Example sentences of "[noun] [Wh pn] it " in BNC.

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1 It developed a power which enabled it to ‘ rate cap ’ a group of authorities whom it deemed to be high spenders .
2 Besides which , there are some artists whom it is a pleasure to know even a little better from their letters .
3 Although it will show paintings by Larry Rivers , Alex Katz , Red Grooms , Frank Auerbach and RB Kitaj , it is featuring those Spanish and South American artists whom it represents .
4 As the Minister reconsiders the regular-reserve mix of the Royal Navy , as he promised on 10 December , will he ensure that a proper study of task threats is completed and will he create a supplementary list of personnel whom it is planned to axe until that review of task threats is complete ?
5 The Living Church owed its popularity to the parish priests , the oppressed ‘ white ’ clergy whom it supported , rather than to any enthusiasm amongst the masses .
6 In the case of a request by a person other than an individual natural person that the licensing board shall declare the provisional grant of a licence final , that person shall include in the notice in subsection ( 5 ) above the name of the employee or agent whom it is intended should have the day to day running of the premises , and the board shall not declare the provisional grant final if it finds that the employee or agent so named in the notice is not a fit and proper person to be the holder of a licence .
7 As Coleman discovered later , it was not uncommon for the Justice Department to leave a case dangling over the head of a former government employee whom it wished to intimidate .
8 What is clear is that a business can not claim that its terms were accepted by a trading partner if they were accepted by an employee whom it knows has no authority to accept them .
9 ‘ The constable in certain districts ’ , The Pall Mall Gazette ( 19 February 1901 ) observed , ‘ is apparently looked upon as the common enemy whom it is right to kick and beat whenever that can be done with safety . ’
10 The other member of the school staff was the principal teacher of the remedial department who it was felt would play a key role in Tony 's remaining time at school .
11 but they got jobs , quite good jobs , and the fella who it is employing them , he 's one himself , so he employs that sort of people you see ?
12 Figure who it is , created before the Flood , a mighty creature without flesh , without bone , without veins , without blood , without hands , and without feet …
13 Incidentally , on the next page it carried a demo tape review of an up-and-coming Hull band called The Housemartins whom it dubbed , ‘ Fresh , crisp and spiky . ’
14 To answer that immediate need , the British government has been agonising over how to offer a single tranche of passports , perhaps 100,000 , to Hong Kong , in such a way as to target recipients whom it believes play vital roles in the public and private sector .
15 I told her and mouthed to Nigel who it was , and did he want to speak to her ?
16 They would drink and then her jealousy , usually over his current leading lady whoever it might be , would come to the boil and Bogie would goad her until the bottles were whizzing past his head .
17 And er this bicycle well it would go out of fashion and was put in a , a loft in one of the , it must have changed hands from Mr whom it was made for .
18 It was as though he had an inkling who it would be .
19 ‘ Any ideas who it could be ? ’
20 ‘ Try explaining that on your wedding night , Sally-Anne Tunstall , and tell your husband who it was who was there before him . ’
21 The LJV claimed that Rios was the first name on a " hit list " of 127 public figures whom it considered to be involved in corruption , prominent among whom were former President Jaime Lusinchi and his wife and former secretary Blanca Ibáñez .
22 In August 1988 a number of police officers joined forces to pursue a person whom it was alleged had been driving recklessly .
23 In our opinion , the duty is not simply one to take reasonable care in the abstract , but to take reasonable care not to injure a person whom it should reasonably have been foreseen may be injured by the act or neglect if such care is not taken .
24 The conduct must take place within the hearing or sight of a person likely to be caused the sensations in question ; does this mean that the conduct must actually be seen or heard by the person whom it is intended to offend ?
25 There is evidence from which it appears that the United Nations Organisation considers that there are persons whom it may treat as the representatives of the Republic of Somalia .
26 The vulnerable persons whom it is the aim of the section to protect are precisely those least likely to be prepared to attend court to give evidence , if only for fear of later reprisals .
27 The town 's procurator-fiscal , a lawyer named Sim , was the only other professionally qualified man in the town 's service whom it was thought safe to appoint .
28 Oh it 'll come to me in a minute who it was .
29 So anyway , probably hear a name who it was .
30 Wish fulfilment dreams — they 're the ones where you actually get to catch that partner — useful of course if you had n't previously acknowledged to your waking self who it is you 're pursuing in your unconscious mind !
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