Example sentences of "people [Wh pn] have [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | True , the Armenians of Beirut have collected some macabre , terrible old photographs that might — had they been studied with more care by the shell-shocked peoples who had just emerged from the First World War — have served as a warning , the shape of things to come . |
| 2 | In the 1960s and 1970s , the ranks of executive search consultants included many people who had largely failed at what they had previously undertaken . |
| 3 | People who had kindly given assistance for earlier books , particularly Inside Buckingham Palace and Duchess were asked to help . |
| 4 | On the very Sunday that the new church opened we looked in vain for the empty seats in St Luke 's : it seemed that God had given to us at the mother church a new group of people who had either moved into the area or who were to be converted and we saw the truth of the saying : ‘ Give and it will be given to you , pressed down and running over . ’ |
| 5 | People who had been convicted of criminal offences , including drunkenness , or people who had habitually failed to work , were not to be supported from state resources . |
| 6 | You know , the decision whether we were gon na go back to work because of these threatening letters was taken by the forty well fifty members of the lodge , so in effect I was sacked by people who had since returned to work , but you know that 's how it should be . |
| 7 | ‘ When the need arose , those who became managers were the people who had best survived the struggle up the rungs to the top . |
| 8 | There was nothing visible downstairs where we were , so immediately went up the stairs at the side to the production level where the blast had come from , and there we met a group of people who had just come out of the control room and they were cut and suffering from shock 'cos the blast had obviously well it d nearly blown the control room apart . |
| 9 | Yes , the Compus course was really a a further work orientation course , for people who had just left school . |
| 10 | It 'll change as you get older erm you wo n't necessarily just have that all the time we used to run these courses for students who had just come out of college and they were joining their company to work for the first first time and we used to do this and we used to find that many of the people who had just taken out the job for the first time had very very flat scores . |
| 11 | We were laying other horses in the race , sometimes taking bets from people who had already backed Travelling Light . |
| 12 | He was among the hundreds of thousands of people who had already posted their application forms . |
| 13 | ‘ Our conclusion was based on a ( spoken presentation ) by people who had already decided that Kent Opera would lose its subsidy . ’ |
| 14 | The DTI said it wanted to avoid the risk of a ‘ disorderly collapse ’ which would have threatened the savings of those people who had already put money into the funds . |
| 15 | Matters were not helped by the Sabina Park authorities providing one sightscreen that was too low to be of much use if the bowler was over six feet ( 1.8 metres ) tall , and when England complained after the game against Jamaica the reply was that it could not be raised without obscuring the view of some two hundred people who had already bought tickets . |
| 16 | All I need do was agree to a list of people who had already been named , so I would n't be hurting anyone . |
| 17 | To the people who had already heard of her illness and sent her cards and good wishes Molly sends her grateful thanks . |
| 18 | Many low caste people who had previously been craft workers turned to farm work , and as farmworkers they had to be paid not in the old feudal terms but an amount definitely related to the work they did . |
| 19 | The views of people who had previously looked after those who died sometimes reflected their gratitude and admiration for the people who took on this task . |
| 20 | The drive to an industrialised Britain brought many people from the villages to the towns , and alerted the authorities to the widespread presence of mentally handicapped people who had previously been contained within farming communities and cared for by their families . |
| 21 | Many advocates of the title ‘ revolution ’ see the period achieving a positive result , liberating groups of people who had previously been kept ‘ voiceless ’ by political disenfranchisement . |
| 22 | Letters flooded in from people who had often been cruelly affected by the system we were examining . |
| 23 | Thus , Sabino Arana invents the name Euskadi for the country of the people who had long given themselves , and been given , a collective name ( Basques , Gascons or whatever ) , but without feeling the need for the sort of country , state or nation Arana had in mind . |
| 24 | Also , the detailed cross-tabulations ( not in the Appendix ) showed that when APR and/or total credit cost was lower for shorter repayment periods , people who had originally chosen the very longest possible repayment period tended to switch — if they switched at all — to a repayment period right at the other end of the scale . |
| 25 | Our family were constant visitors , of course , and many friends — the same , dear kind people who had so readily transported me to the hospital for the nightly visiting . |
| 26 | A very large policeman was trying to keep them back , but they were pressing closer and closer , determined to have a good look at the two people who had so nearly lost their lives . |
| 27 | H.G. Wells wrote a story about a traveller in South America coming across a community of people who had all been born blind . |
| 28 | He will normally find that this assumes the shape of a pyramid , with a broad base of people who had only 1 or 2 hearths tapering to a few persons or a single individual who owned a disproportionate share of the wealth . |
| 29 | Indeed the Next Steps Report found that : ‘ People who had recently resigned from the Civil Service told us that frustration at the lack of genuine responsibility for achieving results was a significant factor in encouraging them to move to jobs outside . ’ |
| 30 | The typical witch was now the poor neighbour , begging food and drink from people who had once been willing to acknowledge these claims , but did so no longer . |