Example sentences of "[prep] [Wh pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In expanding their empire , the British had habitually sought out local agents through whom to impose their authority , and though these arrangements often broke down after the initial period of contact , sometimes they did not . |
| 2 | Between whom does support flow ? |
| 3 | Sometimes this is very sensitive — such as the details of complicated family or personal difficulties , and at other times it is as simple , yet vital , as whom to contact is the Home Help calls and receives no answer to the doorbell . |
| 4 | Many readers will be familiar with both , but I have included the following for those for whom brief easy-to-find summaries will be useful . |
| 5 | As a medium through which to secure your fame and fortune , even those publications for whom discovering new talent is an important role are n't the force they were . |
| 6 | These changes strike at the very base of rugby union football as played for the last 100 years in that a player could play when , where and for whom providing that he paid his subscription before departing from his old club . |
| 7 | There will be a small minority for whom achieving level 1 alone will present longer-term goals , which they work towards through a series of preliminary programmes . |
| 8 | In particular she did so for clients for whom support worker help was envisaged . |
| 9 | Finally , but most importantly , are the clients for whom support workers were employed : 16 in Ipswich and l8 in Newham ( see Table 3.2 ) . |
| 10 | Among the companies which have threatened to cut their operations in the country , or to pull out altogether , are Shell , Dow Chemicals , and the Dutch division of Hoechst , a spokesman for whom said that it would consider moving to " Kazakhstan — where pollution really is a problem " . |
| 11 | These schemes are regarded as models that should be extended to those whose disability is congenital or arises out of non-industrial disease or accident , for whom cover , though recently improved , is still only partial . |
| 12 | Marvin is a Liverpool fan but played for an Everton junior side last season and has still not made his mind up for whom to sign . |
| 13 | In Chapter 1 we pointed out that markets are not the only device by which society can resolve the questions , what , how , and for whom to produce . |
| 14 | They also desired to emulate that other class for whom time and birth had provided legitimacy , and for whom wealth appeared as a natural attribute rather than a possibly transient accretion . |
| 15 | At the close of the eighteenth century , the growing momentum of the industrial revolution and the accompanying development of the factory system as a means of production meant , as Foucault ( 1979 p 150 ) noted , the gradual extension of a wage-earning class in Britain for whom time was money . |
| 16 | The pro-government newspaper Critica Libre additionally identified a former major , Carlos Saldaña , and a former lieutenant , Alcebiades Rodríguez , as fugitive plotters for whom arrest warrants had been issued . |
| 17 | In June Hubert Ingraham , another former minister who had been dismissed in 1984 [ ibid. ] , was elected leader of the opposition Free National Movement ( FNM ) after the death on May 9 , 1990 , of its former leader Sir Cecil Wallace-Whitfield [ for whom see also p. 35373 ] . |
| 18 | Isaac Ojok , a Minister of Education under the Obote regime , was sentenced to death on Dec. 18 , having been found guilty of plotting the downfall of the government of President Yoweri Museveni ; Ojok , who was arrested in 1987 , told the High Court that he joined the Holy Spirit guerrillas after being " stupefied by herbs " given to him by their leader Alice Lakwena [ for whom see p. 35493 ] . |
| 19 | The trustee or personal representative may , inter alia , deal in the securities to which that information relates if his trades are based on the advice of someone who appeared to him to be an appropriate person for whom to seek such advice and who did not seem to him to be prohibited by ss.1 , 2 , 4 , or 5 from dealing . |
| 20 | He was issued with a ‘ Soldier 's Catechism ’ which asked , ‘ What side are you on and for whom do you fight ? ’ |
| 21 | ‘ So , for whom do you produce these avant-garde designs of yours ? |
| 22 | Lastly , of course , you may be one of the lucky ones for whom work after retirement really pays . |
| 23 | Meanwhile , those same gossipers will have found yet some other newcomer about whom to enthuse . |
| 24 | In 1969 , when the Chilean Communist party opted to announce their own presidential candidate in order to force a decision from the other parties in the popular Unity coalition about whom to support , their nominee was Pablo Neruda . |
| 25 | Debtors have difficult choices about whom to pay first ; often they will pay the person at the door at the time . |
| 26 | With LMS , decisions about whom to select for appointment rest with the governing body . |
| 27 | It is not possible to make hard and fast rules about whom to tell , but : |
| 28 | Yet the surviving scores provide little help to a modern impresario trying to figure out whom to hire . |
| 29 | A prominent male interloper is James Clerk Maxwell ( 1831–1879 ) the British physicist after whom has been named Maxwell Montes the tallest mountains on Venus , reaching an altitude of nearly +12 km . |
| 30 | Pain was experienced by 67 per cent of all patients , most of whom experienced more at night , suggesting that a number of apparently ‘ venous ’ ulcers may have a concurrent ischaemic component . |