Example sentences of "[noun] [Wh det] own [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would be improbable that men totally unqualified for their rank would be placed in a fleet commanded by the patron whose own career might be damaged by inefficiency , but given the situation in the fleet , of far more qualified applicants than available places , the choice was likely to fall upon a friend of a friend . |
| 2 | Kitson was a prolific inventor whose own difficulties in financing and manufacturing his patents had led him to a radical critique of the banking system . |
| 3 | Thus , the effects of unemployment and associated poverty in the younger generation bear hardly ( and will increasingly do so ) upon one especially vulnerable section of the elderly population ; further depriving a group whose own material and financial disadvantage is striking . |
| 4 | Generally , as with the York and Durham texts mentioned above , such ephemera often only exist today when entered into formal manuscripts whose own chances of survival were relatively good . |
| 5 | Leeds boss Howard Wilkinson whose own title defence is in tatters , admitted : ‘ There are eight or so teams up there , but there is no indication that any of them are putting together the kind of run that looks ominous ‘ Blackburn showed the sort of confidence against us that comes from the feeling that you have got a chance . |
| 6 | As we indicated in the discussion of sampling , the survey method , especially the explanatory survey , has been subjected to severe criticism and from social researchers whose own careers have been forged within the tradition of variable analysis . |
| 7 | A penguin keeper whose own family has flown the nest has taken on the role of mother to one of her birds . |
| 8 | Only families whose own interests were limited to a single area of ducal or comital influence could afford to ignore the other lord . |
| 9 | Only families whose own interests were limited to a single area of ducal or comital influence could afford to ignore the other lord . |
| 10 | In the Commons , Opposition leader John Smith provoked Tory shouts of fury when he asked : ‘ Is n't it inappropriate for the inquiry to be set up and asked to report to the very regional health authority whose own actions may be the subject of the inquiry ? |
| 11 | In the neighbourhood of a given probe , X , the most distant neighbour can be defined either as that probe whose own neighbourhood shares the smallest number of probes with X , or/and as that probe with the smallest number of clones connecting it with X . |
| 12 | People whose own names she was no long certain of called out her name and she smiled and nodded by way of general response . |
| 13 | Davide was still committed to preferring it to the alternatives , the vendettas , the feuds , the bloody score -these ways were for barbarians , for people like Sicilians , or Neapolitans , people whose own blood was all mixed up with Spaniards ' . |
| 14 | Obviously we have n't gone for wholesale personnel changes , so you 're the hook on which we 're hanging the idea , a new programme manager whose own image is the station 's — young , smart , sophisticated and committed to the music . |
| 15 | If you , an ambitious young squire or the equivalent ( a grade 2 clerk ) are allocated a knight whose own baron or mentor is out of favour , or whose manager is out of fashion , your ambitions will be thwarted . |
| 16 | Lehman 's fine collection of Sienese paintings is well documented by Ferderic Mason Perkins , the American whose own collection of primitives now belongs to the Franciscan friary at Assisi , who published articles on the subject in Art in America in 1920 and ‘ 21 . |
| 17 | Former convict John McVicar whose own prison career was turned into a film says the Home Secretary must share the blame for the murder of any inmates in Strangeways . |
| 18 | She was far too conscious of the man whose own appetite seemed unimpaired by any of the emotions that were troubling her more and more . |
| 19 | The man whose own animals are missing when wanted has , in his turn , to ‘ hire' ’ , and so there is a continuous round of misappropriation , to which the whole community is more or less privy . ’ |
| 20 | Claudia raised her eyes to the man whose own eyes were fixed with deadly intent on her , and silently asked Dana 's forgiveness for what she was about to do . |
| 21 | Quite an influx for a city whose own population is around 75,000 . |
| 22 | At Sheriff Hutton , as at Middleham , the core of the affinity consisted of men whose own estates lay close to the castle and it is among these that continuity is likely to have been strongest . |
| 23 | At Sheriff Hutton , as at Middleham , the core of the affinity consisted of men whose own estates lay close to the castle and it is among these that continuity is likely to have been strongest . |
| 24 | Meanwhile , in America , there was Patti Smith , fully fledged cult idol and female rock star whose own heroes were largely male ( Morrison , Richards , Jagger , Rimbaud ) and whose sexuality was ambivalent in her look and in her poems and music . |
| 25 | Against landowners whose own fathers had had to flee from the Crown 's killers in ‘ Forty-six ? |
| 26 | At present , the development of such components relies heavily on individual initiatives taken by historians whose own research involves some element of computation . |
| 27 | Lane had been assisted by a woman police officer , Detective -Sergeant Phyllis Henley , a thickset girl , whom he had called in because she was an old friend or enemy of Roxie whose own life had not been without criminal excitements . |
| 28 | For instance , a board member whose own firm is on the wrong side of a squeeze should not misuse his board position to try and break the squeeze . |
| 29 | Belgium is the extreme case of a country whose own institutions are so weak that EC integration seems the only substitute . |
| 30 | Stanley Kalms , the Dixons chief whose own bid for what was then called Woolworths was repulsed three years ago , said the offer document did not disguise an attempt to acquire his company on the cheap . |