Example sentences of "the people [Wh pn] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The men began to wonder if the people whom they had laughed off as superstitious niggers were n't right after all . |
| 2 | Is not it time for the Government to compensate the people whom they damaged in their first Tory recession ? |
| 3 | As you , Sir , will know , in two successive years , I have raised the question of access for Members , which is most important , because it allows us to exercise our right to come here carrying information , messages and representations on behalf of the people whom we represent . |
| 4 | It is an important one , because every aspect of the environment in which we live is of interest to us as individuals and is certainly of interest to the people whom we seek to represent . |
| 5 | They might now begin to turn their minds to the new opportunities that will arise for them , as well as for the people whom we shall seek to represent . |
| 6 | is the right one if one wishes to take into account the ability to pay and the income of the people whom we are taxing . |
| 7 | All that the Bill contains , and the ideology behind it — the values and principles that it espouses — must be rejected tonight in favour of genuine local democracy , and a Labour Government who will implement real policies for the people whom we represent . |
| 8 | I began to reckon up the people whom I knew to be prisoners . |
| 9 | All this had been done and was being done every day all over Europe by the people whom I had found so pleasant and human ever since I had been shot down . |
| 10 | ‘ During the critical 48 hours which preceded 11 a.m. on 3 September 1939 , ’ wrote Joyce , ‘ not one of the people whom I met in Berlin could conceive that Britain would go to war with Germany . |
| 11 | as I say , the majority of the people whom I come in contact with , they 're just people . |
| 12 | I should like to express to the House on behalf of the people whom I represent and my party our deep feeling of revulsion at what has taken place and our deepest sympathy for those who have suffered . |
| 13 | My Lords , before the Noble Lord sits down , perhaps I could ask him to remember , he was saying s how , how splendidly the Lord Chancellor and the Chancellor of the Duchy appointed magistrates and I entirely agree , but they appoint them , not from a list that they 've constructed themselves , they appoint them because the keepers of the roles for respective counties propose names to them which they very carefully er selected by the very special and an an and complicated process of of er of er of of examination of people whose names come forward , I find in my case that only one-third of the people whom I interview for this purpose with my Committee er are the ones which I 've I propose . |
| 14 | There is otherwise a grave danger that the people whom he addresses might well regard the policeman as a rival lout . |
| 15 | The hon. Member for Oldham , West may giggle , but £30,000 is riches beyond the dreams of avarice to many of the people whom he claims to represent . |
| 16 | His mind drifted over the people whom he had heard about for the first time that morning , groping for some sort of perspective . |
| 17 | Such a problem was analysed in M & S Drapers v Reynolds [ 1956 ] 3 All ER 814 when Denning LJ said : I do not … see why the employers should be able to forbid him to call on the people whom he already knew before he worked for them … |
| 18 | Write down a list of the people whom you would want to be with . |
| 19 | They could let conditions worsen ; or they could move power back to national government ; or they could re-organise the electoral boundaries so that the irresponsible Left loses its tight inner urban constituencies ; or they could push power out beyond local government and into the hands of the people whom it is elected to serve . |
| 20 | It can create the opportunity for local management to bring the delivery of health care closer to the people whom it serves , and give it freedom to run its own affairs . |
| 21 | Protection that does not come into effect until half the people whom it is supposed to protect have already disappeared from the scene is hollow protection indeed . |
| 22 | This was a prophet in the old writings of the Jews and er one of their , one of the people who they looked to for wisdom . |
| 23 | cos to be really eager because she said erm that she 'd asked the bloke about staying on permanently and everything and he said that it seemed the people who they were most impress impressed with after Christmas that can stay on permanently so we said on the end , you 've got ta be really eager and everything so she apparently was asking loads of questions |
| 24 | Now their , the prime target , the people who they r they really want to join , I think , are the the poor peasant |
| 25 | So would many of the people who we meet when we read the Bible . |
| 26 | Cos it 's sad in my opinion that going back to where we were several months ago because we set out out to attracting higher quality people paying them more money and we 've come back again to basically seeing the people who we saw in the first instance |
| 27 | okay , again I mean these are things that talk about confirmation I mean quite honestly I 'm I 'd be quite happy if we had offices where people talk to each other ninety per cent of the time rather than send memos and faxes to each other , and on the whole we are really talking about inside the office with the people who we work with I mean obviously clients as well trying to find something different , we tend tend to find that it 's very very easy sometimes to make a phone call it 's much easier to make a phone call and to talk to that person and give them the personal touch . |
| 28 | So , I mean these are the supporters that they , they 've got to sort of focus on erm even i he does say that some of the erm er leaders of the associations are n't actually up to scratch but he says eighty five percent of them are and it would be wrong to attack or to arrest , you know , the other fifteen percent and it 's got to come from their own discipline of the association , you let the movement grow together , do n't try and er become er , you know , resisting forces because er these are the people who we 've got to erm s stay with and to look after , to harness erm to work for and er so that 's basically , is his conclusion . |
| 29 | But in terms of saying there are easy savings to be found in terms of greater efficiencies in this authority I warn you , we are reaching the level unless we actually want in putting a completely unacceptable level of stress on the people who we employ and who universally serve this city very finely and give such a very high level of service . |
| 30 | But it 's the nature of the offence as such that if a soldier is bullied , he 's unlikely if he wants to stay in the Army , to bring it to the attention of the authorities , because he know that afterwards he has then to live with the people who he 's complained about . |