Example sentences of "[that] it [verb] people " in BNC.
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| 1 | the snag with this option is that it requires people to be rational and let their ‘ heads rule their hearts ’ . |
| 2 | Mr Brown argued for changes to the tax system so that it assisted people who undertook training , and for new incentives for companies which upgraded staff skills . |
| 3 | The important thing was that it took people 's minds away from national policies . |
| 4 | It seemed to Elizabeth that it took people half an hour to greet each other each day . |
| 5 | Teachers of problem solving believe that problem solving can be taught , that it helps people in solving problems and that this is a good thing . |
| 6 | IF HEINZ announced that it uses people to test the taste of its baked beans , who 'd be surprised ? |
| 7 | The key to a good use is that it brings people to the building who value it for its beauty and appreciate and enjoy its surroundings — not simply people who regard it as an opportunity to acquire a large amount of cheap floor space . |
| 8 | ‘ Thus , although Dillons discounts only a limited range of titles , the knock-on effect of its advertising campaign and aggressive marketing is that it brings people into its shops , and generates the belief that all books are cheaper in Dillons , not just discounted titles . |
| 9 | Yes , one of the nice aspects of astronomy is that it brings people from many different areas of science together . |
| 10 | Public relations is thus concerned with a company or brand reputation which must be such that it gives people confidence in the company , providing the company with total credibility . |
| 11 | I hope , like Zen , that it gives people the feeling that they need not be cut off from the great intellectual and philosophical questions . |
| 12 | I have discovered that it offends people if you challenge this sort of remark . |
| 13 | The biggest problem with astrology is that it stops people from worshipping the one true God . |
| 14 | The upshot is a version of what is known as preference utilitarianism , for which what counts in favour of an act is not that it promotes a kind of experience known as pleasure or prevents a kind of experience called pain , but that it provides people with what they would prefer to have and prevents their having what they would prefer not to have . |
| 15 | The principal point about information technology is that it serves people rather than things . |
| 16 | The trouble with talking about yourself the way Stuart is doing is that it makes people jump to conclusions . |
| 17 | One is that it makes people er it gives people experience of participation which is itself an improving matter . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Justice Rutledge proceeded to examine the evil which the statute was designed to cure and decided that it encompassed people outside the traditional common law classification of an employee . |
| 20 | D J Taylor — who had a heated exchange with Lawrence Norfolk , a BOYB author who was in the audience — captured the mood of the debate : ‘ I think the real importance of the promotion lies in the fact that it draws people 's attention to British fiction , and provides the backdrop for a much wider discussion about the relative decline of the English novel since the Second World War . ’ |