Example sentences of "[be] [verb] that [adj] people were " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were no street lights any more and cars could n't use their headlights , and it was being said that more people were being killed this way than if a real war had come upon them . |
| 2 | But its twin at the College of Technology has been scrapped after members of Darlington Health Authority were told that some people were embarrassed to attend in front of their peers . |
| 3 | It was reported that four people were killed . |
| 4 | In the Holland Report in 1977 it was argued that young people were no longer employed because they did not fit employers ' needs . |
| 5 | I have asked parliamentary questions about the illegal sale and possession of knives and I was told that 150 people were prosecuted in 1988 for having in a public place such an article with a blade or point and in 1989 , it was 2,018 — a huge jump . |
| 6 | On a recent visit to a day centre , which served both younger disabled and old people , I was told that old people were envious and resentful when computer learning was introduced for the younger disabled people . |
| 7 | I was talking to a woman and she was saying that young people were n't the same in her day . |
| 8 | Thus Goldthorpe and Lockwood ( 1969 ) carried out their research among the manual workers of Luton at a time when academic opinion was saying that such people were beginning to take on middle-class characteristics . |
| 9 | In a content analysis of the career literature of 26 health and caring professions and occupations ( French , 1986a ) it was found that disabled people were never specifically invited to apply , yet 10 of these occupations explicitly sought candidates with the ability to empathise and understand ill and disabled people . |
| 10 | The report 's publication followed a conference at which it was estimated that older people were then spending upwards of £14 billion a year in the marketplace . |
| 11 | It was estimated that seven people were killed in rioting between Oct. 10 and Nov. 10 . |