Example sentences of "[noun] whose first [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 | I am a southerner whose first job was in Leeds , whose second job was in Edinburgh and whose third job was in London . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 … |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 ] . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . |
| 16 | The fiscals are lawyers whose first concern is with the proper and fair application of the law . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Passionate debate is provoked by the problems of children whose first language is not English . |
| 22 | Children whose first language was not English were excluded from the sample . |
| 23 | Definitions of ‘ special needs ’ varied widely in the questionnaire responses — some defining it as children with disabilities , some including children with behavioural and emotional problems and some including children whose first language was not English . |
| 24 | It continues the work of the Bristol Language project , supervised by Dr Gordon Wells , and follows up the foreign language school-based progress of the children whose first language developmental data were gathered by the Bristol team in the early 1970s . |
| 25 | Pupils whose first language is not English |
| 26 | And the time is six sixteen and still to come , parents and teachers protest over plans to cut help for pupils whose first language is n't English . |
| 27 | Hundreds of parents and teachers have lobbied Parliament to protest about the government 's plan to cut help for pupils whose first language is n't English . |
| 28 | Change and complexity in the social security system can further disadvantage claimants whose first language is not English ( NACAB , 1991 ) . |
| 29 | It should be made clear to English-speaking pupils that classmates whose first language is Bengali or Cantonese , or any other of the scores of languages spoken by the school population … have languages quite as systematic and rule-governed as their own . |
| 30 | The first English school in which sex education was formally given was Abbotsholme School whose first headmaster , Cecil Reddie , introduced the idea in the autumn term of 1889 . |