Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] [Wh pn] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Try smaller local companies who might benefit from some publicity or for whom you could attract extra business or perhaps create an enduring and prestigious work of art . |
| 2 | However , the proportions for whom the general practitioner was described as reluctant to visit , or for whom it was felt it would have been helpful if the doctor had visited the person who died more often , did not vary significantly between the groups . |
| 3 | This was required by the SIB in order to protect customers of smaller firms , which might need to rely on the larger firm with or through whom they are dealing ( although it is doubtful that a small securities firm should trade in complicated derivatives at all if it does not have the necessary expertise ) . |
| 4 | There were letters to write , interviews to give , meetings with eminent writers whose work he might never have read or of whom he had no very high opinion , and of course the official round of duties : a speech at the Alliance Française on 19 January , and another at a lunch of the Anglo-Swedish society two weeks later . |
| 5 | In all the years I have been practising , and among all the hypnotherapists whom I know or of whom I have read , I have never heard of any individual suffering any side-effects at all — except positive ones . |
| 6 | Women 's claims to maintenance , however , are still derived less from their labour-market activities or the state and more from the men to whom they are married ( or with whom they cohabit ) . |
| 7 | If we can direct the insured to a contractor/retailer we recommend or with whom we have a discount arrangement . |
| 8 | Takahashi is one of those people I loved on sight , or with whom I just wanted to go to bed , but denied myself the opportunity , thus leaving them forever desirable in my memory . |
| 9 | I would suggest that we aim , following a discussion with you , to eliminate those who are unable to match your price expectations or with whom you are uncomfortable and select the preferred bidder during the week commencing [ date ] . |
| 10 | I never knew to whom Jean-Claude spoke or with whom he made rendezvous . |
| 11 | " Family " in this context includes any person who has parental responsibility for the child or with whom he is living ( s17(10) ) . |
| 12 | This is simply saying that each market participant , in laying his buying or selling plans , must pay careful heed not only to the prospective decisions of those to whom he hopes to sell or from whom he hopes to buy — as an implication of the latter — also to the prospective decisions of others whose decisions to sell or to buy may compete with his own . |
| 13 | And as the market process unfolds , with one period of market ignorance followed by another in which ignorance has been somewhat reduced , each buyer or seller revises his bids and offers in the light of his newly acquired knowledge of the alternative opportunities which those to whom he may wish to sell , or from whom he may wish to buy , can expect to find available elsewhere in the market . |
| 14 | I do not know the name , or from where he comes , or from whom he comes . |
| 15 | It does n't matter what school you went to or to whom you are related . |
| 16 | He also suggested that quite apart from the accountant 's employer or client , he owed a duty to any third person to whom he shows the accounts or to whom he knows the employer will show the accounts with a view to persuading that person to invest or take some other action . |
| 17 | She had no idea what the MI5 man was aiming to do , or to whom he owed his ultimate loyalty — except himself . |
| 18 | The second letter is difficult to place since Leapor is responding to a gentleman whose comments on her work are relayed by someone else , or to whom she refers in the third person for reasons of politeness . |
| 19 | Oriental rugs can also be split into four broad categories which relate to their overall characteristics and appearance , rather than to where or by whom they were made . |
| 20 | On the other hand , certain of our major retailers ( e.g. Marks and Spencer ) are commonly thought of as models of efficiency , and their ‘ own brands ’ command widespread respect — the typical consumer does not think twice about which factory or by whom they are made . |
| 21 | It is a relief to know that the police , at least , were sufficiently attuned to the realities of contemporary social research to drop charges even if a nagging doubt remains as to how or by whom they were set on to the investigators . |
| 22 | For ethical reasons , no social researcher should expose respondents to that possibility , and others over whom this threat does not hang or by whom it is treated lightly , such as ex-policemen and women or disgruntled members of the force , are too unrepresentative to give a balanced view of policing Therefore , it was necessary to undertake an overt study and to obtain permission for the research from the Chief Constable . |
| 23 | Like every abbot or bishop , he was clothed in the persona of the saint to whom his church was dedicated or by whom it was founded . |
| 24 | . And erm she goes oh sh he knows your reputation , I mean he not , maybe not by face but erm but he 'll know you , you know , just , he 'll know your reputation or by who you hang around with , I went I 've never done |
| 25 | Everything depends upon the situation in which talk and theorizing takes place , and between whom it is created , and what it is about . |
| 26 | Of its contents he retained only the haziest notion ; and he explained that he would have been reluctant to contribute to such a volume — his Second Thoughts on Humanism , published a year earlier , had consisted of a devastating criticism of the editor — save that it represented a tribute to Irving Babbitt , whom he had always revered as one of his masters and about whom he felt that his early criticism had been misunderstood , not least by Babbitt himself . |
| 27 | The database would see the same data differently — as a series of database tables comprising highly structured social profiles of the people with whom Hamilton came into contact and about whom he wrote . |
| 28 | Then we bring before Him our needs , hold before Him those whom we love and for whom we have a concern . |
| 29 | A couple of hours later , when the awkwardnesses had receded and giggling and fidgeting had given way to my acceptance as part of the furniture , they were engaged in an enthusiastic frank exchange about the qualities of teachers whom they had liked , whose lessons they had enjoyed and for whom they were prepared to concede the comment : ‘ Mr So and So was decent — yeah , well decent , were n't he Sue ? ’ |
| 30 | They could therefore intercede with him for the living , to whom they might appear , and for whom they might still work miracles . |