Example sentences of "[that] people [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | But do not pretend that people become great by doing great things . |
| 5 | ‘ But it is mite dung that people become allergic to , and so the first thing to get rid of is the dung . |
| 6 | You or it 's implied in what you 're saying about the er the burgeoning self-confidence that people become responsible for particular avenues . |
| 7 | There is arms marketing , love of arms , pushing of arms like drugs ; an emotive tie to weapons , in just the same way that people become dependent on other consumer goods . |
| 8 | Seats were so scarce that people killed each other to get them . |
| 9 | It is not the case , he will readily admit , that people follow these guidelines to the letter . |
| 10 | The most important of these is that there seems to be no evidence that people assumed automatic responsibility for their relatives — including parents — who were old , sick , or in some other circumstance where they were unable to work to maintain themselves . |
| 11 | It is therefore helpful if nurses start by saying that people use different words , and asking patients to give the information in their own words . |
| 12 | Did you feel that people had that same kind of disillusionment with the government more generally speaking ? |
| 13 | We must ask what strategy a self-conscious and sophisticated pragmatist judge would adopt in pretending that people had legal rights . |
| 14 | She said that it was increasingly important that people had easy access to information . |
| 15 | When you saying , you saying that people had two points in their lounge |
| 16 | There is no evidence that people had any more influence on the policies of major institutions . |
| 17 | We found that practices were very diverse , that people had different impressions , not only of what ought to be done , but what was in fact being done . |
| 18 | The tour operators recognizing that people had different demands at this period , were developing specialist markets . |
| 19 | Increasing prosperity in the United Kingdom meant that people had more spare cash , and much of this was spent on an increase in personal travel . |
| 20 | Mrs Thatcher saw this as the tragic side of a prosperous Britain , pointing out on the BBC news on 20 August 1989 when visiting the wreck , that people had more money nowadays , and seemed to be going out and enjoying themselves , which was why so many people were on board . |
| 21 | Despite the openness and tolerance of our company , the possession of too many layers in the organization inevitably reduces the perception of the headroom that exists , and means that people put more effort into internal argument than external achievement . |
| 22 | A DoT expert says : ‘ The breathalyser had a dramatic effect on people 's behaviour but it 's fair to say that people got used to it and began to take various avoiding actions . |
| 23 | ACET works with partners , family , friends and other voluntary and statutory organisations to ensure that people get all the care they need in the way that they need it . |
| 24 | There are plenty of people in the music business who would like it that way , but I have to bear in mind that people get ill , home-sick and miserable . |
| 25 | It was the fact that people believed sexual liberation was going on — somewhere else — that was influential , even if it was not really happening . |
| 26 | This type of product is just one example of what we call ‘ Human Electronics ’ , meaning simply that people come first . |
| 27 | Research shows that people form 90 per cent of their opinion of you within a minute and a half of meeting you . |
| 28 | No wonder that people grew despondent . |
| 29 | Indeed , looking back over the years , I have become surprised , not that people murder each other but that , given our love of bloodshed , they do n't do it more often . |
| 30 | What we would be dealing with are more of the implications , or this is how , for whatever reasons , it has come to pass that people write journalistic stories in this kind of way — might there not be other , better , more adequate ways of writing journalistic stories ? |