Example sentences of "[det] [prep] whom [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before the advent of molecular genetics , screening of newborns in the United Kingdom was generally regarded as ethically unsound because no treatment was available ; it offered little advantage to the family other than the possibility of terminating all subsequent male fetuses , more than half of whom would be normal . |
| 2 | The draft constitution also proposed the replacement of the RCC by a Consultative Council with 50 members , half of whom would be appointed directly by the President and the rest elected by direct secret ballot . |
| 3 | It did n't come well from a girl who took her clothes off every night in front of an audience of five hundred , at least half of whom must be men . |
| 4 | WACC is supporting a training programme for a team of 15 ‘ verbal stringers ’ ( or reporters ) , at least half of whom will be women . |
| 5 | It is not surprising that many people , some of whom may have seen the equity in their homes rise tenfold , should decide to spend more . |
| 6 | The process is slowed down by the young females ' strong attachments to their mothers some of whom may occasionally defect and move off with the young males too . |
| 7 | A group of urban poor , some of whom may be recent migrants , driven by the insanitary conditions , high rents and overcrowding of the slum areas , squat on a piece of unused land , and hastily erect a temporary shack . |
| 8 | Previously surrounded by school mates and push-bikes , he is now surrounded by the clinical smell of the hospital and the sight of other sick children , some of whom may be minus their hair . |
| 9 | Performing King Lear in the round meant making eye-contact with members of the audience , some of whom may have really been embroiled in mayhem the actors were merely playing at . |
| 10 | many white athletes , some of whom may themselves be of exceptional athletic potential , believe blacks to be innately superior as athletes . |
| 11 | Similar attitudes of troops of occupation of all ages and in all places , from South America to India , help us understand the revulsion now felt by many Britons , some of whom may have been sympathetic to Rome and hopeful of recognition of their natural rights and dignity . |
| 12 | He was survived by his widow and seven sons and five daughters , some of whom may have been from his previous marriage . |
| 13 | For Approved Social Workers who may well be consulted under the s.58 ( consent to treatment ) provision of the Mental Health Act , clozapine presents a number of ethical issues , including , most importantly , the forcible treatment of patients with the drug , some of whom may also be forced to give blood against their will , in a stretching of common law interpretations relating to non psychiatric medical interventions . |
| 14 | I am sure that the House wished to join him in sending its sympathy to the many victims , some of whom may have suffered irreparable damage . |
| 15 | If we are acting for a group of shareholders , some of whom may not be Corporate Finance Clients ( eg in the sale of shares in a family business where any of the shareholders have no active business interests ) , care must be exercised . |
| 16 | In times of crisis and extreme demand it is easy to overlook the willing horses some of whom may not know their own limitations . |
| 17 | The January 1983 Medau News would contain an article explaining the new system to all and a letter would be sent to class secretaries ( some of whom may have changed since Sept. ) asking again for their help in encouraging membership amongst class members . |
| 18 | Erm it is a social gathering and whether people get er , er get rooked er , they get done or whether they get a bargain or whatever happens , they , they seem to enjoy it , but nevertheless it 's done according to whether you want to make money , the person owning the land wants to make a bit of money , there are a number of entrepeneurs who actually arrange and the middleman who actually goes round booking up the sites and so when you 're talking about charity a charity will get it organised for you by an entre , entrepeneur and then there 's the er the er the traders themselves , some of whom may be purely independent , some the , some may be obviously dealing with that ta erm that kind of aspect which is not exactly possibly legal . |
| 19 | Most of these liabilities er inevitably are n't necessarily for pensions payments they 're back to the active members , some of whom wo n't make any actual claim on this possibly for thirty years time , so there could well be a er a a scheme which is arrived at which is a pay as you go , which is n't any great liability o on , on any one pension scheme at any particular moment in time . |
| 20 | There was also a group of wounded men , some of whom would not be able to make it back to Kufra . |
| 21 | There were also apprentice schools attached to large manufacturers such as the Metropolitan-Vickers Apprentice School in Trafford Park , Manchester , which offered a dedicated form of secondary education for apprentices with that large electrical engineering firm , some of whom would also in due course seek employment with other electrical manufacturers . |
| 22 | In the agrarian south and east of the continent , the character of society was dominated by two classes of very different size : a body of wealthy landowners , still often enjoying the prestige and privilege and sometimes the legal and noble status of its feudal forebears , and a huge mass of subordinate peasants , some of whom might be freeholders , but by and large economically dependent on the landowners . |
| 23 | The greater landowners would also employ other gentlemen servants in the management of their estates in the early eighteenth century , some of whom might be freeholders , and all of whom would have connections with the voting freeholders , and while it is true that some of these appointments were poorly paid , one has to bear in mind the comparative poverty of so many of the Scottish gentry in terms of money income . |
| 24 | They made extensive use of sub-contractors , some of whom might agree to bring as few as a dozen men-at-arms and archers to the force . |
| 25 | On the other hand , there were around sixty southern Democrats , potential ‘ Boll Weevils ’ , some of whom might be induced to vote with the administration . |
| 26 | That meant a reservoir of skilled engineers , some of whom might have accumulated 15 or more years ' experience before being made redundant or taking early retirement . |
| 27 | Investors , some of whom might have earlier come out with a fortune were suddenly losing . |
| 28 | Often she had passed the stone house where he lived with his children , some of whom must now be grown . |
| 29 | The true type , as personified by my own and other mothers , was destined to bear child after child , some of whom could miscarry , some of whom could die , and all of whom were a perpetual source of worry and expense . |
| 30 | The true type , as personified by my own and other mothers , was destined to bear child after child , some of whom could miscarry , some of whom could die , and all of whom were a perpetual source of worry and expense . |