Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [that] people " in BNC.
Next pageNo | Sentence |
---|---|
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 | Could it be that people can easily envisage themselves being in End 's Atomic Dustbin ? |
3 | Could it be that people can easily envisage themselves being in End 's Atomic Dustbin ? |
4 | It is that people are forgetting or just not using Andean technology , so they are exhausting the soil . |
5 | ‘ Having established what it is that people are interested in , you need to start with the individual . |
6 | And the thing is , I did n't think to myself how terrible it is that people have to live those lives . |
7 | Why why do you feel it is that people are suspicious of their neighbours ? |
8 | What an indictment it is that people wholly dependent on the state pension , with no other source of income , are now almost automatically eligible for income support . |
9 | Some use will be made of notions of risk , danger and pollution to analyse what it is that people find attractive or unattractive about such different environments . |
10 | Why do you think it is that people need to do it ? |
11 | Sort of erm if you erm tt I do n't know , in some way succeed in , in noting or recording or , or something erm you know whatever it is that people are doing . |
12 | Erm a lot of it was that people just accepted their situation and did n't think there was any way they were going to get anything different . |
13 | Yeah well I I had erm access to quite a lot of you know , quite good clothing , er both children 's and adult 's and erm while I did n't feel that it was that people should have to depend on someone else to give them clothing , erm in some ways it went against the grain to do it . |
14 | ‘ Bartholomew the Englishman wrote a famous treatise in which he remarked how strange it was that people chose bridges as their place to die . ’ |
15 | One thing that doing the talk show has taught me is that people hear what they expect to hear . |
16 | What they told me was that people come to this country impersonating other people , get a passport and then pretend they 're British . |
17 | 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 . |