Example sentences of "whose [noun pl] were [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Consumer Congress called for a working party to draft a code of good practice and it was intended that working party should make use of the information generated by the 1988 transport workshop , whose discussions were reported to the congress . |
| 2 | The second theme would be the story of these new nations , the Germanic kingdoms whose foundations were laid during the years from about 400 to 600 ad . |
| 3 | A spokesman for the Iraqi Foreign Ministry said on Nov. 19 that following the agreement reached during Vellayati 's visit Iraq 's Revolutionary Command Council had " decided to pardon all convicted Iranian prisoners and those whose cases were referred to the judiciary , a total of 239 " . |
| 4 | He would play the part of the upright citizen , the dull wounded little man whose horizons were bounded by the daily journey to the office , the suburban garden and the suburban sky , set around with suburban roofs and neat suburban trees . |
| 5 | As deputy chief of Sabah 's Institute for Development Studies , whose activities were viewed by the central government as a threat to the integrity of the Malaysian Federation , Ongkili had been held for 59 days under the Internal Security Act on suspicion of carrying out actions prejudicial to national security . |
| 6 | A mother whose blonde hair was wound back in a demure knot , but whose lips were pursed in the semblance of a kiss . |
| 7 | Those whose husbands were working in the area in reserved occupations were fortunate indeed . |
| 8 | Here in the Abu Dhabi/Al Ain area it was both a statement and a signature used only by those whose lives were rooted in the place . |
| 9 | The writer , Christopher Stell , has pointed out that of some 600 ‘ architects ’ whose buildings were described in the Congregational Union 's Year Books in the nineteenth century , ‘ very few ’ are credited with having built more than one or two . |
| 10 | Where necessary , new bridges , such as the Pont Saint-Michel , were built to cross the Seine , whose quays were developed at the same time as arteries for traffic . |
| 11 | The notion that clerical wealth was at the disposal of the realm when need arose was echoed and supported by some other developments of the reign : the practice whereby donations of land to the church first required royal licence ( and at a price ) ; the growing , though still limited , legal procedure and principle whereby endowments whose purposes were neglected by the receiving clergy could be recovered by the donor ; the practice of founders and patrons ‘ resuming ’ possession of the lands of religious houses embarrassed by debts ( not least debts resulting from taxation ) until they could again operate effectively ; the seizure of alien priories ; and lastly , the widening definition of temporalities at the expense of spiritualities . |
| 12 | The Kuwait intervention , though important to the Defence policy-makers , was of little consequence to the political departments , whose mandarins were immersed during the first half of 1961 in two major debates : how to handle the Anglo-American special relationship after Kennedy had taken over as US President in January ; and whether or not to put less emphasis on Anglo-American and Commonwealth links by applying belatedly to join the EEC . |
| 13 | ‘ They do say , ’ said Cathbad , ‘ that if you ever found your way to the Prison of Hostages , you would find all the children whose hearts were given to the Conablaiche during that time , and whose souls were taken by the Lad . |
| 14 | Mr Dubcek , 70 , whose reforms were crushed by the Soviets in 1968 , was being driven in a car which plunged into a ravine near Prague . |
| 15 | The Co-prosperity Sphere became an area whose resources were exploited for the benefit of Japan . |
| 16 | To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what assistance was given by his Department to traders whose businesses were disrupted by the Castle Court development in Belfast . |
| 17 | Again different results were found in different places , although there did seem to be some agreement on a broad division between those ‘ helpful ’ pressure groups that gained access to the policy-making process and those ‘ unhelpful ’ , or ‘ unreasonable ’ , groups whose actions were treated by the local authority with suspicion and dismissal . |
| 18 | The students , whose actions were condemned by the Mozambican government , were demanding that their bursaries be paid to them in US dollars . |
| 19 | The one author whom everyone remembered best was George Bernard Shaw , popular editions of whose plays were running off the presses in the early years of the century . |
| 20 | Thus he deplored the action of the former Archbishop Sancroft in consecrating two new bishops , whose names were approved by the exiled James II , in order to maintain the Apostolic Succession among the non-jurors . |
| 21 | Furthermore , Sica believed that the direction of organized crime was in the hands of no more than 17 men whose names were known to the authorities , and that if those individuals could be convicted the Mafia would collapse . |
| 22 | It gave individuals whose petitions were upheld by the European Commission on Human Rights the automatic right to have their cases reviewed by the Court ( this being hitherto the prerogative of either the commission or the state concerned ) ; it would enter into force once ratified by 10 states . |
| 23 | THE SHERIFF hearing evidence at an inquiry into the deaths last September of two schoolboys whose bodies were recovered from the Bellrock Quarry on St Nicholas Golf Course at Prestwick , said yesterday that their parents were blameless . |
| 24 | There were men out there , workmen driving animals and carrying torches whose beams were aimed at the ground . |
| 25 | ‘ They do say , ’ said Cathbad , ‘ that if you ever found your way to the Prison of Hostages , you would find all the children whose hearts were given to the Conablaiche during that time , and whose souls were taken by the Lad . |
| 26 | Design and execution throughout are of the highest quality ; but while the artist of west and south is an untroubled archaic , the other is in the van of those whose innovations were to lead to the classical revolution . |
| 27 | The traditional supreme body within the bureaucracy , the State Council , was expanded to form an upper chamber half of whose members were appointed by the Tsar and half elected from such relatively privileged institutions as the Holy Synod , provincial assemblies of the nobility , and zemstvos . |
| 28 | Talks between the ruling AP and the opposition MNR , CONDEPA and MBL , which had been convoked to resolve a political crisis which had arisen in November over the political role played by the Supreme court , many of whose members were linked with the MNR [ see pp. 37851-52 ] , broke down in March 1991 . |
| 29 | On June 8 the government announced measures to assist those whose pensions were threatened by the collapse of the Maxwell media empire following the sudden death of Robert Maxwell in November 1991 [ see pp. 38588 ; 38688 ] . |
| 30 | Legal squabbling is preventing a hundred and fifty million pounds being shared out between former employees of Robert Maxwell whose pensions were stolen by the publishing tycoon.The allegation is contained in a report by a powerful committee of MPs , which wants a mediator appointed to knock heads together.Chris Moore reports . |