Example sentences of "[be] [that] people " in BNC.
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| 1 | Branson stood beside Simon Draper , visibly shaking , his face set in a grim mask , ‘ I ca n't tell you , ’ he began , ‘ how sad I am that people have felt the need to have a meeting , without Simon and I being present . |
| 2 | Likely contributing factors are that people fail to recognise , and to compensate for insidious deterioration of vision , hearing and decision speed as they age . |
| 3 | And they 've got , I think the odds are that people are giving more perhaps er and that er , if they were paid at fifty four P per mile and and got how that would affect the churches er contributions they make ? |
| 4 | In rural areas it might be that people will tell the parents of youths whom they see committing some offence ; and although crimes may be committed they will often be dealt with informally and so will not figure in the criminal statistics . |
| 5 | If IQ were entirely inherited ( a contentious assumption ) and if IQ were related to crime ( many studies have found that low IQ is ) , this would be perfectly compatible with an environmental explanation : it could well be that people with low IQ are treated unfavourably by others and this unfavourable treatment makes them more likely to commit crime . |
| 6 | It may be that people are drawn to journalism because of this negativity — the chance to cut everyone else down to size to make themselves feel better . |
| 7 | Could it be that people can easily envisage themselves being in End 's Atomic Dustbin ? |
| 8 | For reasons like these , it would seem a dangerous policy to ignore the processing of non-words entirely in one 's theorising about the organisation of the mental lexicon ; hence we must consider now what the mechanisms might be that people use when processing non-lexical verbal stimuli ( spoken or written non-words ) . |
| 9 | It may be that people wish to satisfy a number of needs at the same time . |
| 10 | One reason may well be that people living in the same locality share , whatever their class position , similar material positions . |
| 11 | Could it be that people can easily envisage themselves being in End 's Atomic Dustbin ? |
| 12 | Now presumably somebody in government or Whitehall has just taken a decision to , to go for it all in one year , I do n't know why , I , I do n't suppose we 're told why , but the , the consequence of the decision is actually going to be that people in Shropshire , our clients and social services are going to pay for that decision , either through paying charges for services that they now get for nothing , or by getting less services , er , and this does n't seem to be in line with the government 's stated aim of , of targeting money where it 's most needed . |
| 13 | Er , it is important too , to stress that the Agency is acting as a bridge between the purchasing er , authority , the Social Services Department , and the er , independent sector , and that er , it 's also important that er , too , that er , in many cases , er , the provider 's income er , will , will not just come from Social Services , but it may be that people are purchasing their own care , if , if they 're not eligible for public , public 's er , help through , through funding , and therefore the scheme is much wider than just looking at the purchasing intentions of the , the Social Services Department . |
| 14 | Was that meant to be that people like me should be doing spot checks , Richard should tell people like me to do spot checks or Richard was going to do spot checks ? |
| 15 | But it may be that people feel on historic grounds that it should be preserved . |
| 16 | But certainly it may even be that people might , in the future , even prefer to talk to computers under some circumstances . |
| 17 | I mean I mentioned earlier the fact that it might be that people perceive sexual harassment , where in fact the behaviour has been perfectly appropriate and it 's just that the person perceiving it is unused to it , but I think that 's the minority of cases , incidentally . |
| 18 | The Unionist MP Ken Maginnis , a former UDR member , said : ‘ What I hope is not happening is that people who — as I would have had in my time — had montages for lawful and necessary purposes will be made scapegoats . ’ |
| 19 | Our real problem is that people are now comparing our performance with our own record . ’ |
| 20 | The essence of this Libertarian Ideal is that people should be free to publish what they wish and free to read or view what they wish . |
| 21 | One of the reasons is that people in this country do n't value labour . |
| 22 | The good news is that people with lower blood pressures have lower mortality rates than those who suffer from hypertension . |
| 23 | He no longer fears ridicule or criticism ; instead , his fear is that people will not act swiftly enough , that human nature has locked itself into a process of acquisitiveness and materialism , and that three hundred years of our industrial society have alienated people from the aesthetic values mankind once possessed . |
| 24 | The truth is that people do n't react to reality ; they react to their perception of reality . |
| 25 | WHAT I do know is that people like Havel have been getting a little impatient with those relishing pieces appearing lately in the American press that say , roughly : ‘ Right , you guys over there have had your romantic Ruritanian fun and games with revolution and dancing in the streets . |
| 26 | The idea is that people band together to buy property , then design and build a cluster of single-family homes . |
| 27 | The trouble with Rottweilers , Mr Sherwood maintains , is that people simply do n't understand them . |
| 28 | It is doubtful whether either of these distinctions would bear scrutiny on the broader canvas of moral and social philosophy : the moral thrust of Caldwell is that people are often just as much to blame for failing to think as they are for thinking about their actions and its consequences , and this very argument was applied to rape in the paragraphs above . |
| 29 | What is meant by this is that people begin to come to terms with what has happened . |
| 30 | The most important thing to understand here is that people try to re-establish some sort of control over their situation . |