Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] that [adj] people [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was no wonder that in the late Seventies , when Americans were beginning to query whether they were carrying out too many coronary by-passes , Britain 's health correspondents were reporting that many people did not even know such life savers existed . |
| 2 | On Oct. 23 it was reported that 40 people had been arrested in the previous 24 hours , and that some 250 arrests had been made in the previous two weeks , mostly of people said to be linked to the banned Islamic Salvation Front ( FIS ) . |
| 3 | On May 15 it was reported that 201 people had died in the violence during the month so far . |
| 4 | On Feb. 28 it was announced that 54 people had been arrested in connection with the attacks on Hoxha monuments . |
| 5 | I was arguing that gay people have nothing to be ashamed of and yet my troops remained invisible as though they needed convincing too . |