Example sentences of "[noun] whose [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Residents in Scotland whose first language is not English may welcome the opportunity to be assessed in their native language as a useful first step prior to undertaking training delivered and assessed in English . |
| 2 | Indeed it may be asked why companies whose first duty is to their shareholders should put huge sums into the education system . |
| 3 | The International Association for the Study of Pain set up a Taxonomy Committee whose first job was to generate an agreed definition of pain . |
| 4 | Your paper has reported the Commission for Racial Equality 's formal investigation into the assessment for special needs of children in Strathclyde whose first language is not English . |
| 5 | The internal and external threats faced by many countries " hardly justify the sums being spent on armed might " , and finance agencies were " entitled to ask whether it makes sense to help governments whose first priority is not to develop , but to add to , military strength " . |
| 6 | In addition , it proved to be very difficult for the Council to acquire land in suitable areas to provide alternative building sites for applicants whose first choice of site was unacceptable to the planners and the Planning Committee |
| 7 | Applicants whose first language is not English should consult the section in this prospectus for overseas students ( see page 55 ) . |
| 8 | One of these , the Salle des Maréchaux , the principal reception room whose first floor windows with their balcony gave on to the gardens ( facing the Place de la took place within it could be watched by those who were not participating . |
| 9 | The way she looked at them was odd , because there was no story here as yet , no drama whose next development or twist of plot or big scene we were all awaiting ; remember , they had not yet met or even looked at each other . |
| 10 | THE HONEY SMUGGLERS , psychedelic groove merchants whose second EP ‘ Besides Which ’ is out now on Ultimate , play Oxford Jericho Tavern |
| 11 | I am a southerner whose first job was in Leeds , whose second job was in Edinburgh and whose third job was in London . |
| 12 | That is why it is so important that , as one of the conclusions of the Maastricht settlement , it was agreed that the 12 countries should set up an organisation loosely known as Europol whose first job would be to set up a Europeanwide drugs intelligence unit among the Twelve , which should lead to a greater level of co-operation with our continental partners to stop Ecstasy and other drugs coming into the country . |
| 13 | I 'm sure those people whose first language is Welsh — a language that has an unbroken oral history stretching back farther than any other currently spoken European language — or any language other than English , would agree that it does not feel ‘ more natural ’ to use their mother tongue — simply ‘ natural ’ , full stop . |
| 14 | Here are some sentences ( written by people whose first language is not English ) where we would not have used " the " : No movement in the British literary history before Aestheticism … |
| 15 | When we examined the larger sample of people whose first jobs after initial unemployment we obtained a very similar picture of a positive relationship between temporary working and recurrent unemployment . |
| 16 | Those people whose first job on leaving unemployment was a " temporary " one were more likely to suffer multiple spells of unemployment , to hold many jobs , to experience a longer time in unemployment and a shorter time in employment over the 20 months following their initial registration than those whose first job was a " permanent " one [ see Tables 4.3.5 ] . |
| 17 | The Muslim faith has many similarities to that of the fundamentalist Free Presbyterian Church whose last stronghold is on the Isle of Lewis . |
| 18 | ‘ This is not about beauty or trying to appear younger , ’ says the artist whose first name is Mireille but wants to be known only as Orlan . |
| 19 | Making over £500 each to sell in total for £1,560 they exemplified the local interest there is in this internationally-acclaimed artist whose last exhibition , before he died in 1969 , was in Belfast . |
| 20 | The fiscals are lawyers whose first concern is with the proper and fair application of the law . |
| 21 | Cook for 1 hour 43 minutes and you have Death Becomes Her , a frothy souffle whose first bite melts deliciously in the mouth but soon leaves you champing for some meat . |
| 22 | But the man whose first year as chairman has co-incided with the most traumatic period in Liverpool 's history , spoke out to ease the pressure on Souness . |
| 23 | He sounded like a man whose next line would be ‘ I 'm in a meeting ’ . |
| 24 | Nelson Mandela is the kind of celebrity that agents , publishers and film-makers dream of : a man whose seventieth birthday party filled Wembley , who outstrips Mother Theresa as a universal symbol of virtue and who has backstreets named after him 6,000 miles from home is not a difficult commodity to package . |
| 25 | Once an outline of the story and a general layout of the plot have been decided , they should be discussed with the composer or arranger of music whose first task may be to create a proper beginning with the overture . |
| 26 | ‘ It 's a great feeling to get another title under my belt , ’ said Foulds whose last success came in the 1988 Dubai Duty Free Masters . |
| 27 | I was half expecting some serious , mumbling classical music type , but instead I found an intelligent and lively personality whose last opera was a portrait of American comedian Jack Benny . |
| 28 | This was a much more comfortable victory for Kelburne than the score suggests for two of Torbrex 's goals were scored late in the game by Gordon Shepherd whose second strike came from a penalty a minute from time . |
| 29 | A shady jeweller would want to know that , but the answer was helpful to the police whose next task after recovering the goods and identifying those handling them was to trace the true owners and discover when the theft had occurred . |
| 30 | 1.22 We have paid particular attention to the needs of those children whose first language is not English : these are discussed in paragraphs 2.7 to 2.12 and in chapter 10 . |