Example sentences of "and [adj] people " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you talk nice and polite people listen to you . |
| 2 | Most religions , Christianity among them , would appear to have degenerated to a point where they can be used to provide , at one extreme , a justification for intense civil turmoil by violent and cruel people , and at the other , justification for luxurious globe-trotting and conference-attending by a ritual-ridden and pomp-loving hierarchy . |
| 3 | The problem here is the failure of very large numbers of people today , both religious and non-religious people , to appreciate the metaphorical nature of the language they are using . |
| 4 | Two hundred and eleven people died . |
| 5 | For a restored social elite , one which included many former supporters of Parliament , the remaining dissenters were ‘ A turbulent , seditious , and factious people ’ and their written style of self-presentation was further confirmation of their unruliness . |
| 6 | Welsh Water has dragged many old-age pensioners and under-privileged people through the courts of Wales because they have fallen down on the odd instalment on their water charges . |
| 7 | The Hawsfield Road is er is er three hundred and fifty people . |
| 8 | The same as the way that this gentleman has found it 's somebody else making a decision to what people can see and I do n't consider some a show like Pro 's and Con 's which had female nudity and two hundred and fifty people walk out in one night to mean something which I think is enhancing to the playhouse . . |
| 9 | Er I mean I , I mean have we really thought this through because er if we 're an anticipating having hundred , hundred and fifty people here which I suppose is of course about what we would hope for , the response that NUPE er as you know they would need to actually achieve the yes vote , I mean we need this sort of room full er would n't it not be more sensible to split up between co or not , would it not be normal for the tutor to expect the group to split up to address specific areas like , I do n't know , Labour Party membership , erm finance , I do n't know , whatever |
| 10 | And that would be a s severe limitation if you 're gon na have , you know , hundred , hundred and , hundred to hundred and fifty people in here from ten to four I would |
| 11 | On that first day everybody wanted to see me , and I was shown to over three hundred and fifty people . |
| 12 | The evening was given over to a " conversation " , which was held in the Church Institute and attracted an audience of one hundred and fifty people . |
| 13 | It 's estimated that up to two hundred and fifty people use House on a daily basis . |
| 14 | Some news in brief now — around two hundred and fifty people were evacuated from a Glasgow nightclub when a fire ripped through the basement of the building in the early hours of the morning . |
| 15 | Around two hundred and fifty people were evacuated from a Glasgow nightclub when a fire ripped through the basement of the building in the early hours of the morning . |
| 16 | This year , solidly under a Labour controlled Council , only two hundred and fifty people approximately have been allowed to exercise what actually is their legal right . |
| 17 | We 've been running the management skills courses since nineteen eighty-six , and since then , more than seven hundred and fifty people , from groups such as yours , have taken a part , and we 're about to launch a phase two in the next er , year or so . |
| 18 | But it 's not the same story for the electronics systems division , which employs two hundred and fifty people , again in Cheltenham and Gloucester . |
| 19 | A new car component plant will provide seats for both Rover and Honda , and could eventually employ more than two hundred and fifty people . |
| 20 | In the past year a hundred and fifty people have lost their jobs at the Newport Pagnell site . |
| 21 | A hundred and fifty people look certain to lose their jobs with the closure of a weapons factory . |
| 22 | A disabled rider who 's accusing a horse trader of cheating her out of twelve hundred pounds says more than a hundred and fifty people may have suffered a similar fate . |
| 23 | Two hundred and fifty people marched the short distance from the company 's base to Dundee 's Camperdown Park for a rally . |
| 24 | It holds sixteen hundred and fifty people . |
| 25 | A hundred and fifty people have been invited , but I do n't know if all will be coming . |
| 26 | So let's look at one of , let's look at the one that Kelly 's working on there where she 's got fifty pounds shared out between a hundred and fifty people . |
| 27 | So we put ten five pound notes round this very big table and then we 're saying now you 've a hundred and fifty people I do n't know how you managed to get into this room . |
| 28 | Absolutely tremendous , I mean it was like being inside erm with a lot of people with us , there was about a hundred , a hundred and fifty people here . |
| 29 | He 's like a dictator who 's just come to power and does all the awful violent things at once , like changing the laws and murdering people and confiscating everything — then later on it 'll all be taken for granted and he can play at being kind and good . ’ |
| 30 | Youth , ethnic and religious minorities , low caste and aboriginal people — and the poor in general — are as marginalised in the media as they are in society . |