Example sentences of "people whom [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For Oakeshott , politics is ‘ the activity of attending to the arrangements of a set of people whom chance or choice have brought together ’ . |
| 2 | How could she explain the loathing in Esther Ward 's voice , and the awful contempt in which she held both Richard and Beth … the very people whom Elizabeth idolised ? |
| 3 | The Nazis also pioneered in the field of book destruction in their self-imposed task of reducing the multi-cultural nature of German society by the elimination of that quintessentially literate people whom Stalin referred to as ‘ cosmopolitan elements ’ . |
| 4 | In the USA a loose network of people whom Stevens terms ‘ the neuro-consciousness frontier ’ have continued to systematically explore the effects of mind-altering drugs upon the human psyche . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , this list covers a group of people whom Mrs Whitehouse and the NVALA saw as being in the frontline of the attack on established values . |
| 6 | The number repatriated in this way has amounted to tens of thousands annually since 1980 , when the present rules were instituted — a figure not too far from that of the boat people whom Britain and Hong Kong governments expect to send home to Vietnam . |
| 7 | The number repatriated in this way has amounted to tens of thousands annually since 1980 , when the present rules were instituted — a figure not too far from that of the boat people whom Britain and Hong Kong governments expect to send home to Vietnam . |
| 8 | The society has therefore revised its definition of slavery to include large numbers of people whom William Wilberforce would not have regarded as slaves : bonded labourers , exploited women and children , blacks in South Africa . |
| 9 | He laughed , and Quentin realized that the Dasses ' son was one of the people whom Timothy had had conversations with on the streets of Dynmouth . |
| 10 | These are the very same young people whom advocates of the present law would argue receive its ‘ protection ’ . |
| 11 | Parker turned out out be one of those people whom Glass only saw ‘ through the windows of the clubs I could n't get into . ’ |
| 12 | Mahathir , opening the meeting , denounced the imposition of democratic or human rights conditions , saying that this could have the effect of hurting people whom aid was intended to help . |
| 13 | The people whom Mary came to rule in Scotland were not simply able to rest on their laurels of size , wealth and power , like the French whom she had ruled as queen consort ; nor were they introspective and xenophobic , like the English whom she wanted to rule . |
| 14 | Jobs , as well as grants , were on offer , and people whom Lowe had met before started working there . |
| 15 | We could make it worse by insisting on the sort of minimum conditions put forward by the Labour party , conditions that would disadvantage the very people whom Labour says they are designed to protect . |