Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That track might have been the boundary of the world for some villagers , most of whom rarely ventured beyond their nearest market town . |
| 2 | In the end , it worked out very much better than expected , essentially because the two companies had outstanding chief executives , both of whom eventually succeeded me as chairman . |
| 3 | He was Arthur Wharton , a Jamaican about whom little recorded evidence exists apart from his sprinting achievements . |
| 4 | I did so erm partly because this seems the most useful approach for an audience , not all of whom perhaps have read in detail the fifteen volumes of À la Recherche du Temps Perdu , erm and partly because he in fact offers a very interesting challenge , I think , at this precise level . |
| 5 | It was a disappointing performance by the Bears for whom only Mark Lemon and the determined Odom took the chequered flag . |
| 6 | Take the case of the thirteenth Earl Ferrers , a man to whom all drinking folk have reason to be grateful . |
| 7 | The son on whom all depends is still not conceived . |
| 8 | that disputes will be settled by the witness ( grandmother ) , whom all agree to be objective and fair-minded . |
| 9 | As the person through whom all orders for purchases from project grants must pass , this is clearly a key position in the project 's structure . |
| 10 | ‘ Praise ye the Lord to whom all praise is due . |
| 11 | At the Council of Arminium forty-five years later , there were four British bishops , one of whom apparently paid his own way — which would seem to indicate some degree of prosperity . |
| 12 | She says she was taken to the Plaza Hotel , to a party where Hoover sat in a fine black frock and insisted on being called ‘ Mary ’ ; after a while , he retired to the bedroom to be petted by two bought boys , one of whom prudently wore rubber gloves . |
| 13 | I have worked with a cook , a caretaker , a community policeman , a coach driver and an athletics coach — all of whom greatly enjoyed taking part in our drama and working with the children . |
| 14 | It hoped that the involvement of neutral states like Austria , Sweden and Switzerland — all of whom obviously did not see membership as compromising their neutrality — would persuade the Soviet Union that the new association was sufficiently politically innocuous for Finland to be able to join it in the not too distant future . |
| 15 | Between 1945 and 1985 , 3700 students graduated from ENA most of whom successively occupied top civil service positions in the governance of the nation , the regions , and the ‘ departements ’ ( counties ) . |
| 16 | Despite the many difficulties which would have to be faced in consolidating the hospitals only two of the twenty-four members of staff whom Best interviewed felt that there was little value in taking the study further : ‘ Rather the majority felt that the integration of Goodmayes and Claybury represented a tangible , largely desirable and far from impossible objective to achieve ’ . |
| 17 | Nearer to Christmas time they are supplemented by college and older school students , some of whom already work in the store on late night shopping evenings or at the weekend . |
| 18 | Tim Albery 's production takes this weird eighteenth-century fantasy of nobles , bourgeois , and servants , all of whom finally settle for marrying their own class , and instils it with Fuselian surrealism . |
| 19 | You suggest , in effect , that for some reason it is justifiable for boat owners who , after all , must have some financial resources to have acquired a permanent mooring in the first place , to be supported by ordinary countrywide residents , many of whom genuinely have little or no financial resources and who could not care less about a handful of sailors . |
| 20 | Eventually perhaps , but a Senate hearing on June 22 on the proposal drew only two Senators , one of whom quickly departed for another engagement . |
| 21 | And the modern art in my cellar areas is chiefly given over to the discovery of fresh talent and new Bristol artists , some of whom still attempt the famous perspectives of the Gorge and the Bridge . |
| 22 | Now an acting sergeant , he had a platoon of forty men to prepare for battle , all of whom still came under the overall command of Captain Trentham , who had n't been seen since the day Tommy had been released . |
| 23 | But while it was being chopped down the Collector and his men had emptied their guns into the hacking sepoys , and the door had become tightly jammed with the dead , many of whom still had bayonets wedged in their lifeless hands . |
| 24 | On the other hand , when they got the chance , they drank more than was good for them , and they all smoked , either surreptitiously or openly , depending on where they were and the various fashions in tolerance among their parents , some of whom still smoked cannabis to the scorn of their offspring . |
| 25 | Applying environmental laws is up to Spain 's regional governments , most of whom still think of emission standards as how fast building permits are issued . |
| 26 | To the amazement of suburbanites ( many of whom once lived in the city ) , Detroiters continue to re-elect politicians who are less than squeaky clean . |
| 27 | Nor is it intended to overlook the existence in the councils of state and elsewhere of men to whom any loosening of the reins was wholly repugnant . |
| 28 | Head Office Branch Claims , to whom any claim in excess of the branch handling limit is reported , will advise the appropriate department of any claims where the retention is exceeded . |
| 29 | Some have been able to introduce charges for particular tourist attractions , but a large number still depend on the good will of visitors , too many of whom studiously ignore the collection box . |
| 30 | He could fill a car-boot after any show with bumph given to him by exhibitors , none of whom ever seemed to ponder the consequences of encouraging copycat technology . |