Example sentences of "that people [modal v] [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It admits that people may be driven to vice by desperation or cruel social circumstances . |
| 2 | What kind of things , I mean amongst people of your age , what are the kind of things that people might be involved ? |
| 3 | The political right is attracted by workfare because it resents the idea that people might be paid by the state to do nothing . |
| 4 | I think that people would be justified in rebuking me for deceiving them as to my whereabouts , but that I would no more have actually lied than if I had thrown my voice and said ‘ Cooee ‘ . |
| 5 | Former Social Security Secretary Patrick Jenkin alluded to this when he cut the benefit to which homeless men were entitled on the grounds that people would be aggrieved by these itinerants getting " more actual cash in hand by being homeless ( sometimes by choice ) than by contributing toward the cost of a household and accepting the attendant responsibilities . |
| 6 | Claims that people would be put off travelling to the town centre because of lack of parking were dismissed . |
| 7 | Her natural vivacity , her particular charm , had led her too often into thinking that people would be drawn into seeing things her way , with disastrous results . |
| 8 | The original proposals were changed after over five hundred objections were lodged , mainly from traders worried that people would be scared away from some out-of-town shopping areas . |
| 9 | Brian Puddicombe , from the Banking Insurance and Finance Union 's NatWest Committee , told the union 's annual conference in Llandudno , Gwynedd : ‘ It is totally unacceptable that people should be sacked as a direct result of being sick . ’ |
| 10 | So I think we are actually obliged , and it 's right that people should be consulted , but there is a point about it that it takes an awful long time and that is actually the reason why we 've got er a whole programme of urban safety management schemes that er are taking a long time to develop , it 's almost two years now , and the main reason for that is toing and froing with different designs with members of the public and the worst thing we could do is actually put in a package of schemes which people say , well that 's not what we wanted anyway . |
| 11 | They firmly believed that people should be given rules to abide by to ensure that society ran on an even basis ; they did n't believe that the rules applied to them . |
| 12 | Yeah , well Lesley Dewhurst , do you think that people should be forced into behaving in certain ways ? |
| 13 | In principle we accept that people should be helped to provide for their own needs in old age by contributing throughout their working life to a pension scheme . |
| 14 | If fairness is to be the criterion , does the Minister agree that it is fundamentally unjust that people should be expected to pay twice — that people should be surcharged in cities such as Liverpool , where last year the cost was £71 per head , after people had already paid their bills ? |
| 15 | Recent public policy , as exemplified by the Countryside Act of 1968 , accurately reflects the dilemma between the belief that ‘ the countryside is Good for You ’ , so that people should be encouraged to visit it , and the necessity of reassuring agricultural and environmental interests . |
| 16 | To conclude I think that we should go along rather than hope sort of an aspect of Conservative philosophy which is that people should be encouraged to earn money and they should be encouraged to save money and that therefore in this case this means proposing this Conservative motion , though I hope they will actually have the common sense to withdraw it . |
| 17 | Conservatives believe that people should be left with as much as possible of their own money to spend in their own interests , in the clear belief that they will spend it better in their interests than any Government will do for them . |
| 18 | That might seem fair enough considering the profitability of those businesses , but they are not quite so bad that people should be paid for taking them away . |
| 19 | If fairness is to be the criterion , does the Minister agree that it is fundamentally unjust that people should be expected to pay twice — that people should be surcharged in cities such as Liverpool , where last year the cost was £71 per head , after people had already paid their bills ? |
| 20 | One of the disability lobby 's persistent fears is that people will be pushed off the invalidity benefit into disability working allowance if they can do some work . |
| 21 | The main reason for this is to reduce or eliminate the risk that people will be affected by the presence of a new member of their social group . |
| 22 | Gender difference indicates that people will be admitted to care at a point when for older women they are likely to be frail and dependent , whereas men are admitted earlier when they are fitter , and may live longer in a home , settling more comfortably ( Willcocks , 1986 , p. 151 ) . |
| 23 | Given that the decision of the Department of the Environment and of the Scottish and Welsh Offices will have huge implications for the levels of poll tax that people will be expected to pay next year , should we not have an early statement in the Chamber on those issues ? |
| 24 | Roger : Our colleagues in TEED are working this out but it 's fair to say that people will be encouraged to take courses they can complete in 12 months . |
| 25 | However , this technique is particularly unsuitable for population estimation because as Tobler ( 1979 ) points out , there is a danger that people can be created or removed . |
| 26 | The other side of the placebo coin is that people can be made ill by something they believe will make them ill . |
| 27 | Research has shown what most of us have always known , that people can be divided into two groups , ‘ easy weight gainers ’ and ‘ hard weight gainers ‘ . |
| 28 | ‘ I deplore the attitude that people can be taken on without any training , ’ says Mr Boswell . |
| 29 | Dr. Glasser 's Control Theory holds that people can be shown that they do have the choice of control over their thoughts and actions even though awareness of that choice may initially elude them . |
| 30 | One is , nevertheless , bound to suppose that it is only in extreme conditions that people can be expected to volunteer the suppression of individuality to the extent that the more extreme forms of co-operative require : only , that is in short , where a life of one 's own would not be supportable . |