Example sentences of "[verb] that [adj] [n mass] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In practice , few juries have ever supposed that ordinary people turn away so consistently from the sort of pornography brought before British courts in the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 2 | Enquiries at Enterprise Agencies suggest that many people wishing to set up businesses are doing so with redundancy money or for other reasons connected with the difficulty of finding employment and their first need is to find a suitable idea . |
| 3 | There are some private initiatives which suggest that such people do exist in Italy , such as Signor and Signora Baracco in Naples who have founded Napoli 99 to work for the revival of the town and it monuments . |
| 4 | We suggest that working-class people make rather more of a ‘ thing ’ of the whole business than do middle-class people , irrespective of their religious beliefs . |
| 5 | But we do know that some people have done within Tarmac . |
| 6 | You do n't know so much yet , or you 'd know that wise people do n't mock what they do n't understand ! ’ |
| 7 | I saw no bodies , although I did not doubt that many people had drowned . |
| 8 | Simple denial — refusal to accept that any staff have problems with alcohol or drugs or other forms of addictive disease . |
| 9 | While we have to accept that some people have had a good go at blowing up the present inhabitant , would it not be simpler for her to emulate a previous incumbent and move up the road to Admiralty House ? |
| 10 | The hon. Gentleman will recognise that many people work on Sundays to deliver our emergency services . |
| 11 | Does he recognise that many people want to be proud owners , but can not afford to buy their council homes outright ? |
| 12 | Polo maintained that these people enjoyed a peaceful existence on the Isle of Andaman , engaging in the trade of nuts , apples and rice with India . |
| 13 | The nation where this debate is being launched has just emerged , in the spring of 1974 , from a confrontation between Government and unions so destabilizing that some people had been daily expecting to see tanks in Whitehall . |
| 14 | The idea that people can be sensitive to natural gas is a contentious one , but it is claimed that some people have made dramatic recoveries after removing the gas supply from their house . |
| 15 | He was always surprised to discover that other people did n't feel this way about him . |
| 16 | Some say that more people died that year than during the rebellion 10 years before . |
| 17 | Police investigating the murder of John Stanley , who was fourteen and from Moss side in Manchester , say that some people know who the killer is , but are too frightened to speak out . |
| 18 | Yet it is not unusual to find that many people make no distinction between even the physically and the mentally handicapped , often to the apparent detriment of the former who have more capable brains . |
| 19 | It was originally reported that nine people had been killed and 30 wounded in Mbuji-Mayi , a diamond mining town , during violent demonstrations on April 13 , 14 and 15 [ see p. 38133 ] . |
| 20 | On May 15 it was reported that 201 people had died in the violence during the month so far . |
| 21 | It was reported that Red Rhino had debts of more than £300,000 . |
| 22 | On Oct. 23 it was reported that 40 people had been arrested in the previous 24 hours , and that some 250 arrests had been made in the previous two weeks , mostly of people said to be linked to the banned Islamic Salvation Front ( FIS ) . |
| 23 | Credit granters told us that they rarely checked information about employment because they found that many people regarded this as an invasion of privacy . |
| 24 | ( 1986 ) found that young people admitted to care had experienced and continued to experience during the admission highly disturbing and unpredictable family relationships . |
| 25 | But after spending more than £2,500 on a facelift and suffering a few weeks of looking and feeling like she had gone 12 rounds with Lennox Lewis , Fiona found that few people noticed any difference . |
| 26 | In February 1990 , a Gallop Survey , found that most people did not know how to manage their money , and just muddled through . |
| 27 | The NFPA study tested 7,000 samples and found that 79.8 percent contained no residues , 18.7 percent contained residues within the legal tolerance limit and 1.8 percent had residues above the legal limit . |
| 28 | Dr Ayles accepts that many people tend to ignore suggestions to change diet . |
| 29 | Expecting ongoing punishment for the drugs episode , I forget that other people have different timetables for both acceptance and forgiveness . |
| 30 | When a patient seems to be developing a pattern of chronic repeats , it is recommended that all staff engaged in his or her care meet to reconstruct each attempt in order to determine whether there appears to be a motive common to each act . |