Example sentences of "people were [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | About 20 other people were denied a vote through a ‘ computer error ’ . |
| 2 | Even after the reform of the divorce laws in 1857 , most working-class people were denied the possibility of easy divorce ; in the 1900s petitions for divorce from the working class were still extremely rare , largely because of the cost . |
| 3 | About 1,700 people were watching the weekend display at an 11th-century castle at Pevensey , Sussex . |
| 4 | Egyptian security forces have cracked down with increasing force on the group , and a week ago 23 people were killed a week ago when police stormed a mosque crowded with militants in Aswan and raided eight apartments in Cairo . |
| 5 | A state of emergency was declared but at least another 40 people were killed the following day . |
| 6 | People were using the bottle and litter banks and it was a pity they were often left in need of emptying . |
| 7 | As I understand it , disabled people were using the Friends Meeting House for their meetings , but with the pedestrianisation they ca n't very well get their vehicles along during the day . |
| 8 | As he well knew , the people were cheering the symbol rather than the man . |
| 9 | Mr Brown said that in some areas 1,000 people were chasing every vacancy — ‘ the real national lottery ’ . |
| 10 | AMV identified the fact that not enough business people were reading the magazine . |
| 11 | People were fastening a rope to the ring . |
| 12 | He 'd known Taylor had the plague , but had n't realized people were counting the days to his demise . |
| 13 | It , it , it just went on for a lit a short time afterwards but er , but when the war ended course things , some things changed pretty rapidly as you can appreciate but , but by this time I , I was working for Ellwells then on long distance transport and we used to have to go and fetch tractors or bulldozers that had got armour plating on from Dagenham docks and bring them up here and start selling them to civic contractors and the , the Americans were selling a lot of equipment as well at end of the war , and I saw money made overnight like , people were buying the lorries and putting them on the road you know for work and transport firms and all that and they were getting some of them for next to nothing |
| 14 | We were very quiet because some people were taking a nap . |
| 15 | The appetite for travel tales was insatiable at a time when so many young people were taking the chance of good fortune in lands newly opened up , often in aided emigration schemes such as Kingston himself administered . |
| 16 | ‘ I ca n't single out any bad ones in particular — they all performed more or less the same — but a lot of people were taking an extra day , guaranteeing 48 hours and taking 72 hours . |
| 17 | There was to be a very full programme of lectures on the Saturday , and a formal dinner , so no doubt people were getting a good night 's sleep in readiness . |
| 18 | You know both sides were very happy you know it was up with the company or down with the company you know , and I think certainly the younger lads sort of saw it as an infringement upon their future , you know we 've all got mortgages and the o older men who 'd been working since the quarry started you know were gon na see a drop in their standard of living , so I think you know people were getting a bit upset you know that a n a new fella h a new face had come in , and all of a sudden you know changes were being made that were gon na hurt everybody financially . |
| 19 | One widow and four unmarried people were sharing the little house , and still they had to find room for the customers who wanted an ounce of tobacco or a portion of snuff . |
| 20 | But the increase in crime became a subject of hot debate when the area 's MP Derek Foster said people were expressing a loss of confidence in the police . |
| 21 | It was not as though other people were speaking a foreign language , but rather as though they were using the English language as the basis of a code to which I had somehow lost the key . |
| 22 | People were cursing the Greenhouse Effect and swearing that it had put paid to surf in Hawaii for all time . |
| 23 | A report in October 1989 said that many people were leaving the social work profession : low morale , increased pressure and poor pay all contributed to this exodus . |
| 24 | that people were leaving the country. , my friend wrote to my niece in One House and asked her if I could live with her until I got fixed up in a home . |
| 25 | As other forms of control and influence , such as that of the lower clergy , diminished , the people were given a space in which to make their own culture . |
| 26 | More important , support for the League would be maximized if people were given the opportunity to support it without supporting war . |
| 27 | People were sitting the main point of the chair is is to enable you to write and it 's actually very satisfactory to write in , it 's just the right height . |
| 28 | Were you aware were you aware then at that time that although people were generally poor in in in the area , that some people were suffering the consequences of being in debt more than others , or being poor more than others ? |
| 29 | So a mass suicide had erm you know the people were planning a mass suicide in the first few days of the siege . |
| 30 | Two hundred young people were set a challenge — put on a full-scale opera , using nothing but rubbish to make the props and scraps of material to create the costumes . |