Example sentences of "it [verb] people [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I find newspaper bingo even more repulsive than the cinema-hall type , because it encourages people to read newspapers for the wrong reason . |
| 2 | Using a democratic structure of rotating the roles of therapist and patient , it encourages people to express previous hurts in ways they might have done as children if that had been allowed . |
| 3 | ‘ It got people to sit down and think about these things . |
| 4 | It asked people to join ‘ a growing movement for action on the greatest issue of our times ’ . |
| 5 | In how many shapes does it make people shew themselves ! |
| 6 | It made people go crazy . |
| 7 | As one of the group put it : ‘ It made people think about what they wanted to do for the whole year . ’ |
| 8 | He said he was nineteen years old ; he also said he was an orphan , but they all said that , they thought it made people pay more . |
| 9 | In Sir Hugh Casson 's words , ‘ It made people want things to be better and to believe they could be . ’ |
| 10 | Similar exercises have been undertaken by other er governments and there 's a tremendous contrast with the way those governments have actually sought to do this , with our own government , erm no publicity whatsoever has appeared yet and again I offer the minister the chance to tell us at some later point , what the government is prepared to do to exert itself on this matter and to tell us indeed whether it wants people to register erm it is n't particularly clear whether in fact this is part of er some idea that the government has that people should n't register and I think that the minister needs to be very clear about this so that people get the message outside , because nine and a half million people did n't vote , even in the last general election . |
| 11 | The editor of Les Colonies , however , seized on this statement , and in an editorial in the very last issue his paper was ever to publish , tried to use it to encourage people to stay in St Pierre . |
| 12 | IF HEINZ announced that it uses people to test the taste of its baked beans , who 'd be surprised ? |
| 13 | To do this , the ‘ vocational ’ element in education is critical because it increases the skills people have for use in a variety of enterprises ; it allows people to make use of their learning . |
| 14 | It allows people to get into the story — to read , to read . |
| 15 | and all that sort of thing and how it affected people buying furniture because there was a very high luxury tax |
| 16 | Job Start 50+ illustrates this point well ; a government pilot scheme designed for part-time work only , it allowed people to earn a maximum of just £2.27 an hour in 1989 . |
| 17 | It leads people to believe that there is excessive bureaucracy and overlap and the potential for waste . |
| 18 | This activity is not restricted to the wage economy ; it includes people using goods to ‘ service ’ themselves , for example in the way that people use washing-machines to ‘ service ’ their own laundry needs . |
| 19 | Some say this is in fact useful because it keeps people busy at a time when , as we have seen , it is probably too painful to have time on your hands to sit and reflect . |
| 20 | It keeps people talking . |
| 21 | The main experimental procedure will involve measuring how long it takes people to read successive segments of carefully-prepared sentences presented on a microcomputer screen . |
| 22 | ‘ British colonialism was no good , but it taught people to read . |
| 23 | Italian colonialism was no good , but it taught people to work . |
| 24 | It needed people to work all night sending out subscription copies , getting them down to the all-night post office . |
| 25 | Does education prepare people to be objects of learning and to accept their place within the status quo , or does it encourage people to question the critical issues of the day and challenge forces that keep them passive ? |
| 26 | Now the fight is just as hard but it 's not so romantic , so it seems people have lost interest . |
| 27 | And , surely it 's about erm helping , I do n't know how you go about it but the illegality of it prevents people admitting it and asking for help , and taking erm any advice that people can give about using it safely . |
| 28 | Is it having people looking at you or having to speak to a large crowd when you have never done that before ? |
| 29 | The la funny enough they had Gasgcoigne and the picture was so poor it looked people put things like oh you know er Edna Everage things like that and he ju , he looked like |
| 30 | It helps people to appreciate mystery by not defining too easily and sewing it all up . |