Example sentences of "people [vb past] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The US 's solution to the problem of its own borders and indigenous peoples had been to expand until stopped by force , to renege on all treaties with native peoples and to conduct a policy of genocide and dispossession which , though it reached a peak in the years 1860–90 , continued well into the 1920s . |
| 2 | All the books that people read were to do with God . |
| 3 | and I ca n't see the two people involved being able to stomach that very easily because questions like why did you not ask for counselling at the time or you were in charge and why did you not ensure he had any adequate |
| 4 | ‘ The people involved were wonderful though . |
| 5 | ‘ I thought the people involved were Calabrian shepherds . ’ |
| 6 | No see the material all people used was the nightdress nightdress material . |
| 7 | Just before we leave it , er to come back to the nature it 's quite interesting , what these people found was they studied adders in I think Denmark and what they found was adders adders copulate , but females can store semen for months . |
| 8 | The 16 people interviewed were helpful and attended voluntarily , although some of them preferred to be accompanied by legal advisers . |
| 9 | Eighty-eight per cent of people interviewed were against the control of water services passing from regional councils and 60 per cent said they did not understand joint board arrangements for providing local services . |
| 10 | A report to the council 's working party on the control of dogs on Monday reveals the introduction of pedal-operated bins might attract further users and most people interviewed were in favour of the bins . |
| 11 | Derek Gladwyn , chairman of the conference arrangement committee , said : ‘ The people photographed were not delegates at all . ’ |
| 12 | Some graves have been found showing that bowls of food were buried with the body — this was to provide for the journey to the Underworld , which many people believed was made by a dead person 's spirit . |
| 13 | He did n't affect his upper-class accent that a lot of people believed was natural Williams speak . |
| 14 | The condition of the two people injured was not known last night . |
| 15 | Roughly one in ten people surveyed were obese . |
| 16 | Roughly one in ten people surveyed were obese . |
| 17 | Five of the 11 people killed were women . |
| 18 | and you know we could , in those days because of the number of people employed being Electric Supply and Transport , we could erm , manage to keep it a viable proposition for an evening 's entertainment then and erm , you probably can turn this up in the , the Star they 're showing erm as he was then , one of the drivers swimming from erm Stoke Bathing Place to Felixstowe . |
| 19 | If you put young people to work digging ditches , the argument ran , you were keeping other people out of employment ; and what young people needed was not bogus work but real jobs . |
| 20 | Among the 21 people named were Jaramogi Oginga Odinga Kenya 's first Vice-President ( his son Raila Odinga was among six dissident intellectuals who were detained on July 5 ) ; another former Vice-President Josephat Karanja , who had been forced to resign in May 1989 [ see p. 36648 ] ; the writer Ngugi wa Thiongo ; an Anglican bishop , the Rev. Henry Okullu , who three days previously had called upon the government to resign ; and a lawyer , Gibson Kamau Kuria , who had earlier compared Moi with the late Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu . |
| 21 | The way people looked was the most shocking thing . |
| 22 | The innately known truths which some people postulated were not all of a piece . |
| 23 | This meant that the 5% to 10% cuts in ski length that people took were compensated by increases in width — the surface area stayed the same . |
| 24 | It was the temple for everyone who wanted to be involved in something that had nothing to do with what most people thought was ‘ happening ’ in that part of the seventies . |
| 25 | Throughout the campaign we asked what people thought were the main issues being stressed by each of the parties . |
| 26 | In the main survey ( Appendix 1 , comments on Table 24 ; and more detailed cross-tabulations not included in Appendix ) , only three per cent of those who had recently bought on credit had had any problems with their credit arrangement , after buying ( nearly half the problems were difficulties over paying , and problems which people thought were the fault of the credit firm were very rare indeed ) . |
| 27 | To top things off , she wore the sort of sunglasses most people thought were old-fashioned in 1958 but now cost about fifty quid a go , and nearly a furlong of white chiffon wrapped around her head snood-like . |
| 28 | The speed at which people spoke was a surprise . |
| 29 | What people remembered was that their ancestors had composed the quarrel : pressures were brought to bear , intermediaries called in , a settlement agreed , compensation paid , women exchanged . |
| 30 | The ‘ Up Yours ’ mentality which people liked was nothing to do with politics or being right-wing . |