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

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1 At the same time , however , increased taxes on income mean that people derive less income for each hour they work and they may therefore decide to prefer leisure to work , i.e. work less — the substitution effect .
2 Research revealed that people were prepared to buy raisins , but only as an ingredient for the store cupboard .
3 The same study found that people who read a daily paper were more likely to watch the news on TV than people who did not .
4 Coope 's initial research found that people expected en suite facilities , tea and coffee making provisions and a TV but , unlike large hotels , none of the rooms have telephones .
5 Our research shows that people are happy to buy loans direct . ’
6 Research shows that people form 90 per cent of their opinion of you within a minute and a half of meeting you .
7 As a cause of lung cancer it comes second only to smoking , and research shows that people who live in houses affected by the gas run a one in thirty chance of dying of lung cancer .
8 The restless shifting tides of the US computer industry ensure that people may at times be down , but few are out for long , and out of the gathering gloom of the Everex Systems Inc Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings has sprung a new company , also in Fremont , California , raring to make its mark .
9 My lame reply protested that people in business were just as interested as anyone else but their noses were kept very close to their own grindstones .
10 There is a convincing body of research indicating that people are educated and trained more effectively if they are able to interact with the educational or training medium .
11 Families where there has been a murder find that people are more reluctant to talk to them than if they had suffered an ordinary bereavement — sometimes even crossing the street to avoid them .
12 … RENFE avoided all confrontations with the workforce , in the attempt to ensure that people no longer talked in terms of fascists and non-fascists but at the most in terms of left-wing and right-wing , in other words the company managed to dilute or avoid social and political tensions resulting from the transition ( fieldnotes ) .
13 Erm the president finds that people only obey his decisions if certain conditions are met and these conditions rarely come together .
14 Differentiated labour meant that people now differed from each other to a much greater extent , including in their consciences .
15 The chronic nature of AIDS means that people 's needs are many and varied .
16 Cohen , March and Olsen ( 1972 ) provided a stark contrast to the planning-oriented literature on organization design and decision making with their ‘ garbage-can model ’ , which in essence claims that people and systems in organizations were in possession of solutions to problems and predispositions to take certain actions when problems or specific situations arise .
17 The New Testament teaches that people without God are destined for what Dante called ‘ the inferno ’ .
18 A system which has the intelligence to acknowledge that people are more than just a bag of bones dressed up in a birthday suit and that ill-health is not only caused by biological factors , but social , political , economic and environmental ones as well .
19 The council says that people who reject accomodation must wait a year for another offer .
20 The Chancellor complains that people with an income of £500 per week will pay more tax under Labour .
21 I remind him that great improvements have been made not only in the amount of assistance that is available to people who are unemployed , but in the amount of assistance to ensure that people receive training so that they can get back into work .
22 On the question of registration of electors , clearly it is very important that if we now have less than nine weeks from this evening for those possibly four hundred thousand people to seek registration then the it is essential that the minister and the department er engage in a serious advertising campaign to ensure that people can exercise the rights that are due to them and I would like the minister perhaps in his later remarks , to expand on what , if any , measure the government intends to take to publicise the fact of E C voting rights to those four hundred thousand or so er European citizens of voting age resident in this country .
23 Clearly , the homes and household objects that people adopt for purposes of personal and social identity frequently change their nature .
24 The equal opportunities/human rights lobby believes that people with special needs have a right to participate fully at all levels of education on a par with their peers who do not have special needs .
25 Experience shows that people often run themselves short of height on the way right round .
26 But , even if they did , experience shows that people usually react far too slowly to an alarm , particularly in the middle of the night .
27 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 .
28 In other armies , the selection process assumed that people were of the same social balance .
29 And the marketing shown that people who buy this product are mainly the young women in socio and ec economic groups A and B and er a lot of er women like to be like Yorkshire women
30 We have regularly said that we are prepared to put another 1p on the standard rate of income tax to ensure that people are properly trained and skill-trained , so that we can tackle the problems of the 1990s and try to achieve a much more dynamic and effective economy .
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