Example sentences of "people have [vb pp] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The major civilisations of the Americas , notably the Olmecs and Mayas which thrived between 3 kyr and 1 kyr , dominated the lowland regions adjacent to the Gulf of Mexico but by c. 600 AD ( The Times , The World , 1986 ) the major centres of early American peoples had become established in the high Andean basins . |
| 2 | The emphasis is very much on continuity rather than radical reform , and despite the daunting complexity and forbidding pervasiveness of the law regulating every aspect of welfare in German social work practice , this Act also represents an acknowledgement that German social work practice particularly in relation to children and young people has managed to develop highly creatively and run ahead of the bureaucracy . |
| 3 | I understand that even the The People has started to produce certain pages in Urdu . |
| 4 | A grouping of Szekler people had intended to use the occasion of the commemoration of the 1848 Szekler People 's Assembly to hold a referendum on Oct. 19 in Harghita and Covasna on their autonomy . |
| 5 | I was already enough of an expert to recognise it — people had begun to give me books about birds of prey , so the first time I heard this sorrowful sound I searched through my books until I found out what it was . |
| 6 | I know one or two people had begun to despair of me ever getting better at one point but , basically , I have been blessed with a strong constitution . |
| 7 | Such dramatic attempts at direct action were not the only ways in which people had begun to protest at the development of nuclear power . |
| 8 | People had begun to file out from the pews . |
| 9 | ‘ People had begun to look on the Lithuanian party as the servile agent , even the secret agent , of the Soviet Communist Party . ’ |
| 10 | I was going out of the home more often and people had begun to comment on this . |
| 11 | People had begun to feel less ashamed about being greedy and of wanting more than their share of fairness . |
| 12 | Meat consumption had increased by something like a third between 1870 and 1890 , and working-class people had begun to eat fruit , which had previously been a luxury . |
| 13 | By the time he had got the train to Exeter St David 's , its first stop , people had begun arriving , notably his father in a taxi . |
| 14 | Many people had struggled to adhere to a strict moral code for years ( while others had worked hard at least to keep up appearances ) : some may have felt that their efforts were no longer appreciated . |
| 15 | Mr Causeley at Jackson 's saying in his superior Southern style that people had written complaining that Machin had said ‘ bobbin-waggler ’ when he should have said ‘ throcket-shuttle ’ . |
| 16 | However , following allegations in the Congress by the Movement towards Socialism ( Movimiento al Socialismo — MAS ) of indiscriminate gunfire by the police and the Army in the slums , and of the execution of 19 people and other reports alleging that torture had been used in detention and that people had gone missing , a parliamentary commission claimed that over 600 were killed in Caracas alone and that 7,000 people were in detention ( compared with the official figure of 1,000 ) . |
| 17 | Apanage cried , and the music reached a deafening crescendo , which made Cleo realise just why these people had elected to live out in the middle of nowhere . |
| 18 | They held a big meeting near a mine compound one evening and hundreds of people had gathered to listen . |
| 19 | Since 1961 ( to be precise , since Selwyn Lloyd 's ‘ pay pause ’ that summer ) British people had given sustaining the economy the priority over foreign affairs among their concerns . |
| 20 | Several other people had arranged to share cars and after a good deal of last-minute discussion and instructions , they were at last on their way . |
| 21 | Findings from the present study suggest that once people had become established in the homes their quality of life , in the opinion of their relatives , was similar to that of other people who died and had never been in such homes . |
| 22 | For instance , two people had become attached to each other and wanted a little space . |
| 23 | By 1974 many of these people had become disillusioned with the Heath government . |
| 24 | However , instead of becoming alienated against Richard Baxter , the people had become alienated against the bishops and clergy instead . |
| 25 | Some bold people had contrived to take away so much stuff that later , when clothing became very short , they were able to conduct a very lucrative business on the black market . |
| 26 | Mr Taylor said he had received dozens of phone calls supporting what he said and claimed that some people had asked to join the Ulster Unionists as a result . |
| 27 | But there were tears in Alexandra 's eyes and a lot of the older people had stopped talking to watch . |
| 28 | Later one of the teachers noticed that Stephen had written a short piece about the provision of gas masks that concluded : ‘ No real gas attack ever took place and so by the middle of 1940 most people had stopped carrying their masks . ’ |
| 29 | Many people had called offering to help to search the area and some suggested that their sons could be used in a reconstruction of James 's disappearance from the Strand . |
| 30 | Over the years , several people had reported hearing strange sounds emanating from it . |