Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] [conj] [adj] people " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Financial Times of Nov. 22 reported that 17 people had been killed since the outbreak of disturbances in late October . |
| 2 | This assumed that young people embarked upon a particular ‘ career ’ because they had ‘ chosen ’ it : that it was a product of their own internal decision-making processes . |
| 3 | One answer was that the riots in 1980 in Bristol followed by others in Toxteth , Moss Side and Handsworth in 1981 and Tottenham , Handsworth and Bristol in 1985 showed that young people could be a very real threat to the social order as well as just a symbolic one . |
| 4 | These arose because different people saw the movement from different perspectives . |
| 5 | However , the People 's Daily of Nov. 11 noted that some people did not have " a good understanding " of the need for austerity measures , and that such an attitude should be " resolutely rectified " . |
| 6 | Official statistics released on April 17 showed that 2,188 people , of whom the overwhelming majority were Serbs , had emigrated from Kosovo during 1989 . |
| 7 | Some 200 people in possession of pamphlets calling for a multiparty political system were reported to have been arrested in recent weeks around the country ; the human rights organization Amnesty International said that many people working in companies with facsimile transmission machines capable of receiving opposition literature printed abroad were among those detained . |
| 8 | A report in the Guardian of Oct. 6 stated that 24 people had been killed in the state on the previous day , taking the October toll to 122 and the total for 1990 to 3,550 [ for previous report on Punjab violence see p. 37611 ] . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The Interior Ministry hinted at " foreign " instigation of the disorder and on June 8 confirmed that eight people placed under house arrest on June 5 in connection with the riots included Djibril Ould Abdallahi ( Interior Minister until early 1990 ) and a former Rural Development Minister Messaoud Ould Boukheir . |
| 11 | A report in October 1989 said that many people were leaving the social work profession : low morale , increased pressure and poor pay all contributed to this exodus . |
| 12 | Research concluded in the USA in August 1989 suggested that some people who are infected with HIV , and are well , have a smaller chance of developing illnesses with at least one year 's treatment with zidovudine . |