Example sentences of "had [verb] that [adj] people " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Environment Secretary , Michael Heseltine , said that research had shown that many people did not make a connection between environmental problems in general and their own wasteful use of energy at home . |
| 2 | He said the survey , which attracted 499 replies , had shown that some people experienced problems getting into Signor Pepi 's Bar . |
| 3 | Sample surveys had shown that most people who go to the theatre tend to be middle-class and well-educated , but since so few people altogether actually go to the serious theatre there must be many middle-class , well-educated people who are not theatre-goers . |
| 4 | We had observed that older people in the area seemed to die like flies in the winter from heart attacks and cold-related illnesses and we were confident that it was the inside of our houses that were killing them , not the outside . |
| 5 | Mohamed Sahnoun , the UN Secretary-General 's special representative , was quoted on Sept. 4 as saying that the famine , in which relief agencies had estimated that 1,500,000 people faced death , was in fact far worse than had been realised . |
| 6 | The Guardian of May 13 reported that the country 's health directorate had confirmed that 951 people had died from diarrhoea in the previous two weeks , mostly in cyclone-affected areas . |