Example sentences of "it [vb mod] [verb] people " in BNC.
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| 1 | For Peckham , like many researchers , there is the additional concern that it may bring people more anxiety than help . |
| 2 | The downturn is too recent to assess from the point of view of recruiting , but it may make people more cautious about moving to the City . ’ |
| 3 | But their dependence on it may cut people off from even considering other buying methods . |
| 4 | If the fixed charge has to be very high it may induce people to abandon consumption of the commodity altogether . |
| 5 | It may mislead people into obeying the law where , but for their consent , it would have been clear to them that it is better to disobey . |
| 6 | It may help people to drink more if you measure out this amount into a stock of glasses or cups , so that they can see for themselves how much this means . |
| 7 | Together the studies will produce valuable information from two perspectives concerning the meaning of social support and how it may help people in difficult circumstances . |
| 8 | It is said to help people in sleeping , but whilst it may get people off to sleep more quickly it can lead to waking later at night . |
| 9 | On the one hand a society must reproduce various roles — there must be slots for postmen , steelworkers , parents and civil servants — and on the other hand it must produce people to fill them . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's much more aggressive and mean-looking , so it might make people think again before joyriding , ’ said Mark , of Lambeth Road , Linthorpe , Middlesbrough . |
| 11 | It might wake people up , ’ he said . |
| 12 | It 'll mean people will have more space in which to solve their problems before facing the outside world . |
| 13 | If they could be improved by er sorry replaced by housing of a higher standard , erm generally made to look more attractive , landscaped and such like , then I think the area as a whole will improve and it 'll attract people to the area . |
| 14 | He says it 'll attract people back into the city because they 'll feel safe . |
| 15 | Hopefully , though , it 'll give people some kind of a handle on these issues to use in relation to other films . ’ |
| 16 | I , do n't mind being used as a guinea pig because I feel that it 'll help people in the future . |
| 17 | The Prime Minister has pledged to add more weight to his Citizen 's Charter saying it 'll help people with complaints about delays in health treatment and problems with public transport . |
| 18 | Cos I I can understand if we did n't handle it carefully , it could mean people would be more demanding and say , I 'm entitled to go on this training . |
| 19 | But until then , she concedes gloomily : ‘ It could mean people going without help . |
| 20 | So that there , there may be a , an important personnel problem th th that you realize that well okay the option of going for land reform is , is there but you 're saying er it 's likely trouble my experience of the past is that , that radical land reform is , is disruptive it could affect production , it could get out of hand , it could alienate people in order to control them we need a lot cadres on the ground and we have n't got them . |
| 21 | A major part of the paper 's thinking was that it could employ people who would have been good journalists if they had pursued journalism as a conventional career . |
| 22 | We adapted the Versatran to handle equipment for spraying paint so it could replace people in paint shops , often extremely nasty places in which to work . |
| 23 | I mean , I do n't think anyone took any risks , and we were all wearing gloves anyway because of the state he was in — I would be worried that it would make people panic unnecessarily . |
| 24 | They thought it would draw people in from a wider |
| 25 | It would give people the right to see their employment records . |
| 26 | That can not happen in year one , but as the years went by , it would enable people to build their own packages of care rather than having to take care designed by others for them off the shelf , as in a supermarket . |
| 27 | The Ramblers Association opposes privatisation on the grounds that it would threaten people 's " freedom to roam " . |
| 28 | Social security minister Ann Widdecombe , who plans to leave the Church , said it would cause people to quit ‘ in droves ’ . |
| 29 | The only debate about the national minimum wage is not whether it would put people out of work but how many hundreds of thousands more people would be unemployed , wholly unnecessarily as a result of partisan dogma on the part of the Labour party . |
| 30 | Pondering over the cycle 's military potential , whether or not it might ‘ mitigate the decline of the rural population ’ , fearing that it would tempt people away from the churches , but rejoicing that it would lure others away from ‘ demonstrations in Hyde Park or low-class places of amusement ’ , The Times thus moved its discussion skilfully between different planes of anxiety . |