Example sentences of "whose name " in BNC.
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| 1 | REVOLUTION , literature and love , and the roads and side-roads which join them together , are concerns which join together the Czech writers Milan Kundera and Ivan Klima , whose name is used by Kundera for the uxorious philanderer of his novel The Farewell Party . |
| 2 | He is a schoolteacher , 29 years old — the age of Christ at Calvary , whose name is often in his mouth , averse though he is to ‘ deities ’ , and perhaps of Hamlet , whose words enter the novel . |
| 3 | ‘ Our Social Correspondent writes : ‘ Sir Vivien Blacker is a leading member of London Society whose name has been linked with many of our most nubile heiresses . |
| 4 | And the woman — whose name , it happened , was Aurora — whittered on about an infidelity performed against her by a titled husband , an imminent divorce , a Sunday paper scandal . |
| 5 | It was natural , too , for his unattached son to be smitten by the courage and buoyancy of Masha Klinitsky-Klein — whose name in Yiddish , appropriately , means ‘ brave ’ . |
| 6 | Bees — the bumble and the honey — and butterflies — red admirals and small , delicate blue ones whose name I did not know — tilted at each other in the warm summer air . |
| 7 | Just a short distance away , where the Whitechapel Road has turned into the Mild End Road , was another East End concern whose name had become part of a company with national interests — Mann Crossman and Paulin of the Albion brewery . |
| 8 | To be fair to him , he had repeatedly hinted that , when the evidence was in , it would show that Pound 's contribution went far beyond the mere passing of judgement on particular passages ; and indeed it turned out that the very structure of the poem had been extricated by Pound , rather than conceived and composed by the poet whose name appeared on the title-page . |
| 9 | Both in his sternness and in his generosity , Davie is strongly reminiscent of a much earlier writer , whose name is invoked towards the end of Under Briggflatts . |
| 10 | Mr Heseltine , its chief architect , was one of the first to dump it , especially when he fought the proposal of Consortium Development to build a town whose name was as instant an invention as its community would have been : Stone Bassett , like Consortium 's Tillingham Hall before it , was turned down by Mr Ridley , who was not the permissive planning minister he was often thought to be . |
| 11 | The detective , whose name and rank have not been given , is a member of the Essex force and worked at the Brentwood office of the No 5 Regional Crime Squad , covering a large area of East Anglia and the South-east . |
| 12 | One involved a man called Raymond Fryer , whose name was shown up by tests on notes of an interview between a detective and Jones . |
| 13 | Girobank is looking for JA Ashton , a mythical customer whose name has appears in brochures and leaflets promoting the bank 's services . |
| 14 | I raised my eyes , distracted for a moment by the blonde splendours of Golden Beach , to the more distant peaks of Ipsarion and its neighbour , Profitis Ilias , glowering over our idleness like the Old Testament patriarch whose name it bears . |
| 15 | Coming out of the meeting , a lady was heard remarking , ‘ Mr Ramsey spoke very nicely but I do think he is young to be Master of a College ’ ; for she thought that he was the new Master of Magdalene whose name was the same except for the spelling . |
| 16 | He was also an English thinker whose name was respected on the continent of Europe . |
| 17 | Most of this has to do with Veronica Lake 's deep , husky voice : a smoky spirit whose name and form collectively conjured up a feminine aura of water , vapour , air , smoke and flesh at the same time ; a floating dreamboat that any boy of six would be proud to be married to . |
| 18 | So I said to the organist , whose name was Bobby Page , ‘ I 'll come up on the organ . ’ |
| 19 | The football League was recently sponsored by a Japanese camera manufacturer whose name had to be repeated when publishing or broadcasting results . |
| 20 | The Fund was launched on March 26 , 1968 as a lasting and practical memorial to the much-loved British musician whose name it bears . |
| 21 | A new parish priest will be arriving here for next Sunday , whose name is Fr John Molyneux . |
| 22 | The Kingfisher group , whose name was changed from Woolworths earlier this year , includes about 720 high street shops under the Woolworths name , electrical retailer Comet with 307 outlets , Britain 's leading DIY group , B&Q , and Superdrug , the high street chain which last week announced that it is buying Medicare from the Gateway supermarket chain 's new owners Isosceles . |
| 23 | In a police statement she said : ‘ On Malta he visited a friend who owns a bakery and a brother whose name is Abdes Salam . |
| 24 | CARL PREAN , the man whose name does not appear in the English rankings , again showed that he is the country 's current outstanding player by beating Desmond Douglas to win the Macartney and Dowie Classic in Brentwood yesterday . |
| 25 | Some he 'd learnt off the Frenchman — whose name is such a household name it escapes me — Marcel Marceau — and Jack Birkett ( now known as The Great Orlando ) was Harlequin , who could also be Columbine . |
| 26 | Ken Pitt : ‘ It was 1968 and David and I were going across to Germany quite often to do television shows and on one occasion , the producer whose name was Gunther Schneider , asked us if David would be interested in doing a half-hour programme with him . |
| 27 | By stretching brands across a wide range of products , some groups like Pierre Cardin , whose name appears on everything from fragrances to frying pans , have damaged their image . |
| 28 | Not only did it emerge largely intact , it has been busy setting up shadowy ‘ national salvation committees ’ in whose name the army has been operating . |
| 29 | With the ground rushing up to meet him , Mr Gorbachev must decide between the revolution he grew up believing in and the welfare of the people in whose name that revolution was made . |
| 30 | He was a Libra , or the Balance , the seventh sign of the Zodiac whose name indicates that day and night , being of equal length , are being weighed ‘ in the balance ’ . |