Example sentences of "whose [noun pl] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among those detained in January and February were reportedly some 50 imams whose sermons the new authorities claimed were prejudicial to public order [ for Jan. 22 prohibition of political activity in mosques see p. 38703 ] . |
| 2 | The main achievement of the summit was the signing of a mutual tariff reduction agreement under whose terms the six would establish an ASEAN Free Trade Area ( AFTA ) by the beginning of 2008 . |
| 3 | You have also helped purge the hormonal tensions of older cadets in whose bodies the new glands strive to balance . |
| 4 | She led us past a series of dun-walled anterooms through whose windows the burnished leagues of the East River fired off all their flame . |
| 5 | The summer of 1381 saw the outbreak of the Peasants ' Revolt in England , an uprising against the government of the day , to whose causes the financial demands of war and the inability ( or unwillingness ? ) of the royal administration to defend adequately the coast of southern England against French and Castilian incursions of increasing frequency and intensity certainly contributed . |
| 6 | A parade of martyred scientists would show by whose hands the real errors had been committed . |
| 7 | They argue that ‘ directors and top executives , in whose hands the major strategic decisions lie , are , in fact , owners of large stockholdings themselves ’ . |
| 8 | By 1901 there were just over 10,000 ministers at work in England and Wales into whose hands the faithful could , if they wanted , surrender their consciences . |
| 9 | Neither the figure of Farrakhan nor that of Gadaffi is likely to appeal to the ethnocentric constituency , whose votes the National Front has traditionally sought . |
| 10 | Those in favour included 19 Liberal Democrats , without whose votes the Conservative government ( which commanded a 21-seat overall majority in the House ) would have lost the vote . |
| 11 | Why is she fascinated by a style perfected under a dictator whose crimes the Soviet people are just beginning to understand ? |