Example sentences of "it [vb -s] people " in BNC.
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| 1 | I find newspaper bingo even more repulsive than the cinema-hall type , because it encourages people to read newspapers for the wrong reason . |
| 2 | I think it encourages people . |
| 3 | Do n't place a mirror over an open fire , it encourages people of all ages to stand too close . |
| 4 | Using a democratic structure of rotating the roles of therapist and patient , it encourages people to express previous hurts in ways they might have done as children if that had been allowed . |
| 5 | So it encourages people even more does n't it ? |
| 6 | It isolates the experience of misery and it domesticates people 's anger . |
| 7 | ‘ So many people agree with others for the sake of it but Eric ca n't do that and he has to tell the truth and say what he 's feeling even if that is ‘ no ’ and it upsets people . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've always said so because of the problems it causes and the way it upsets people . |
| 9 | It points people to Jesus |
| 10 | The welfare system , runs this view , makes things worse because it discourages people from working and rewards undesirable behaviour . |
| 11 | ‘ I mean it impresses people . ’ |
| 12 | The problem with ballet is it alienates people because it is culture . |
| 13 | If it covers people who were clients before or who could become clients afterwards , it will be void . |
| 14 | It has people in it , with lives to live . |
| 15 | This is the famous ‘ baby boom ’ , shared more or less by all Western industrial countries ( not Eastern Europe or Japan ) , which has now produced almost as many books as it has people . |
| 16 | Similar exercises have been undertaken by other er governments and there 's a tremendous contrast with the way those governments have actually sought to do this , with our own government , erm no publicity whatsoever has appeared yet and again I offer the minister the chance to tell us at some later point , what the government is prepared to do to exert itself on this matter and to tell us indeed whether it wants people to register erm it is n't particularly clear whether in fact this is part of er some idea that the government has that people should n't register and I think that the minister needs to be very clear about this so that people get the message outside , because nine and a half million people did n't vote , even in the last general election . |
| 17 | The second point about the leisure economy is that it places people 's use of their ‘ free ’ time at the centre of capitalists ' ( and governments ' ) concern . |
| 18 | It limits people 's ability to pursue some conceptions of the good , but only in order to equalize the opportunity to do so overall . |
| 19 | Because people are so angry , they 're frustrated with the system and their anger gets in the way and it frightens people . |
| 20 | IF HEINZ announced that it uses people to test the taste of its baked beans , who 'd be surprised ? |
| 21 | It allows people not even to understand when they are being irrational . |
| 22 | To do this , the ‘ vocational ’ element in education is critical because it increases the skills people have for use in a variety of enterprises ; it allows people to make use of their learning . |
| 23 | First it was pointed out that , whatever the intention , rehabilitation does punish people ; in particular , it allows people to be put into institutions where they would rather not be . |
| 24 | It allows people to get into the story — to read , to read . |
| 25 | Therefore , we should be very wary indeed of ( e ) and ( f ) types of statements unless we are sure that there is something really negative that has to be exposed and which , even if it hurts people in the process , is nevertheless necessary . |
| 26 | It says people were turning again to the old tried and true spices of Guilt and Feeling Dirty and Furtiveness And Stuff in a frantic attempt to resurrect the whole sad affair . |
| 27 | It says people in finacial trouble should not take out loans at high interest to pay off mortgage arrears . |
| 28 | Because by showing that it wo n't work , it liberates people for some other and perhaps more comprehensive and satisfactory possibility . |
| 29 | It shows people what 's in it for them . |
| 30 | Anglian Water Authority claims that the water drawn off from the lake is still safe despite these problems because of the treatment it gives the water before it reaches people 's taps . |