Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] people " in BNC.
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| 1 | The North Korean Interim People 's Committee ( NKIPC ) developed in February 1946 as a reaction to the trend of events in the south ; it was meant to assist in the process that would lead to a government for the whole of Korea . |
| 2 | The National Deaf Club , as will be remembered , was originally founded for the oral deaf , but by the 1930s had become so well-established as a sports and social club for independent-minded deaf people who were mostly well-bred and upper-class , and so dominant in the Federation of London Deaf Clubs ' sports tournaments , that oral deaf people were once more isolated from social activities . |
| 3 | Of the part-time tutors , about a quarter were local schoolmasters , and there were also a number of parish clergy , local government officers and retired professional people ; only two of those so far booked for courses were women , although when the programme was finalised there were three . |
| 4 | Joseph Chamberlain as Chairman of the Local Government Board in 1885 was responsible for the Medical Relief ( Disqualifications Removal ) Act which removed the pauper stigma — disfranchisement — from inmates of Poor Law infirmaries who made no other demands on poor relief and increased both use of the infirmaries by respectable working people and their willingness as ratepayers to finance them . |
| 5 | The protests spread throughout north Indian cities , and on Aug. 29 the students were joined by groups of striking professional people . |
| 6 | ‘ We have to work very hard not to treat the very frail old people as children . |
| 7 | The physical care of frail old people necessarily involves much attention to food and to toileting . |
| 8 | Whether that holds true for very frail old people is doubtful as Wenger herself recognises . |
| 9 | This is clearly not the case where some very frail old people are concerned but reciprocity can be viewed over a long time scale . |
| 10 | The extreme vulnerability of frail old people leaves them open to abuse if such matters are not recognised by those who manage services or support carers . |
| 11 | For example , it would be interesting to know how far they would be prepared to deliver service to frail old people who present particular problems , if they can make a living with easier clients . |
| 12 | As the numbers of frail old people grow , in both absolute and proportional terms ( and they far exceed any other vulnerable groups ) , those who work with and for them are bound to experience this dilemma more acutely , which may be summarised as ‘ just how much are we supposed to do to support and protect such old vulnerable people ? ’ . |
| 13 | Vulnerable old person This term will be used to distinguish the small number of very frail old people from the majority of competent independent elderly people over 65 . |
| 14 | It 'll provide 400 new beds.They 'll do that by buying beds in private old people 's homes , refurbishing council-run homes , and five new sheltered housing complexes are being built . |
| 15 | They say the Government 's willingness to over-subsidise private old people 's homes has caused the 300-plus empty spaces at the county 's 42 council-run homes . |
| 16 | The couple , who own a private old people 's home elsewhere in the North-East , asked pensioners ' champion Rev William Harper to help them negotiate the sale . |
| 17 | ‘ I guess you polite English people would have suffered in silence , would n't you ? ’ |
| 18 | A barrage of anti-government broadcasts in the Amharic language on Voice of Ethiopian Patriotism radio throughout November asserted that the combined Ethiopian People 's Revolutionary Democratic Front ( EPRDF ) and Tigray People 's Liberation Front ( TPLF ) government forces were suffering reverses in several areas . |
| 19 | Each calling different people . |
| 20 | Donegal folk were dark-haired good-looking people , with a touch of Scottish gravity . |
| 21 | Far more effective , he considered ( and there was no anti-Semitism involved , though inevitably most of the recent refugees were Jews ) , would be to put on the air people who , while speaking intelligible German , would be identified as representative British people . |
| 22 | In my view , the better approach is when older people collaborate as fellow students or teaches , rather than the more common approach where schoolchildren organise tea parties or collect money or presents for ‘ needy old people ’ . |
| 23 | In addition to income support many old people can claim housing benefits but there is always anxiety that some of the most needy old people will fail to take advantage of their rights . |
| 24 | In the eastern Bosnian enclave of Srebrenica , the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has managed to feed and keep alive 50,000 people crammed into a space once occupied by 7,000 . |
| 25 | Nice orderly home-and-family-loving people are the ones who believe in God and even still go to church . |
| 26 | Uwe Seyler from Hamburg who 's campaigning for a cut in tax for German tall people : |
| 27 | In other words , we look separately at old poor people , old rich people , young poor people and young rich people , and calculate in each of the four groups what proportion would be prepared to break the law . |
| 28 | Even unemployed deaf people have been discriminated against on training courses . |
| 29 | The authorities denied that his arrest in 1987 was solely because he had met pro-North Korean people in Japan and claimed that he had acted on North Korean orders to collect documents on South Korean opposition groups , and to infiltrate dissent groups in order to create social unrest . |
| 30 | Sir Arthur married a Florence Long in 1882 , a marriage that was useful to him in social circles as his brother-in-law was a powerful Member of Parliament , but Sir Arthur 's true love was reserved for British deaf people . |