Example sentences of "[prep] [n mass] who [was/were] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is understandable , therefore , why they should also believe that this harsh and exploitative system a fact noted not just by Marxists but also by social reformers like Dickens , Rowntree , William Booth , the Webbs and Edwin Chadwick at the time would ultimately be questioned by the class of people who were at once both the most numerous and the most exploited by this mode of production . |
| 2 | It 's like , you know , a lot of people who were at the conference were completely unaware of all this because they were working so hard . |
| 3 | Police now want to talk to a number of people who were in St Giles just before the attack … they think they are vital witnesses . |
| 4 | Being gay for me meant identifying with people who were of a similar age to myself and with a particular way of dressing . |
| 5 | And then that one conservative who did go and do it , he swapped places with people who were on the dole , and he went and lived up in Newcastle . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've never known anything like it : over two hundred interviews with people who were in the street , mostly in the pubs , at some time between nine and eleven on the night and nobody saw or heard a damn thing . |
| 7 | They have appealed for people who were with her on the night of October 22 to contact them . |
| 8 | They were from people who were at Tea for Two who made donations specifically towards the cancer erm |
| 9 | Managers have been chosen by the old boy network , recommendations from people who were on the boards of charities . |
| 10 | Lifeboats were called out 555 times to people who were in distress but not aboard any craft or vessel , and 185 lives were saved on these calls . |
| 11 | As political life became dominated by people who were in it as a career , the shires felt betrayed . |