Example sentences of "[det] whom the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was most interested to read your review of the Columbus Myth by Ian Wilson , relating to various claims of some whom the author suggests were first-footers in America . |
| 2 | Her utterly unquestioning faith in the Bible led her to believe that none could possibly be luckier or greater than those whom the love of God chooses , and if the love of God had chosen to choose the Jews , then their superiority over the rest of mankind could not possibly be doubted . |
| 3 | Most of those whom the investigations showed to be credit-worthy justified the faith put in them and stayed the course . |
| 4 | One of the Church of England 's most eminent theologians criticised the Diocese for actions which suggested ‘ a positive eagerness to humiliate and exclude those whom the parish and LGCM seek to help ’ , and ‘ a readiness to follow secular fashion in harassing and rejecting homosexuals . ’ |
| 5 | His parents might have done well to remember the ancient adage , ‘ Those whom the gods love die young ’ . |
| 6 | Hooker 's was a name which could hardly fail to be included on the list of those whom the Church wished to commemorate in 1980 . |
| 7 | The showmen hated those whom the Cinematograph Year Book always described as ‘ the Busybodies and Meddlers ’ and thought of their demands in terms of what the Bioscope referred to as ‘ Prussianism ’ but in order to keep control of their own industry the showmen accepted many of the standards of middle-class taste and insisted that what they would provide would be for the most part family entertainment . |
| 8 | Beyond the rape victims , the names of everybody else was disclosed , including the names of women who were indecently assaulted but not raped and the names of relatives of those whom The Fox had accosted . |
| 9 | For policymakers the key point to recognise is that the way that people whom the organisation wishes to lose are treated is paramount , not just for their sakes , but also for those whom the organisation wishes to keep . |
| 10 | Most of those whom the king preserved in office were men of the middle nobility , men whose experience would enable them to take effective charge of those placed under them . |
| 11 | Among those whom the author singled out for praise were Edward III , who recalled his victory against the French at Sluys in June 1340 by introducing a fighting ship onto the noble of England , and Henry V , who built great ships and dealt firmly with those who were causing trouble to English shipping . |
| 12 | If those whom the church excommunicated by name were still unreconciled after forty days , the church in England , as in western Europe generally , could call on the secular arm to assist . |
| 13 | The line of argument depends upon two principal features : ( a ) there is a need to produce an oven justification for practices which might be criticized and this justification must explain racial discrimination in terms of anything other than irrational preferences ; ( b ) the discourse implies that irrational preference would be morally bad and the good intentions of the speaker , and those whom the speaker justifies , are guaranteed if they are shown to differ from those who might act on the basis of irrational prejudices . |
| 14 | The eighteenth-century administration sought to protect those whom the intendant of Burgos called the ‘ wretched slaves ’ of the landlords : there were proposals to freeze rents at the 1770 level , to set up arbitration boards of peasants and landlords . |
| 15 | Resistance to the French troops who ‘ occupied ’ Spain under cover of the Treaty of Fontainebleau and the national revolution against France which broke out all over unoccupied Spain came , therefore , from those whom the French commanders termed le petil peuple and from those local notables who were outside an administration manned by appointees of Godoy . |
| 16 | There is something indecent about comments from the living on the fate of the dead , and to say that ‘ those whom the gods love die young ’ is to assume an unsuitably Olympian pose . |
| 17 | Held , granting the application , that the Act of 1987 placed the Bank of England under a wide public duty to supervise deposit-taking businesses , the fulfilment of which often required it to take urgent action in the interests of those whom the Act was designed to protect ; that a notice from the Bank of England under section 39(3) ( a ) of the Act of 1987 requiring production of documents overrode an injunction restraining that bank from disclosure of the documents to a third party , and the existence of an injunction did not constitute a reasonable excuse under section 39(11) for failure to comply with the section 39 notice ; and that the injunction should not , in any event , be interpreted as prohibiting compliance with the notice ; that it was proper for such a notice to specify the documents to which it applied by class rather than individually ; and that , accordingly , the defendants should be directed to comply with the notice ( post , pp. 717G–H , 718C , 719B–C , 721C , 722C ) . |
| 18 | In 687 and again in 688 Adomnán , abbot of Iona , visited Aldfrith and secured the release of those whom the Northumbrians had seized during this expedition and kept in captivity ( AU s.a. 686 : AT pp. 210 , 211 : CA p. 134 ) . |
| 19 | The palace bustled with courtiers , officials , cronies and those whom the French call affairistes . |
| 20 | It 's true what the Greeks say : ‘ Those whom the Gods love always die young ’ . |
| 21 | Among those whom the hon. Gentleman has maligned is someone who has a decade 's experience of working in the NHS . |
| 22 | It is said that those whom the gods wish to destroy , they first make mad , and it is clear that Tory Ministers are mad . |
| 23 | To disregard that is to show disrespect for those who are colleagues , those whom the head is leading and without whose support he or she can not manage . |
| 24 | The jacket had ‘ Those Whom the Gods Love ’ picked out in brass studs across the back and the trousers had parallel lines of matching studs down the side seams . |
| 25 | When satisfied with his progress he gave the products away to any whom the doctors thought would benefit from them . |