Example sentences of "to [Wh pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This brings with it the corollary that it is not always apparent whether the beliefs he expresses are Ackroyd 's or those of the writer to whom he is exposed , or both . |
| 2 | The journalists to whom I am referring can more solemnly be said to be practising a modern art of indirection , of the unintelligible and the interminable . |
| 3 | Two of the several names owned by another recipient had strayed into someone 's word-processor to create a further deserving don , the knowing reference to whom must have ruined the new year for more than one senior scholar . |
| 4 | In the fine and fairly straight title-story of the first collection , a well-to-do Jewish family expels a poor boy to whom they feel they have been ‘ nice ’ and who has repaid them by sleeping with their daughter . |
| 5 | There are times when his world can appear to consist of Jews and of those to whom a Jew might wish to escape — such as America 's well-heeled Wasps , or the semi-imaginary anti-Semites of Gloucestershire who figure affluently in The Counterlife . |
| 6 | If you were to tell me that there are people , like the man upstairs to whom you now threaten to turn yourself in , who actually do have a strong sense of themselves , I would have to tell you that they are only impersonating people with a strong sense of themselves — to which you could correctly reply that since there is no way of proving whether I 'm right or not , this is a circular argument from which there is no escape . |
| 7 | This kind of thing has been said about Hamlet , to whom , as I say , Kelman alludes , and more than alludes . |
| 8 | To whom should I complain ? |
| 9 | This would mean containing within their state one million persons to whom such a national identity would be totally antithetical . |
| 10 | The system manager would also be the contact to whom the supplier would turn when arranging suitable dates for updating software , for example , and other maintenance work . |
| 11 | Sir Kenneth Newman , to whom the report was presented , candidly admitted he would not have commissioned it in the first place ( it was commissioned by his predecessor , Sir David McNee ) , while the official Police Federation magazine ( Police , December 1983 ) concluded in an editorial : |
| 12 | And although always implied rather than broadcast , this rejection of intellectualism is so well understood throughout the service that it has even affected those to whom Bramshill scholarships to University have been offered , and many turn them down . |
| 13 | When Sarah McCabe ( 1980 ) queried the logic of why just one police system should be entrusted with the control of crime , law , order , and social assistance , pointing out , ‘ there is some disagreement about the use of the criminal law — unease about control of the streets … [ which poses the question ] who will be controlled and [ who will be ] assisted ’ , she found the tenor of her ‘ thoughtful and moderate examination of the police role … was too much for the senior officers to whom it was presented , and they set out to discredit it with a will ’ ( Greenhill 1981 : 98 ) . |
| 14 | possess any secret official code word , or password , or sketch , plan , model , article , note , document or information which relates to or is used in a prohibited place or anything in such a place , or which has been made or obtained in contravention of this Act , or which has been entrusted in confidence to him by any person holding office under Her Majesty or which he has obtained or to which he has had access owing to his position as a person who is or has been employed under a person who holds or has held such an office or contract — [ and who ] ( a ) communicates the code word , pass word , sketch , plan , model , article , note , document , or information to any person other than a person to whom he is authorised to communicate it , or a person to whom it is in the interest of the State his duty to communicate it , or ( aa ) uses the information in his possession for the benefit of any foreign power or in any other manner prejudicial to the safety or interests of the State , or ( b ) retains the sketch , plan , model , article , note , or document in his possession or control when he has no right to retain it or when it is contrary to his duty to retain it , or fails to comply with all directions issued by lawful authority with regard to the return or disposal thereof , or … |
| 15 | possess any secret official code word , or password , or sketch , plan , model , article , note , document or information which relates to or is used in a prohibited place or anything in such a place , or which has been made or obtained in contravention of this Act , or which has been entrusted in confidence to him by any person holding office under Her Majesty or which he has obtained or to which he has had access owing to his position as a person who is or has been employed under a person who holds or has held such an office or contract — [ and who ] ( a ) communicates the code word , pass word , sketch , plan , model , article , note , document , or information to any person other than a person to whom he is authorised to communicate it , or a person to whom it is in the interest of the State his duty to communicate it , or ( aa ) uses the information in his possession for the benefit of any foreign power or in any other manner prejudicial to the safety or interests of the State , or ( b ) retains the sketch , plan , model , article , note , or document in his possession or control when he has no right to retain it or when it is contrary to his duty to retain it , or fails to comply with all directions issued by lawful authority with regard to the return or disposal thereof , or … |
| 16 | These were acknowledged publicly by no less a figure than a former Prime Minister , W.L. MacKenzie King , at the communal celebrations of Lyon 's 60th birthday and his 35th anniversary of engagement in social interests , as well as those of his friend of many years ( to whom Lyon Cohen had diverted the honour of being invited to be the Member of Parliament several years before ) , Sir Samuel W. Jacobs , KC : ‘ Our friend finds himself today , ’ , commented Jacobs , ‘ the acknowledged leader of Jewry in Canada , a position acquired by years of self-denying effort … respected by his own , and also by the larger community in which we dwell . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Praise ye the Lord to whom all praise is due . |
| 18 | An increasing number of directors of sponsoring companies are beginning to ask ‘ What did we get for our money ? ’ when they so often see players to whom considerable appearance fees have been paid , losing limply in their first or second round matches and , even worse , then turning round and implying that the only tournaments they really take seriously are the Grand Slams . |
| 19 | This register lists them by serial number , price , type of lathe , date sold and to whom . |
| 20 | Many routes could not be said to form a coherent network , other than as InterCity connections to whom they did not now belong , and a few ( surprisingly few ) were in the mould of the traditional country branch line . |
| 21 | If the current trend continues , the landowners to whom the bothies belong , could decide that enough is enough and withdraw their permission for usage . |
| 22 | For in a monarchy , as Beethoven remarked of Handel , one knows to whom one must bend the knee . |
| 23 | Between them Stavrogin and Dasha Shatov , Shatov 's sister , the girl to whom the letter is addressed , have conjured the word ‘ nurse ’ which is a term of art as metaphysical as anything in Notes from Underground and impossible to match in the other post-Siberian novels . |
| 24 | Furthermore , unthinkable to whom and envisageable by whom ? |
| 25 | He does not mention this book , but he does quote Lewis to the effect that ‘ nearly all our older poetry was written and read by men to whom the distinction between poetry and rhetoric , in its modern form , would have been meaningless . ’ |
| 26 | He is insistent that the only students who should work at doctoral level are those of first-class ability , who are independent of mind and inner-directed , so that they can work without much supervision , apart from ‘ a standing relation with a congenial senior to whom he can go now and then for criticism and advice . ’ |
| 27 | Williams has referred to ‘ a conception of literature as a series of authors to whom there must , must be ‘ personal evaluative response' ’ or its available facsimile . ’ |
| 28 | I have argued elsewhere that Pound was prepared to take instruction , as well as to give it ; that when he first came to London in 1908 , he was looking for masters to whom he might apprentice himself ; that he found them in the Irishman W.B. Yeats and the maverick Englishman Ford Madox Ford ( whose professionalism about writing still denies him in England the recognition that he gets abroad ) ; and ( so I have speculated , though I know it can not be proved ) that Pound sought the same relationship with another Englishman , Laurence Binyon , who was too cagey to go along with the idea . |
| 29 | My wife , who liked him and to whom he was always charming , thinks he was a snob . |
| 30 | It was also noted that Wolfgang Vogel , the lawyer to whom Mr Honecker had given the task of solving the refugee problem , had had his mandate drastically cut back . |