Example sentences of "[verb] and [adj] people " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 've got the replacement council tax to come and many people are still unhappy . |
| 2 | It seems that while everybody does dream during REM sleep , most dreams are forgotten and some people forget more readily than others . |
| 3 | It was less about homosexuality than about ‘ sexually wounded and crippled people ’ , she said . |
| 4 | The best of them have produced a small number of highly educated and skilled people . |
| 5 | And they 're highly educated and articulate people , so when they do n't like what you 've said , God can they insult you beautifully ! ’ |
| 6 | Many of the Branch Davidians seem to be educated and articulate people . |
| 7 | As workers in the ‘ caring services ’ we need to ask ourselves certain questions : are we enabling and supporting people to take control of their own lives or are we disabling , taking the control for ourselves ? |
| 8 | And that happens and self-righteous people get like that . |
| 9 | Let's not go into the specifics of the court case just now David Lightbown , what I want to say to you , do you think it 's a case , some people might perhaps unjustifiably but they still would say that those people who are bullied are bullied because they are nonconformists and in the military one has to conform and many people |
| 10 | What matters when parents stop pushing and other people 's eyes stop looking and you 're alone with yourself . |
| 11 | As a result there were many badly prepared and incompetent people in the diplomatic service . " |
| 12 | Crime has persistently interested and worried people , and attempts to make sense of crime and criminal behaviour have appeared in literary and intellectual writings throughout the ages . |
| 13 | In scenes reminiscent of the miners ' strike a decade ago , one policewoman was injured and 14 people were arrested . |
| 14 | During a subsequent march of some 200,000 pupils backed by the teachers ' union FEN in Paris on Nov. 12 , police held back while cars were burned and shops looted in the seventh arrondissement , but finally intervened with tear gas and water cannon to prevent marchers approaching the presidential palace ; 234 police and a number of journalists were injured and 83 people were arrested . |
| 15 | It was successful in that no shots were fired , no one was injured and 3 people were arrested . |
| 16 | The task of this chapter is to look at attitudes to ageing and old people , to look at their consequences and to consider changing them . |
| 17 | There is a variety of decisions which might be made and different people who might make them . |
| 18 | Whether we could look at our contract and see if this could be because mentioned about grass on the pavements , not only is it the machine that 's doing that , but there 's a danger to young children from the machines they 're using and elderly people with pavements being very very slippery once they 're doing the grass if it 's raining . |
| 19 | Cats hate to defecate where they eat and some people place the litter tray too near the animal 's food dish . |
| 20 | He hopes that in the ensuing battle of ideas , the weakness of the arguments for inequality will be exposed and young people in particular will be converted to the idea of equality . |
| 21 | and my heart went some where else and I think erm , the , the marriage erm , the love in my marriage was definitely killed by an act which my partner did and I would fall into the crimes of passion I think because I mean to , to me he committed the deadly sin of all and that was adultery and I could never forgive him for that and I think that picks up on a lot , many issues which have been raised tonight about you have to have trust in a partnership , you have to give and take and people change and some people can accept all that but I was not willing to do so . |
| 22 | In The Outsiders , the gang , their friends and rivals spend their time mugging and jumping people , stealing and robbing from shops . |
| 23 | Whilst the overall sums have been low , and there has also been criticism that the time period for these grants has been too short for the more innovative projects , some success in the movement of mentally handicapped and ill people into the community has been achieved . |
| 24 | Eight years ago we began work in St Luke 's , Cranham where the church was growing and several people were coming to Christ . |
| 25 | It was the wedding of the century , the fairy tale that excited , fired and fascinated people all over the world . |
| 26 | Three men have died and five people were injured in two seperate head-on collisions . |
| 27 | The majority of these were in Peru where 1,130 had so far died and 150,929 people were infected . |
| 28 | When they arrived in Aswan , they found problems in getting to the Oberoi ; the river was patrolled and few people were allowed across . |
| 29 | None is more important than the seeing of themselves as valued and important people , each with a separate and positive sense of identity . |
| 30 | Okapi was certainly easy to use and most people found that it needed minimal learning and relearning . |