Example sentences of "the people [verb] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its reporter 's attempts to implement even the most modest of safeguards for the people affected by the proposals , were simply dismissed by the Scottish Secretary , this time wearing the ‘ non-interventionist ’ hat of adjudicator on the inquiry 's finding and recommendations . |
| 2 | Almost a quarter of the people questioned by the Consumers , Association were positively dissatisfied with the service provided by estate agents . |
| 3 | And there 's no difference in the circumstances of the people supplied by the two companies … each company supplies rich and poor alike . |
| 4 | Martin Jackson sat among the people waiting by the arrivals gate and read a journal he 'd picked up at the news-stand . |
| 5 | The people targeted by the Government include the elderly , those with learning difficulties and their carers , the mentally handicapped , and the physically disabled . |
| 6 | In theory , the planned village would absorb the people displaced by the new , more commercial economics of farming ; the population would be kept in the countryside , thereby impeding an early flight from the land . |
| 7 | This is the most progressive outcome to the present situation … the destruction of the machinery of discrimination … the unfreezing of bigotry … the achievement of the utmost degree of civil liberties possible , freedom of political action , an end to the bitterness of social life and the divisions among the people fostered by the Unionists … |