Example sentences of "[prep] whom the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The position is now much more complex for individual employees , for whom the best choice may be one of several options . |
| 2 | Now the son , Paul , would replace this patriarch merchant , about whom the kindest words an outsider might have offered were that he had an ability to survive and prosper and stay as far away from conflict as possible . |
| 3 | She had three brothers , of whom the eldest was Walter Sickert [ q.v. ] , the artist . |
| 4 | He explained that it was a unanimous decision by Butcher , senior coach Alan Jones and second-team coach John Steele , that Maynard , a gifted but erratic player of whom the best has probably not been seen , should have the chance . |
| 5 | Another Select Committee reported in 1875 that ‘ the continued operation of the Deer Removal Act 1851 ’ would ‘ render the rights of common existing over the New Forest worthless , and by so doing … extinguish a large class of small freeholders and tenants of whom the highest character has been given ’ ; furthermore it would ‘ destroy almost the only specimen left in England of a primeval forest , a priceless source of enjoyment to all classes of the nation ’ . |
| 6 | The change involved no religious problems because the larger colony had been launched for much the same reasons : a number of Puritans , of whom the largest single group came from East Anglia , had formed the Massachusetts Bay Company and obtained a charter to settle there in a firm determination to cut themselves off from England and the elements of Roman Catholicism they detected in the Church of England . |
| 7 | Batting was a hazardous business against another variation of the West Indian pace quartet of whom the quickest was Linden Joseph . |
| 8 | Second , the cause of the problem has been clearly identified as nomads and graziers who are politically very weak , and who have had much of their livelihood taken away and upon whom the heaviest penalties for ‘ trespassing ’ on forest schemes fall — in the same way as in the days of the Emergency , when aggressive family planning ‘ drives ’ herded vagrants , petty thieves and other vulnerable groups into camps for more or less forcible vasectomy . |
| 9 | The major problem was that these were ill patients in whom the slightest disturbance caused a major exacerbation of their underlying medical condition . |