Example sentences of "whose mother " in BNC.

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1 But elsewhere in the country in general they were usually done by indigenous working-class women whose mothers had often had similar jobs before them .
2 They observed that the colic was worst in those babies whose mothers ate all the commonly implicated foods such as milk , eggs , chocolate , nuts and fish .
3 American children whose mothers were called up during last year 's Gulf War felt they had been abandoned , an in-depth study of their feelings showed .
4 The definition ‘ Bangladeshi ’ refers to infants whose mothers were born in Bangladesh , and the few mothers who were born or grew up in Britain .
5 Children whose mothers smoke ten or more cigarettes a day after the fourth month of pregnancy tend to show poorer progress at school , at least up to the age of 16 [ 14 ] .
6 It costs £700 a year to keep a child in a council day-nursery , and only children in real need — i.e. those whose mothers can not or will not care for them adequately at home — will get a place .
7 I 've talked to other people whose mothers came to naturopathy in the fifties , and it 's been explained as a way of eating posh for those who do n't know about Continental food .
8 It occurs in babies whose mothers were anaemic during pregnancy .
9 Kangas-Saarela et al found that babies whose mothers had received epidural analgesia with bupivacaine had higher neurobehavioural scores than those whose mothers had not received such analgesia .
10 Kangas-Saarela et al found that babies whose mothers had received epidural analgesia with bupivacaine had higher neurobehavioural scores than those whose mothers had not received such analgesia .
11 Editor , — In 1990 three cases of retinoblastoma were reported in children whose mothers had spent part of their childhood in Seascale and whose maternal grandfathers had worked at Sellafield nuclear plant .
12 There is a considerable increase in retinoblastoma in children whose mothers have lived in Seascale during the period of operation of the Sellafield nuclear plant .
13 We now know that babies whose mothers are depressed continue to be affected even after the mother has recovered .
14 This was the case with a significant number of the girls talking here , for instance , Lorraine and Cathy , both of whose mothers had had children in their teens , and consequently had felt very sympathetic to what their daughters were going through , and Debbie 's mother , who had been more upset because she did not want her daughter to have the same sort of life as she had had .
15 However , a number of babies are born with Down 's whose mothers were n't in an obvious at-risk category .
16 The syndrome of imperfections that make up " maternal depletion " coupled usually with lower educational level and larger family size evidently account for the lower survival chances of infants and young children whose mothers were beyond age 39 at the birth .
17 In spite of this , in the individual developing countries , with the exception of a few ( probably due to the small sample size for the extreme age categories ) , and in all developing regions , levels of mortality are much higher for infants born to women who have not reached age 20 and those aged 40 and over than to babies whose mothers were in the middle of their childbearing ages ( i.e. in the 20–39 years age group ) at their birth .
18 Whatever the cause and by whatever path the impact is felt , there is no gainsaying the fact that there is a clear differential in levels of infant and early childhood mortality by age of mother at birth of child and that this differential tends , on balance , to favour the children whose mothers were about 20 to 35 years of age at their birth .
19 Even infants whose mothers were 40 years old or older had a better chance to survive infancy if their fathers were 25–39 years old than if they were 40 years or over .
20 As observed in statistically developed countries ( Acsadi , 1959 ) , birth weight is lowest for babies whose mothers were 16 years old or younger at birth .
21 In all but seven of 38 WFS countries located in three major developing regions and having the requisite statistics , the mortality of infants whose mothers had migrated from a rural to an urban place was higher than of those whose mothers continued to reside in rural areas of that country , while statistics for 26 out of 36 WFS developing countries suggest that movement of a woman from an urban to a rural place increases the health hazards and reduces the survival chances of infants .
22 In all but seven of 38 WFS countries located in three major developing regions and having the requisite statistics , the mortality of infants whose mothers had migrated from a rural to an urban place was higher than of those whose mothers continued to reside in rural areas of that country , while statistics for 26 out of 36 WFS developing countries suggest that movement of a woman from an urban to a rural place increases the health hazards and reduces the survival chances of infants .
23 Death rates of toddlers and children aged 2–3 years whose mothers had moved from urban to rural areas were lower than of children born to non-migrant urban mothers in all but eight and four countries , respectively .
24 Findings for Peru serve as an example : levels of mortality among children whose mothers had no schooling were 3.0 , 12.3 and 12.1 times higher , respectively , for infants , children aged 1 years and those 2–3 years old than those whose mothers had 7 or more years of schooling .
25 Findings for Peru serve as an example : levels of mortality among children whose mothers had no schooling were 3.0 , 12.3 and 12.1 times higher , respectively , for infants , children aged 1 years and those 2–3 years old than those whose mothers had 7 or more years of schooling .
26 In 1962 Mednick and Schulsinger in Copenhagen examined 207 high-risk children , born between 1941 and 1954 , whose mothers had chronic severe schizophrenia .
27 A study has shown that children whose mothers lived near the Sellafield nuclear reprocessing plant are at greatly increased risk of developing eye cancer .
28 For example , to many women pregnancy can prove fatal ( those women whose mothers have a history of death during labour ) and diabetics and even in today 's society where medicine is very advanced , as a precaution , many doctors advise abortions .
29 Von Karajan had been a member of the Nazi party , and saw no reason publicly to mourn musicians who had been persecuted ; Abbado by contrast is a left-winger whose mother was imprisoned by the Nazis for hiding a Jewish child .
30 Courtfield was the happy family home of our founder , Cardinal Herbert Vaughan , whose mother , Eliza , spent an hour a day praying for religious vocations for her thirteen children .
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