Example sentences of "of whose [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact the revised economic development strategy which Professor Lock probably does n't have a copy of , refers to inward inward investment as being desirable erm and is of critical importance but whilst it will be vigorously sort in this way it has to be said that the bulk of North Yorkshire suffers from a relative lack of financial incentives from Central Government in terms of whose regional policy does not have a priority . |
| 2 | The most dismal performance is by Pravda , the official party paper , of whose regular readers only 36 per cent had renewed their subscriptions . |
| 3 | Regional Council president Gérard Longuet has been holding discussions on this agreement since June not only with Les Verts but also with Génération Ecologie , two of whose six representatives also announced their support for his administration . |
| 4 | Thérèse Oulton , an exhibition of whose recent paintings opens at Marlborough Fine Art this week , is well placed to shrug off this doubtful legacy . |
| 5 | The NHS Management Executive has now created a prescribing team , one of whose first actions has been to require that prescribing is a priority for medical advisers . |
| 6 | PANAMA is the latest in a series of rogue regimes , the menacing state of whose internal affairs has led to armed intervention by other countries — and to an unresolved international tangle about the legality of such action . |
| 7 | But how strange it was , the changes which the past two or three weeks had brought : not merely the changes of circumstances ; her father and his hoped for promotion , herself going to the Stadium , Omi talking about herself , Fritz … but the whole relationship inside the family had altered , and she herself had changed , and it had begun with the arrival of Uncle Karl , as if he were a sorcerer , a wave of whose manicured hands could transform life , as alchemists thought they could transform base metal into gold or , with a certain sinister frisson , perhaps the other way around . |
| 8 | It has been surprising , nevertheless , to find how much time is being devoted in schools and colleges to a subject of whose real identity there is no general agreement ( p. 2 ) . |
| 9 | There would be sentences whose observational consequences we know but of whose other contribution ( whatever that may be ) we are ignorant . |
| 10 | He was patron to Michelangelo , some of whose best sculpture were intended for Pope Julius ' tomb . |
| 11 | Between the Cuckmere valley and the kingdom of Kent settled a group whose identity remained fairly coherent until the days of the Norman conquest but of whose political influence we know but little ; these Haestingas seem to have come within the South Saxon ambit but served also as a buffer in the continued kingly wars of the early centuries . |
| 12 | Such a vision was present in the preceding generation of modernists ; in Lionel Trilling , Irving Howe , Greenberg and Daniel Bell and others , many of whose political origins were Marxist . |
| 13 | After Titania 's quatrains — the most artificial verse-form in drama , presupposing as it does that the speaker has four lines already prepared , with rhymes , confident of not being interrupted — Bottom 's prose truly belongs to the world of unromantic everyday appetites : Bottom may have been ‘ translated ’ in shape , but nothing can elevate him to verse and romance — apart , ironically enough , from his role as Pyramus , out of whose Pistol-like doggerel he is ever ready to step in order to explain the play : ‘ She is to enter now , and I am to spy her through the wall . |
| 14 | The ceremony took place in the Max-Joseph hall of the Residenz , the former Wittelsbach royal palace , most of whose former residents — according to one aghast Munchener — ‘ would n't have allowed Waldheim through the kitchen entrance ’ . |
| 15 | The collapse of tin prices in the 1980s destroyed the tin-mining industry , many of whose former employees have since turned in desperation to growing coca . |
| 16 | The classic example of this was William Marshal , the fourth son of a Wiltshire baron , the story of whose successful career on the tournament field is told with loving detail in L'Histoire de Guillaume le Maréchal . |
| 17 | Hailey 's chief preoccupations , then , were to find ways of keeping educated Africans ( of whose mental capacities he took , incidentally , a dim view ) from making a successful bid for power at the centre of the colonial system , and to see that there was no unconsidered rush to reform at the level of the localities . |
| 18 | In the case of Britain , Wedderburn ( 1974 , p. 31 ) notes that the failure of the 1971 Industrial Relations Act , many of whose legalistic provisions had US antecedents , ‘ might serve as a warning against over simple enthusiasm for the translation of developments from other countries into the British framework ’ . |
| 19 | He love his friend , the beauty of whose manly limbs made him tremble with pleasure . |
| 20 | Here , purchase decisions are influenced by a variety of different roles , each of whose relative importance needs to be understood by the marketer selling goods and services subject to such multiple influences . |
| 21 | My authority for saying that is the Reader in Sociology at Queen 's University , Robert Cormack , some of whose latest findings have been discussed in this newspaper by Claire McGahan this week . |
| 22 | They were all just welcoming me , ’ added Mr Clinton , part of whose 20-minute talk with Mr Yeltsin was shown on TV . |
| 23 | The Organization of African Unity ( OAU ) , some of whose 51 member states had resumed , or intended to resume , diplomatic links with South Africa , maintained at its summit in Abuja , Nigeria , that sanctions should continue until all vestiges of apartheid were removed [ see p. 38279 ] . |
| 24 | On the one hand was the traditional knight of chivalry , the figure of the romances , and , more recently , of the new chivalric orders , one of whose social functions was the defence of those in physical need and danger . |
| 25 | London management , currently headed by Lord Gowrie ( rumours of whose impending departure continue to circulate ) and Timothy Llewellyn , will report to her . |
| 26 | They comprise affixes ( dis like , kind ness , John' s , wait ed , com ing , black en , etc. ) and independent words ( sometimes called markers ) , such as articles , conjunctions , prepositions and so on , a major part of whose linguistic function is to signal the grammatical organisation of sentences . |
| 27 | Initiatives in the 1970s , by adherents of Liberation Theology , to redefine the relationship between the Church and politics in Third World areas , and the charisma of activists such as the 1960s Colombian guerrilla-priest Camilo Torres , have helped the Sandinistas , three of whose leading figures are ordained priests . |
| 28 | Furthermore , Mr Chris Mullin , the author of the book which asserts the innocence of the six people convicted of the Birmingham bombing ( Error of Judgement , Chatto and Windus , £10.95 ) is a former editor of Tribune , one of whose previous works was a novel about that tedious left-wing fantasy : a right-wing coup in Britain . |
| 29 | Coenwulf had several brothers and would seem to have been a member of a very powerful kindred , some of whose landed estates were centred on the region of Winchcombe , but none of his forebears had reigned as kings and Alcuin 's observations in a letter to the people of Kent in 797 that scarcely anyone was to be found now of the old stock of kings and the more obscure their origin , the less their courage , could certainly be construed as a slight on Coenwulf . |
| 30 | This was important for relations with the existing women compositors , none of whose own jobs was under threat . |