Example sentences of "people [Wh pn] can not " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has , meanwhile , steadfastly ignored the argument that people who can not get out will do their best to leave ; while those with the ‘ insurance policy ’ of a passport in their back pockets are more likely to stay on and try to make their home-town work . |
| 2 | But legal aid experts argue that low income and capital limits are denying access to justice to increasing numbers of people who can not afford to pay privately . |
| 3 | If his medicine is not visibly working soon , he will , like many of the unfortunate people who can not afford their mortgage payment , have to be evicted from his comfortable home . ’ |
| 4 | Scorn will heaped on the book by people who can not think of the countryside as anything other than a marketable resource , or those who think they are being environmentally perceptive because they call a gate a peripherial access point and a path a mountain access route . |
| 5 | Yet it is not uncommon for people who can not get to sleep , or who have woken up , to get up in the middle of the night and to make themselves a snack because they are hungry . |
| 6 | Popular with people who can not take drinks containing caffeine Tomato , Lime & Basil Soup p111 Tortilla Chip Pie p104 Turkey with Mexican Pepper Sauce p105 Venison with Mixed Peppercorns p51 Vinaigrette p31 Vine Fruits p61/ The generic term for currants , sultanas and raisins Vinegar p30/ A fermented condiment for table or culinary use , based on alcoholic liquor |
| 7 | When Americans talk about an ‘ underclass ’ in their cities , they do not simply mean the poor ; they mean poor but healthy young people who can not or will not , but anyway do not , get a job . |
| 8 | This implies that people who can not remember things may not have lost the information — but may need to access it differently . |
| 9 | Constructions built so that people who can not afford to leave or sail away can feel that they are almost leaving . |
| 10 | People who can not read and write could be advised to use a signing system and could be encouraged to use any available adult literacy programme . |
| 11 | Sampling from out-of-date lists results in large numbers of people who can not be found . |
| 12 | AN ENGINEER with an American drug company has invented a high technology aid for people who can not remember when they last took their medicines . |
| 13 | Clarity of speech is a boon and a blessing to everyone , particularly to people who can not hear too well . |
| 14 | There are really only three types of people who can not be successfully hypnotized . |
| 15 | A good reputation will be merely a means to winning what I want from others ; I shall care nothing for the respect or contempt of people who can not help or ham me , and find no pleasure in the prospect of millions seeing my face on television or reading my books after I am dead . |
| 16 | The new pill has already been used to regulate the daily rhythms of blind people who can not respond to the light and dark cues of day and night . |
| 17 | Personal neglect , perhaps arising from social isolation , loneliness or depression , can lead to elderly people who can not be bothered to prepare good food , relying on quick and easy foods , thereby getting an unbalanced diet . |
| 18 | THE Woolwich Building Society has two new plans to help people who can not move because their homes are now worth less than their mortgages . |
| 19 | ‘ We are dealing daily with people who can not cope with their financial problems , ’ said Christine Snowball , a CAB debt adviser . |
| 20 | I can hate , just as other designers can do , but there is also the question of education ; to be mean to people who can not answer you back . |
| 21 | What , if anything , have such ethnic nationalist reactions in common with the recent rise of fundamentalism in many parts of the globe , which has been described as appealing to ‘ people who can not tolerate random and haphazard existence and unexplained conditions ( and thus ) often converge on those who offer most complete , inclusive and extravagant world views ’ . |
| 22 | Now when interest charges fall , the person who is buying the house benefits from the reduction in interest charges , but the person who is renting a house in local authority and then in this case nobody , nobody else in Harlow to rent it from , is faced with , not with a decreased monthly rental , but with an ever increasing one because as more and more Council houses are sold the cost of maintaining that there , the superstructure of the town , the cost of maintaining Council houses goes on increasing and so the burden is laid on the tenants and the tenant can find , will find himself that pound for pound increasing his rent while the house owner is decreasing his mortgage charges and at the end of the day the tenant is paying increased rent , increased rate and with nothing to show for it , erm , I 've always been in favour of a sale , of , of property er owner occupiers , but not at the expense of the people who can not afford to be owner occupiers , ah , to my mind , the present housing system is designed to maintain the existing class structure because even with the large discounts that one gets and nobody 's ever yet convinced me that why you should get a discount because you buy a Council house , but if you buy one privately owned you ca n't get a discount and it , there 's , this , this is so utter nonsense , but it is throwing a much heavier burden every time a house is sold on the remaining houses which are for rent , and so you that , although the idea is to make it a classless this society with more and more people owning their own properties the mo the mere fact that the majority of people in the town can not afford to buy even the reduced priced Council house , is an example that the , the system , the class system a division by income still exists . |
| 23 | Yet as we shall see in the next chapter , with poorer clients the problem is not simply one of providing lawyers for people who can not afford them from their own resources . |
| 24 | Most support for people who can not manage daily living without help comes from families , friends and neighbours rather than from the various formal services . |
| 25 | If they heard a knock at the door or if they heard shouting and bawling in the street , but there 's nothing they can do what we 're asking for here is and I 'm asking for support is a phone to the people who can not afford one whereas if they hear something they can phone the police , or they can phone the support unit because are two people staying together in this day and age where they can not walk in the streets they 're attacked even in broad daylight going to get their pensions never mind at night-time . |
| 26 | He will also be aware that the planning system can now be used to require a developer to make provision for a percentage of homes specifically for young people who can not afford to buy on the open market . |
| 27 | Does the hon. Gentleman recognise the terrible toll that that places on the community and , in particular , on the young people who can not get work and see the possibilities of career development and a decent standard of living slipping away from them ? |
| 28 | The Secretary of State should join that lot out there who keep losing their jobs and the people who can not get a job . |
| 29 | The hon. Member for Chelmsford ( Mr. Burns ) shakes his head , but he should come to my constituency and I will introduce him to people who can not pay the poll tax because they simply do not have the money . |
| 30 | They have shown by their tasteless and tactless menace tonight that they are still not prepared to take on board the problems of people who can not pay their poll tax because they do not have sufficient funds . |