Example sentences of "that [adj] people were [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , following allegations in the Congress by the Movement towards Socialism ( Movimiento al Socialismo — MAS ) of indiscriminate gunfire by the police and the Army in the slums , and of the execution of 19 people and other reports alleging that torture had been used in detention and that people had gone missing , a parliamentary commission claimed that over 600 were killed in Caracas alone and that 7,000 people were in detention ( compared with the official figure of 1,000 ) . |
| 2 | Details of a confidential government report sponsored by the Ministry of Agriculture were published in the press in May , containing the estimate that over half the population was living below the breadline and that 2,000,000 people were in urgent need of food aid . |
| 3 | With a smile at Alice of real gratitude , neighbourliness , she said that she was glad Alice was there , glad that decent people were in poor No. 43 at last . |
| 4 | Before doing so , some longer-run historical trends need to be mentioned briefly , because implicit in much of the writing on the social creation of dependency is the belief that elderly people were in many ways more independent in a pre-welfare state age . |
| 5 | As was mentioned earlier , at the beginning of this century the consensus was that most people were in a state of physical decline by their early to mid-sixties ( Williams , 1970 ) . |
| 6 | A party of Argentinian scrap merchants landed on South Georgia and as this report came in , the government announced that 4000 people were to be fired from the Royal Navy . |