Example sentences of "[to-vb] people [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | And of course heating your house in the middle of the night is not what everybody wants , so there has to be an attractive price to persuade people to do that and to invest in the storage heaters , hence the half price electricity . |
| 2 | People talk about reading and about literacy , but they do not spend the money to enable people to achieve that . |
| 3 | Independent advice er comes from major brokers , the banks and building societies have come out of independent advice pretty well , because they 've decided that it 's expensive and a hassle , cos we 're regulated all the time and of course it makes , we 've , we 've got to analyze the products on the market , so we 've got to pay people to do that . |
| 4 | ‘ I saw that little curtsy she made to you — it must be difficult to get people to do that in the 1990s . ’ |
| 5 | not going to get people stopping that 's the thing . |
| 6 | ‘ Eldorado is substantially different now but to get people to admit that is an uphill struggle . |
| 7 | ‘ That 's the way the Japanese think , ’ says Chris Hampson , ‘ and we 've got to get people to think that way too . ’ |
| 8 | Now erm , I have n't been to a match lately , but these pictures I 've seen , there 's still all these fences around to stop people doing that . |
| 9 | What we 're hoping to do in this exhibition is to make people realize that science and technology is not as difficult as some people would have you believe , and that it can be fun . |