Example sentences of "people [vb base] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know , that 's what pe people say is disgusting |
| 2 | What people want is low risk . ’ |
| 3 | The public transport on which ordinary people depend is inaccessible to wheelchairs . |
| 4 | There is an enormous distance to travel for people to have a dignified life here : the confidence these people exude is impressive . |
| 5 | Oh yes , the , the service that the retain people give is unbelievable for what they get paid for , it 's , it 's pennies really for that service . |
| 6 | I mean , this is why Hollywood you know can make a lot of money out of some pretty horrifying movie , the th the kind of thing I could n't go to see er cos I get the willies , I ca n't bear that kind of thing , but some people enjoy being frightened do n't they ? |
| 7 | increasingly I think nowadays people converse in not a foreign language , because the terms that people use are familiar but meanings that they intend are not , and th th th the computer people are the worst because they use ordinary words which mean completely different things in the |
| 8 | In the novel , humans keep animals to demonstrate their empathy and differentiate themselves from the robots , but the irony is that radiation has killed off almost all real species , and the goats , horses and sheep which people keep are electric androids as well . |
| 9 | A lot of modern art has tended to be that way , often abstract art , that people think is meaningless , is in fact full of very serious messages if only people are willing to listen to them . |
| 10 | What most people think is extraordinary is that after the government and Roosevelt came out with this thing , it would have been a perfectly human reaction of my father 's to say , well the hell with it , I wo n't give it to the nation if they 're going to accuse me of fraud . |
| 11 | He added : ‘ It was an extraordinarily tactless thing for him to open his mouth at this stage , and say what most people think is true . |
| 12 | In fact , people think being hard of hearing is funny , or being short-sighted . |
| 13 | Seven people have been involved in making the banners over the years , with input and ideas from many others . |
| 14 | Many people have been involved in preparing the Community Care Plan . |
| 15 | Er I I emphasize that very quickly because a lot of people have been involved in all sorts of sales environments and market places erm still have their traditional habits . |
| 16 | Too many people have been upset by their experiences at the hands of a hairdresser . ’ |
| 17 | People have been tremendous with sponsorship . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm very grateful that people have been honest , ’ Courtney says . |
| 19 | ‘ Definitely , people have been respectful towards me and given me some free time . |
| 20 | Through the centuries a host of famous people have been proud to call this charming county ‘ home ’ . |
| 21 | Most people have been familiar with its skyline since they were old enough to focus on a TV screen . |
| 22 | Many people have been disappointed that last week 's decisions were not more precise — defining , for example , exactly what should happen to St Bartholomew 's or Charing Cross Hospital . |
| 23 | Such people have been disappointed , to say the least , that the Government postponed the community care programme by two years because they saw it as an opportunity for the balance of resources between residential care and community care to be readdressed . |
| 24 | Thus , despite the movement towards a welfare state it is obvious that in the details of people 's lives , in the new housing estates and tower blocks , people have been relieved of the worst of their miseries , encouraged to think rich and live poor , to become in effect the permanent prisoners of someone else 's conception of their happiness . |
| 25 | No one any longer recalls where this unusual dish had its origins ; indeed some people have been unkind enough to suggest that it was but recently invented by Mr Rory McGurk at the Dehydrated Rambler , on finding himself with too much ageing shepherd 's pie left on his hands . |
| 26 | So many people have been instrumental in helping us to reach this 40th Anniversary . |
| 27 | In his second reading speech on the National Assistance Bill in 1947 , for example , Aneurin Bevan argued that the accommodation in a local authority old person 's home should be charged for in just the same way as that in a private hotel or nursing home , ‘ so that any old persons who wish to go may go there in exactly the same way as many well-to-do people have been accustomed to go into residential hotels ’ ( HC Debates , 1947 , Col. 1609 ) . |
| 28 | Since the 1987 crash , people have been wary of stock-market investment but some new products give an each-way bet . |
| 29 | ‘ It is a relatively new technique and a lot of people have been sceptical about it but I am a firm believer in the method , ’ he said . |
| 30 | Once people have been able to make a direct year-on-year comparison of local taxation demands , rather than be confused by a change of system , then councils may well be judged on their own individual performance . |