Example sentences of "people [verb] [be] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the deal has even greater cultural significance , as The Shoe People has been given the official stamp of approval to become a major influence on millions of Russian children . |
| 2 | A Quiche Indian woman from Guatemala who has achieved worldwide recognition by speaking out against the oppression of her people has been awarded the 1992 Nobel Peace Prize . |
| 3 | Associated Press reported on Nov. 29 that only 100 people had accepted the amnesty offer , while 150 more people had been arrested the previous week , adding to thousands of FIS supporters detained without trial . |
| 4 | Clearly , while an increasing proportion of the population have been buying their houses , working-class people have been buying the cheapest housing on the market . |
| 5 | The vast majority of obese people have been eating a normal unhealthy diet , and changing is a matter of education and attitude as well as trial and error . |
| 6 | Recently some people have been trying a different approach , seeing if they can change the nature of the atoms such that fusion can occur at a useful rate even at room temperature . |
| 7 | Millions of people have been given the same chance to own a real share in the nation 's assets . |
| 8 | Surely it 's true that everyone who changes his or her life because of crime — from those afraid to go out at night to those afraid to go into the parks they pay for — surely these people have been denied a basic civil right . |
| 9 | Several hundred people have been attending a nightly candle-lit vigil , and there has been one other small protest . |
| 10 | People have been studying the behavioural functions of the brain for something less than two centuries and , for much of that time , their efforts have been hampered by a combination of inevitable ignorance and adherence to implausible psychological theories . |