Example sentences of "people who had [be] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After tedious checks a clutch of people who had been seen on Hampstead Heath around the time of the death had been traced but none could be linked to the murder . |
| 2 | Compaore on Jan. 9 ordered the rehabilitation of over 4,000 people who had been punished for their political or trades union activities since 1983 , when Capt. Thomas Sankara took power . |
| 3 | People who had been convicted of criminal offences , including drunkenness , or people who had habitually failed to work , were not to be supported from state resources . |
| 4 | Twenty youths were killed running to help two people who had been crushed by armoured vehicles on Student Square , said the agency . |
| 5 | A total of 306 people who had been detained by the security forces during 1989 , mostly in areas under states of emergency , had disappeared , 150 of them in Apurimac department alone . |
| 6 | Of a further 2,217 people who had been charged in court by March 12 , over half had been sentenced to prison terms . |
| 7 | The scientific basis for these reductions was the latest research findings on the health of the 90,000 people who had been exposed to the radiation from the 1945 Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombs and were still alive . |
| 8 | Tenants ' association club on the Sparrow Farm estate … it is alleged that people who had been drinking at the club attacked the family in the off-licence opposite PHOTOGRAPHS : KENNETH SAUNDERS Bitter questions of racial violence Ramesh K and his family were hounded out of their Feltham off-licence by 18 months of abuse and attacks , during which time they became pawns in a battle between the local council , the police and two rival race relations bodies . |
| 9 | On several occasions , people who had been drinking in the Sparrow Farm tenants ' association club opposite the shop left the club and attacked the Ks , both inside the off-licence and , sometimes , as they left after closing for the night . |
| 10 | President Taya had followed up a July 29 amnesty for state security and press law offenders with a further amnesty , announced on Aug. 18 , for people who had been sentenced in their absence and had been in exile for over 15 years . |
| 11 | People who had been living in the shadow of the rock breathed easily again . |
| 12 | In one hotel they found a man who had been mugged twice , young people who had been threatened with a knife and a newly-wed husband who had had his wedding ring pulled off his fingers by local thieves . |
| 13 | We expressed , to the small group now assembled at the innocent French people who had been killed in this tragic disaster , but they all said , very sympathetically — ‘ C'est la guerre ’ . |
| 14 | When police relaxed the cordon friends and relatives went to speak to the people who had been trapped in their houses throughout the bank holiday . |
| 15 | Surely it would have been possible at least to give the number of people who had been arrested under the Prevention of Terrorism Act , and the number of people subsequently charged . |
| 16 | during the break , after we had done this segment of the film and had gone into the canteen for lunch , all the people who had been working on the film were whistling the song . |
| 17 | The total included around 600,000 people who had been displaced during the war between Serbia and Croatia in 1991 . |
| 18 | Jewish groups also protested that some of the 35,000 people who had been pardoned by the Lithuanian authorities since 1988 were Nazi war criminals , prompting the government to announce that two of the cases would be reviewed . |
| 19 | Whatever social and political abuses Herod might perpetrate , these were seen merely as symptoms of a much more profound dilemma — the dilemma of a people who had been abandoned by their God . |
| 20 | Looking round its walls , Breeze realized that the sea must be nearer than she had thought , for there were so many little tablets to people who had been drowned off this coast . |
| 21 | The researchers identified 167 people who had been attending for a year or more . |
| 22 | William Waldegrave , the Health Secretary , announced on Feb. 17 that although the government had never accepted the argument for a general scheme of " no-fault " compensation for medical accidents , it had now agreed , at a cost of £12,000,000 , to extend compensation to the estimated 70-80 people who had been infected with the AIDS virus HIV as a result of National Health Service blood transfusions or tissue transfers in the UK . |
| 23 | While the Commissioners were not drawn exclusively from within the Prison Service , by convention three key posts were reserved for people who had been promoted from prison governor grades . |
| 24 | I went there and found that people who had been waiting for four hours or more had still not received satisfaction . |
| 25 | She welcomed the work done and the fact that so many people who had been waiting for so long had been treated , but was concerned that health workers who had been working flat out to reduce the lists would not be able to maintain their work rate . |
| 26 | One view put forward by A. G. Dickens in the mid-1960s held that because Protestantism greatly appealed to the many lay people who had been alienated by the formalistic , clerically dominated Catholicism of the later middle ages , the Protestantization of the country was achieved very quickly . |
| 27 | Perhaps none of it was very good , but it was at least the beginning of something true in the lives of people who had been educated to falsity . |
| 28 | To summarise , again , survey evidence from Appendix 1 , people who had been educated to a higher level , who were more highly paid , or were in a higher social group , seemed more readily able than average to use APR or credit cost information in choosing among loan options . |
| 29 | He clearly had friends in high places , as he was able to take on prominent people who had been purged after 1968 and even some who had suffered after the takeover of 1948 . |
| 30 | Three people who had been removed from high-ranking positions within the Chinese Communist Party ( CCP ) in the aftermath of the June 1989 " counter-revolutionary rebellion " [ see pp. 36720-22 ] were partly rehabilitated in early June . |