Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [adv] [vb pp] [that] people " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is generally accepted that people are motivated by success and that it is often easier to work towards realistic short-term targets . |
| 2 | It is widely believed that people become less productive as they get older . |
| 3 | It is often said that people are bored at school , and can not do well , because of the irrelevance of the curriculum to their own life and experience , or the life and experience they will have when they leave school . |
| 4 | It is sometimes claimed that people in many cultures are aware of the ill-effects of inbreeding ( Lindzey , 1967 ) , but nobody , as far as I know , has claimed that such knowledge is universal . |
| 5 | It is now recognized that people who have been on weight-reducing diets subsequently have a lower calorie requirement than they previously had . |
| 6 | By the end of the 1980s , it was confidently expected that people in the Soviet Union would enjoy a super-abundance of goods and the leisure time to appreciate them . |