Example sentences of "[adj] people are [verb] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | They point to the increasing numbers of very old people who live on their own , and draw the invalid conclusion that kinship ties have weakened , and that obligations are no longer recognized , so that old people are left to be cared for predominantly by strangers . |
| 2 | So dead bodies are hygienically whisked away by undertakers within a very short ti me of the person dying , funerals are conducted in twenty minutes at a busy crematorium with a bizarre queue of other funerals waiting in an approach way , and grieving people are expected to be back at their employment in as short a time as possible . |
| 3 | About 1000 white people are believed to be infected . |
| 4 | Well I meant to say , if , if , if we , if there is an assurance that elderly people are going to be helped , and there 's going to be a day centre there , I think we do handle the elderly pretty much anyway in this county , I would be certainly prepared to support it . |
| 5 | ‘ Despite what people say , I think it will be a long time until black people are going to be in a position to do that . |
| 6 | so if blind people are trying to be on the same level terms with sighted people , then , you know , why should they get an |
| 7 | When you get to about 13 or 14 , you begin to realize that your colour , even if you had n't thought about it much , means that other people are going to be different to you . |
| 8 | Look happy — other people are waiting to be friendly . |
| 9 | The re-presented Holland Report data showed how young people are judged to be ‘ worse ’ by employers on age-related attributes . |