Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Roebuck had earlier bagged a ‘ pair ’ in Devon 's match with Dorset , for whom the former Gloucestershire seamer Julian Shackleton , now 40 , took 7 for 57 . |
| 32 | The reader for whom the new novelist is writing , in other words , is not the traditionally passive figure who is content to accept and , indeed , expects a straightforward narrative expounding a clear-cut view of the world , but an accomplice who will collaborate with the author in the search for a deeper understanding of a complex and confusing world . |
| 33 | If the person who does the interviewing is not the person for whom the new employee will be working then it is essential that that person should at least be allowed to sit in on interviews and have an agreed say in the final decision . |
| 34 | For each change , can you specify receivers with particular knowledge or lack of it for whom the new use would be correct ? |
| 35 | Also here is the tomb of San Saccaria , the founder of the Barnabites for whom the first church was built . |
| 36 | It brought closer Home Office control and local authority subsidy to reformatories for children for whom the first resort of probation had either failed or was thought inappropriate . |
| 37 | Maps do not portray the existence and aspirations of Palestinians , Armenians , Druze , Souryanis , Assyrians , Bedouin , Kurds and many others for whom the real map of the Middle East is written on the heart , where identity and hope are nurtured generation after generation . |
| 38 | Some of the most accomplished yelling was conducted by men for whom the only college worth getting in a strop over was of the electoral variety . |
| 39 | The refusal of Erastus to derive the forms of bodies from the stars , or from anything within nature , pointed toward the empiricism of Bacon , for whom the only guides to knowledge were experience and the bible . |
| 40 | Like most of Karajan 's judgements , it is rational and soundly based , though it will always disappoint English music-lovers for whom the early 1950s Philharmonia was a high-water mark in the country 's orchestral affairs , matched only by such other brief periods of glory as those enjoyed by Beecham 's LPO and Boult 's BBC SO in the 1930s and the LSO in the Monteux , Kertész , and early Previn years . |
| 41 | Scott 's reply last month did not reassure : ‘ The highest priority for independent living must be given to that group of people for whom the usual pattern is to live and work in the community . |
| 42 | Then come the children for whom the nightly forage produces not only improvised toys but anything which can conceivably be sold to raise a bit of cash . |
| 43 | for whom the sexual act , through a whim of nature 's , |
| 44 | But there were many Australians and Englishmen for whom the Olympic year of 1956 meant Laker . |
| 45 | It draws on the form of words suggested by the Williams Committee for their scheme of prohibition , and the purpose is simply to redefine the essence of the deprave-and-corrupt approach for those for whom the old form of words seems too far removed from the values and habits of today : |
| 46 | So the Christian is a follower of one for whom the Old Testament was the unquestionably authoritative word of God . |
| 47 | There is a relatively high incidence of temporary working amongst professionals in education ( particularly school and university teachers and researchers ) , who have highly transferable skills , and amongst professionals in health and welfare ( doctors and nurses ) , for whom the same holds . |
| 48 | Accordingly , on the departure of a partner , the continuing firm will try , subject always to the wishes of individual clients , to retain clients for whom the outgoing partner has acted in the past and is currently acting at the date of his leaving the firm . |
| 49 | She talked as if she had taken on the mantle of Philip Marlowe , a female arch sleuth for whom the teeming underworld held no secrets . |
| 50 | This allows the centre to offer students , for whom the full degree programme may not be appropriate , the opportunity to work towards an end point at Year 1 or 2 which carries a qualification awarded by SCOTVEC on a national basis and which , through SCOTVEC 's efforts in negotiating national recognition agreements for its awards , has currency in the employment marketplace . |
| 51 | The summation of these two response tendencies ( conditioned and unconditioned ) in control subjects , for whom the CS is novel , might be enough to ensure a bigger net response than that seen in pre-exposed subjects , for whom the unconditioned component will be absent . |
| 52 | Newry , for whom the next step in their evolution is to make an impression on the park as well as off it , proudly and quite rightly tout their immaculate facility as one of the major sporting successes in the district . |
| 53 | As his later disastrous interventions in politics would make clear , he was a realist in quite a simple-minded sense , one who was concerned for public life , and believed ( like activists of the Left ) that a poet had the right and the duty to act in and upon that life quite directly ; whereas the oddly distant weariness of Eliot 's political pronouncements , even when he was most engagé as editor of True Criterion , revealed a man for whom the psychological reality of private torments took priority over any reality which announced itself as social and public . |
| 54 | Human beings relate to one another not as complex reflex machines but as persons for whom the focal point in behaviour is the mutual transaction between one individual 's psychosocial experience and that of another . |
| 55 | A contemporary noted that the school curriculum was ‘ subordinated to that literary instruction which makes for academic culture , but is of no practical utility , to the classes for whom the local authorities should principally cater ’ . |
| 56 | By an order dated 30 March 1992 Waite J. granted the local authority 's application under section 100(3) of the Children Act 1989 for leave to invoke the court 's inherent jurisdiction to determine whether artificial ventilation and/or other life-saving measures should be given to J. , an infant for whom the local authority shared parental responsibility pursuant to a care order made under the Act of 1989 , if he were to suffer a life-threatening event . |
| 57 | The Act imposes the duty on local authorities to undertake a comprehensive , multidisciplinary assessment of any individual older person for whom the local authority is satisfied that a formalized assessment is necessary . |
| 58 | Multiculturalists ( for whom the important task is to encourage harmonious and tolerant cultural diversity ) adjust their view according to what the leaders tell them . |
| 59 | It is also a cultural document of prime importance for understanding the sensibilities of the lay audience for whom the mystical writers in the vernacular were providing texts . |
| 60 | The highest standardised mortality ratio ( 119 ) , however , was in men for whom the placental weights were above 1.25 pounds ( 567 g ) and who had a birth weight of 6.5 pounds ( 2948 g ) or less . |