Example sentences of "that people [verb] " in BNC.

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1 They believed that peoples had to go from one stage to another with mechanical regularity and in predictable order .
2 Why the people who cut the actual grass that people walk on erm I do n't know , why they do n't do that job properly .
3 He emphasised that people distinguished between the ex-government and the King .
4 There is nothing alarming or unusual about methodological problems ; all sciences have them and it is quite common for the questions that people ask to run ahead of the techniques available for answering them .
5 Is it just because everyone else does , because she is the kind of person that people ask to parties , because her name inscribes itself by automatic writing on guest lists ?
6 You e mentioned earlier on that people received er food parcels ?
7 It is interesting to note that there is still a wide variation in the time that people stay in hospital .
8 It 's not that when you 're trying to change that people stay in equilibrium point at all , they actually go down to there .
9 The view was that people ordered their affairs on the basis of their contractual liability and to allow a third party to sue in tort would upset this arrangement .
10 In a report , Rental Purchase : The Case for Change , the housing pressure group says that people buying properties on rental purchase schemes — common in the north of England for cheaper property — should be protected as if they were assured tenants under the Housing Act 1988 , and landlords should be responsible for all repairs .
11 It created this mushroom kind of thing that people stared at .
12 The levels were so heavy that people left Chilperic 's kingdom in order to avoid the taxes .
13 In a Christian society , it is a fundamental principle that people help each other , and that the stronger and the wealthier have an obligation to help the weaker and the poorer .
14 First , the therapist is placing responsibility for change firmly on the client 's shoulders , reinforcing the notion that people help themselves .
15 Gin , we are told , is one of the purest spirits made , and juniper berries , the baies de genièvre or ginepro from which Geneva or gin derived its name , provide the characteristic flavouring which everyone who ever drank a glass of gin in their lives would recognize when he tastes the juniper-berry flavour in Provençal game terrines and certain Northern Italian sauces and stuffings for partridge and pheasant ; and eau de vie de genièvre is a spirit used in French and Belgian Ardennais regional cooking , so it seems extraordinary that people blanch at the suggestion that gin should go into the casseroles .
16 Most of us , as people who live in this world , are interested in our environment , and even if not young we certainly grow to appreciate it and to learn a bit about flowers and the way animals live and work in our garden and watching David Attenborough on television and erm we have a genuine interest because as part of this world we know it and come to understand it , and probably feel , therefore , if even if you 're not a biology specialist , which you certainly do n't have to be by any means , when a child asks a question about , you know , ‘ where do the flies go in winter ? ’ and ‘ why 's the hamster gone to sleep for three months ? ’ we feel more capable of answering it because we 're closer to it ourselves and those are the sorts of questions that people told us .
17 Most of us , as people who live in this world , are interested in our environment , and even if not young we certainly grow to appreciate it and to learn a bit about flowers and the way animals live and work in our garden and watching David Attenborough on television and erm we have a genuine interest because as part of this world we know it and come to understand it , and probably feel , therefore , if even if you 're not a biology specialist , which you certainly do n't have to be by any means , when a child asks a question about , you know , ‘ where do the flies go in winter ? ’ and ‘ why 's the hamster gone to sleep for three months ? ’ we feel more capable of answering it because we 're closer to it ourselves and those are the sorts of questions that people told us .
18 Suddenly , great guffaws of laughter that went on and on broke the silence , so much so that people began to stretch forward to see who they were coming from .
19 This information fits logically with other known factors which occurred at about the time that people began this transition , observed Harris , including spreading village life and a rapid increase in the human population .
20 Before the match the Aussies had established such a reputation that people began to believe they were unbeatable .
21 It was only when he plunged , wallet-first , into the great post-war building wave that people began to take notice .
22 I 'm against violence but I can see the logicality that people felt they had to fight to win their independence . "
23 It was found that there was a general enthusiasm for wind turbines , and that people felt that they would not be obtrusive , or unpleasant , neighbours .
24 Studies reveal that people asked to rate their own abilities on a scale of 1–100 pitch themselves at around the 55 mark .
25 She comments that people seemed to feel that child care was an appropriate service for kin to perform for each other , but also that they should not be exploited .
26 The only information that people seemed to have about diet was the basic lesson from school , if they could remember it .
27 To Constanza it was an end , an end then and there — the sole fact that it happened , that people consented to it happening , men sent out , actually going out to hurt and kill , systematically destroy one another 's homes and lives and loved ones , the folly of it , the beastliness , the pain ; the strange mad illusion that any of this , under any aspect , any theology , any ideal , could be right — the staggering , inconceivable , immediate , ultimate , concrete wrongness of it all .
28 Attitude to safety and prevention is important and it is desirable that people develop a concept of safety and an awareness of their personal responsibility in maintaining a safe environment , for themselves and for others .
29 And er certainly in teaching there 's been quite a big change over the last ten years in the way that people perceive retirement .
30 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 .
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