Example sentences of "people have been [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Diverse cultures , religions and races have often found common ground and contact in rugby and lasting bridges between nations or peoples have been supported by sporting encounters at all levels . |
| 2 | The importance of the inequalities in the work environment and in the incomes of people has been under-estimated in social policy debates . |
| 3 | A report in The Nation ( Bangkok , Thailand ) of Oct. 28 quoted a Myanma government official as saying that 1,087 people had been detained for political offences since the military takeover on Sept. 18 , 1988 , and that 100 people had been sentenced to death during the previous three months by both military tribunals and civilian courts . |
| 4 | At Mbuji-Mayi , in Kasai Oriental region , it was reported on April 23 that nine people had been killed during violent demonstrations . |
| 5 | Several hundred people had been killed in religious riots in northern Nigeria during 1991 [ see pp. 38519 ; 38135-36 ] . |
| 6 | An estimated 13 people had been killed in violent incidents on the previous day , in what amounted to a serious upsurge in township unrest . |
| 7 | 24 the government disclosed that in the Tibesti region of northern Chad 49 people had been killed in various attacks on civilians since mid-August by forces loyal to former President Hissène Habré . |
| 8 | As of May 21 , the Commission on Elections ( Comelec ) , the official watchdog agency of the electoral process , calculated that 103 people had been killed in election-related incidents . |
| 9 | A further estimated 50 people were killed in a series of bomb explosions in Hyderabad on July 15 , and the Guardian of July 16 reported that about 3,000 people had been killed in communal violence in the province since 1985 . |
| 10 | There had been the usual final frenzy to get the parks ready for festival week , and various people had been smitten with untimely summer flu . |
| 11 | The West German newspaper Bild Zeitung cited East Berlin sources as saying 3,000 people had been imprisoned for attempted ‘ flight from the Republic ’ . |
| 12 | More than 300 people had been arrested after violent confrontations with the security forces in Ain Shams after the policeman 's death . |
| 13 | The Independent of Feb. 7 reported that more than 26,000 people had been arrested in Tamil Nadu during a Feb. 6 general strike in protest against president 's rule . |
| 14 | Members of the Cheshire Regiment were ready to enter Karaula , where 45 people had been wounded by Serbian shelling , said a spokesman for the United Nations protection force . |
| 15 | For years , the choice in London for deaf people had been confined to church-based institutes under the umbrella of the Royal Association of the Deaf and Dumb , or to the more upper-class independent National Deaf Club , which still flourished and held regular meetings as well as badminton and tennis tournaments . |
| 16 | By the time we reached the encore , a stunning ‘ I Know It 's Over ’ , 12 thousand people had been smacked into moronic submission . |
| 17 | In Fez , where 15 people had been hospitalized after similar clashes in October , a court on Nov. 8 pronounced sentences of up to four years on 30 students ( 16 Islamic fundamentalists and 14 described as Marxist-Leninists ) . |
| 18 | The segregated education system is geared to keeping the majority of black people in subordination , while health and housing conditions are poor and , most importantly , black people have been deprived of political and human rights . |
| 19 | Peter White , this instability could result as people have been warning in Civil War , that we 've already heard about venturism being er , suggested by the Russian leader Boris Yeltsin it , he might try to change the boundaries of the Soviet Republics . |
| 20 | Over the past year , some 2,000 people have been killed in Hindu-Muslim riots , and about 150 in protests against job reservations for particular castes . |
| 21 | At least 1,200 people have been killed in recent fighting . |
| 22 | Furthermore , pressed by urban problems and sometimes apparently with other motives , several countries , such as Brazil , Colombia , Indonesia ( where , since 1905 , at least 2.5 million people have been moved from crowded Java , Bali and Lombok , to the ‘ outer ’ islands — an official figure where two or three times this number may have emigrated unassisted ) and Peru are promoting transmigration schemes so that it is projected that the number of forest farmers could double or increase even more than that . |
| 23 | ‘ Other people have been disciplined for similar actions . |
| 24 | Prospective Labour MP for the town Alan Milburn said : ‘ Hundreds of people have been forced into dire straits because the town has been so badly hit by the Government inspired economic slump ’ |
| 25 | Many of its own people have been displaced by civil war or uprooted by drought or flood . |
| 26 | Convenient scapegoats perhaps , but the K G B was open about today 's activities too ; Major General Alexander Karbalnov of the K G B revealed for the first time that seven hundred thousand people have been executed for political crimes since the revolution and that three-and-a-half million have been repressed . |
| 27 | Nine people have been arrested in overnight clashes with police . |
| 28 | One of the important lessons that doctors and lay people have been relearning in recent years is that physical health and mental well-being belong together . |
| 29 | He thought Iran had been too long governed by a " powerful and greedy minority " and the " the people have been subjected to foreign exploitation and monopoly . |