Example sentences of "have [verb] that [adj] people " in BNC.

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1 For example , Hannan ( 1969 ) found that the number of young people in an area tended to increase outmigration , as the more able young left to follow the kind of careers not available in rural areas , though Grafton ( 1982 ) has argued that young people do not outmigrate from remote rural areas at a faster rate than their counterparts in less remote rural areas , and that any decline in such areas is due to lower levels of immigration , rather than higher rates of outmigration .
2 , A survey by Friends of the Earth has revealed that few people are aware when air quality warnings have been issued .
3 He says research has shown that many people would be incapable of driving safely over long distances in the early afternoon even after one drink .
4 A research study at the University of Birmingham has shown that elderly people attending craft and dance classes were less stiff and prone to painful joints .
5 A recent American survey has shown that most people travel to escape from something .
6 Research has shown that older people with appreciable or severe disablement form a significantly higher proportion of those living in poverty or on its margins than older people with no disabilities .
7 However , research has shown that older people have less absenteeism , more job stability , and greater output than younger workers .
8 He has found that unemployed people are eleven times more likely to commit suicide than those in work .
9 The Government has announced that seventy-four people infected with HIV through blood transfusions are to receive payments of up to eighty-thousand pounds each .
10 Virginia Bottomley , Minister for Health , has announced that some people on low incomes who also find it difficult to visit their local opticians will be able to get help from the NHS to pay for the optician to visit them at home .
11 The Royal College of Physicians has estimated that 100,000 people in the UK are killed by smoking each year [ 7 ] .
12 In the rural areas , lack of access to land , drought ( which has not only destroyed crops but has meant that impoverished people have had to sell their livestock and have even been forced off the land by hardship ) , and rising prices have further marginalized poor rural dwellers .
13 ‘ You know , if anyone had asked me — and no one did , mind you — I 'd have said that several people had a reason to kill Newley .
14 For example , in Price ( 1989 ) 90 Cr App R 409 ( CA ) , such an instruction is necessary only where the accused might have thought that ordinary people would regard his conduct as honest .
15 The Minister will have noted that other people have joined the anti-privatisation lobby in relation to electricity , as he will have discovered on Monday .
16 There was no evidence that the defendants were aware of the existence of those whom their conduct offended , although the court said that there was evidence from which the magistrates were entitled to infer that the appellants ‘ must have known that other people would be likely to be present . ’
17 For example , much of the foregoing discussion was making the point that soil erosion was important to many small producers in steep-sloped and/or semi-arid areas and it may have seemed that these people were the only ones to cause and suffer from the effects of soil erosion ; also that there were few or no cases where successful adaptations and advances in agricultural technology had occurred .
18 But since the pain I have to experience to learn the concept is necessarily my pain , this explanation leads to our asking ourselves the question , ‘ What possible reason could I have to think that other people ever have what I mean by ‘ pain ’ ? ’ — a question which invites the answers , ‘ None ’ ( solipsism ) or , alternatively ‘ An argument from analogy ’ .
19 In its absence we would n't even be able to understand the question , ‘ What possible reason could I have to think that other people ever have what I mean by ‘ pain ’ ? , let alone the answers that have been given to it .
20 In only the last two years I 've noticed that more people are being drawn to the hills in Northern Ireland .
21 I 've noticed that most people over the age of forty whinge like a chainsaw about their memory not being as good as it used to be , or not being as good as they wish it were .
22 The Environment Secretary , Michael Heseltine , said that research had shown that many people did not make a connection between environmental problems in general and their own wasteful use of energy at home .
23 He said the survey , which attracted 499 replies , had shown that some people experienced problems getting into Signor Pepi 's Bar .
24 Sample surveys had shown that most people who go to the theatre tend to be middle-class and well-educated , but since so few people altogether actually go to the serious theatre there must be many middle-class , well-educated people who are not theatre-goers .
25 We had observed that older people in the area seemed to die like flies in the winter from heart attacks and cold-related illnesses and we were confident that it was the inside of our houses that were killing them , not the outside .
26 Mohamed Sahnoun , the UN Secretary-General 's special representative , was quoted on Sept. 4 as saying that the famine , in which relief agencies had estimated that 1,500,000 people faced death , was in fact far worse than had been realised .
27 The Guardian of May 13 reported that the country 's health directorate had confirmed that 951 people had died from diarrhoea in the previous two weeks , mostly in cyclone-affected areas .
28 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 ?
29 Although this example takes the point to an extreme , I have noticed that many people mistakenly use flowers that are so big that there' is barely room for them in the frame , and therefore the finished miniature is not as full of detail , nor as interesting , as a larger picture would be .
30 We have seen that most people with IBS do not consult doctors and those who do may have reasons other than the symptoms themselves .
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