Example sentences of "people had been " in BNC.
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| 1 | A lot of these deaths might have been prevented if people had been able to get out in time . |
| 2 | Turning to the dramatic developments in East European countries , the Labour leader warned that the taste of freedom their people had been yearning for would turn sour unless they gained material advancement . |
| 3 | The West German newspaper Bild Zeitung cited East Berlin sources as saying 3,000 people had been imprisoned for attempted ‘ flight from the Republic ’ . |
| 4 | A pilot scheme involving 2,000 people had been successful and £500,000 for a further survey of 20,000 people had been promised by the Health Education Authority and the Economic and Social Research Council ( ESRC ) . |
| 5 | A pilot scheme involving 2,000 people had been successful and £500,000 for a further survey of 20,000 people had been promised by the Health Education Authority and the Economic and Social Research Council ( ESRC ) . |
| 6 | ‘ These people had been fighting against their own country , against Marshal Tito who had been recognised as an ally by the British Government , ’ Lord Aldington said . |
| 7 | People had been waiting for years for freedom ‘ and they 've now had enough ’ . |
| 8 | People had been awe-struck by the pictures sent back to earth by Voyager 2 of arid lifeless planets and moons . |
| 9 | He described his 1924 film Reveille , an episodic account of how a group of humble people had been affected by the war , as ‘ a scrapbook of pictures of life caught in the living , no hero , no villain , no plot , no tying up of loose threads . ’ |
| 10 | A number of people had been put on trial , Mr Petkel said . |
| 11 | A number of people had been put on trial , Mr Petkel said . |
| 12 | People had been condemned without any rights to attend the tribunals , to have legal representation , to judicial review , or even to know why decisions had been taken against them . |
| 13 | The Yugoslav news agency Tanjug said there were unconfirmed reports that up to 2,000 people had been killed since the weekend . |
| 14 | The East German news agency ADN reported that up to 4,000 people had been killed . |
| 15 | The Hungarian Foreign Minister , Mr Gyula Horn , broke his country 's silence on the crisis to say that several hundred people had been killed or wounded at the weekend . |
| 16 | People had been very cold and were sloshing about in the mud from the day before . |
| 17 | People had been saying that once the war was over , things would change . |
| 18 | These people had been encouraged to fight by the United States ; by keeping them going , when Congress was keen to abandon them , at least some Americans were keeping faith . |
| 19 | I heard on the television yesterday that thirty-five people had been sacked from the interior ministry so that may be an encouraging sign . |
| 20 | He praised the smooth running of the election , and denied reports that people had been forced to cast their ballots . |
| 21 | Gombrich sombrely recalled hearing about Auschwitz while working at the BBC Monitoring Service during the war : ‘ They claimed at that time — I remember that as if it were yesterday — they claimed that at least five million people had been killed , and I remember a colleague of mine coming to me to check this figure , because it seemed impossible . |
| 22 | At the end of 1988 there were 56 carers , 21 of them specializing in short-term care ; a total of 87 people had been placed in the scheme during that year . |
| 23 | The other factor that was related to assessments of quality of life was whether people had been in a residential home for a year or more or for a shorter time . |
| 24 | The Emperor , who incidentally had wanted to pardon Orsini and his accomplice , only yielding to his ministers ' demand for execution when they pointed out that innocent people had been killed , tried to repair the damage done to the Entente . |
| 25 | Once a people had been colonialist , the working class would continue to be colonialist even after they had carried out a revolution . |
| 26 | By the time we reached the encore , a stunning ‘ I Know It 's Over ’ , 12 thousand people had been smacked into moronic submission . |
| 27 | The whole thing went undiscussed throughout 1982 , though people had been trying to have it discussed since they came back from their holidays in 1981 . ’ |
| 28 | But these people had been shot down some months ago and as the Feldwebel had told me that this was only a transit camp I knew that I was not likely to meet them here . |
| 29 | Later there would be the questions and answers about the war , the old familiar stories of the way in which people had been shot down . |
| 30 | If people had been in a building after we had been round testing it and seen it secure , they 'd come out and leave it open . |