Example sentences of "to whom we " in BNC.
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| 1 | As we enter the darkened cinema it is around 11.30 p.m. and the seats are quickly filling with various rowdies , late-night drinkers and revellers to whom we eagerly add ourselves . |
| 2 | In his book , One Hundred Days in Europe , he wrote : ‘ Our recently naturalized fellow-citizens , of a different blood and different religion , must not suppose that we are going to forget our inborn love for the mother to whom we owe our being . ’ |
| 3 | Could you please let me know where you would like the cheque sent , and to whom we should make it out ? |
| 4 | In our choice of institutions to whom we have sent the tape , we have tried to get as wide a scope of research as possible and have now completed our quota for the pilot . |
| 5 | The ‘ charming and delightful ’ London lawyer grandfather who told stories , or the once stern parent who could find ‘ no limit to his indulgence for his grandchildren ; ’ the weekly visit to a landowning grandfather ‘ to whom we were deeply attached ; ’ the ‘ lengthened visits ’ from ‘ very kind ’ grandparents , or a grandson 's ‘ happiest days ’ , being ‘ thoroughly spoiled ’ in the countryside , are all typical Especially with upper-class families these visits were often directly linked with the handing down of their own distinctive family traditions . |
| 6 | As SHE went to press , the campaign for registration was debated in the House of Lords to whom we sent the results of the SHE survey . |
| 7 | The current list of benefactors , to whom we offer our profound thanks for their continuing support of the IFSCC , are shown below : |
| 8 | A spiritual director is not a problem-solver to whom we run for infallible answers . |
| 9 | Nor is a spiritual director a guru to whom we turn to satisfy our needs for dependence , even though we may recognize the hand of God providing this particular person at this particular time . |
| 10 | Carole Martin and their assistant have been killed in a car crash and this has been the final straw for owner Trevor Martin , to whom we offer our condolences . |
| 11 | ‘ And now ’ , she said , ‘ I must propose a special vote of thanks to Mr Barker to whom we all owe so much . ’ |
| 12 | Almighty and eternal God , to whom we |
| 13 | But the style is sometimes so impressionistic that we lose track of which island we are on , and to whom we are talking . |
| 14 | We are told the way in which MPs have voted on certain controversial cross-party issues such as abortion and hanging ; we are given the names of those to whom we must say farewell and those we should welcome , but no details whatsoever as to the make up the corps of MPs ' secretaries , that body of sirens from whom the more susceptible among us should be protected . |
| 15 | Is it not Lord Lane to whom we should direct our innermost yearnings ? |
| 16 | One powerful source of fresh blood came from new men to whom we shall return , the Sussex ironmasters , like the Bowyers of Cuckfield who disputed so effectively with Bishop Curteys . |
| 17 | He had also enjoyed a longer life than his father ; his younger brother Benjamin , to whom we now turn , was not to be so lucky . |
| 18 | Now , he thought , there is none to whom we may entrust a message . |
| 19 | We alter our language according to whom we are talking to , what we are writing about , whether it is for social , transactional or literary purposes , and so on . |
| 20 | The only person to whom we can give any credence is Manningham ; doubtless any delay in embalming the body was caused by Cecil 's dilemma whether to obey the late Queen 's wishes or not . |
| 21 | And because this phrase has been much abused and misunderstood , it may be useful at this point to refer back to Erikson , to whom we owe it in the first place . |
| 22 | They have indeed been confirmed by others such as Abrams and Marsden ( 1986 ) , and most recently , by Lewis and Meredith ( 1988 ) ( to whom we refer later ) . |
| 23 | ‘ The gentleman to whom we turn when one of our patients , or staff , turns into an acute manic . |
| 24 | And what is more , I might never ever have to look at German again except on a menu in a restaurant on the Rhine where we might go , like other people do , for a real holiday instead of borrowing mildewed cottages and cardboard holiday-houses from people to whom we than have to be disproportionately grateful . |
| 25 | Perhaps it is not surprising that , without exception , the professionals to whom we talked stated emphatically that their overriding concern was to act in the interests of their child clients . |
| 26 | The ever-present anthropologist to whom we owe this quotation ( Penny Wright ) was told : ‘ Just as native doctors here meet in the witch bush to find new medicines , scientists in your place meet in their witch bush to invent new things . |
| 27 | We welcome disabled visitors to whom we offer excellent purpose-built accommodation with parking adjacent to all rooms . |
| 28 | Alvin Toffler is an old hero of mine — a warrior in the cause of future thought — a role model to whom we mere mortal businesspeople could possibly aspire , and about whose bank balance we could certainly dream . |
| 29 | Not that the Webbs , to whom we must first turn for an authoritative opinion , think that well of him . |
| 30 | While the reorganisation of the schools in the area acted as some kind of distraction , staff to whom we spoke were confident that committee members maintained their commitment and interest in the library project throughout a difficult period . |