Example sentences of "[prep] who [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Next day it was a question of who would stay with Amiss , playing his first Test of the summer . |
| 2 | There is of course the question of who would implement such policies . |
| 3 | Although Ceauşescu kept open the question of who would succeed him as both Party leader and head of state , by the 1980s there were only two candidates whom he would tolerate in the necessary launching-pad positions around him . |
| 4 | Oddly enough , Ceauşescu was always a shrewder judge of the likely choice for the highest offices of democratic electorates than of who would come out on top of the Soviet politburo . |
| 5 | Nicola Woods found that in a business setting , gender was a better predictor than status of who would interrupt whom . |
| 6 | Hill has informed the Mirror that he has been asked to sign cheques on Flashman 's request without any knowledge of who would be the benefactors , or for how much . |
| 7 | People have pulled out of the show with just hours to go , and then it 's not a question of who would go best with the other guests , it 's a case of ‘ Who 's free ? ’ |
| 8 | He had spent in promoting the scheme money that could have been used in establishing it , and I was both impatient and critical of his capacity to launch and support a large new artistic organisation , particularly as his ideas of who would give him money were hopelessly unrealistic . |
| 9 | The question of who would succeed Hannah Hauxwell at Low Birk Hatt aroused keen interest both locally and nationally . |
| 10 | The adoption of such a procedure raises the question of who would act as the regulatory or responsible body to oversee implementation of the Freedom of Access to Information on the Environment procedures . |
| 11 | It was a question of who would lose her nerve , and Marie could see that Jenna was not about to lose hers . |
| 12 | They had a young child , but the court did not take account of who would look after the child while they were in prison . |
| 13 | I congratulate the hon. Gentleman on his speech — I am sure that he would not have predicted that — because he attempted to deal with the question of who would pay for increased benefits by quoting a statement apparently made by the permanent secretary to the Department of Social Security , Sir Michael Partridge . |
| 14 | There was no announcement of who would chair the new State Committee . |
| 15 | Although there were no elections at the assembly , the gathering was dominated by the issue of who would succeed Mahathir Mohamed as UMNO president and thereby as Prime Minister . |
| 16 | So it was when , in the spring of 1947 , he announced that he would shortly present to the Cortes the draft of a law which would regulate the question of who would succeed him as Head of State and , equally important , when this event would take place . |
| 17 | But I have n't gone really as I hoped cos I 'd envisaged having the membership list with sort of names of who 'll make cakes , who 'll help on the stall and then know who to phone |
| 18 | Anthony returned soon after five o'clock with the news that there was no penicillin in the city at all , but that he had telephoned everyone he could think of who might supply it and had sent a telegram to UNRRA headquarters . |
| 19 | Since Mandela 's release the issue of who might market his life-story has become unclear , but Mandela himself must be aware that his name carries enormous money-making potential . |
| 20 | There 's an assumption by some politicians that just because there is this immense change taking place in Eastern Europe , that this is victory for Western capitalism erm , I think there might be some of who might be a bit cautious about that victory and might believe that er there is still much that needs to be shared and understood and it is n't as simple as perhaps some political figures might suggest it could be . |
| 21 | Perhaps the most important point is that , regardless of who may be at the launch point , the pilot alone bears the responsibility for accepting or rejecting the launch in the light of the situation as he sees it from the cockpit . |
| 22 | Perhaps a real top class defender , ca n't think of who may be on the market tho . |
| 23 | In brief , the actual Westminster model is that of authoritarian single-party governments in a House of Commons dominated by the Prime Minister and composed largely of disciplined parties with most votes in the House of Commons being highly predictable ; every three or four years there is a general election held under a crude simple majority electoral system with minimal participation by the electorate in the choice of who shall be their candidate , though they do have the choice between the candidates who are selected by the party activists ; between 20% , and 30% of the electorate do not vote at all . |
| 24 | And the whole business of convergence raises the intriguing question of who ought to regulate this burgeoning new industry . |
| 25 | The Washington talks will centre on the crucial issue of who will represent the Palestinians . |
| 26 | Sir Richard Attenborough , chairman of Channel 4 , said it was ‘ utterly improper that any government should have direct control over the appointment of who will run Channel 4 ’ . |
| 27 | The Washington talks will centre on the crucial issue of who will represent the Palestinians . |
| 28 | The Americans and Germans have provided aid for the modernisation of electrical plant but the question of who will pay the multi-million dollar bill for Egyspt to produce cleaner cars is unananswered . |
| 29 | The three still have to sort out the thorny question of who will run the centre and where it will be . |
| 30 | The dilemma of who will care for the elderly is greater today than in previous generations . |