Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [conj] [adj] people " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The NSP announced that 31 people , including students and teachers , had been indicted under the draconian anti-communist National Security Law . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Researchers found that thin people also experienced food cravings , but not nearly as much as those who were overweight . |
| 5 | Courtney reported that six people report to Dr Robin Nicholson , the chief scientific advisor to the government . |
| 6 | Arafat claimed that four people had been killed and 231 injured in the town by Israeli forces " as a result of the erroneous announcement that the driver of the bus carrying Israeli tourists in Egypt was of Palestinian origin and came from Rafah " . |
| 7 | On the eve of the demonstration President Mitterrand urged that young people should be listened to , and Interior Minister Pierre Joxe urged the police to show moderation . |
| 8 | According to The Times of April 12 , the DPK claimed that 50 people had been killed during an attack by government troops on a refugee centre near Halabja on the Iranian border . |
| 9 | In 1990 , when Chile returned to civilian rule , The National Commission for Truth and Reconciliation confirmed that 957 people had ‘ disappeared ’ under military rule , the majority of them between 1973 and 1978 . |
| 10 | A number of adults and children , members of a breakaway Seventh-day Adventist cult , have left the compound since the siege began and 95 people still remain , many of them Britons and Australians . |
| 11 | Norman Tebbit 's advice to the unemployed to ‘ get on their bikes ’ to look for work implied that many people were voluntarily unemployed and this statement was probably symptomatic of the government 's whole approach to unemployment . |
| 12 | It may be that growing wealth meant that more people came to have access to modern contraceptive techniques . |
| 13 | A report in September 1989 by a parliamentary committee asserted that 5,877 people had disappeared in political circumstances in the past nine years and that another 2,346 had died in unexplained circumstances . |
| 14 | Radio Cameroon said that two people were killed , many injured and 219 arrested ; it also alleged that " certain foreign radio stations " were carrying on a disinformation campaign against Cameroon . |
| 15 | Wijeratne said that 35 people had been killed in attacks on July 24-25 on villages near Medawachchiya in the north and Polonnaruwa and Trincomalee in the east . |
| 16 | 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 " . |
| 17 | In all the Group estimated that 300,000 people had served prison sentences of two or more years in East Germany since 1945 . |
| 18 | They must have talked long and hard about their future , and from now on Helen believed that other people would probably regard them as being ‘ engaged ’ — a term she hated because of the overtones of male dominance and female sexual ignorance that went with it . |
| 19 | Provisional figures yesterday from the Department of Transport showed that 4,274 people were killed in 1992 — 6 per cent fewer than in 1991 . |
| 20 | Enterprises began to close for lack of fuel or materials , and officials warned that 35,000 people could be laid off work by the end of the month . |
| 21 | The inexorable course of this colonial war meant that many people in France , especially within the army , were not prepared to entertain anything that entailed France giving up military sovereignty . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Regional news sources estimated that 200 people had been killed and 10,000 made homeless between the beginning of March and the end of April . |
| 24 | The organisers predicted that 130000 people would visit over the whole five days . |
| 25 | Opposition sources claimed that seven people including two children were shot on Nov. 20 . |
| 26 | In addition intelligence figures showed that four people had been killed and 169 injured in attacks on foreigners by neo-Nazis and other right-wing elements in the first eight months of 1991 . |
| 27 | Recently our campaign on mental health problems showed that these people can recover in much the same way as people who have physical health problems . |
| 28 | But the Signpost Hotel Guide survey of 300 hotel owners showed that fewer people are bothering use a false name when they book in for an illicit weekend . |
| 29 | The court thought that these people were dishonest , though reasonable jurors may disagree . |
| 30 | Although the presence of the foreign troops helped to restore calm , official sources said that 117 people had died by Sept. 25 and at least 1,500 had been injured . |