Example sentences of "people [Wh pn] [vb past] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Waldendale means the dale of the Welshman , Welsh being a word once used to describe any foreigner , though in this case it probably refers to the last remnants of the Celtic peoples who retreated to this dale in the face of Norse and Anglo-Saxon expansion . |
| 2 | In 1985 regulations were held to be void as having no statutory authority where their purpose was to force able-bodied young people who lived on supplementary benefit to move from one area to another in search of employment . |
| 3 | At Key Stage 2 , with older pupils , the enquiry can easily be pushed back to the Victorian Age , when pupils are now faced with the " problem " that all the people who lived at that time are now dead . |
| 4 | These breed clubs have regenerated interest in the people who had for some reason left the breed and have now been asked to return to spread their knowledge to the younger members . |
| 5 | The people who counted in royal politics were those with access to the restricted areas of the court . |
| 6 | During the recent troubles in India , many of the people who came to this country and who said that they were refugees from oppression by the Indian Government were proposing various forms of armed or violent protest against that Government . |
| 7 | I hope those people who came to Ayresome Park tonight enjoyed the game . |
| 8 | All at once , I was in a wild fury of rage : I saw , not Nonni , but all the foolish and ignorant people who seemed at this moment to be conspiring together against all the forces of right and reason to poison and destroy the world . |
| 9 | This led Asquith to fix a pensionable age of seventy , despite the mass of evidence that must people who survived to old age ceased to be able to support themselves by work in their mid-sixties — sixty-five was the age adopted by most occupational and charitable pension schemes . |
| 10 | Some of the money was raised by local people who contributed to special pool fundraising collections . |
| 11 | Later in the day security forces stormed a candlelight protest march , beating young people who called for peaceful change . |
| 12 | Mr Greenway praised the ‘ distinguished and courageous ’ Falklands campaign and added : ‘ We had better be careful before we defile the names of people who acted with such valour in the name of the United Kingdom . ’ |
| 13 | He said : ‘ Under normal circumstances claims for compensation would only be considered from people who acted on incorrect advice from my people . |