Example sentences of "[adj] people were [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Were you aware were you aware then at that time that although people were generally poor in in in the area , that some people were suffering the consequences of being in debt more than others , or being poor more than others ? |
| 2 | Declaring himself ‘ deeply troubled ’ by the rise — from 264kgs last year to 392kgs so far this year — he said some people were underestimating the problem because there had not yet been an influx of misusers to drugs clinics . |
| 3 | One widow and four unmarried people were sharing the little house , and still they had to find room for the customers who wanted an ounce of tobacco or a portion of snuff . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | If only more people were questioning the Government . |
| 6 | About 1,700 people were watching the weekend display at an 11th-century castle at Pevensey , Sussex . |
| 7 | The decapitated bodies of 33 people were recovered the following day ; most reports gave a death toll of at least 36 , but cited a survivor as stating that 85 had died . |
| 8 | As I understand it , disabled people were using the Friends Meeting House for their meetings , but with the pedestrianisation they ca n't very well get their vehicles along during the day . |
| 9 | A state of emergency was declared but at least another 40 people were killed the following day . |
| 10 | The appetite for travel tales was insatiable at a time when so many young people were taking the chance of good fortune in lands newly opened up , often in aided emigration schemes such as Kingston himself administered . |
| 11 | There 's a proof because so if two people were contemplating the proof of the infinity of primes they would n't be going about it in different ways , erm , if they 're contemplating the proof , they 'd be contemplating exactly the same steps in the same order . |
| 12 | Even after the reform of the divorce laws in 1857 , most working-class people were denied the possibility of easy divorce ; in the 1900s petitions for divorce from the working class were still extremely rare , largely because of the cost . |