Example sentences of "and [adj] [det] people " in BNC.
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1 | But in the last days of 1879 a frightful storm blew the bridge down as a train was crossing , and 75 more people lost their lives . |
2 | The Doctor , Bernice thought , does n't seem to realize just how weird and dangerous these people are . |
3 | Grunte said that by and large most people had a jolly time , although there was , perhaps , a shade too much speechifying . |
4 | In the in the very beginning of our Bibles er the the the prophets and all such people were wanting to establish the fact of God . |
5 | Say we picture ourselves in a desert and all these people want some water , but one person goes and gets it ? |
6 | For instance only four-were living alone and all these people had much lower OBS scores than the three being sustained by the project ( one had a score of three and the other three of five ) ; they were also able to manage much more of their own care than the former group , being mentally and , to some extent , physically more capable . |
7 | He did not like the noise , and all these people pushing him . |
8 | I did n't see the same face twice for three weeks — there were so many sound stages and all these people , and on top of that , I was going to make a movie with Clark Gable . |
9 | They have n't been fighting all these years to get rid of communism to see it re-emerge again so you , the confusion continues , as it is in Russia , and then you insinuate the idea that , with the breakdown of social order and so on , you must have a strong man , you must have strong arms and that 's where your Hitlers and your Mussolinis and all these people come through in that little vacuum in between of disorder . |
10 | forty pound off something and er course then Doreen gets on to the subject of Des again and all these people that do n't pay cos apparently somewhere , and I she said Portsmouth but I 'm not I ca n't really remember what she said |
11 | And all these people into the road |
12 | Your change of address is important to all your friends and relatives and all those people who usually send you bills or communications — like the bank , building society , post office , insurance company etc. , and you should notify them straight away . |
13 | It was great , and all those people driving past , saying , ‘ You know , I think that was Fred Astaire dancing … . ’ |
14 | Jimmy and Gwenda Cornell , the ARC organising team and all those people from Gran Canaria who help the rally each year , boarded the Spanish Navy corvette , Villa de Bilbao , which was to act as the committee boat . |
15 | And all those people . |
16 | Sad , nostalgic , the countryside had hardly changed and , if I closed my eyes at certain parts , I was back with Master Benjamin and all those people , now long dead , travelling to a place where conspiracy , treason and sudden death became part of the very fabric of our lives . |
17 | We care about the old age pensioners the poor the single parents and all those people who in a winter 's time are going to struggle and some are tragically going to fail to pay seventeen and a half percent V A T on fuel and heating bills . |
18 | And they have to move to other industries , er productive industries and service industries and er communications for example which is very run down , and that 's going to take I should think , six to nine months of really hard work and suffering , and and a political clean up at the same time , because in the schools and universities for instance , er nobody could get a job in the old days , who was n't politically reliable , and all those people have got to be moved . |
19 | It was betrayal , too , when in the 1960s and 1970s many people like me who thought of themselves as ‘ progressive ’ came to believe that mental illness did not exist . |
20 | In 1992 there were 1.3 million fewer employees than in 1973 , and although there were 950,000 more people self-employed and 325,000 people on various training schemes which kept them off the unemployment register , there were 77,000 fewer in the forces and 122,000 fewer people in work . |
21 | Many of the remote areas of Scotland have aging populations and many such people do not have the use of cars . |
22 | The changes were contreversial then , and many many people would still like to see them reversed now . |
23 | The Scottish economy has responded vigorously to the policies we have introduced to liberate enterprise , and many more people are now saving , investing and owning their homes . |
24 | The oldest book here is Kennett 's Roman Antiquities published in 1699 and still in perfectly sound condition , though its plates have been removed by a ‘ breaker ’ — someone who removes all the maps and plates from a book , sells the plates , coloured and framed , to interior designers and other such people , and then throws the book away . |
25 | It is sometimes difficult for research workers from an academic background to convince businessmen and other such people of the value of their research . |
26 | It would be a very great help towards that end if the studies and work of theologians , doctors of divinity and other such people could be regarded as being related to specialised history , and not at all as being directed towards the regeneration and bolstering of established religions . |
27 | And two more people over here I want to talk to . |