Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [modal v] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A week later whom should Odets name but Kazan ? |
| 2 | To whom should auditors owe a duty of care ? |
| 3 | The problem was , whom could Napoleon III marry ? |
| 4 | If you are going up to senior positions movement is essential ; even people who may plateau out at middle management will have done a lot of different jobs for three , four , five years . |
| 5 | You shake a sheaf of poems in the face of killers ; you do paintings with Uncle Sam as an anaconda ; and writers talk of five centuries of resistance to oppressors who may change-colonists , missionaries , generals , coke bosses-but whose victims remain the same . |
| 6 | Unlike one of those characters whom Charles Dickens described as taking ‘ Night Walks ’ in The Uncommercial Traveller , the well-to-do , clever , suitably married man who Should society sit by and allow ‘ characters ’ who chose to be loose with their money to get away with it ? |
| 7 | A child who suffers abuse at the hand of a stranger can expect comfort and protection from his or her family ; incest victims often have no-one to whom to turn — those who should support have been the cause of suffering . ’ |
| 8 | The corporation and the rural district council were in dispute about who should rehouse them . |
| 9 | And who should Mr Milburn be but your dear Andrew . |
| 10 | This was the place where he had almost bowled Anna over many months before and where he enjoyed riding the horse at breakneck speed , disregarding anyone else who might chance to be on the path . |
| 11 | ‘ There are now about 500 people alive , ’ says Sotheby 's chief executive officer , Michael Ainslie , ‘ who might fork out more than $25 million for a work of art . ’ |
| 12 | Cutis managing director Roger Curtis said : ‘ We make and provide a particular type of chair but had had difficulty finding a local supplier who could manufacturer them for us . |
| 13 | The girl who could Dream was remote , a fantastical character . |
| 14 | Perhaps the only other Seniors ' player who could stymie a Trevino rampage next year is Jack Nicklaus — if he wants to , that is . |
| 15 | These investors were not rich entrepreneurs who could aford the loss , the court was told , but ordinary savers who wanted , and were promised , a good return on their savings . |
| 16 | Crying out " " Who dare disowne the Pretender ? ! " " … drinking Dr Sacheverell 's health and insulting the Meeting House " . |
| 17 | ‘ Do I look like the sort of person who would glory in anything ? ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Who would Mr Marr 's superior have been when he was in the overseas ministry ? ’ |
| 19 | ‘ For who would babes and bairns distress |
| 20 | At one time , the apple trees were proving a great temptation to young men who would shin over the wall at night . |
| 21 | Enter climber-turned-platform-builder Mark Cole ( opposite ) , who would shin up the chosen tree , attach a climbing rope , and then accompany Mike on each subsequent climb . |
| 22 | His style of preaching contrasted greatly with the average clergyman of the day who would discourse drowsily on the virtues of doing good . |
| 23 | There are a number of people who would Newgate is a sorry hole I hear . ’ |
| 24 | I am certain that your wife is not the only one who would prof it from its wider deployment . |
| 25 | He might radiate power and control but he did n't strike her as the kind of man who would number nursing skills among his repertoire . |
| 26 | They are making their way towards its head , preceded by a domestique who will elbow a path through the bikes . |
| 27 | ‘ With the exception of Orcadai , Suragai and Yoruba the Y'frike , you are the complete assembly of those who will officer the reconnaissance of the Alan country . |
| 28 | Can I , who will second it ? . |
| 29 | A wind of change has been blowing around Windsor Park over the past 12 months and Campbell is now regarded as just another new player who will breeze in . |
| 30 | Unhappily for Fussell , his book 's true usefulness may lie in its future value to trash historians , who will pore ecstatically through the kitsch menus and gruesome adverts he has compiled . |