Example sentences of "people [Wh pn] have [vb pp] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was certainly not poor people who had lost these coins for each would have represented about a week 's wages . |
| 2 | It even admitted that there were ‘ problems ’ — a slight euphemism , given the tens of thousands of people who had attended mass protests up and down the country — and hinted that the government might be to blame . |
| 3 | Mr Hunt , 56 , said contact with people who had undergone similar surgery was essential . |
| 4 | Almost nine tenths , 88 per cent , of the people who had spent some time in a residential home were said to have had access to a telephone where they could make calls and people could telephone them . |
| 5 | I have interviewed people who had spent 30 years in a big bureaucracy who said that the 6-month development task force was the only thing they were excited by and the only thing they would be remembered for — change was their mark on the organization . |
| 6 | Decades had passed with no contact and yet here were the people who had shared seven years of my adolescence ; seven years climbing the same wall bars , sitting on the same grass , staring at the same view of Box Hill out of the window . |
| 7 | Idealised versions of life in the USA , for example , were often presented to me by young people who had watched many films and television programmes , as well as talking with foreigners . |
| 8 | It was undertaken generally by people who had experienced personal misfortune . |
| 9 | The dreams of people who had had traumatic experiences in the war , and who had developed neurotic symptoms , often contained material about the situation in which they were traumatized . |
| 10 | There were six clairvoyants , four water diviners and nine people who had had direct contact with poltergeists . |
| 11 | The PSOE government at first tried to break the pattern by appointing a ‘ professional ’ businessman to the chairmanship in 1983 , and by purging those who had come to RENFE as a result of their political connections with earlier governments ( see Diario 16 , 4 , 5 February 1983 ) ; about twenty people who had held senior posts in the previous UCD administration were on RENFE 's pay roll when the PSOE came to power ( Cinco Días , 2 November 1983 ) . |
| 12 | She was on her feet , kicking the trunks , then flinging books , papers , jars , all around the attic , shouting abuse at the people who had left this rubbish up here . |
| 13 | This is clearly a literary phenomenon , or rather an example of literacy at work in place of the semi-literacy that might naively be associated with the film industry ; people who had read one book by the author then sought out his earlier book , putting it too on the best-seller list . |
| 14 | A new hospital unit 's been created to help people who 've suffered serious head injuries . |
| 15 | I can bring along the statements of these people who 've said all sorts of things , you can you know put down at once but they 're not put down . |
| 16 | Offenders are brought face to face with people who 've lost loved ones in drink-driving accidents . |
| 17 | But his reservations outweigh his praise : ‘ They may have done some good in creating interest in two people who 've made major innovations in twentieth-century music , but they 've also given a negative impression : that the people involved in this music have serious flaws in their personalities . |
| 18 | This is not always the case , though — I once had a kestrel that I 'd decided from its plumage was a male and it turned out to be a female , and although this has never happened to me with a barn owl , I know people who 've made that mistake . |
| 19 | ‘ The youngest watches TV like every other little boy , and from that he thinks that prison is a place where they put bad people who 've done terrible things , ’ explains Margaret . |
| 20 | On the reduced T V licence fees well I think we all recognize that everybody who 's unemployed is n't living in the lap of luxury drinking ten double whiskies a day hitting the racecourses with a top hat and tail on the only pleasure , especially people who 've got young children to bring up is the television and such is the price of the licence nowadays that in order to sustain that other things in the family are going short . |
| 21 | This time bomb is ticking away , colleagues , and in about twenty years ' time , we 'll be back to where we were we 'll have a lot of people who 've got small pensions , based on their previous employment with a health authority or a local authority , British Gas or the electricity companies then they 've had to go out on the open market and they will be under-funded and have inadequate pension when they retire . |
| 22 | Hold on , it 's not people who 've got spare money , it 's people who |
| 23 | erm er it 's very interesting because of course the children grow up probably much more comfortable around people who 've got mental problems than you or I would be |
| 24 | So we we , in a sense we 've got a a clash of of principles or a conflict , between for example , the government wanting the the Lincolnshire Tech to have an hundred per cent output related funding , based on jobs and N V Q's which is not er er perhaps , er an easy way of delivering output related funding services to people who 've got special training needs . |
| 25 | We 're sitting in this room and we 're hearing a lot of people who 've had bad experiences with Prozac and other drugs . |
| 26 | Yeah I feel very sorry for the people who 've had bad reactions from Prozac about |
| 27 | I mean we provide a group environment for people who 've had psychiatric illnesses of various kinds in the past , and with a view to giving them something useful to do , something constructive and I hope , pleasurable , with a positive end product as well , which we then proceed to sell . |
| 28 | and then for there 's this thing treating people who 'd ruined this guy 's marriage |
| 29 | But from people who 'd brought that things to talk about . |
| 30 | People who have suffered cerebral injuries ( such as strokes ) , however , may lose the ability to recognise stimuli from any one of these classes whilst remaining able to recognise stimuli from the other two classes . |