Example sentences of "[prep] people [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the columns are the names of peoples defeated by Rome . |
| 2 | Despite the increase in the number of scholars studying the period , the same preoccupation with art-history and the origins of peoples persisted and continued to do so through the 1960s in studies of pottery ( Myres 1969 ; 1970 ) and metalwork ( Hawkes 1961 ; Hawkes and Dunning 1961 ) . |
| 3 | But all Bob knew was that dozens of people sounded in agony with horrific-looking wounds . |
| 4 | THE Community yesterday promised 44,000 tonnes of new food aid for Ethiopia in an effort to save millions of people threatened by starvation . |
| 5 | THE Community yesterday promised 44,000 tonnes of new food aid for Ethiopia in an effort to save millions of people threatened by starvation . |
| 6 | The demonstrations soon turned into confrontations with Israeli police and army units , a number of youths were killed and hundreds of people injured . |
| 7 | If the Minister had given those figures , would they not have shown — especially those relating to the number convicted of terrorist offences — that , over the past decade , there has been a consistent and significant decline in the number of people convicted ? |
| 8 | of people convicted of terrorist offences had no previous intelligence tracings in terms of involvement with terrorist organisations . |
| 9 | A number of people convicted under Article 100 were subsequently released from prison , including Huang Hwa , Taiwan 's most prominent dissident , on May 18 . |
| 10 | The downstairs restaurant where breakfast is served , has walls decorated with paintings of people dressed in traditional local costumes . |
| 11 | One day , soon after our night outside the castle , Princess Flavia and I were riding through the town when we saw a group of people dressed in black going to the church . |
| 12 | The mission then cross-checked the names with those of people repatriated to Namibia through the UN High Commissioner for Refugees programme , which has brought back 41,000 Namibians , including most Swapo guerrillas . |
| 13 | The tournament , the entry fees of which are to be donated to the Wine and Spirit Benevolent Fund , a registered charity , is open to a wide ranging group of people connected with the trade , including … ‘ retail , wine bar , restaurant , or hotel trade buyers , writers , waiters or sales assistants , whatever their standard of tennis . ’ |
| 14 | Reading section 4 of the Act with the other relevant interpretative sections , it is hardly surprising that a number of people connected with the children 's hearing system saw the Act as a major handicap to their work . |
| 15 | ‘ All the supposedly mysterious deaths of people connected with defence . |
| 16 | One man was killed when tens of thousands of people gathered at Creys-Malville in France , the site of a new design of ‘ fast breeder ’ reactor ( see Chapter Three ) . |
| 17 | The Monday after the men were laid off I came home from school to find crowds of people gathered outside Miss Louise 's door chattering excitedly . |
| 18 | First official event took place during the early afternoon of April 25 , when a large number of people gathered at the memorial site dedicated to the RAF and Allied aircrew . |
| 19 | The first was to approach groups of people gathered in public areas like parks or street corners ; the second was through individuals such as priests , teachers or shopkeepers who , in the nature of their work , are ‘ brokers ’ and have contacts with large numbers of individuals . |
| 20 | To his right was a hot-dog stand with a number of people gathered around it . |
| 21 | Vanessa was in the circle of people gathered about Rain 's quarry . |
| 22 | ‘ On what list ? ’ blurted Karen , but Jessica pulled her roughly by the arm , towards the knot of people gathered at the square steel entrance to the boat . |
| 23 | There were disturbances in Drury Lane on 10 June 1695 , when a number of people gathered at the Dog Tavern to celebrate the birthday of the Prince of Wales . |
| 24 | She was here to work , to wend her way among the clusters of people gathered around the groaning buffet tables , to smile like a wax mannequin and to stop when requested , to pirouette and offer the same answer to each question about her gown whether it dealt with size , colour , fabric , price or availability . |
| 25 | This time around , most of the crowd stayed for the full set yet the number of people gathered at The Arena told its own story of one band 's fall from grace . |
| 26 | A LIVELY debate has broken out among the knot of people gathered in the GMTV studio concerning the future of Britain 's newest breakfast television channel . |
| 27 | There is only one other large group of people defined in Britain as civil servants that is concerned with the implementation of the social policies discussed in this book , and that is those involved in the employment services . |
| 28 | The number of people killed in fires rose to 732 in 1986 from 710 in the previous year while the number injured reached a record 10,178 , the Home Office said yesterday . |
| 29 | Its report , published on April 19th , speaks of hundreds of people , most of them Palestinian , arbitrarily arrested , many tortured and ‘ scores ’ of people killed by the Kuwaiti armed forces and members of the resistance . |
| 30 | THE number of people killed or badly injured on England 's roads in 1991 has fallen by almost a third to 47,404 since the early 1980s . |