Example sentences of "be [prep] [adj] people " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pattern has usually been for such people to establish themselves as privileged representatives of a ‘ god ’ who has the power to punish or destroy those who do not conform to the rules which they , the privileged , have themselves formulated , but have attributed to the ‘ god ’ . |
| 2 | According to H. C. Robbins Landon , it was the Tristan und Isolde shortly before that , a production of swarming darkness and rare musical sensibility , that had been for many people one of the greatest of all their musical experiences . |
| 3 | Since the inter-war years , Britain has been for many people an upwardly mobile society , with children from working-class homes winning jobs in the expanding service class . |
| 4 | Although many of the massage techniques in this illustrated guide are for two people to practise on each other , as you can clearly see from the simple techniques over the page , massage is something that you can successfully achieve alone . |
| 5 | All recipes are for two people . |
| 6 | The cold , harsh realities of life are for other people to worry about . |
| 7 | It 's also worth stressing that these books are for real people , with real gardens : we 're not giving them pictures of Blenheim or Buckingham Palace . |
| 8 | In Scotland the track record is better than the rest of Britain , with Employment Service staff maintaining its target of ensuring that 3 per cent of its job placements are for disabled people , according to its Scottish director , Alan Brown . |
| 9 | Stephen , a boy of about sixteen in a school not far from Susan 's , told me the following story : Extract 2 : Sounds are for big people Me was trodding down de road and me come across me bredder " e — me ask " im for some money an " e say " e na got . |
| 10 | The shampoo and combs are for white people 's hair ; they do n't have Black combs . |
| 11 | These are for fat people , and there are enough of them about . |
| 12 | Because they occupy key positions in primary care , they are for most people the most accessible caring profession , and psychiatry is considered by doctors to be primarily their occupational territory . |
| 13 | ‘ These low cost housing schemes are for local people and the children of local people . |
| 14 | 16,000 reported infections ( it is probable that there are between 40–60,000 people actually infected ) . |
| 15 | The ‘ sex arrangement ’ she had joked about had been about other people , and their attitude to strange bodies cluttering up the place . |
| 16 | This breaks down very clearly indeed what the problems are of young people . |
| 17 | Most of the names in this computer are of black people . |
| 18 | Within each of the broad ICD chapters the vast majority of deaths are of older people ( Table 3.4 ) . |
| 19 | He sits by the door and I read in my chair , and we 're like two people who 've been married years . |
| 20 | But do we listen to this stuff when we 're with other people ? |
| 21 | ‘ They 're with other people . ’ |
| 22 | armoured animals are like rich people — insulated from the real hazards of life and therefore less streetwise' and opportunist . |
| 23 | Here are some examples : they can see in the dark they can never ever tell a lie when they are with other people they know what they are thinking they are living backwards in time — they were born in the future and so instead of getting older , they get younger . |
| 24 | Indeed , with the beginnings of credit unions in this country , one group that has shown considerable interest in this development has been this group of lenders whose business has been with poor people . |
| 25 | I travelled the country well , I 've been in other authorities both labour controlled , been in to schools , been in old peoples homes , erm seen their roads , or driven over their roads , and I can assure you , that er in Lincolnshire . |
| 26 | When the type of home was taken into account , those dying of respiratory disease were more likely to have been in nursing homes — 14 per cent compared with 6 per cent for those dying of other conditions — whereas those dying of stroke were more likely to have been in old people 's homes : 27 per cent against 12 per cent . |
| 27 | of all referrals are from single people and there is simply not enough suitable housing for this client group ’ . |
| 28 | Perhaps the most important point to make is that , as part of affirmatively assessing elders , we should never assume that unconscious processes are less important or less worthy of exploration than they are in other people . |
| 29 | Compounds containing a particular amino acid , tryptophan , do not appear to be dealt with in quite the same way in the brain of a sufferer from addictive disease as they are in other people . |
| 30 | It must be about ordinary people taking control of our own lives . |