Example sentences of "[n mass] [prep] [Wh pn] [pron] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally , we need to ensure that the creators of machine-readable data upon whom we will increasingly rely adopt standard practices . |
| 2 | He is not looking for people who can make decisions for him , but people through whom he can implement his decisions . |
| 3 | Not to have a vote , because of the guillotine and for other reasons , is to fail the very people for whom we should be speaking . |
| 4 | Their approach was to run a business similar to a small City firm of solicitors , maintaining close relationships with a few senior people for whom they would provide a personal service and gain good repeat business . |
| 5 | As soon as you have a date fixed , or even before you hear , it is a good idea to start gathering background information about the job for which you have applied and the people for whom you would be working . |
| 6 | But he had made the gesture : these were people for whom you could safely slaughter a sheep . |
| 7 | To what extent do they appear to preclude you from making use of the skills and knowledge that you have acquired and competing with the people for whom you used to work . |
| 8 | If Councillor had actually stayed , he would know why this is so important to the people of whom I may say he has cruelly deserted by walking out of the debating chamber and what he 's saying to the people of is that Liberal Councillors A wo n't prepare speeches like his colleague earlier on or they wo n't stay in the debate they are not going to be properly represented when we take important decisions , both nationally and locally . |
| 9 | In other words , party leaders in the UK are selected from experienced national politicians whose competence and party loyalty have been regularly tried and tested , who have been subject to a careful process of peer review and have come to the fore not as a result of their electoral appeal , but because they have won the confidence of the people with whom they would have to work in government . |
| 10 | It is a terrible , solitary kind of life , whereby I can not for instance have people with whom I can discuss my writing , unless I leave the country and meet people like Bessie Head , who died , or Buchi Emecheta and Ama Ata Aidoo . |
| 11 | We all know how the week runs away with official interviews and calls , and how difficult it is to remember all the people with whom you ought to keep in touch , but when I think of the number of things which people of different types , like Lady Londonderry and Lady St Helier and others , have got settled by letting people meet at the dinner table , I despair of a man who never sees even those who have been longest in office on any occasion . |
| 12 | Now , as a visible sign that these are his people with whom he will always be present , he gives Moses instructions to build a special tent for him . |
| 13 | As they moved around the room , Luke introducing her to the people with whom she would be working , Maria struggled to put his threats out of her mind and minimise her own reaction to him , both six years ago and now . |
| 14 | Wilson would talk at great length and it became clear to me that the number of people in whom he could confide safely was very small ; in fact it was clear that he had few , if any , complete political friends . |
| 15 | Another point which is not always recognised is that covert research can itself impose severe restrictions on the kinds of questions that one may legitimately ask and the sorts of people to whom one may have access . |
| 16 | There are many people to whom you can turn for help . |
| 17 | Even if you have never owned a dog before , training is not difficult , and there are plenty of people to whom you can turn for advice . |
| 18 | The greater number of small companies you have , Branson reasoned , the greater number of people to whom you can give responsibility ; ‘ encouraging entrepreneurship ’ , as he put it , under the umbrella of Virgin . |
| 19 | Well , I 'm just wondering , I 'd like to get some view of what percentage of people to whom you will levy these charges , what per cent of those people will probably be exempt ? |
| 20 | One had been an Egyptian , who had tried to keep alive the Egyptian Aten religion when it looked like disappearing in Egypt itself from about the year 1315 B.C. He had chosen the Jews in Egypt as a people to whom he would teach this religion . |
| 21 | The Act requires data users to register , declaring the sources of data , uses and people to whom it may be disclosed . |
| 22 | What about the people to whom it will have cost perhaps a third of their lifetime ? |
| 23 | People without whom we would n't be able to raise so much money . |
| 24 | Manpower , which operates a system of layoffs for staff to whom it can not offer an assignment , estimated that between five and ten per cent of its workforce might be laid off at any one time . |