Example sentences of "[noun] do [adv] [verb] people " in BNC.
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| 1 | As an engineer in California observed in the aftermath of the state 's 1989 quake : ‘ Earthquakes do n't kill people . |
| 2 | If you think books do n't change people , just look at Changez , because undreamed-of possibilities in the sex line suddenly occurred to him , a man recently married and completely celibate who saw Britain as we saw Sweden : as the goldmine of sexual opportunity . |
| 3 | That figure does not include people whose homes have been damaged but who have not contacted the authority . |
| 4 | Sutherland does n't resent people considering him mature for his age . |
| 5 | Labour does not want people to own their own homes . |
| 6 | A QC claimed yesterday it would be ‘ absurd ’ if the law did not allow people forced to leave homes made uninhabitable by radioactive contamination to be compensated . |
| 7 | The problem is that , because the broadcasters do not want people to receive their signals this way , information is not openly available . |
| 8 | That 's why Tina does n't like people smoking in her house because it gets into her bedroom . |
| 9 | Some studies suggest that hypnosis does not help people remember faces , car number plates or the like . |
| 10 | Joey do n't like people running him around . |
| 11 | Because the circumstances of many cattle thefts did not encourage people to initiate prosecutions , the statistics greatly underestimated the extent of the crime . |
| 12 | If this factor did not influence people , then the average repayment period chosen by people once they had been shown both APR and total cost as well as instalment amount would not vary very much between the different sets of respondents ( that is , those shown just the instalment amounts first , those shown APR too , and those shown total credit cost too ) . |
| 13 | Jesus did not see people , he does see people just as people . |
| 14 | Echoing the logic of the gun lobby ( ‘ guns do n't kill people ; people kill people ’ ) , the company 's chairman argues that the problem is not with his product , but with under-age drinking . |
| 15 | ‘ Gran did n't like people to drink . |
| 16 | In some cases the psychiatric service did not admit people to hospital early enough . |
| 17 | It was felt that training in West Belfast under YTP and JTP did not prepare people , especially the young , for jobs in industry and was not geared towards getting work . |
| 18 | God does not put people together who think alike on every issue . |
| 19 | Even Fouché does n't order people killed just for the hell of it . ’ |
| 20 | Offensive odours do however put people in a ‘ bad mood ’ . |
| 21 | " Going to church does n't make people any better — just look at Mrs X down the road . |
| 22 | Socialists do n't like people choosing , for they might not choose socialism . ’ |
| 23 | Huy himself , who had had to adapt to the new world constructed after Akhenaten 's fall by Horemheb , had learnt above all that ideals do not change people . |
| 24 | However , the method by which a change in predictable monetary growth leads to a change in aggregate real output is not the familiar one — a higher rate of growth does not fool people into supplying more output . |
| 25 | Thus it is easy to feel ‘ precision bombing does not hit people , and anyway , all Arabs hate us ’ . |
| 26 | The ghost does n't like people talking about him , and one day Joseph Buquet is going to be sorry , very sorry . ’ |
| 27 | It costs more , but money does n't worry people here . |
| 28 | The family refused to be reassured by the expert 's promises that poltergeists did not harm people . |
| 29 | So that if everyone if if people who wrote the dictionaries did n't know people 'd still be going round thinking that everyone said fore head or break fast . |
| 30 | It could be said that our present system does not invite people to be active ; does not foster participation . |