Example sentences of "[noun sg] whose [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Kingman Committee included traditionalists of an older generation such as Peter Levi , Professor of Poetry at Oxford , and Patrick Kavanagh , a poet whose conservative views were well known from his regular column in the Spectator . |
| 2 | The thrust of the above arguments is the suggestion that there is , or is widely believed to be , a trade-off between efficiency and equity whose precise form is unknown . |
| 3 | In Sweden a combination of government concern and consumer pressure have already put a ban on the use of chlorine whose only purpose is to give soft paper products that pseudo-sterile ’ whiter-than-white ’ look . |
| 4 | But power presided over by a benevolent father figure whose only motive was to do his best for humanity . |
| 5 | He was not just ahead of his times , but a timeless figure whose prophetic words were cast as perceptive wit . |
| 6 | A supporter of home rule , trade unions , and free trade he was an influential back-bencher and a prominent Liberal advocate whose wide business experience informed his sometimes humorous but always cogent participations in debate . |
| 7 | This political framework filled a continent whose physical characteristics were a long and indented coast , few very high mountains , moderate rainfall and temperature and much fertile land . |
| 8 | His hairstyle , baggy clothes and non-comformist attitude made him a rebel without a cause , a punk whose greatest claim to fame was his ability to drive a golf ball further than the average par four . |
| 9 | To think that he , a mere footie fan whose main worry used to be which trainers to don for the teen-mag centrespread , should bravely take on lyrical biggies like politics , passion , life , death , apathy , religion , hope , irony and despair . |
| 10 | Under the expansionist management of Don Ryder ( a former financial journalist whose later success took him , inevitably it might seem , to the House of Lords ) the company diversified — into wallpaper products for example , By 1971 , Reed had outgrown its parent company , which it proceeded to take over . |
| 11 | Blaming its current economic difficulties on the absence of multilateral aid ( frozen since the coup ) , the government announced on Aug. 26 that it was temporarily withdrawing from the Andean Pact , the five-country trade bloc whose other members were Bolivia , Colombia , Ecuador and Venezuela . |
| 12 | Centralized state control of the economy had proved grossly inefficient , fostered privilege and corruption , and given rise to a ‘ totalitarian ’ party dictatorship whose terrifying powers of coercion controlled even the innermost thoughts of its citizens . |
| 13 | He saw Mary , standing by the doorway , looking at him directly as he rode towards her , unflinching in her look at this stranger whose jingling tackle whinnied against the soft crush of the accustomed evening sounds of the valley , the sun behind him and he , as he drew near , as intent on her . |
| 14 | A precision instrument whose chief virtues were useless to anyone in this age . |
| 15 | The mandate , it seems , extends to discussing directly with Andrea Corcoran , the engaging lawyer whose unfortunate task it has been to negotiate on the CFTC 's behalf , a solution to the intricate questions of extra-territoriality and segregation of clients ' funds on the London Metal Exchange . |
| 16 | ‘ Si arrangia ’ says the lawyer whose double-doored apartment , three marble bathrooms , designer-dressed wife and powerful car bear no relation to his apparent income as an employee of the Comune . |
| 17 | The Voces Quartet , consisting of four professors from the conservatory in Iaşi ( Moldavia ) , is a most accomplished ensemble whose playing shows understanding as well as outstanding technical assurance : the rather edgy 1980 recording does not flatter it , but its quality is nevertheless evident . |
| 18 | The first step also included tetramethylrhodamine isothiocyanate ( TRITC ) labelled rabbit anti-L1 or unlabelled rabbit anti-S-100 protein whose red signal was achieved in the last incubation step by means of TRITC labelled anti-rabbit IgG . |
| 19 | It reckons its nearest competitor is AST , a successful pioneer whose big iron software is less appealing in these days of client/server machines . |
| 20 | These parsers build the parse tree by starting with a rule whose right-hand side is a sentence , S. The rules are progressively expanded down to the rules having the lexical categories that match the input . |
| 21 | The power of Blois-Champagne now threatened the Capetian rule whose royal domain around Paris was encircled . |
| 22 | The Hauz Khas medresse was a college whose academic reputation was as wide as the Sultanate itself . |
| 23 | There were not enough , however , to stop them being blitzed in the final by a Warblers side whose quaint victory song underlined a cutting edge . |
| 24 | Spartak have a good reputation away from the Lenin Stadium and the Kop will need to be at its most intimidating to be of any help to a Liverpool side whose only consistency this season has been their inconsistency . |
| 25 | Generally in rational expectations models in macroeconomics the policy rule generating the prediction for a variable comprises an equation whose determining variables typically comprise both lagged endogenous variables ( e.g. values of and lagged exogenous variables ( e.g. ) . |
| 26 | ‘ I bought Picnic because Nick Skelton told me to , he knew I did n't have the biggest cash flow in the world , ’ Steven Smith said of a horse whose awkward streak would have been reflected in the price . |
| 27 | Freddie Head , rider of Pistol Packer , opined that ‘ Mill Reef was the best horse I 've ever seen ’ , and the French press compared him with the horse whose stunning victory in the Arc six years earlier had marked him out as the very best horse of the era : ‘ Comme Sea Bird II — mais plus vite ’ , raved Paris-Turf He was indeed plus vite , for his Arc time of 2 minutes 28.3 seconds set a new course record . |
| 28 | Nietzsche was soon to substitute a new opposition whose polar extremes were occupied by visual art and music . |
| 29 | The Maggot , Ellen insisted , was an untoilet-trained redneck jerk whose only expertise was as a player of the most brutal and mindless sport to be devised since the lions took on the Christians . |
| 30 | In these occasional pieces , he is revealed as a psychological critic whose apparent ability to immerse himself in another poet 's personality comes close to an act of clairvoyance . |