Example sentences of "it [verb] [conj] [adj] people " in BNC.
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| 1 | It reported that nine people had been released in January , and one other released on bail . |
| 2 | When the cat enters the room and looks around , it notices that several people are staring at it . |
| 3 | Furthermore , it suggest that those people who had become unemployed because of a temporary job coming to an end were just as likely to be unemployed for only a short spell and then to go back to work , and that they were less likely to have been continuously unemployed throughout the following year ( Moylan/Millar/Davies , 1984 ) . |
| 4 | It says that 340,000 people with two jobs are being double counted , and there is a discrepancy of one million between the numbers claimed to be in self-employment and those self-employed people paying national insurance . |
| 5 | An interesting additional finding which is stressed is that it appears that such people are more rather than less likely to exhibit qualities of psychological balance and social responsibility . |
| 6 | It appears that certain people have a predisposition to develop Reiter 's disease and it is possible that the organism responsible for NGU can act as a ‘ trigger ’ which sets off the inflammatory process . |
| 7 | It appears that deaf people using BSL , sign in a more recognisably BSL way than do hearing people who have acquired BSL as children ; for those who have to learn BSL as adults ( like signer 2 ) their target seems to be a form of BSL greatly influenced by English . |
| 8 | It seems that anxious people condition most easily and it is thought that irrational fears are established in this way . |
| 9 | It seems that many people , perhaps without even thinking about it , would rather do down the other player than cooperate with the other player to do down the banker . |
| 10 | It seems that many people within BBC Scotland view the post-April reality as likely to be more restrictive than liberating . |
| 11 | It seems that older people in Britain are better off than some other groups dependent upon welfare for their source of income ; but they have not improved their situation with regard to those in employment . |
| 12 | I mean is this being true to yourself and letting yourself down and you know not saying what you feel you should 've said erm perhaps now I wan na talk about one area in particular and that is this thing about you know submissiveness it seems that most people look at things that disturb you either as submissive or aggressive . |
| 13 | It 's the Independence Day celebrations in the United States next Monday , and , from what Liz said , it seems that most people in America are making it a long holiday weekend . ’ |
| 14 | It seems that younger people are likely to have more contact with the community ( to go on exchanges , visits etc. ) and have more use of the language ( at school , with peers of the second language community ) . |
| 15 | But there is some good news , because it seems that some people are beginning to take seriously the problem of graduate unemployment . |
| 16 | In contrast to a few years ago when one would rarely hear any teaching on the Holy Spirit , it seems that some people can speak of nothing else these days . |
| 17 | It started when some people dropped in unexpectedly for a drink one evening and simply would not go . |
| 18 | It follows that working-class people have benefited from this , but they are still more likely to be overcrowded than non-manual groups . |
| 19 | It means that young people , instead of staying in their home town or village , have to stay with their friends or relatives or move to bigger places like Newcastle or Gateshead and that means more people on the waiting list . ’ |
| 20 | This regulation of registration often causes bad feeling because it means that Chinese people friendly with foreigners are easily recognised and traced . |
| 21 | However , in reports between April 30 and May 2 quoting human rights activists , it emerged that 42 people had been killed and that 28 others were seriously wounded by the security forces . |
| 22 | It appeared that most people would like to see sleeping policemen installed there . |
| 23 | Suffice it to say that some people are better built at the beginning . |
| 24 | It estimates that 42,000 people will leave this year , 55,000 next year , and perhaps up to 60,000 the year after . |
| 25 | It emphasized that many people considered that direct contact between boards and course teams was ‘ one of the most valued aspects of the Council 's operation ’ , and the Council concurred with this view as long as boards worked within the policies laid down by the committees . |
| 26 | It calculated that single people had lost up to £8.84 a week and that single parents , childless couples and elderly people had lost substantially . |