Example sentences of "[be] that people [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But certainly it may even be that people might , in the future , even prefer to talk to computers under some circumstances . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Could it be that people can easily envisage themselves being in End 's Atomic Dustbin ? |
| 4 | Could it be that people can easily envisage themselves being in End 's Atomic Dustbin ? |
| 5 | ‘ The great thing about writing sport for Punch is that people ca n't say it 's not as funny as it used to be , because nobody 's done it before , ’ he said . |
| 6 | ‘ What he feels , you see , ’ says Caroline , ‘ is that people ought to struggle pretty well all the time against the limitations of the world and their own nature . |
| 7 | Sugar , in his sworn statement , said : ‘ Venables said what usually happens is that people would meet Clough in a motorway cafe somewhere , and that Clough would be handed a bag of money . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ He said what usually happens is that people would meet Clough in a motorway cafe somewhere , and that Clough would be handed a bag of money , ’ said Sugar . |
| 9 | Some of us are puzzled by this phenomenon , because it seems incompatible with another idea we cherish , which is that people must not be blamed for acts over which they had no control , nor held responsible for unfair gains when they have gained nothing themselves . |
| 10 | The other side of the placebo coin is that people can be made ill by something they believe will make them ill . |
| 11 | The argument is that people can not construct socialism out of kitsch ( sometimes with the equally problematic implication that they can out of art ) . |
| 12 | A great difficulty with the community charge , which was a point of grievance among many of my constituents , is that people can move on and avoid paying it , with the inevitable result that the rest of the community is called upon to meet the shortfall . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | What Qaddafi means here is that people should not make alliances outside the nation ( just as many Libyans said it is preferable to marry close — for example , to a father 's brother 's child ) . |
| 15 | What matters is that people should have somewhere to live . |
| 16 | If , however , it is genuine , convinced , voluntary consent that is being sought , then free and open discussion can not be avoided , for what genuine consent needs is that people should feel quite free to voice their doubts and opposition , if only to create a situation in which there is the possibility of overcoming such doubts and hostility . |
| 17 | The first is that people should read signposts when they have no reason for doing so ( the reason is the management 's ) and the second is that they " should be willing — and should remember — to follow the instructions . |
| 18 | To conclude I think that we should go along rather than hope sort of an aspect of Conservative philosophy which is that people should be encouraged to earn money and they should be encouraged to save money and that therefore in this case this means proposing this Conservative motion , though I hope they will actually have the common sense to withdraw it . |
| 19 | The whole point of this thing is that , as I said in my speech , about trickle transfer is that people should mix as much as possible . |
| 20 | What 's important for us is that people should move houses , repaint them , put new windows , carpets and curtains in , change cars and fly in aeroplanes . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Dr David Williams of the University of Liverpool argues that the real reason for the push to alternatives is that people will prefer a filling that looks like teeth . |
| 23 | When I am dead my greatest wish is that people will say of my work , no one saw in that way before . |
| 24 | When I am dead my greatest wish is that people will say of my work , no one saw in that way before . |
| 25 | One of the disability lobby 's persistent fears is that people will be pushed off the invalidity benefit into disability working allowance if they can do some work . |
| 26 | Sales orientation — here the dominant concept is that people will not buy until they are persuaded to buy by positive selling . |
| 27 | The central implication of RHT is that people will not only act to reduce their perceived level of risk when it exceeds the target level , they will also act to increase it when it is below the target level . |
| 28 | Their hope is that people will become aware , not only of the scientific importance of these discoveries which help to map our distant past , but also of their supreme beauty . |
| 29 | The trouble with having an open mind , of course , is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it . |
| 30 | And that the reality of geography is that people will chose to live or develop in accessible locations . |