Example sentences of "people were [vb pp] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chamberlains with white wands of office rapped out orders and , until the king and the lord cardinal were settled in their respective rooms , the common people were banished from the corridors and the galleries . |
| 2 | A hundred thousand people were killed from the effects of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima — many of the casualties were children . |
| 3 | More than forty thousand people were moved from the old city centre to make way for the new buildings , but even though stereotyped blocks of flats were put up around the site of the palace and were in many cases completed by the spring of 1988 , they remained empty until after the revolution . |
| 4 | Although more than 450 people were moved from the hotel and up to 50 neighbouring homes were damaged , no-one was seriously injured . |
| 5 | The system was seen as creating dependency in that young people were passed from the hands of one professional to another , pressurised by the demands of each professional discipline , and had their ‘ needs ’ determined by others . |
| 6 | Initially , older people were removed from the community supports which traditionally looked after them and subjected to the rigours of a ‘ work or starve ’ philosophy . |
| 7 | 6 people were removed from the country when they signed a paper agreeing to leave the country voluntarily , however due to the fact that they did not speak English they were unaware of what they were signing . |
| 8 | To prevent these people becoming poor , the post-war welfare reforms enacted a series of national insurance benefits to cover those periods when people were excluded from the labour market — in old age , during sickness or unemployment . |
| 9 | Around 100,000 people were evacuated from the Ukraine and Byelorussia immediately after the disaster , but Byelorussian activists say this was not nearly enough . |