Example sentences of "people who have been [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of a further 2,217 people who had been charged in court by March 12 , over half had been sentenced to prison terms . |
| 2 | On several occasions , people who had been drinking in the Sparrow Farm tenants ' association club opposite the shop left the club and attacked the Ks , both inside the off-licence and , sometimes , as they left after closing for the night . |
| 3 | President Taya had followed up a July 29 amnesty for state security and press law offenders with a further amnesty , announced on Aug. 18 , for people who had been sentenced in their absence and had been in exile for over 15 years . |
| 4 | People who had been living in the shadow of the rock breathed easily again . |
| 5 | We expressed , to the small group now assembled at the innocent French people who had been killed in this tragic disaster , but they all said , very sympathetically — ‘ C'est la guerre ’ . |
| 6 | When police relaxed the cordon friends and relatives went to speak to the people who had been trapped in their houses throughout the bank holiday . |
| 7 | All that is true , but I do not say that young people who have been deprived in that way should go out and steal cars . |
| 8 | This country has a long tradition of accepting genuine political refugees , but there is no doubt that the fact that three quarters of all applications are made by people who have been living in this country for weeks , months and , in some cases , years , is tantamount to an abuse of the system . |
| 9 | Intended primarily for people who have been engaged in development projects around the world . |
| 10 | It is important that fieldwork should be properly supervised and that is why all professional research agencies get their field supervisors to make check calls on people who have been included in a sample and why fieldworkers should always have someone to turn to if they have any doubts or are in any difficulties . |
| 11 | The bond that accompanies sexual pairing is real and strong and when two people who have been bonded in this way break up , one at least may feel great grief and hurt . |
| 12 | How any reparation could be made , and talking about reparation , this business over absent fathers , er , has just killed that idea of us getting more and more in that kind of way , but I 'm sure there are many people , and I 'm not thinking about those who have been , committed an act of violence , and said , well they might do it again , but say , I 'm pretty sure people who have been committed in effect of what you could call civil crimes , that is putting their hand in the drawer , should never be in prison . |
| 13 | Young people who have been caught in this trap have had no information given to them about this change and can not avail themselves of the choice of training like colleagues born on or before July 1 . |