Example sentences of "people were [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , while 200 years ago people were kidnapped by the fairies , now it 's aliens . |
| 2 | According to António Arragão ( in Subsídios para a História da Cidade do Funchal , 1979 ) , before 1425 a small group of people were living in the area of Santa Maria do Calhau , mainly in single-storey straw-roofed buildings . |
| 3 | More than 500,000 people were voting for the first time . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | In our 1979 main survey , we asked a series of important questions to discover how people were influenced by the disclosure of either APR or the total credit cost , or both , when we asked them to choose between rival credit terms . |
| 6 | Professor T , R. Lee said that people were exercised about the dangers to life from railways when they were new , but they were eventually seen as negligible , with the implication for some that the same sequence would happen with nuclear energy . |
| 7 | The view in this paper is that the sense of disillusionment many people were experiencing during the first year of the war resulted from an over-valuation of man 's nature , and an attempt to deny the reality of death for people one loved . |
| 8 | The fact that fewer people were participating in the ‘ cash ’ economy , since more and more were having their rent , bills etc. paid directly by one public agency to another would also tend to debilitate the private sector , and may have serious social repercussions by producing a culture of dependence , alienation and apathy . |
| 9 | Germany now no longer existed and its remaining people were governed by the four victorious powers — the US , Soviet Union , Britain and France . |
| 10 | Glumdalclitch was crying , and hundreds of people were watching from the garden . |
| 11 | However , eighteen people were killed during the year . |
| 12 | ( A total of 79 people were killed during the 28 years of the wall 's existence , the last in February 1989 ; there were regularly about two escape attempts a week . ) |
| 13 | Early reports suggested that between 100 and 200 people were killed during the invasion , including the Amir 's half-brother , Shaikh Fahd al-Ahmad al Sabah . |
| 14 | The demonstrations were broken up by the security forces and according to unsubstantiated BPP sources some 300 people were killed during the security operation . |
| 15 | They were convicted for a 1986 bombing in which two people were killed at the Wild Coast Sun , a gambling resort overlooking the Indian Ocean . |
| 16 | To this day no one has accurately computed how many millions of people were killed under the rule of Lenin and Stalin . |
| 17 | It said 21 people were killed in the 24 hours to Tuesday morning . |
| 18 | East Germany , together with Czechoslovakia and Bulgaria , condoned the Peking government 's actions in June , when hundreds of people were killed in the crushing of the pro-democracy movement . |
| 19 | Around 200 people were killed in the six weeks of election campaigning , and nearly 200 on the first day of voting . |
| 20 | Fourteen people were killed in the demonstration for the unemployed . |
| 21 | Between 14 and 16 July twenty-two people were killed in the battles between blacks , the police , and the National Guard . |
| 22 | A total of 47 people were killed in the United Kingdom when hurricane-force winds of over 100 mph swept through north-western Europe on Jan. 25 . |
| 23 | At least 20 people were killed in the following two days as the Group of 12 refused to call off the general strike unless Avril left the country . |
| 24 | A further seven people were killed in the province shortly afterwards . |
| 25 | Between Aug. 9 and 13 , 24 people were killed in the Alexandra township of Johannesburg after Inkatha supporters arrived , armed with spears and clubs , to take part in what was billed as a non-political clean-up operation to remove rubbish from the township . |
| 26 | In the worst incident seven people were killed in the eastern Croatian city of Osijek during clashes between JNA/Serbian and Croat forces on March 8 . |
| 27 | 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 ] . |
| 28 | According to diplomatic sources up to 300 people were killed in the violence . |
| 29 | At least 33 people were killed in the Bahamas , Florida ( where the death toll was greatest ) and Louisiana , although the final figure was expected to be higher . |
| 30 | Casualties on the Afghan side were far greater more than a million people were killed in the country as a whole , with the government party and forces sustaining about 70,000 of these losses . |