Example sentences of "people have be [vb pp] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The publication of correspondence between famous people has been used for many years for the purposes of scholastic enquiry . |
| 2 | The Department of Health 's annual Keep Warm , Keep Well campaign to advise elderly people has been launched for this winter . |
| 3 | A report in The Nation ( Bangkok , Thailand ) of Oct. 28 quoted a Myanma government official as saying that 1,087 people had been detained for political offences since the military takeover on Sept. 18 , 1988 , and that 100 people had been sentenced to death during the previous three months by both military tribunals and civilian courts . |
| 4 | The West German newspaper Bild Zeitung cited East Berlin sources as saying 3,000 people had been imprisoned for attempted ‘ flight from the Republic ’ . |
| 5 | The official New China News agency ( Xinhua ) reported that in the first nine months of the year 11,503 people had been arrested for such crimes . |
| 6 | On the previous day the Democratic Party had claimed that at least 200 people had been arrested for their part in the previous week 's demonstrations . |
| 7 | In some cases that were drawn to the attention of the Juridical and Human Rights Commission of the main Protestant organization ( CEPAD ) , people had been held for as long as three months without being interrogated . |
| 8 | Six people have been prosecuted for persistently ignoring ‘ residents only ’ parking schemes in Middlesbrough and ordered to pay fines and costs totalling £710 . |
| 9 | Old people have been indoctrinated for so long in the necessary frailty and peripheralism of their lot that this is not surprising . |
| 10 | ‘ Change comes slow when people have been repressed for so long . |
| 11 | About 40 people have been treated for eye and skin irritation , breathing problems and nausea after being exposed to the spill . |
| 12 | Three more people have been prepared for the surgery , which involves implanting electrodes into the inner ear . |
| 13 | A further 40 percent of young people have been registered for jobs and training at careers offices for between two and six months . |
| 14 | ‘ People have been killed for less , even taking it at its face value , though its actual value is very much greater . |
| 15 | ‘ Other people have been disciplined for similar actions . |
| 16 | People have been murdered for this job and no one gives a shit . |
| 17 | Convenient scapegoats perhaps , but the K G B was open about today 's activities too ; Major General Alexander Karbalnov of the K G B revealed for the first time that seven hundred thousand people have been executed for political crimes since the revolution and that three-and-a-half million have been repressed . |