Example sentences of "which [vb past] [conj] [adj] people " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The author cited psychological books , which claimed that black people were intellectually inferior on average to white people : ‘ Read The Inequality of Man by H.J. Eysenck , Professor of Psychology at the University of London for the facts here . ’ |
| 3 | The incident , which happened while several people including children were milling around the van , is being treated by police as attempted murder . |
| 4 | The incident , which happened while several people including children were milling around the van , is being treated by police as attempted murder . |
| 5 | Though Booth 's study did produce categories of poverty which showed that many people who were in employment were still below the poverty line , and Rowntree 's work was memorable , not only for the detailed way in which he examined the financial needs of households , but also for his concepts of ‘ primary ’ and ‘ secondary ’ poverty and the ‘ poverty cycle ’ . |
| 6 | We referred to the 1992 NOP survey which indicated that 13,000,000 people wished to relocate to a rural area , and that this created a powerful demand which would be difficult to satisfy even if the provision of housing was completely unconstrained . |
| 7 | During the nineteenth century , as more people survived their last child leaving home , it became a particularly important form of support , with perhaps a quarter of working-class older people in some towns taking in boarders : a pattern which persisted until young people began to marry much earlier in the 1950s , setting up on their own instead — and leaving more of the old on their own . |
| 8 | The idea that older people should leave the labour force at some point gained ground in the earlier part of the twentieth century with the popularity of ideas about scientific management , which implied that older people were bound to be inefficient workers . |
| 9 | Yidana had reported the results of his investigation to a Special Investigations Board , which concluded that 10 people should be prosecuted for murder , including the head of National Security . |
| 10 | Portuguese Radio International reported on April 15 that the inquiry report was identical to the preliminary report issued in December 1991 , which concluded that 50 people were killed in the incident and that troops had reacted to the demonstration with excessive force [ see p. 38677 ] . |