Example sentences of "people were [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if access to the ordinary commercial activity of a shopping precinct were to be blocked for a considerable period at a particularly busy time of day , so that people were prevented from conducting their ordinary business and social affairs , there is a disruption of sufficient significance to warrant the imposition of conditions . |
| 2 | And I know like er there there were lots of things kids there on roller skates going along , walkways , people were shouting at them or you know trying to clear them off . |
| 3 | Because a win here would catapult her into the LPGA 's Hall of Fame , most people were shouting for Sheehan . |
| 4 | By now , other men with microphones were moving among the audience , and so many people were shouting to be heard that George could no longer identify individual speakers as words overleaped one another and blended together into a great cry of confused and frightened protest . |
| 5 | So , while 200 years ago people were kidnapped by the fairies , now it 's aliens . |
| 6 | In 1990 ( 1979 ) , 6079 ( 4678 ) elderly people were enumerated in 241 ( 133 ) establishments , a 30% increase in the numbers of elderly people in residential care and an 82% increase in the number of establishments between 1979 and 1990 . |
| 7 | At least 200 people were believed to be missing after a mudslide on Feb. 27 , 1990 , buried the village of San Miguel de Río Mayo in the northern jungle , 800 km north of Lima , following heavy rains . |
| 8 | The latest official figures ( for 1985 ) released by the Government show that just over 35 per cent of older people were living on incomes at or below the generally accepted Income Support ( then Supplementary Benefit ) poverty line , compared with 10 per cent of people under pension age . |
| 9 | David Blake , of the Woolwich , said one factor hitting the building societies was that people were living on their savings . |
| 10 | The work was heart-breaking because of the shortage of homes and it showed that many old people were living in distress . |
| 11 | There were corporation employees whose first child was born in Belmont while other people were living in ‘ dog boxes ’ . |
| 12 | In 1985 some 60 per cent of older people were living in poverty or on the margins of poverty . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | In 1988 , around 112 million people were living in areas exceeding the ozone standard , almost 30 million in areas violating the carbon monoxide standard , and over 25 million in areas exceeding the fine particulate standard ( figure 8.6 ; table 8.4 ) . |
| 15 | At one end of Fifth Avenue , people were living in rat-infested hovels in conditions only drug pushers want . |
| 16 | Although people were endowed with different abilities and suffered varying degrees of misfortune , capitalism held out the promise that hard work and frugality would lead to increased prosperity for all those who wished to avail themselves of the opportunities it offered . |
| 17 | It was , of course , difficult to estimate the extent to which people were hit by these evolving programmes . |
| 18 | In a renewed upsurge of attacks on tourists by presumed Islamic activists , eight people were hit by automatic weapons fire as a sightseeing bus passed through Qena 400 km south of Cairo en route from Luxor to the Red Sea on Nov. 12 . |
| 19 | We argue that a specific set of widely held images of elderly people were constructed in this period . |
| 20 | one of the reasons for introducing the community charge that and it 's ironic that it was just possible , especially in nineteen erm ninety erm that the community charge was meaning wa was bringing about a change where people were voting on local issues , the prime local issue of course being what would be the level of the , of the community charge . |
| 21 | More than 500,000 people were voting for the first time . |
| 22 | Here was a long-established bastion of English liberty , older than the vote , yet older people were banished from participation . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Well , I went along to Street and this chap was hammering away , and the people were swearing from windows , and I realized the chap was mental . |
| 25 | Over 200 old people were hospitalised for cardiac and respiratory trouble . |
| 26 | This is particularly ironic given that at least three people were hospitalised after taking Ketamine at the same venue . |
| 27 | By manipulating the statistics in various ways , holding one factor constant while varying another , he showed that rates of suicide varied according to the extent to which people were integrated into their social group . |
| 28 | I was constantly hearing that people were reacting to all this technology , expressing a wish to go back to basics with a simple bow , a look at the wind , an arrow loosed into the heavens and a hope that with luck it might hit the target . |
| 29 | Many people were said to said to have lost their nerve in the ‘ catastrophe ’ and in the heat of the moment to have given voice to ‘ comments hostile to the State ’ . |
| 30 | The people were said to be lazy , their manner of living rustic . |