Example sentences of "people have [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seven people have been involved in making the banners over the years , with input and ideas from many others . |
| 2 | Many people have been involved in preparing the Community Care Plan . |
| 3 | Er I I emphasize that very quickly because a lot of people have been involved in all sorts of sales environments and market places erm still have their traditional habits . |
| 4 | Too many people have been upset by their experiences at the hands of a hairdresser . ’ |
| 5 | People have been tremendous with sponsorship . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm very grateful that people have been honest , ’ Courtney says . |
| 7 | ‘ Definitely , people have been respectful towards me and given me some free time . |
| 8 | Through the centuries a host of famous people have been proud to call this charming county ‘ home ’ . |
| 9 | Most people have been familiar with its skyline since they were old enough to focus on a TV screen . |
| 10 | Many people have been disappointed that last week 's decisions were not more precise — defining , for example , exactly what should happen to St Bartholomew 's or Charing Cross Hospital . |
| 11 | Such people have been disappointed , to say the least , that the Government postponed the community care programme by two years because they saw it as an opportunity for the balance of resources between residential care and community care to be readdressed . |
| 12 | Thus , despite the movement towards a welfare state it is obvious that in the details of people 's lives , in the new housing estates and tower blocks , people have been relieved of the worst of their miseries , encouraged to think rich and live poor , to become in effect the permanent prisoners of someone else 's conception of their happiness . |
| 13 | No one any longer recalls where this unusual dish had its origins ; indeed some people have been unkind enough to suggest that it was but recently invented by Mr Rory McGurk at the Dehydrated Rambler , on finding himself with too much ageing shepherd 's pie left on his hands . |
| 14 | So many people have been instrumental in helping us to reach this 40th Anniversary . |
| 15 | In his second reading speech on the National Assistance Bill in 1947 , for example , Aneurin Bevan argued that the accommodation in a local authority old person 's home should be charged for in just the same way as that in a private hotel or nursing home , ‘ so that any old persons who wish to go may go there in exactly the same way as many well-to-do people have been accustomed to go into residential hotels ’ ( HC Debates , 1947 , Col. 1609 ) . |
| 16 | Since the 1987 crash , people have been wary of stock-market investment but some new products give an each-way bet . |
| 17 | ‘ It is a relatively new technique and a lot of people have been sceptical about it but I am a firm believer in the method , ’ he said . |
| 18 | Once people have been able to make a direct year-on-year comparison of local taxation demands , rather than be confused by a change of system , then councils may well be judged on their own individual performance . |
| 19 | Despite these disadvantages , many older people have been able to maintain their social status by remaining active , alert and healthy . |
| 20 | Lack of training , however , has limited the scope and quality of programming , and very few people have been able to participate . |
| 21 | He was concentrating furiously now , for , he thought , if I know of these places , then surely it must be because people have been able to talk of them . |
| 22 | People have been able to become softer since those ill times , thanks to the great abundance for which technology is directly responsible . |
| 23 | ‘ The reason people have been concerned about this case for so long is that it is about far bigger issues . |
| 24 | When you say that people have been bad packing things , |
| 25 | ‘ It 's an international career coming to a close and one that people have been full of admiration for for over a decade . ’ |
| 26 | For many years , people have been astonished at the ‘ revolting judicial behaviour ’ of the European Court of Justice , whose determined promotion of European integration has surprised even the most ardent federalists . |
| 27 | The group resent any excess and many people have been surprised at their loyalty to Hallin . |
| 28 | Some people have been surprised and relieved to discover that HIV has been suspected by friends and relatives who have been anxious to help , yet afraid to ask . |
| 29 | personally I , I , I felt , I mean so many people have been uncommitted and the Garrick |
| 30 | To believe that people have been sensible of God in other ages is not however to accept what I may call the ‘ vehicle ’ of the Christian myth which has carried their religious sensibilities . |