Example sentences of "people were [verb] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | By now , other men with microphones were moving among the audience , and so many people were shouting to be heard that George could no longer identify individual speakers as words overleaped one another and blended together into a great cry of confused and frightened protest . |
| 2 | At least 200 people were believed to be missing after a mudslide on Feb. 27 , 1990 , buried the village of San Miguel de Río Mayo in the northern jungle , 800 km north of Lima , following heavy rains . |
| 3 | The people were said to be lazy , their manner of living rustic . |
| 4 | The major network evening news programmes were being watched by an estimated 50 — 60 million people and 65 per cent of people were said to be getting 100 per cent of their news from such programmes . |
| 5 | Its people were said to be ‘ more English and the English ’ . |
| 6 | Some still retained private property as is evidenced by the fact that they met in private houses and that they would sell their assets if people were seen to be in need . |
| 7 | The idea that older people should leave the labour force at some point gained ground in the earlier part of the twentieth century with the popularity of ideas about scientific management , which implied that older people were bound to be inefficient workers . |
| 8 | People were beginning to be a little critical of Jacob Burckhardt and the idea of the Renaissance , and that made Panofsky very cross . |
| 9 | In conclusion , it does seem that some people were born to be fat , but are only able to be fat because of the relatively affluent society in which they live . |
| 10 | Plenty of other people were going to be dead before the night was out . |
| 11 | Erm so , in principle we 've agreed that schedule , er I 'm waiting for erm Bob to sort V I out and the name erm as you may be aware erm Bob wants to call it client servicing and our view was that by and large it was n't a question of having to have loads more different screens we just needed them in different areas and they could , they 'd go to Louise to get where people were going to be and it 's mostly about the R S six thousand for commission erm on which there are only about twenty of those anyway , twenty seven so I did n't really see that as being a major issue . |
| 12 | Hundreds of thousands of people were reported to be on the move throughout October and November in search of food . |
| 13 | Earlier this month , people were reported to be dying at the rate of 30 a day from hunger and the effects of Serb shelling . |
| 14 | Such people were held to be possessed of none of the attributes of pure intellect , the cultivation of which was the purpose of education . |
| 15 | I think there 's I think there 's quite a few and I think this is what swayed it , the fact that they have had erm , I know of at least ten say ten , there 's one , two , three on the other side of the road which is good because Bob which is another one , so that 's four , there 's which is the other side of the shop , is five , there 's us , six , Jean seven , the eight , erm the guy the other side of the which is nine , there is Ginny over the and the erm old persons ' home , that 's ten that I know of for certain about , er and then I 've heard of other people were gon na be writing in , now whether they actually did or not I do n't know |
| 16 | Oh it was it was yes , some people were considered to be very very good at building a load . |
| 17 | Mentally ill people were thought to be a disgrace to the family . |
| 18 | Although around one million people were estimated to be caring for at least 35 hours a week , only 109,000 received ICA in December 1989 . |
| 19 | In February 1992 the government had introduced minimal safety-net welfare payments , for which some 7,400,000 people were estimated to be eligible . |
| 20 | On Aug. 15 a UN flight left Nairobi , carrying high-protein biscuits to Baidoa , where some 500-700 people were estimated to be dying daily . |
| 21 | I shaved in cold water and walked out of the gate and across the parade ground to where a queue of people were waiting to be served at the kitchen . |