Example sentences of "[that] people [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is it just because everyone else does , because she is the kind of person that people ask to parties , because her name inscribes itself by automatic writing on guest lists ? |
| 2 | To Constanza it was an end , an end then and there — the sole fact that it happened , that people consented to it happening , men sent out , actually going out to hurt and kill , systematically destroy one another 's homes and lives and loved ones , the folly of it , the beastliness , the pain ; the strange mad illusion that any of this , under any aspect , any theology , any ideal , could be right — the staggering , inconceivable , immediate , ultimate , concrete wrongness of it all . |
| 3 | A grand building — complete with pool and wonderful terraced gardens — perched on the hillside just outside the picturesque village of Deya , it 's the ind of place that people return to time and time again . |
| 4 | This was , this was , if you like a record of the eye approach , we went round , we felt the air and erm , er made judgement , in the same that people like to be making judgements |
| 5 | Her shops are called Shabby Chic and the most successful one to date is in New York , where ‘ life is so hectic and claustrophobic that people aspire to making their home as comfortable and pleasant as they can . ’ |
| 6 | Another reason was that people had to be seen to be playing the management game . |
| 7 | ‘ The cinema is the closest that people get to an experience of the surreal . |
| 8 | In his opening address to delegates , De Marco said that people looked to the UN for moral and political guidance for a resolution of the Gulf crisis . |
| 9 | Sixty per cent said that their opinion had been changed during the course of the evening ; this is certainly an indication that people respond to being involved in informed public discussion . |
| 10 | These libraries , large and small , are organised on the assumption that people come to them as a knowledge materials distribution centre , knowing what they want . |
| 11 | It 's sad not to have a restaurant that size in the playhouse so that people come to the theatre . |
| 12 | What they told me was that people come to this country impersonating other people , get a passport and then pretend they 're British . |
| 13 | Lastly , a station resembles the old religions rather than the new religions in this point , that people go to it . |
| 14 | And I 'm delighted , frankly , that people write to me that early and say , ‘ I 'm not going to come ’ , because I can give their places to somebody else . |
| 15 | He says that violent death is so common that people tend to be fatalistic and unprepared to take precautions . |
| 16 | I find that people tend to not put themselves down for training courses . |
| 17 | It seems that people tend to be more demanding of themselves than they would ever let management be . |
| 18 | And people on radio , some of the more inarticulate , the reason they 're there is because research or folklore has it that people listen to what they 're saying . |
| 19 | Could I just say that readings taken in this adapted way are called decibels A-weighted , which is a bit sort of technical and silly , but it 's kind of important if you 're measuring the sort of sound that people listen to . |
| 20 | In a formal group this means ensuring that people stick to the procedures , do n't argue , do n't interrupt one another and so on . |
| 21 | Although these findings were considered in the context of differential hemispheric activation , they might more parsimoniously be thought to reflect no more than the fact that people wish to be able to look at a blackboard in the middle of the room . |
| 22 | ‘ Yes , there are tracks , but that does n't mean that people keep to them . |
| 23 | The Honduran newspaper , La Tribuna , reported that people opposed to the project had been receiving threatening phone calls . |
| 24 | Studies showed that people accustomed to eating a lot of hot food had cravings for it when denied it , and people became more tolerant of spicy food the more they ate . |
| 25 | The feedback we get is that we 're the ones from Manchester that people look to for the music . |
| 26 | The idea that people needed to be shown from where to view the lakes , hills and mountains developed into the ‘ stations ’ or points from which to see the best views to the best vantage . |
| 27 | But we know that people disagree to some extent about the right principles of behaviour , so we distinguish that requirement from the different ( and weaker ) requirement that they act in important matters with integrity , that is , according to convictions that inform and shape their lives as a whole , rather than capriciously or whimsically . |
| 28 | There is however much evidence that people want to be more adventurous , and to learn more about the countryside through interpretation ( Countryside Commissions , 1975 ) and one excellent way of combining all these attributes is in a specially designed recreational site , the Country Park . |
| 29 | Well unless there are any other issues that people want to rai any other items people want to raise on this issue , I propose we close now , resume at ten o'clock in the morning , and we will go straight into matters , well matter two C , to look at the di criteria . |
| 30 | Does he also agree that , although the violence of the provisional IRA and others who claim with no legitimacy to speak for the Irish people as a whole , is sickening , it is equally disgusting , disgraceful and sickening to see those who claim to be loyal to the Unionist cause killing , tit for tat , for no reason other than that people happen to be Catholic ? |