Example sentences of "whom [pers pn] is " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the Dorrits come into their fortune Mr Plornish is found ‘ a small share in a small builder 's business ’ , and Mrs Plornish is established ‘ in the small grocery and general trade in a snug little shop at the crack end of the Yard ’ , where she is joined by her poor father , Old Nandy , to whom she is devoted , and assisted by Maggy . |
| 2 | When she first begins to talk , she uses two different types of speech : egocentric speech , a kind of monologue , when she chatters on without bothering to know whom she is speaking to or even whether they are listening ; and socialized speech , a sign of growing maturity and decentring , when she tries to carry on a conversation , reacting to what the other person says . |
| 3 | In such a situation , her egg could be fertilized by her husband 's sperm in vitro , and the fertilized egg be implanted in the uterus of another woman , who will bear the child , to whom she is not genetically related . |
| 4 | She is expected to obey her husband without question and must never appear unveiled to any man to whom she is not related . |
| 5 | The singer would show the same sort of decisiveness when she left Ton Ton Macoute and headed for London , where she and husband John Reynolds , from whom she is now separated , set up home with their baby son Jake . |
| 6 | All these competencies are related to the care of the particular type of patient with whom she is likely to come in contact when registered in that part of the Register for which the student intends to qualify . |
| 7 | Her patients , whom she is far too much of a professional nurse to regard as anything but patients , married couples with children of Dickie 's age , married G.P.s , and your little boyfriends , Jo . |
| 8 | She found those who had fled from Re 's anger in the desert and killed very many of them , thus gaining the name of Sekhmet , the lioness goddess of war , with whom she is here identified . |
| 9 | So often her only resource is tears , and those tears will more likely arouse panic rather than understanding from the man with whom she is trying to communicate . |
| 10 | It occurs in Hesione , Act 2 , scene 3 , Act 3 , scene 4 , and Act 4 , scene 3 , as Venus repeatedly tries to place Anchises , with whom she is unrequitedly in love , under her spell . |
| 11 | ( ii ) If the wife becomes entitled to the whole house and requests that the matrimonial home be conveyed or transferred to herself and her " new husband " ( to whom she is not married ) , is the wife making a gift for inheritance tax purposes to the " new husband " ? ( iii ) The Inland Revenue capital gains tax concession mentioned in Chapter 2 may not be available ( on a strict interpretation of its wording ) to the former husband if he conveys or transfers his interest in his former principal private residence to someone other than his spouse or ex-spouse. ( iv ) A conveyance to someone other than a party to the marriage will not attract the stamp duty relief of s83 of the Finance Act 1985 , ( see p22 ) but if it is a voluntary disposition , exemption L of The Stamp Duty ( Exempt Instruments ) Regulations 1987 ( SI No 516 ) ( Chapter 2 ) will apply . |
| 12 | Perhaps the Egyptian goddess after whom she is named was watching over her — but she herself attributes her escape from serious injury entirely to Medau . |
| 13 | Simple statements , questions and commands should be introduced early because of the student 's immediate need of communication with the people among whom he/she is living . |
| 14 | Our fifth type must therefore be the traditionalist , for whom it is a pleasure to find the past living on in the present . |
| 15 | Besides which , there are some artists whom it is a pleasure to know even a little better from their letters . |
| 16 | Elsewhere Salim separates himself from the doers and makers of the big world beyond him , of whom it is said : ‘ They 're making cars that will run on water . ’ |
| 17 | There are those for whom it is not Jewish to speak in this way about Israel . |
| 18 | possess any secret official code word , or password , or sketch , plan , model , article , note , document or information which relates to or is used in a prohibited place or anything in such a place , or which has been made or obtained in contravention of this Act , or which has been entrusted in confidence to him by any person holding office under Her Majesty or which he has obtained or to which he has had access owing to his position as a person who is or has been employed under a person who holds or has held such an office or contract — [ and who ] ( a ) communicates the code word , pass word , sketch , plan , model , article , note , document , or information to any person other than a person to whom he is authorised to communicate it , or a person to whom it is in the interest of the State his duty to communicate it , or ( aa ) uses the information in his possession for the benefit of any foreign power or in any other manner prejudicial to the safety or interests of the State , or ( b ) retains the sketch , plan , model , article , note , or document in his possession or control when he has no right to retain it or when it is contrary to his duty to retain it , or fails to comply with all directions issued by lawful authority with regard to the return or disposal thereof , or … |
| 19 | The congestion caused by their hurried , and sometimes vengefully random , parking is a source of great aggravation to Prague 's citizens , for whom it is a major talking point of the emigration crisis . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | To enter you must ring a bell , which sounds like a fire alarm and summons the Securicor men who guard the building and whom it is a criminal offence to ‘ obstruct in execution of the Immigration Act ’ . |
| 22 | This need not matter but the following advice is aimed at those for whom it is an inconvenience . |
| 23 | The broken , Monkish phrases , lean , understated tone with a faint quaver to it , and unerring sense of placement are to be heard on five Monk tunes , and the trumpeter , Don Cherry — a musician of whom it is distinctly difficult to say you know what is coming next — is available on some of them . |
| 24 | Its undemanding vocabulary and flat rhythms seem suited to the very young , for whom it is unnecessarily long , yet a five year old , who would still delight in the pictures , would be disappointed by its lack of wit and thin story . |
| 25 | The council expects its censure or serious criticism ‘ to discredit editors and journalists at whom it is aimed and to be weighed by their employers ’ . |
| 26 | Fannie Mae is hardly a household name outside Washington , where it lobbies fiercely , and Wall Street , for whom it is a big client . |
| 27 | A slow-minded or busy person can be thankful that the Bible ‘ contains so perfect a body of ethics that reason may be excused from the enquiry ’ , but the position of those to whom it is unavailable is not entirely happy . |
| 28 | A firm is not in England a legal personality distinct from its members , though in Scotland a firm is a legal person distinct from the partners of whom it is composed ( partnership Act 1890 , s. 4 ) . |
| 29 | Seek not after new light for the searching into the private records of God … the event is registered in heaven , and we can expect no other certain notice of it , but that it shall be given to them for whom it is prepared by the Father of mercies . ’ |
| 30 | a requirement or condition which he applies or would apply equally to a man but — ( i ) which is such that the proportion of women who can comply with it is considerably smaller thin the proportion of men who can comply with it , and ( ii ) which he can not show to be justifiable irrespective of the sex of the person to whom it is applied , and ( iii ) which is to her detriment because she can not comply with it . |