Example sentences of "people were [vb pp] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Outcomes for the children and young people were analysed according to the legal route which was taken as the basis for the child 's admission into care . |
| 2 | A little further on they came across a parked Army vehicle around which a number of people were clustered listening to the vehicle 's wireless . |
| 3 | But significantly younger people were seen chuckling in the wings . |
| 4 | At about 1.40pm cars started to appear and people were seen walking up the road . |
| 5 | There were other ways , too , in which ordinary people were made to conform with the regime 's desire for order and control . |
| 6 | People were deemed to consent to the system of government they were born under when they came of age by virtue of the fact of their remaining within that particular society . |
| 7 | Up to 60 people were reported killed on the weekend of April 27-28 when ANC supporters clashed with supporters of Chief Gatsha Buthelezi 's predominantly Zulu Inkatha Freedom Party in Soweto and Alexandra , on the outskirts of Johannesburg . |
| 8 | Up to 20 people were reported killed in the fighting , including a senior Army officer , Brig. |
| 9 | At least 15 people were reported killed in the course of the month . |
| 10 | Sermons and prayers stressed the patience , humility and virtue of the English king : when people were exhorted to pray for the great expedition which Edward , together with the Black Prince and the duke of Lancaster , led to France in 1355 , they were told that it was setting out ‘ to procure peace ’ . |
| 11 | These quite explicitly linked vocational education with the low status black people were expected to occupy in the social hierarchy . |
| 12 | Under the traffic restrictions , only taxis , buses , foreign cars and those carrying at least four people were permitted to travel in the central part of the city . |