Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [indef pn] [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indomitable Aunt Lou , whom nothing could shake . |
| 2 | Thursday 's The Late Show ( BBC 2 ) was presented by Cynthia Rose , to whom someone should speak about her big , swinging earrings . |
| 3 | Her first two charges were a kitten that had been kicked so hard its front paw was broken and a dog who no-one would taken ‘ because it was so strange-looking . ’ |
| 4 | And watching Gordon Wilson 's maiden speech to the Dublin Senate , one reflected that he is probably the only man in Ulster who is able to announce his intention to talk to the IRA and who no-one would dare to denounce . |
| 5 | The non-profit making body — known as MAS , or Musicians Against Success — was formed by JUNIOR GISCOMBE , THE MEN THEY COULD N'T HANG , an MC who no-one can remember the name of , and DREAM ACADEMY 's lighting man , as a direct response to recent developments in the charts . |
| 6 | Other familiar faces are Stratford Johns , who everyone will remember as Charlie Barlow in Z-Cars , and Victor Spinetti who starred in most of the Beatles films . |
| 7 | Well unfortunately we were scheduled to have a meeting erm something like ten days ago and then two or three of the key people had to drop out so I cancelled the meeting because obviously we want the people there who were going to actually get the thing up and running so that we can formulate a first public meeting and I would like erm , you know , now , to establish a working party but again a number of the people who one would expect to be on it are not here and it 's slightly awkward . |
| 8 | The midnight sum indeed lasted all night , and one scientist became the ghost of the ship , a phantom who one would glimpse briefly only at three or four in the morning . |
| 9 | The only woman in Tim 's early life who anyone can remember is Gillian Malpass — a tall , good-looking brunette who is now a senior editor at the London office of prestigious US publisher Yale University Press . |
| 10 | She was the sort of woman to whom one might bring flowers or round boxes of Turkish Delight or strings of beaded sea-shells . |
| 11 | Plainly , there is therefore an absolute necessity of early identification of all witnesses upon whom one might rely , even if at that stage statements are not taken from them , thus for example , it would be good practice to identify all those persons who witnessed the accident , who were working in the vicinity of the pursuer at the time of the accident , together with those who have a supervisory function , such as Foreman , Supervisors and Shift Managers . |
| 12 | Another point which is not always recognised is that covert research can itself impose severe restrictions on the kinds of questions that one may legitimately ask and the sorts of people to whom one may have access . |
| 13 | This degree of knowledge will not guarantee immunity from mistakes or deceit at the hands of unscrupulous dealers , but it will help to combat the more obvious attempts at misinformation — far more likely than outright deception — and assist in assessing the integrity of any dealer or expert whom one may need to rely on for advice . |
| 14 | For one thing , he did not look the sort from whom one would borrow . |
| 15 | Churchmen , whom one would expect to be most militant about the matter , responded with anything from sceptical but unsurprised indifference to outright endorsement . |
| 16 | For all that , however , friction has been generated , not least within the service where criticism has personally been directed at Cruickshank — and not from health workers and professionals but the very business people brought into the service whom one would have expected to sympathise more with his modus operandi . |
| 17 | There can be little doubt that the orcs entered Middle-earth originally just because the story needed a continual supply of enemies over whom one need feel no compunction- ‘ the infantry of the old war ’ , to use Tolkien 's phrase from ‘ Monsters ’ ( p. 264 ) . |
| 18 | For in a monarchy , as Beethoven remarked of Handel , one knows to whom one must bend the knee . |
| 19 | Anybody to whom one could talk about the place ? |
| 20 | It is all right complaining under the charter to the person who runs the service about which one is complaining as long as there is a further port of call — a further person to whom one can complain . |
| 21 | How does one recognise pain in an adult human with whom one can speak ? |
| 22 | Lone parents , 91 per cent of whom are women , have fewer resources than other families , and the lack of a partner with whom one can share child-rearing responsibilities leaves little time and energy for other forms of care . |
| 23 | Hans Lewy is another scholar with whom one can disagree only at one 's peril , and Hans Lewy maintained in an admirable paper that at least what Josephus quotes is authentic Hecataeus . |
| 24 | If there is a speech therapist treating the client with whom one can discuss the problem , that can be very helpful . |
| 25 | He was a quietly spoken middle-aged man whom anyone would find difficult to remember . |