Example sentences of "people [vb past] be [vb pp] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Local government services for black people had been developed in the context of urban deprivation ( page 218 ) with the implication that black people constituted a ‘ problem ’ requiring additional specific provision such as language tuition . |
| 2 | Mr Wood said he had gone to investigate after people had been seen in the area with bull terriers , the dogs most commonly used for fighting badgers . |
| 3 | Some 592 people had been injured in the police attack on student demonstrators , which precipitated the November revolution . |
| 4 | At the end of 1988 there were 56 carers , 21 of them specializing in short-term care ; a total of 87 people had been placed in the scheme during that year . |
| 5 | An estimated 3,000 people had been killed in the protracted Natal faction fighting between Inkatha and the UDF , which grouped together pro-ANC organizations . |
| 6 | At least 60 people had been killed in the fighting , bringing the total number of dead since late January to just under 600 , with more than 2,000 injured . |
| 7 | On Dec. 13 the human rights organization Amnesty International issued a report claiming that hundreds of innocent people had been killed in the previous six months and criticizing the provisions of the emergency powers decreed in early November which allowed the disposal of bodies by the security forces without a post-mortem or inquest [ see p. 37007 ] . |
| 8 | The report claimed that more than 500,000 people had been killed in the civil war and resulting famine , with both the SPLA and government using starvation as a weapon , while thousands of women and children in the south had been sold into slavery . |
| 9 | The report claimed that at least 26 people had been killed in the attack , mostly government employees who had been singled out and shot . |
| 10 | A report in the Guardian of Oct. 6 stated that 24 people had been killed in the state on the previous day , taking the October toll to 122 and the total for 1990 to 3,550 [ for previous report on Punjab violence see p. 37611 ] . |
| 11 | Some 17 people had been killed in the fighting . |
| 12 | The Croatian authorities responded by sending in some 200 heavily armed Croatian riot police , and rejected claims that six people had been killed in the ensuing fighting . |
| 13 | Relief agencies estimated that around 400 people had been killed in the September fighting in Mogadishu , and up to 1,500 had been injured . |
| 14 | The armed forces had insisted that only 19 people had been killed in the incident . |
| 15 | Three people had been killed in the operation by June 4 . |
| 16 | By mid-1992 more than 1,000,000 people had been killed in the fighting , while an estimated 2,000,000 people had been displaced . |
| 17 | At least 40 people had been killed in the campaign period in a series of incidents which revealed the potential for conflict in the transition programme . |
| 18 | The UN General Assembly subsequently passed a resolution condemning Sudan , following reports that at least 300 people had been executed in the southern town of Juba . |
| 19 | According to Interior Minister Khayreh Alaleh Hared , 68 people had been arrested in the early hours of Jan. 9 , as they were holding an illegal meeting at a local cemetery ; the attack on the barracks had taken place 90 minutes later , and the attackers had escaped , but the two incidents formed part of an attempt to destroy " the sovereignty , existence and unity of Djibouti and its economy " . |
| 20 | On Oct. 23 it was reported that 40 people had been arrested in the previous 24 hours , and that some 250 arrests had been made in the previous two weeks , mostly of people said to be linked to the banned Islamic Salvation Front ( FIS ) . |