Example sentences of "that [adj] people make " in BNC.
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| 1 | Poetry was a specialized activity , at least in the sense that few people made or recited poems in public . |
| 2 | The first type of theory proposes that these people make an inappropriate immune response ( allergic response ) to certain synthetic chemicals , in the same way that a hay-fever sufferer reacts adversely to pollen ( see Chapter Two ) . |
| 3 | I feel that many people made a lot of assumptions about me . |
| 4 | Yet it is not unusual to find that many people make no distinction between even the physically and the mentally handicapped , often to the apparent detriment of the former who have more capable brains . |
| 5 | When sexual response in older people is reduced it has more to do with social factors such as the absence of a partner ; health problems , particularly relating to cardiovascular disease , diabetes , multiple sclerosis and prostrate troubles ; drug side-effects ( many drugs prescribed to older people can have adverse effects on sexual functioning ) ; and the intolerance of social attitudes towards sexual activity in older people , which consider sex to be the province of younger people and that older people make rather ridiculous lovers . |
| 6 | Of youth crime , it said : ’ Considering the significant contribution that young people make to the crime problem , both as victims and offenders , the working group was surprised by the lack of references to specific strategies for preventing crime by and against young people . ’ |
| 7 | They used computers instead of quill pens , but the outcome of their labours was still the same as it had been for centuries — trade , the buying and selling of things that other people made . |
| 8 | House purchase is the biggest decision that most people make and the easiest one to postpone . |
| 9 | I lived in the book , as — in your others : I liked particularly Isabella and Evalie , and their gay early middle age — how comforting , too , to be with people who find ‘ the Change ’ such fun , when one thinks of the depressing nonsense that most people make out of it … . |
| 10 | We suggest that working-class people make rather more of a ‘ thing ’ of the whole business than do middle-class people , irrespective of their religious beliefs . |