Example sentences of "[prep] [Wh pn] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That need to draw the boundaries of independence applies particularly to parents and adult children , between whom this safety net operates most predictably . |
| 2 | Children for whom this activity may have little meaning can compare their own height with towers of blocks , tops of cupboards and so on . |
| 3 | The landlords for whom this service was performed also had the wardship of under age tenants . |
| 4 | Curtis Price ingeniously suggests that the singing actress for whom this song was written might have left the company by 1693 ; but on the omission of the Plaint he does not comment . |
| 5 | This was particularly noticeable among the younger policemen , for whom this imagery seems to be a defining characteristic of their work . |
| 6 | Moving on loitering youths is a policing situation ripe for such amplification , as other research has shown ( Southgate and Ekblom 1986 : 35 , 37 ; Young 1971 ) , and there were several occasions when policemen for whom this imagery is very important over-reacted to the presence of young people on street corners and were aggressive in the way they moved them on . |
| 7 | Those for whom this idea is a novelty may be surprised to learn that it was the writings and political practice of a Marxist , and a communist militant at that , which were largely responsible for the present currency of this view among radical thinkers . |
| 8 | Through pressure and interest groups it could be claimed that the old democratic principle of participation was reinstated , but in a suitably modern form which accepted that it was not individuals but groups for whom this possibility existed . |
| 9 | But proper critical attention will be reserved for the museum 's major treatment of Käthe Kollwitz , for whom this exhibition celebrates the 125th anniversary of her birth . |
| 10 | The character of the Nun 's Priest is a complex of knowledge , attitude and sympathy : knowledge of learning , literature and the ars praedicandi ( " art of preaching " ) , attitudes of detachment from but understanding of the rarefied world of speculative learning , and of sympathy towards the commoner run of humanity for whom this learning is mystifying and in practical terms irrelevant . |
| 11 | It may be the approach of the atheist for whom the whole of life is meaningless ; it may be the approach of the over-spiritualizing theist for whom this world is irrelevant . |
| 12 | As with the other strategies , though , there will be some people for whom this advice is inappropriate : for example if they are unable to avoid feeling guilty , or if the risks involved feel just too great . |
| 13 | The working men for whom this institution was created had a thirst for education in a way we can scarcely any longer imagine today . |
| 14 | Thoughts on the monarchy invariably turn on the constitutional insights of a former editor of The Economist , Walter Bagehot , after whom this column is named . |
| 15 | He refuses to play for the moment , boldly pressing on where others tend to dwell ; yet , with those Philadelphians really turning it on for the composer with whom this orchestra is most indelibly associated , superbly captured in Decca sound of great sumptuousness and tonal allure ( even if not always ideally balanced ) , it all makes for compulsive listening . |
| 16 | That child was born only three months before the child with whom this court is concerned . |
| 17 | Cromwell allowed Antinomian preachers like Tobias Crisp and John Saltmarsh freedom to preach to the troops with whom this teaching was , naturally , very popular . |
| 18 | If more education raises the productivity not merely of an individual worker but of all other workers with whom this worker co-operates , there is a production externality that the individual does not take into account in choosing how much education to purchase . |
| 19 | It would be interesting to know with whom this initiative was discussed by those who advise the secretary of state . |
| 20 | For example , Peter Matthiessen 's account of his astonishing journey on foot , with limited supplies in the face of overwhelming winter snows , from Nepal to the Crystal Mountain in Tibet where he goes fired with the hope of seeing the rare , almost mythical , snow leopard , expresses a pattern of experience that is at the heart of the awareness of the medieval mystics with whom this book is concerned . |
| 21 | The mystics with whom this book is concerned understood this sense of an ultimate reality inherent in , yet transcending , the created world , with the power to transform its pain to joy , in Christian terms . |
| 22 | It is no accident that we know more about the lives of Richard Rolle and Margery Kempe than about the other three writers with whom this book is concerned . |
| 23 | Soomers in 1990 described 26 patients in whom this approach was used , six ( 23% ) patients developed late procedure related complications five requiring surgery and one replacment of the endoprosthesis , thses included duodenal perforation in one , endoprosthesis clogging in two and stent migration in two , the patient that underwent a second endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography also had endoprosthesis clogging . |
| 24 | A second group in whom this technique may be valuable is those in whom the number of stones or technical difficulties such as diverticuli , may expose the patient to a protracted procedure which even if successful may be detrimental for the patient — that is , the old and frail . |
| 25 | We report our experience in 40 patients in whom such criteria were fulfilled and in whom this technique was applied . |
| 26 | As we do this , we can encourage consistently those in whom this gift is developing , and perhaps see some move from prophesying to having a mature ministry as a prophet . |
| 27 | Absorption of water and sodium from the rectum was similar in patients from whom V cholerae was isolated and those in whom this organism was not isolated . |
| 28 | All four patients who developed this sequence of biopsy changes died , including one patient in whom this pattern occurred in two allografts . |
| 29 | Neither of them disclosed from whom this permission would have to be obtained . |
| 30 | But his was one of the many families in the streets that ran off the main road at the bottom of the hill and from whom this shop and the tobacconist 's derived most of their regular custom . |