Example sentences of "to whom [pers pn] [modal v] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think that the press has felt a need to represent John Major as a man as a leader to whom we can all look in whose care we can all feel safe and all that sort of thing , because the media feels pressure to keep the morale of the country up in war time . |
| 2 | As a youngest son his own prospects had been poor — his sojourn abroad had been in the company of his rich younger cousin Francis Whithead , to whom he may initially have acted as tutor — but on the death of his only surviving brother Anthony in 1754 he unexpectedly succeeded to the family estates . |
| 3 | but someone he could trust , someone who understood the language , someone who would afterwards be gone , who would n't remain as a perpetual reminder of his uncertainties , a fellow professional to whom he could comfortably think aloud . |
| 4 | Manpower , which operates a system of layoffs for staff to whom it can not offer an assignment , estimated that between five and ten per cent of its workforce might be laid off at any one time . |
| 5 | Clearly if you have no confidence in those to whom you could potentially delegate this is not a wise policy . |
| 6 | So who were the Cagots , other , similar allusions to whom you will also come across in the western Pyrenees ? |
| 7 | ‘ For good reasons which you may or may not understand , I desire to remain here in the wilderness away from those to whom I may inadvertently bring catastrophe . |
| 8 | Erm somebody , and I think it was Derek , and I put down Derek as a guess , was supposed to be getting a list of local area MPs to whom I can then write . |