Example sentences of "[prep] people [pron] have be [prep] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ We have a very large number of people who 've been on our books for between a year and 18 months and they are quality staff , people who would have been snapped up within 10 days , three years ago . ’
2 Now we have in the room here a tremendous amount of experience , of people who 've been in the industry , people who 've worked with this company for many , many years , and we 've also got people with us who have not been with us very long , and I 'd you to know we may have covered certain aspects of this on sales skills courses just to talk through what the point of the exercise is , I E what we do for a living .
3 The embarrassment increased as hoards of people who had been behind us passed me with odd , pitying looks , clearly curious as to what the hell I was doing squatting down by a rock on my own some considerable distance from the summit .
4 He gazed at the women , and the small group of people who had been in the tent when the councillor actually collapsed .
5 According to the assessments of relatives , friends , and neighbours who answered the questions , the quality of life of people who had been in a residential home for a year or more before their death was similar to that of others who died but had never been in such a home .
6 The only body of people who have been behind the Bill have been the principals of the colleges , and what did they say ?
7 Nearly 55 per cent of people who have been in higher education had been to the theatre in the survey period , but fewer than 19 per cent of those who left school at 16 .
8 I read the reports of interviews the police had had with people who had been near the river at Chiswick , Barnes , and Hammersmith , on the night of June 5 — nobody had seen a drunk being assisted from a car , or a heavy bundle being carried towards a boat .
9 What firm is going to take on an untrained man in his forties at a time when it is being forced to lay off people who have been with their business for years ?
10 It must have been heartbreaking for people who had been through sensational experiences to have to recount them to politely tepid audiences and to discover that their stories conformed to an orthodox pattern .
11 This question is considered for people who had been in such homes for a year or more .
12 I once visited a local MIND centre which was a day and short-term residential centre for people who had been in institutions with mental illness .
13 That this was significantly new is demonstrated by the bitter resistance to it from people who had been near the heart of the Church , yet it was finally approved overwhelmingly and constitutes the most precise dogmatic statement within this ‘ dogmatic constitution ’ .
14 I receive letters throughout the year from people who have been to the Summer Exhibition wanting to know more about my work .
15 Yes , this , this kind of thing happens to people who 've been in traumatic situations , like erm er prisoner of war camps , severe accidents and stuff like that , and Freud himself of course saw quite a lot of these cases after the First World War .
16 At last we were able to talk to people who 'd been through this . ’
17 Talk to people who have been to China , and make a note of their advice and recommendations .
18 I do not think that the hon. Member for Edinburgh , Central , his hon. Friends or the majority of my hon. Friends would say that the Government were wrong , rather than giving no status to people who have been in this country for a number of years , to have given them exceptional leave to remain .
19 Often , all education was conducted by the internees themselves — English lessons being given by people who had been in this country for a number of years .
20 So it 's a pleasure really , I think it 's true , I think there are very many people who undermine and er undervalue the contribution made by people who have been in politics for a long time and I think what they also forget is the level of commitment that these people have put in over many many years .
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