Example sentences of "[vb -s] make [det] people " in BNC.
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| 1 | The extensive use of ‘ supergrasses ’ in the eighties has made many people sceptical of informers and verbal statements , but such scepticism was far less widespread in the 1960s , and the impression that Paisley was heavily involved in illegal acts became common . |
| 2 | Likening God to a shepherd has made many people assume that the point of the metaphor was to emphasize the sheep-like quality of people — that they have no mind of their own , that they are there to be told what to do and treated like sheep . |
| 3 | This is what has made some people think that in this work the distinction between good and bad is simply arbitrary , residing not in the nature of the characters but in the needs of the plot . |
| 4 | THE unemployed can do without Peter Lilley 's daft comments as he plans to make more people jobless . |
| 5 | This tends to make most people somewhat lazy as they take one another for granted . |