Example sentences of "people who [vb past] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1985 regulations were held to be void as having no statutory authority where their purpose was to force able-bodied young people who lived on supplementary benefit to move from one area to another in search of employment . |
| 2 | At Key Stage 2 , with older pupils , the enquiry can easily be pushed back to the Victorian Age , when pupils are now faced with the " problem " that all the people who lived at that time are now dead . |
| 3 | How the quite respectable people who lived under these conditions managed to bring up families , I shall never know . |
| 4 | This lady has spent many years studying the life of the people who lived in these parts in former times . ’ |
| 5 | A man who wished to resist such turning could insist on keeping to the subject ; and forceful men who had the character of genial good nature could get away with open rebuttal of this kind ; but not all people who interrupted with open rebuttals acquired or maintained that character . |
| 6 | People who had at first seemed so friendly and decent and open and neighbourly , but who , after two or three encounters , had turned into ravingly obsessive lunatics . |
| 7 | These breed clubs have regenerated interest in the people who had for some reason left the breed and have now been asked to return to spread their knowledge to the younger members . |
| 8 | The people who counted in royal politics were those with access to the restricted areas of the court . |
| 9 | When the depression worsened after the Wall Street crash , the fringe voices of ‘ unorthodox ’ economists and politicians were joined by increasing numbers of people who looked to new ways of solving the country 's problems . |
| 10 | He was trained at the École Nationale d'Administration , which is the national administration training school , and in fact at the École Polytechnique as well , which is , so he was one of the few people who went through both the elite training establishments , and he served as a civil servant for a while before turning to political life and getting elected as a Member of Parliament . |
| 11 | During the recent troubles in India , many of the people who came to this country and who said that they were refugees from oppression by the Indian Government were proposing various forms of armed or violent protest against that Government . |
| 12 | I hope those people who came to Ayresome Park tonight enjoyed the game . |
| 13 | All at once , I was in a wild fury of rage : I saw , not Nonni , but all the foolish and ignorant people who seemed at this moment to be conspiring together against all the forces of right and reason to poison and destroy the world . |
| 14 | None of them do , there 's no space for it , but there were twelve other people who died at that same time at Dornhausen , and four more from Dornhausen who died in the Karls Hospital at Bad Schwarzendorn at times later in the day . ’ |
| 15 | The mass graves of about 12,500 people who died from 1945 to 1950 in a Soviet prison camp located at the former Sachsenhausen concentration camp were discovered near the site in September . |
| 16 | We heard , for example , of ‘ precision bombing ’ , but little of the 200,000 people who died in tragic circumstances . |
| 17 | Particularly to people who 'd through that at you , in the campaign . |
| 18 | I mean those horses offered at fifty to one could have been offered at a hundred to one and still the bookies would have finished up ahead , but of course those people those few people who 'd at fifty to one would have one twice as much . |
| 19 | First , the length of time which couples spend in shared accommodation has fallen from an average of almost three years for people who married before 1955 , to around one and a half years for people married in the late 1960s ( p. 12 ) . |
| 20 | This led Asquith to fix a pensionable age of seventy , despite the mass of evidence that must people who survived to old age ceased to be able to support themselves by work in their mid-sixties — sixty-five was the age adopted by most occupational and charitable pension schemes . |
| 21 | Some of the money was raised by local people who contributed to special pool fundraising collections . |
| 22 | This means that migration now has a major impact on population change , even though Ravenstein 's first law is still seen to hold , since Brant ( 1984 ) has shown that of the 9 per cent of people who moved between 1980 and 1981 , a massive 70 per cent moved less than six miles . |
| 23 | Later in the day security forces stormed a candlelight protest march , beating young people who called for peaceful change . |
| 24 | I know of at least 50 people who complained on that one day . ’ |
| 25 | And the place smelled too , of hot bodies , hot electrical equipment , and the fumes of whisky ; not surprising that , considering the amount of the stuff they swallowed during the half-hour he had spent in that crowded room full of people who talked to one another in an incomprehensible private language , and at him as though he were a stupid child when they explained how the program would run . |
| 26 | as er a little little erm er complement to the people who paid for all this , the London Glassworkers ' Company , we put their arms on there . |
| 27 | Mr Greenway praised the ‘ distinguished and courageous ’ Falklands campaign and added : ‘ We had better be careful before we defile the names of people who acted with such valour in the name of the United Kingdom . ’ |
| 28 | He said : ‘ Under normal circumstances claims for compensation would only be considered from people who acted on incorrect advice from my people . |
| 29 | Environment Minister Michael Howard joined thousands of people who participated in one of the 150 walk events organised throughout the country by the Ramblers ' Association for Family Rambling Day . |
| 30 | It opened at three o'clock in the morning , a club purely for hookers and people who worked in other clubs . |