Example sentences of "[that] the people [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's hard to accept that the people we care for may not feel the same way about us . |
| 2 | Queer artists reject the work of assimilationist ‘ gay ’ film-makers such as Norman René , who says of his Aids-epidemic weepie , Longtime Companion : ‘ It was essential that the people we encounter are human and identifiable , so that the film is not about New Yorkers and gays but about people with whom audiences could identify . ’ |
| 3 | This is the point erm , well Plato made the point that the people we most want to rule us are probably the ones that are the least likely to want to take on that duty and Ben Williams made the same point the other way round that the people who rise to the top in politics are likely to be the ones that we would least like to have governing us . |
| 4 | We are all very conscious that the people we appoint to governorships these days are going to be a. |
| 5 | They told me that the people they want for education are the people who are sentenced for about six months , not the ones who are only there for one month . |
| 6 | But the treasury department must make sure that the people they target with summonses are not the innocent victims of a departmental mistake . |
| 7 | Well I get involved in it in so many different ways erm this is a difficult one , but one of the things that happens is that a number of teachers , both from the area and elsewhere , erm do advanced courses at the university and as part of these courses we have a unit on evaluation , and for this they will choose some area of their school work which they and their colleagues — and I emphasise that this is something they do have to involve their colleagues back at school in very much — erm feel it would be useful to look at and then they try and discuss with their colleagues what aspects of it are important and significant and what ought to be seen , and they bring this discussion back and we all discuss together there 'll be different teachers working on different problems the different ways in which they could approach this problem and how they might most usefully be able to do it and at the end of the exercise they will have found out quite a lot about this particular area of teaching and very often we find that the people they 've consulted have themselves got quite interested in it and begun to realize that it 's not being done in a way that 's there to threaten them , they 're not sending a report to the headmaster or the Chief Education Officer or anything like that — it 's for the benefit of the people doing the work themselves . |
| 8 | Morgan found confirmation of it in the fact that the people he had studied in most detail — the Iroquois — happened to be matrilineal . |
| 9 | Except that the people he talks to on p120 really do believe they were kidnapped by aliens , and some were seriously distressed by the experience . |
| 10 | The oranges were given to him by Mr. Singleton of Houghton 's … he realised in Supt. Learmont 's office that the people he received them from might not have the right to give them . |
| 11 | that the people he did not see were ‘ normal ’ ; and |
| 12 | Erm sixty six percent of people believe that the people you vote for say they 'll do things for you but once they 're in they forget what they 've said . |
| 13 | That will incidentally also establish that the people you 're dealing with have still got possession . ’ |