Example sentences of "people [vb past] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One or two people announced that they did n't either ; others declared loudly that they did . |
| 2 | Not all the 14–15 people who nominated Ken Livingstone and Bernie Grant wanted either of them to run ( Benn of all people argued that policies would be obscured by personalities ) and some members of the group sided with Gould or Prescott . |
| 3 | Some people argued that it should be possible to run down the existing hospitals almost entirely , replacing them by short-stay psychiatric units at general hospitals and long-term care within the community . |
| 4 | Many people argued that , as the polytechnics had moved out of local government , two separate funding bodies made little sense and hindered the development of an integrated system of higher education . |
| 5 | On the other hand , the Cumberbatch survey showed that while 24% of over 1,000 respondents thought televising a bad idea in early November 1989 , those thinking this had fallen to 15% by March 1990 , and a rising number of people agreed that it was a good idea because ‘ the public have a right to know what goes on ’ — 87% in the first survey and 95% in the later one . |
| 6 | Most people agreed that ranchers need greater financial incentives to look after the land , and that a BLM pilot programme , which reduces grazing prices per AUM if the land is kept in good shape , ought to be extended . |
| 7 | Most people agreed that things had gone a bit far when he told the Church , in 1982 , to ‘ Face north-west whenever possible . ’ |
| 8 | Most people agreed that Pike had been out the night before working on it with an industrial fan . |
| 9 | Richard Buswell spent hundreds of pounds advertising for staff , but so few people applied that he had to look abroad . |
| 10 | The whole idea of judging by one hundred days was resurrected in the Kennedy time and people applied that to Wilson and to Heath and to Margaret Thatcher , and maybe it 's just a media hype , but I think it does give us some view and I think we need more of a view on this man , because a lot of people are saying will the real John Major please stand up . |
| 11 | Many people expected that , if war broke out , it would rise further still as investors sought safe havens . |
| 12 | We need to gather more information about how things have turned out other than people expected when they created these procedures and codes in the first place . |
| 13 | Gradually the people realized that we was here to look after the flats . |
| 14 | People realized that however sophisticated and advanced a technology may be there is no fool-proof technology and no safeguard against human error — and nor , it should be added , against terrorist or military intervention . |
| 15 | For gradually over thousands of years , the Mother Goddess who gave birth to all things had lost her power as people realized that men had a role in procreation . |
| 16 | On the eve of an ANC national executive committee meeting to discuss the government 's failure to satisfy its ultimatum , Mandela said that violence could spread to white residential areas once people realized that " the government is working with a black organization that is killing our people " . |
| 17 | Now I do n't think many people realized that asking for the maintenance of standards , rather than perhaps the changing of standards , was asking for something that was almost diametrically opposed to asking for an educational system that was more geared towards preparing children for adult life and productive work . |
| 18 | Instead , the value of Italy 's currency shot to the top of the parameters and there was a mass inflow of money as people realised that it was a more stable currency and there was less of a case for high interest rates , which were brought down still further . |
| 19 | Half the people asked if they had sex with the radio on were listening to the Radio 1 star , just voted Britain 's top DJ . |
| 20 | It 's just that two people asked if we could just print the form relating to what is in the master job file and it on the same colour paper or card as the erm , job files . |
| 21 | The tenor of the work so far indicates my view that any account of the rise to prominence of black sportsmen in Britain is hollow unless constant reference is made to the social conditions amidst which black people lived and live . |
| 22 | The heritage of Wales ' rural life is displayed and interpreted in a vast collection of authentic re-erected buildings where the Welsh people lived and worked |
| 23 | For most people though there is a curiosity about the past , about how people lived and behaved , about whether they have changed over the centuries , and this can in part be answered by archaeology . |
| 24 | People lived and died there ; they did not grow old there , because no one could live for very long in the Robemaker 's hands . |
| 25 | When we looked at the figures we proved that we would n't get any more business because of where people lived and when we tried to push them to Detroit over Amsterdam they would n't have it , people would prefer to drive to Gatwick . |
| 26 | You will learn how people lived and died , what has changed and what has stayed the same … the whole heritage of our human race if there ! |
| 27 | And people lived or died by their ability to , to produce a competent result at the end of the day . |
| 28 | It changed how people lived as well as how they thought : a sort of secular church , so to speak , and like many churches a hotbed of internecine sects . |
| 29 | Elsa Lawson , from Newton Aycliffe , who helped organise the event , said it was a mark of how well Mrs Harding knew the people involved that it was impossible to keep the presentation a secret . |
| 30 | They 're always going on about how much Shrimpy gets other people involved and ca n't stick up for himself are n't they ? |