Example sentences of "people [vb past] [been] [verb] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Renewed executions , he suggested , would act as a deterrent to counter a recent upsurge in political violence ( more than 20 people had been assassinated in Turkey so for in 1990 ) . |
| 2 | According to India Today of Dec. 31 a total of 3,560 people had been killed in Punjab between Jan. 1 and Dec. 11 , 1990 . |
| 3 | By Dec. 14 at least 26 people had been killed in army operations and 44 men were facing charges in connection with the Guemar attack at a military court in Ouargla . |
| 4 | Human rights activists in Cameroon were quoted on April 25 as saying that up to 48 people had been killed in demonstrations and that 58 detained students might also have died . |
| 5 | Wijeratne said that 35 people had been killed in attacks on July 24-25 on villages near Medawachchiya in the north and Polonnaruwa and Trincomalee in the east . |
| 6 | Croatian Foreign Minister Zvonimir Separovic said in a letter to EC foreign ministers on Oct. 27 that some 5,000 people had been killed in Croatia since the beginning of July . |
| 7 | Local media sources reported on March 10 that at least 100 people had been killed in Taraba state in recent clashes between the Jukun and Tiv ethnic groups over farming rights . |
| 8 | By contrast , a group representing European human rights organizations which had returned from a 12-day visit to Burundi , maintained the same day that at least 3,000 people had been killed in reprisals by the army and paramilitary groups after the rebellion . |
| 9 | According to a report published on Dec. 5 by the human rights organization Amnesty International , more than 5,000 people had been executed in Iran in the past three years , including some 2,500 during the last six months of 1988 coinciding with a crackdown on left-wing dissidents [ see pp. 36630-31 ] . |
| 10 | The two young people had been sitting in silence for most of the time Nahum had been upstairs , Seb gazing morosely into the fire and Carrie reading at the kitchen table . |
| 11 | Rioting was reported in the ensuing days in Yaoundé , Douala and Bafoussam , and news agency reports quoted an official of the SDF as saying on Nov. 1 that 500 people had been arrested in Bamenda , and that many had been subjected to beatings . |
| 12 | On Feb. 28 it was announced that 54 people had been arrested in connection with the attacks on Hoxha monuments . |
| 13 | On Oct. 2 the NDA claimed that over 70 people had been arrested in connection with the events of August . |
| 14 | He said a number of people had been arrested in connection with the crime but were later released without charge . |
| 15 | Darlington police said two people had been arrested in connection with the attack and investigations were continuing . |
| 16 | In Bombay , police said three more people had been arrested in connection with Friday 's explosions — a car dealer , his associate and a wanted criminal . |
| 17 | It reported that nine people had been released in January , and one other released on bail . |