Example sentences of "the [adj] people be [be] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | In their final communiqué issued on Aug. 9 , Foreign Ministers " expressed sorrow over the ordeal to which the Iraqi people are being subjected " but charged the Iraqi regime with " full responsibility for the human and material losses " incurred by its invasion of Kuwait , and stressed that Iraq 's " non-commitment to implementation " of all UN resolutions " necessitat[ed] the continuation of sanctions " . |
| 2 | Donor countries must be convinced that the tribal people are being adequately catered for . |
| 3 | The forest-dwelling people are being murdered , terrorised , infected with diseases and driven from their territories as the forests are being destroyed . |
| 4 | He and his friends had collaborated with the Japs , but had quickly seen that the independence granted to Burma was fictitious and that the Burmese people were being exploited for Japanese imperialism . |
| 5 | The Kayan and the Penan peoples are being encouraged — some would say coerced — into leaving their scattered forest homes and nomadic lives to settle in larger communities where they are given schools and clinics and telephones … and jobs in the timber industry . |
| 6 | Once more , the Arab people are being dealt with like ‘ uncontrollable children ’ with a dangerous weapon ; the weapon being the military machinery the West was previously happy to supply as long as Western interests were protected . |
| 7 | If the local people are being manipulated by others for their gain then of course the situation is different . |
| 8 | But another member of the workshop was annoyed that the educational ability of the local people was being blamed for the lack of jobs in the area . |