Example sentences of "[adj] people were [vb pp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | An adequate explanation must both make clear what an action means to the participants , and how far the same outcome would result if different people were placed in the same context . |
| 2 | The appellant was concerned with another youth aged 17 in a number of incidents in which five different people were approached in the street , threatened with violence and robbed in two cases of small sums of money . |
| 3 | It has often been pointed out that in less developed societies , old people were seen as the repository of wisdom needed for daily living as well as for spiritual guidance . |
| 4 | Also , how unemployed people were presented in the media was criticised ; however it was agreed that this image was merely a reflection of the views of the Tory government . |
| 5 | Germany now no longer existed and its remaining people were governed by the four victorious powers — the US , Soviet Union , Britain and France . |
| 6 | Thousands of ordinary people were forced into the fray . |
| 7 | To summarize , two positive images of elderly people were created by the employment debate . |
| 8 | The report from one such course recently was that , during the film , various people were tapped on the shoulder and asked to leave not only the showing , but also the company . |
| 9 | This proved more feasible for the Incas than the Aztecs but eventually , with varying degrees of repression , the indigenous people were brought into the Catholic fold . |
| 10 | Chamberlains with white wands of office rapped out orders and , until the king and the lord cardinal were settled in their respective rooms , the common people were banished from the corridors and the galleries . |
| 11 | Not only did Nonconformists suffer severely under the savage penal laws , but a whole range of other people were drawn into the process of enforcing them , which meant that they could be forced to decide whether their sympathies lay with Dissent or with the intolerant Anglican establishment . |
| 12 | Three other people were arrested in the shoot out , at Loughgall in County Armagh , Gary Duffy reports : |
| 13 | The two young people were informed of the arrangement and they were married in spring 1939 . |
| 14 | Women , peasants and young people were drawn into the political arena for the first time . |
| 15 | The power of traditional chiefs was curbed and for the first time women and young people were drawn into the political process . |
| 16 | Thousands of young people were drafted into the ‘ Army of Knowledge ’ which was to bring literacy into the countryside . |
| 17 | The system was seen as creating dependency in that young people were passed from the hands of one professional to another , pressurised by the demands of each professional discipline , and had their ‘ needs ’ determined by others . |
| 18 | The young people were draped about the furniture or lay in couples on the floor in utter silence whilst the firelight flickered . |