Example sentences of "people have been [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Senoi peoples have been portrayed on the one hand as the quintessential noble savages by perpetrators of ‘ Senoi Dream Theory ’ ( Stewart 1951 , 1954 ; Garfield 1974 ) and on the other as raging bloodthirsty killers by proponents of instinctive human aggression ( Paul 1978 ; Eibl-Eibesfeldt 1979 ; Wilson 1978 ) . |
| 2 | Eight people have been charged under the article in the past six months ; the maximum penalty is death . |
| 3 | Seven people have been charged after a battle between police and fifty youths outside a village pub in Oxfordshire . |
| 4 | A number of people have been interveiwed following the original complaint , in an investigation which has covered Gloucestershire , the east Midlands and the South Coast . |
| 5 | Five people have been injured in a bomb explosion at a pub in London 's Covent Garden . |
| 6 | Four people have been injured in an accident in thick fog . |
| 7 | An unpublished report prepared for the Supreme Soviet in 1990 by a commission of independent experts states that 437,000 people have been affected by a series of accidents and contamination at the nuclear weapons production plant at Kyshtym in the southern Urals over the past 45 years . |
| 8 | Three more people have been prepared for the surgery , which involves implanting electrodes into the inner ear . |
| 9 | Is the Secretary of State aware that millions of people have been hit by the actions of his Department over the past 12 years ? |
| 10 | I mean I know that people have been hit by the mortgage rise and of course in my lifetime I 've never known anything like this . |
| 11 | Dozens of disabled people have been taking to the water learning how to sail . |
| 12 | Frequently , too , such people have been blessed with the ‘ sixth sense ’ , their quiet mind automatically transmitting the hungry intentions of a hidden tiger for example , for all creatures are linked at the level of the mind , as well as soul . |
| 13 | More than thirty people have been massacred at a squatter camp near Johannesburg . |
| 14 | Since it has been introduced 43 people have been cut off the dole and 21 continue to receive reduced rates of social security in the North of Ireland . |
| 15 | Naturally the next field in which to try out this half-truth was politics , where people have been trying since the time of Demosthenes to fool all of the people all of the time . |
| 16 | Many schemes for housing old people have been developed on a voluntary basis . |
| 17 | The greater absolute numbers of elderly people have been absorbed by the growing private sector despite a simultaneous collapse of long term provision in the NHS , and this has been widely attributed to the impact of the central government funding system for private residential care . |
| 18 | Since I answered a similar question on 14 November , seven people have been killed as a result of the security situation , of whom six were civilians and one was a member of the Ulster Defence Regiment . |
| 19 | Fifty-five people have been killed on a seventeen-mile stretch of the Oxford to Swindon road . |
| 20 | Almost eighty people have been killed in a toy factory fire in China and site workers from Middlebrook Mushrooms marched through Selby to mark the first anniversary of their dispute . |
| 21 | Three people have been killed in a gun attack on the Belfast offices of the IRA 's political wing , Sinn Fein . |
| 22 | Two people have been killed in a crash between a car and lorry which completely blocked a main road for five hours . |
| 23 | More than a hundred and thirty people have been killed in an Iranian plane crash near Tehran . |
| 24 | Seventy people have been killed in an air crash in Macedonia . |
| 25 | Hundreds of people have been killed in the violence following the republic of Croatia 's declaration of independence on 25 June 1991 . |
| 26 | Fifty-five people have been killed in the last twelve years . |
| 27 | The run-down housing stock should be demolished and redeveloped after people have been moved into the new and attractive riverside developments , built by the council . |
| 28 | ‘ But I have heard in other parts of the country that people have been moved from the waiting lists because they would not get an appointment within the set time limit . |
| 29 | Thirty years of development theory and experience are reviewed , with the conclusion that people have been neglected as the objective of development . |
| 30 | A lot of people have been laying into the Tomlinson report on London 's health services , and it was hardly surprising to find one of the most vociferous was NUPE 's general secretary Rodney Bickerstaffe . |