Example sentences of "[det] [noun] that [adj] people " in BNC.

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1 We mentioned earlier in this chapter that some people feel uncomfortable or trapped by the public contract of marriage , yet still allow themselves to be married .
2 Another rule that worried people on first reading , and I can understand why , is the rule relating to political activity in this country .
3 It is worth mentioning at this point that many people who were adopted as babies feel the need in midlife to search out their natural parents .
4 It is at this point that elderly people often lose out , such is the pressure to give top priority to protective work with small children .
5 Although the traditional concept of the map is changing , paper maps will continue to be widely used , because their use requires low technology ( a pair of eyes , or even one eye ) , they are cheap to produce in large quantities , easy to store , and are well understood by the map-using community , although there is some evidence that many people are unable to relate the pattern on a map to the corresponding real-world features .
6 So satisfactory was this knowledge that many people were content with nothing else .
7 And again there is a suggestion put forward to support this theory that local people wo n't have access to housing , and the suggestion is that ou that migrants have the ability to outbid locals .
8 Double jacquard is so fashionable this season that most people would love to receive a sweater or jacket knitted by this technique .
9 It is clear from this survey that elderly people continue to need the affirmation of self which sexual expression can bring .
10 It is now part of the history of this country that many people came here to try to avoid the holocaust that Nazi Germany became .
11 Barrie Irving of the Police Foundation is quoted as saying : ’ There is much evidence that more people are going out with knives .
12 Such indications that young people may not view the CAB as being in touch with their attitudes and problems has prompted many bureaux to devise special outreach projects .
13 However , with three exceptions , there was little evidence that disabled people and their organisations were properly consulted about the kind of service which they wanted .
14 A great many things that other people did all the time she had never done .
15 Back to that news that five people have been killed and another five seriously injured in a motorway pile-up .
16 now this particular question , this , it 's a very solemn and searching question , it belongs to a group of three questions found in the New Testament which have to do with a matter of salvation , the first one is , we wo n't look up the reference and that for time this morning , the first one is the question that the disciples put to Jesus , who then can be saved , that 's in Matthew , chapter nineteen , then there 's this one in Luke thirteen , are there few that be saved and then that very , very personal question that was put not to Jesus but to Paul by the Philippinean jailer in act sixteen , what must I do to be saved , three questions in the new testaments about salvation , who then can be saved , are there few that be saved , what must I do to be saved , you know as Christians you possibly found yourself , asking yourself the , the same question that these people put to Jesus , why are there so few Christians , look about our own town , think of your own neighbourhood , your own street , think of the place where you work how few there are who are followers of Jesus Christ , how few there are who have committed themselves to Jesus Christ to of receive him as their saviour , who 've have accepted him as saviour , how few there are when you compare it er to all the others who are rejecting him and er who are living their life regardless , how true it is that the great majority of people seem in , in this present day to have little time for God or for the things of God , they 've got time for all sorts of other things , but God and his claim on their life is crowded out , how many there are like that , how few there are who have submitted to Jesus Christ and have received him as their saviour or so it seems .
17 I think that the hon. Gentleman will know what I mean when I say that in the context of coming towards the end of a particular available time , whether it is the time for talks or the time for a general election , there is reluctance among certain parties — and I make this remark generally — to turn their cards face upwards if there is any danger that other people will not have turned their cards face upwards by the time the whistle blows .
18 On the same day that The Boomtown Rats play Leixlip Castle in Dublin to 14,000 people , that Bob Geldof sweeps out on stage screaming ‘ Who 's won ? ’ referring to the battle with Dublin eldermen for the right to play ; the same day that 30 people are hurt and Geldof refers to Ireland as a ‘ banana republic ’ and a ‘ despicable nation ’ , U2 appear at the Garden Of Eden club in Tullermeny .
19 Is it any surprise that some people took that example and ran up horrendous debts ?
20 Small children can sometimes be persuaded to eat cow cake in the same way that old people will eat cat food , but the chief result of all this farming was to produce huge food mountains which we could then refuse to give to the Third World , or to the socialists of Eastern Europe , in order to teach them the error of their ways .
21 For even if we achieve the objective of a full franchise then the purpose of that full franchise will not work for disabled people if they do n't have full access to polling stations , they only then have the alternative of using postal or proxy votes and not exercising their franchise in the same way that able-bodied people er will do and their full right are part of the measure that I 'm seeking the house to agree that I should pursue .
22 Now we could n't be in any doubt that some people were not to be trusted .
23 For awareness of Mystery brings a paradox : at the same time that religious people claim to have knowledge of this Mystery they become more deeply aware that it is infinitely beyond any understanding .
24 There can be little doubt that some people in early Anglo-Saxon England were dealing in gold and were concerned about quality and quantity , and it does not matter if the balances were the property of foreign traders because the implication remains that transactions were taking place .
25 That should not be surprising , because when asked to name one favourite flower , beautiful above all others , again there can be little doubt that most people — in Britain at any rate , and whether gardeners or not — would choose the rose .
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