Example sentences of "people [pron] [verb] been [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are trying to populate a land which has been derelict for two thousand years with a people which has been scattered for two thousand years . |
| 2 | Compaore on Jan. 9 ordered the rehabilitation of over 4,000 people who had been punished for their political or trades union activities since 1983 , when Capt. Thomas Sankara took power . |
| 3 | The researchers identified 167 people who had been attending for a year or more . |
| 4 | I went there and found that people who had been waiting for four hours or more had still not received satisfaction . |
| 5 | She welcomed the work done and the fact that so many people who had been waiting for so long had been treated , but was concerned that health workers who had been working flat out to reduce the lists would not be able to maintain their work rate . |
| 6 | Five people who 've been nominated for awards are not available to receive them from her Royal Highness . |
| 7 | people who 'd been expelled for cannabis , |
| 8 | Around 400 people who have been treated for melanoma ( skin cancer ) will be asked to keep a radon-measuring device in their homes for a year as part of a £13,000 Bristol University project . |
| 9 | The opposition , a diverse and mostly respectable group of people who have been clamouring for a bit of say in the new Kuwait , did not get even a token position . |
| 10 | Yes , but I mean erm excuse me erm there are a lot of people who have been saying for a long time , the council are dragging their heels and they 're not doing anything . |
| 11 | Much will depend on how it seeks to solve the long-running debate about merging income tax and the national insurance system ; whether benefits , including pensions , are to be universal or selective ; and , if selective , how the state is to deal with obligations to people who have been contributing for many years to what they were told was national insurance . |
| 12 | The ‘ Care in the Community ’ initiative sought to extend this cooperation to help people who have been hospitalized for long periods . |
| 13 | The House may be interested to know that , because we were seeking to look at the effect of NHS management reforms over the first six months , we did not draw attention to the fact that the number of people who have been waiting for more than one year on in-patient lists is 37 per cent . |
| 14 | Illegal shipments seized at customs went round like a kiss at a party — police , SAS , departments like the one Todd ran … then on to the people they 'd been intended for in the first place — the syndicates who brought them down to street level , street prices . |