Example sentences of "people were [adv] [vb pp] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | A four year old child was taken to the Horton General Hospital in the town , with cuts to his face ; three other people were also taken to the hospital , one with a suspected broken pelvis . |
2 | THERE was a time when nice respectable people were not revolted by the sport of bear baiting . |
3 | In covering the notorious Rape of Nanjing in 1937 , a book stated that " over 70,000 people were reportedly killed by the Japanese Imperial Army " . |
4 | Two people were slightly injured in a collision between two vehicles on the A66 west of Bowes at 9.30 yesterday . |
5 | In the eyes of the Long March veterans , young people were easily duped by the enemies of socialism and needed to be watched carefully . |
6 | I was horrified in nineteen ninety one with my first visit to see the enormous problems in housing three and a half million people were forcibly moved in the eighties in South Africa , the biggest peacetime movement of people anywhere in the world and there are now over seven million people in , just in the shacks on the roads , not even the informal housing which counts for more . |
7 | TWO people were critically injured in a three car crash on a back road near Woodham , Newton Aycliffe . |
8 | In contrast to the Chilterns , the top people were sharply divided from the great mass of poor peasants who doubtless thought a combination of the two safer than exclusive reliance on either crops or livestock , just as many customarily sowed mixed seeds , such as maslin ( wheat and rye ) counting on one at least to come up . |
9 | The number of casualties was expected to rise because many people were still trapped in the rubble of damaged buildings . |
10 | Many people were therefore trapped for a long time . |
11 | Eleven people were then elected from the floor . |
12 | However , fourteenth-century people were sometimes buried with a purchased Indulgence , and there is at the Ashmolean Museum , Oxford , a small latten figure , not much more than four inches high , of a man in a winding-sheet which might have been enclosed within the folds of the shroud , in the same way that stamped leaden crosses were used up to the seventeenth century , to foil Satan 's attempts to claim the deceased 's soul as his own ; the date of manufacture of the Ashmolean item is indeterminate , but it seems doubtful that such an item would have been produced much after c.1550 . |
13 | Military and government people were quickly absorbed into the war effort , but the churches were at a loss what to do with us . |
14 | I understand that there are about five hundred people were actually invited to the ceremony , so obviously this means that about two or three hundred cars were arriving . |
15 | In those days how many people were actually involved on the estate ? |
16 | Many people were directly affected by the implications of the French wars . |
17 | The Scotch Whisky Association ( SWA ) Employment Census , which is based on individual company returns , shows that 15,310 people were directly employed by the industry at end 1991 . |
18 | One of the group 's founding members , Sean O'Cionnaith , said the majority of the Irish people were absolutely revolted by the Warrington bombing . |
19 | Palmer , seconded by GLEB to work with NoS , felt many people were naively attracted to the pops because they thought they were easier to do . |