Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] [conj] people " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah , thank you Chairman just new development on the question of transport that 's been considered that people might be using the train more travelling to Europe than they had done previously I du n no if that has been considered Channel Tunnel , but perhaps it 's something that erm . |
| 2 | Increasingly , it has been claimed that people who work in government , industry , the social services , etc. , ought to have some sort of specialist knowledge of society on the grounds that they will be better equipped to meet the demands of their work . |
| 3 | Lives have been ruined because people have read the wrong books or looked at the wrong pictures . |
| 4 | But it 's been done because people wanted it to happen , not because it 's been imposed upon them . ’ |
| 5 | A lot of these deaths might have been prevented if people had been able to get out in time . |
| 6 | Suppose it has never been decided whether people who accept a check they have reason to believe is forged can nevertheless collect on it . |
| 7 | In general , it has been accepted that people can take on part-time work in this way if it has not been their usual employment pattern . |
| 8 | In general , it has been accepted that people can take on part-time work in this way if it has not been their usual employment pattern . |
| 9 | In general , it has been accepted that people can take on part-time work in this way if it has not been their usual employment pattern . |
| 10 | It has long been accepted that people make jokes about what frightens them and that groups who feel oppressed use humour as a way of releasing negative feelings to those in power . |
| 11 | Although the discovery of the double helix made it possible to understand how information might be stored in DNA , revolutionary advances in areas such as nucleotide sequencing and computing have been needed before people can contemplate recovering the stored information on a large scale . |
| 12 | Sadly , mills have been closed and people have lost their jobs , but I believe that these necessary changes have been handled with sympathy and understanding . |
| 13 | The square has recently been renovated although people complain that it is like a film set and the houses are still crumbling behind their façades . |
| 14 | I mean there have been the usual number of pollution incidents and they seem to increase every year , er and a lot of those to deal with er as you say , I think one of the things which is , which is good is that public consciousness has been raised and people are much more aware of what they drink and what 's in their rivers . |
| 15 | It has long been known that people who eat a high-vegetable diet have lower rates of stomach cancer , and this is particularly striking in regions of Italy and China which have a very high garlic intake . |
| 16 | It can also be used when several results have already been found but people are unable to proceed further to a generalisation ; for instance , they may have failed to spot a linear relationship or a well-known number-sequence in their results . |
| 17 | It has generally been found that people can only absorb around seven key ideas in any verbal presentation , no matter how well conveyed . |
| 18 | ‘ We can only conclude these things have been dumped because people have no further use for them . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Saturday 's situation appears to have been caused because people delayed before going out into the rain . ’ |
| 20 | The quantity of finds on a site can give an idea of the wealth of the people living there , although since most possessions would have been removed if people left the site , this too can give a distorted view . |
| 21 | Carers ' own needs It has been identified that people have different capacities to undertake being a carer . |
| 22 | In Ondo , Kano and plateau States new television establishments already exist , staff have been recruited , contracts with equipment suppliers have been signed and people have been sent abroad for training . |
| 23 | It has also been suggested that people buy the book because they have read reviews of it or because it is on the best-seller list , but they do n't read it ; they just have it in the bookcase or on the coffee table , thereby getting credit for having it without taking the effort of having to understand it . |