Example sentences of "people [vb past] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | As my hon. Friends the Members for Wyre ( Mr. Mans ) and for Thurrock have said , people expected to be protected by central Government , but we have been told by the Labour party that there will be no limit whatsoever on spending . |
| 2 | People fought to be first on , children were lifted through windows ; the scene was frighteningly chaotic . |
| 3 | To me , he said in a quavering voice , ‘ When I was a young man , people lived to be fifty-five or sixty . |
| 4 | Only a minority of people lived to be grandparents . |
| 5 | After , even if people tried to be nice , it was cold everywhere , and dark . |
| 6 | People found to be HIV-positive are denied work . |
| 7 | The only common characteristic of all the schools visited was the willingness of the people interviewed to be involved in the research . |
| 8 | Polls suggested that the key election issue for voters , however , was the 8,000 or so homeless people estimated to be sleeping rough within the city . |
| 9 | It means to make a visitor understand how the attempt to annihilate an entire people came to be , and how it was executed . |
| 10 | Meanwhile , at the shows themselves , more than ever this year people seemed to be running around confused , cynical as ever , while the future of the British catwalks was looking ever more shaky . |
| 11 | All the lights were on and people seemed to be moving about in every room . |
| 12 | Tt we were expressing , John and I , some erm concern that the the same few people seemed to be offering the soloing or we 'll do something bits . |
| 13 | As he ran miserably out of the room , Hindley and his wife laughed loudly , delighted that their plan to separate the two young people seemed to be succeeding . |
| 14 | A great many people seemed to be crowding in , presumably returning home for their Saturday half day . |
| 15 | People seemed to be arranging her life without even consulting her . |
| 16 | In fact people seemed to be losing interest in aliens . |
| 17 | People seemed to be living on the edge of their nerves . |
| 18 | Not many people seemed to be at work . |
| 19 | Well then , somehow other people seemed to be . |
| 20 | He knew it was unlikely that he would ever see the true Ireland again because he was being taken to the place that many people believed to be one of the Gateways to the Dark Ireland . |
| 21 | People strove to be free of Nature , seeing it as something outside of themselves . |
| 22 | A further 12 people alleged to be involved in international drug smuggling were arrested in Palermo , Miami and New York in February 1990 , in an operation co-ordinated with the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI ) . |
| 23 | German and Austrian police on Dec. 8 reported detaining 16 people alleged to be involved in smuggling radioactive material from the former Soviet Union . |
| 24 | In this climate , it was realized that there was a corrupting element in the exercise of power , so the idea that it was the ruler 's duty to exercise authority on behalf of God and of the people began to be re-emphasized . |
| 25 | The idea that people needed to be shown from where to view the lakes , hills and mountains developed into the ‘ stations ’ or points from which to see the best views to the best vantage . |
| 26 | Her attitude were extremely paternalistic and authoritarian , and based on the idea that poor people needed to be trained in household management , so that they would be able to pay their rent more regularly . |
| 27 | And Michael Blackburn , acting secretary of Aids Care North West , said people needed to be educated to realise the disease was not ‘ a scourge from God . ’ |
| 28 | However , unscandalised as the people professed to be , a larger than usual number were prepared to buy the Sunday Times . |
| 29 | The problem with Seawright was that he openly voiced what many people took to be the true feelings of Democratic Unionists , often to the embarrassment of the DUP spokesmen who were presenting a more moderate position . |
| 30 | The ‘ artificial circumstance ’ of the theatre and of ‘ live ’ variety allowed some middle-class observers a safe glimpse into that ‘ tumult and promiscuity ’ which Arnold Bennett found to be typical of American hotel lobbies and which most respectable people took to be the hallmarks of the new city . |