . |
| 4 | I feel genuinely hostile to an undergraduate ( supposedly one of the best educated people in the country ) who writes asking for sponsorship for some project and who does not know how to begin or end his letter or how to spell the name of the person to whom he is appealing . |
| 5 | Making a list of the most powerful people in the country used to be easy . |
| 6 | He had noted the recurrence of surnames among deaf people and deduced it was highly probable that a considerable proportion of deaf people in the country belonged to families which had more than one deaf member , and suspected that the reasons for this were hereditary . |
| 7 | An envoy said : ‘ It is ironic that the two most important people in the country are completely removed from the population . ’ |
| 8 | I expect they 're among the most important people in the country . |
| 9 | They have got to let the Black people in South Africa have better conditions , but some of the Dutch people in the country are very determined . |
| 10 | I think another important thing for us to recognize is that many of the people within the N H S , the people directly responsible for the care , remain some of the lowest people in the country , the least rewarded people in the country . |
| 11 | Oxford has one of the highest numbers of homeless people in the country … perhaps two to three thousand . |
| 12 | At each embassy , a giant poster was left with a brief appeal on behalf of indigenous people in the country concerned . |
| 13 | But now I think it 's such a terrible job that DJs deserve to be the highest paid people in the country . |
| 14 | The overwhelming majority of these , the best qualified young people in the country , said they wanted a protected life in a big corporation , a home in the suburbs and a family of five or six children . |
| 15 | Furthermore , the trial in Norway was conducted during a period of consistent decrease in the prevalence of smoking among young people in the country and while a comprehensive tobacco control programme was being introduced . |
| 16 | This group covers around 80–85% of all mentally handicapped people in the country . |
| 17 | Prevalence rates for severe mental handicap are , however , considerably lower than this , perhaps four per 1000 , and given the more limited life expectancy in more severe cases , the most frequently quoted rate for severe mental handicap is 3.2 per 1000 suggesting that there are around 160,000 severely mentally handicapped people in the country . |