Example sentences of "because it [vb -s] people " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I find newspaper bingo even more repulsive than the cinema-hall type , because it encourages people to read newspapers for the wrong reason . |
| 3 | She says : ‘ It is a very valuable function because it helps people who are unemployed or have just been made redundant to do something which is worthwhile . |
| 4 | The thinking of politicians for whom education is only important if it helps boost the national economy , and this is important because it helps people enjoy what they want , and this is important because it encourages consumption and thus industry , either goes round in a vicious circle or takes off on an interminable regress . |
| 5 | The welfare system , runs this view , makes things worse because it discourages people from working and rewards undesirable behaviour . |
| 6 | Now it could be said of course that we do n't offer the same kind of very intense opportunities that are on offer to undergraduates , but in some senses , and many adults have testified to this , this is an advantage , because it enables people in their own time , and sometimes over a fairly prolonged period , to explore with a tutor , a scholar , the kind of interests that they have in the issues that have concerned them in society . |
| 7 | It might have been even worse if one of these fairly common replies had been given : " Because it gives people a nice cosy feeling that there 's a home somewhere " or , " Do n't know . |
| 8 | The Labour party can not have it both ways : it attacks the system either because it expects people to claim or because it requires a register . |
| 9 | The trouble with fitness is that it leads to mistakes about evolution because it makes people think in terms of qualitative terms . |
| 10 | Sanitation causes more controversy than the problem of water supply , possibly because it affects people in cities . |
| 11 | This poem is funny because it treats people as if they were second-hand cars for sale . |