Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [pron] [is] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 She found those who had fled from Re 's anger in the desert and killed very many of them , thus gaining the name of Sekhmet , the lioness goddess of war , with whom she is here identified .
2 The singer would show the same sort of decisiveness when she left Ton Ton Macoute and headed for London , where she and husband John Reynolds , from whom she is now separated , set up home with their baby son Jake .
3 Who who 's there heckling Lesley ?
4 The people who may need it most are likely to be the unrecognized ones , the ones who it is somehow felt do not have a ‘ right ’ to support , even if it is known that they are upset .
5 However , the poem that opens the volume , ‘ Ego Dominus Tuus ’ , is in the form of an inconclusive dialogue between two persons ‘ Hic ’ and ‘ Ille ’ , who it is generally agreed might as well be named at certain points as ‘ Ez ’ and ‘ Willie ’ .
6 They all know who it is then do they ?
7 He said , ‘ Whoever it is certainly likes to have fun .
8 This well-meaning law will have little effect on the type of owner at whom it is primarily aimed .
9 The 40 staff execute 3,500 trades a day on average , and Vine-Lott has set himself a target of more than doubling that in five years ' time , including a considerable proportion on behalf of other institutions , such as the Halifax Building Society , for whom it is already doing work , as well as other brokers and banks .
10 In conjunction with the Master Innholders with whom it is closely associated , the Worshipful Company has commissioned Gayton Consultancy to undertake a survey to assess the current levels of training received by management .
11 One of the major reasons for the widespread failure of rural developments is that it usually does not serve the interests of the people at whom it is ostensibly aimed .
12 His experiments with printmaking included aquatint , for which his claims to be the inventor are strong : he certainly published , in 1771 , the first aquatint in England after a painting by his friend John Hamilton Mortimer [ q.v. ] , and , ever short of money and frequently in debt , sold the process to Paul Sandby [ q.v. ] , to whom it is usually credited , for £40 .
13 A ‘ worst ’ scenario could include the creation of our document , in individualistic form by a user who chooses to exercise his/her ability to keep the document ‘ personal ’ , only accessible to those to whom it is directly mailed .
14 In the Discourse of the Common Weal Smith ( to whom it is now attributed ) did not set out to delineate the structure of society , but rather to present and analyse the responses of the four main economic interests in the community to the crisis of the late 1540s .
15 His life changes as he is drawn into a dangerous aura of incestuous relations surrounding the director and his beautiful sister Jenny ( Liza Walker ) to whom he is immediately drawn .
16 In the chapter ‘ On the Duties of Persons Engaged in Trade and Business ’ in his Enquiry into the Duties of Men in the Higher and Middle Classes of Society in Great Britain , he said the foundations of a trader 's credit were ‘ property , integrity , punctuality , industry , prudence , openness in dealing , freedom from extravagance , from a spirit of wild speculation and from vice , and the character of the partners and of others with whom he is closely connected . ’
17 His third cricket book , on the Australians of 1948 , with whom he is imperishably associated , was ‘ To my father , who knows nothing about cricket and cares less , but who was very good to me . ’
18 Then Dr Himes and Nick Jelley , with whom he is now working in Oxford , repeated Dr Simpson 's sulphur experiment with a more carefully conceived piece of apparatus and new calculations about sources of error .
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