Example sentences of "[adj] to people " in BNC.

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1 A number of basic names , terms and expressions may be unfamiliar to people who are relatively new to the subject .
2 Mr Hurd won Tory cheers as he said : ‘ Unless it is clear to people in Vietnam that those who do not qualify as refugees will be returned to Vietnam , Hong Kong faces the prospect of tens of thousands more arrivals in 1990 .
3 Haldingham ( later Holdingham ) is a hamlet in the parish of Lafford ( later Sleaford ) , Lincolnshire , and Richard is described as of either place in order to make his identity clear to people unacquainted with Haldingham .
4 We try to make it clear to people in Hong Kong and to the Government of China that the main component in our relationship with the People 's Republic of China must be Hong Kong and carrying the 1984 agreement to success .
5 Yeah but as I say I just want to make it clear to people that it 's er it 's a bit of both and I think a bit of bit of heated argument was
6 Is that clear to people doing the life insurance one ?
7 During the years of anti-apartheid struggle , donor funded non-governmental organisations ( NGOs ) have tried to provide health services which are accountable to oppressed communities and responsive to people 's basic primary health care needs in the most deprived areas .
8 The patients charter demonstrates our commitment to providing high-quality services within the NHS which are responsive to people 's views and needs .
9 This woman 's understanding of local government is , incidentally , a useful commentary on the idea that local governments and state organisations are somehow especially responsive to people 's everyday lives .
10 ( By contrast , he was very generous to people who had less than he did , and often gave away money and cricket equipment . )
11 Patients pay £4.25 per item but four out of five prescriptions are dispensed free to people who are exempt .
12 Open-air dancing under the floodlights , often in long mackintoshes and trilby hats , a fountain that fell from bucket to bucket like the omnipresent rain , a bewhiskered Emett railway , a tree-walk alongside a forty-foot Chinese dragon — people queued patiently to enjoy such simple pleasures whose lack of sophistication seemed very exciting to people , most of whom had never had a foreign holiday or seen café tables with coloured umbrellas or indeed any fresh paint for as long as they could remember .
13 … She went out of her way to be unpleasant to people .
14 They just do n't recognise hierarchy , and I take no notice of whether or not I 'm acceptable to people .
15 Therefore our belief that you need to change politics and make it more responsive and acceptable to people is very relevant . ’
16 More , I believe , than would be acceptable to people , so that nuclear power in itself will never be the solution to our energy problems .
17 Pesticides , for example , can be directly harmful to people or have dangerous side-effects .
18 However , lead emissions from car exhausts are an atmospheric pollutant that may be harmful to people 's health .
19 Very interesting to people who live outside the county .
20 It 's unpopular — I do n't disguise that from anybody — and it is harmful and painful to people paying mortgages .
21 He apologised on behalf of the organising committee that not all of the workshops were accessible to people with disabilities and assured the participants that any further conferences organised would ensure that this would not happen again .
22 No social services department had produced a plan accessible to people with learning difficulties .
23 It has tried to make the excellent support the Campaign offers more accessible to people all over Wales who are keen to improve their local environment .
24 Adult education must be accessible to people on all income levels .
25 The resulting method can be applied to any small area to measure either number of jobs accessible to people living there , or numbers of workers to whom jobs are accessible .
26 He says it looks quite exciting if it can save alot of trees , make fuel accessible to people who are having difficulty finding enough fuel , then it should be good .
27 Coun Bob Kerr , Middlesbrough council 's leisure services committee chairman , said : ‘ The changes will make the pavilion more attractive and more accessible to people of all ages . ’
28 As credit is now so central to people 's lives — financing as it does something approaching half of what they buy , other than day-to-day necessities — and as choice of credit arrangements is increasingly diverse and complex , people by the time they leave school should be equipped to deal sensibly with it .
29 Their purpose is to generate critical thinking and actions about problems central to people 's lives .
30 The pesticides concerned , Butachlor , Halozyfop , Nuamrimol and Prothiophos are dangerous to people and other forms of life , plants included , the statement said .
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