Example sentences of "[vb past] that [adj] people " in BNC.
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| 1 | Polo maintained that these people enjoyed a peaceful existence on the Isle of Andaman , engaging in the trade of nuts , apples and rice with India . |
| 2 | In the British context , Wenger ( 1984 ) found that married people were most likely to name a spouse as the person in whom they could most easily confide ; people who had never been married were most likely to name a brother or sister ; widows were most likely to name a child ; and in general , the likelihood that a child would be named increased with age . |
| 3 | Credit granters told us that they rarely checked information about employment because they found that many people regarded this as an invasion of privacy . |
| 4 | The bank also found that young people were less likely to go bust than older people . |
| 5 | Before the authorities get too enthusiastic about reports on a fall in illegal drug use by white , middle-class high school seniors , a study conducted at the University of California found that young people who do experiment with drugs are usually better adjusted than kids who abstain from drugs completely . |
| 6 | ( 1986 ) found that young people admitted to care had experienced and continued to experience during the admission highly disturbing and unpredictable family relationships . |
| 7 | That 's one of the results of a survey carried out by Dr John Stradling , which found that 36,000 people in Britain suffer from sleep apnoea — it prevents air flowing freely to the lungs and results in loud snoring . |
| 8 | Researchers found that thin people also experienced food cravings , but not nearly as much as those who were overweight . |
| 9 | The numbers attending were usually small but on one occasion the minister ( Mr Dwyer himself , it is implied , ) found that 300 people , some of whom he had never seen before , had gathered to hear him . |
| 10 | But after spending more than £2,500 on a facelift and suffering a few weeks of looking and feeling like she had gone 12 rounds with Lennox Lewis , Fiona found that few people noticed any difference . |
| 11 | But in all cases he found that local people 's blood showed concentrations only marginally higher than national averages , and locally grown vegetables had concentrations within safety limits . |
| 12 | In February 1990 , a Gallop Survey , found that most people did not know how to manage their money , and just muddled through . |
| 13 | Following Alia 's call for greater religious toleration , Vatican and Yugoslav sources reported that 5,000 people attended a Catholic mass in Shkoder on Nov. 16 conducted by Archbishop Simun Yubani , who had been in prison from 1967 until 1989 for violating the ban imposed on all forms of religious manifestations . |
| 14 | India Today reported that 3,560 people , the majority of them civilians , were killed in the state between Jan. 1 and Dec. 11 . |
| 15 | Radiodiffusion-Television Malienne reported that 27 people died on March 22 and 23 , but the Agence France-Presse news agency put the figure at " more than 80 dead " . |
| 16 | The Financial Times of Nov. 22 reported that 17 people had been killed since the outbreak of disturbances in late October . |
| 17 | It reported that nine people had been released in January , and one other released on bail . |
| 18 | Save the Children reported that 200 people were dying daily in the capital . |
| 19 | Courtney reported that six people report to Dr Robin Nicholson , the chief scientific advisor to the government . |
| 20 | On Feb. 20 Nepali Radio reported that three people died when attacking a police station in the village of Jaddukuha in south-eastern Janakpur . |
| 21 | The Guardian of Dec. 1 reported that 21 people had been killed since the declaration of emergency ; opposition sources put the death toll at 50 , while government officials said that the number was closer to five . |
| 22 | It took me a long time to admit that , but I gradually realized that many people were grateful to me for sharing the thought with them . |
| 23 | I 'm fed up too but I suppose we should n't grumble , ’ Sarah said and Anne agreed that other people had worse troubles . |
| 24 | Mrs Coates came up with the idea when she realised that young people were finding their way into adult bars or congregating in the streets . |
| 25 | By the end of the three days of what one eyewitness described as a " vigilante rampage " , the Health Ministry announced that six people were dead and 502 hospitalized , seven in a serious condition . |
| 26 | Alarm was followed by confusion after the office of the exiled former president , Abolhassan Bani-Sadr , announced that 20 people had been killed in an explosion at the Tehran residence of Mr Khamenei . |
| 27 | Subodh Kant Sahay , Minister of State for Home Affairs , in a statement on Jan. 2 to the Indian parliament announced that 890 people had been killed and nearly 4,000 injured in 15 weeks of Hindu-Moslem riots triggered by Hindu agitation around the disputed sacred site where a mosque currently stood in Ayodhya , Uttar Pradesh . |
| 28 | A party of Argentinian scrap merchants landed on South Georgia and as this report came in , the government announced that 4000 people were to be fired from the Royal Navy . |
| 29 | The NSP announced that 31 people , including students and teachers , had been indicted under the draconian anti-communist National Security Law . |
| 30 | On Dec. 8 Gen. Iván Jiménez Sánchez , the Defence Minister , announced that 240 people , both military personnel and civilians , would be tried for taking part in the coup attempt and would face penalties of up to 30 years ' imprisonment . |