Example sentences of "whose [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her father ( about whose parentage there is some mystery ) had given up his army commission and gone into business . |
| 2 | Even a prince whose parentage was known could not be certain of succeeding his father , especially if his mother had been discarded from the royal bed . |
| 3 | And another senior colleague Steve Mcleod on my right , whose primary responsibility is with the value for money work that we undertake on your behalf . |
| 4 | I do n't know whose T-shirt 's whose . |
| 5 | Kelly concludes : ‘ Obviously there are still choices about whose money you 'll accept . |
| 6 | But what it meant to both of them was that all the money was frozen because there was a dispute over whose money was what and how much money had been spent — that was a problem for David and for Tony . |
| 7 | But whose money was it that tempted these stupid girls ? |
| 8 | I am one of those people whose money burns a hole in the pocket whenever anything promising arrives on the market . |
| 9 | ‘ It depends on whose money it is , ’ he said . |
| 10 | The discussion groups ( Appendix II , section 5 ) show how easily a change for the worse in someone 's circumstances can lead to debt troubles : the man in hospital after an accident at work , who then had a breakdown , while overdue credit instalments mounted up to over £100 and led to a court summons ; the family who owed £30 a week on furniture and carpet instalments for their new flat — eventually taken to court after a series of lost jobs ; or ( Appendix III ) the previously secure young widow whose money troubles started when her husband died — although an understanding bank wrote off the outstanding balance on a car loan , a furniture firm refused to accept the reduced instalments which were all that she could afford . |
| 11 | If his vigilance fails , he faces the wrath of ordinary people : depositors whose savings are at risk and taxpayers whose money is used to stop one bank collapse from knocking down the entire banking system . |
| 12 | The client , whose money it is , has the final say . |
| 13 | He did not suspect whose money was helping him become a partner . |
| 14 | The idea seems self-evident : a local authority occupies a position of trust , or a fiduciary duty , in relation to the ratepayers whose money it is using , and who are the beneficiaries of the services being provided . |
| 15 | International banking is an interesting business anyway , but what makes it rather more interesting in this case — both to me and to the hapless Ohioans whose money I am selling — is that I am 25 years old with just one and a half years banking experience . |
| 16 | It is being paid by people whose money , as of 1 July , has been halved in value . |
| 17 | Whose money ? |
| 18 | It left open the question of whose money had paid for the House of Fraser but made clear that nothing in the career of Mr Mohamed Al Fayed could account for such new-found wealth . |
| 19 | The new day ward is named after the late Doris Field , whose money helped get it going . |
| 20 | By 1980 it was clear that such villages were doing little to improve the lot of their members , whose livelihood now depended on their effective integration into the cash economy . |
| 21 | LAURENCE SMITH , the former London and Saracens centre , whose livelihood as a fireman has been affected by a serious leg injury sustained while playing rugby a year ago , has an international benefit match at Southgate on Monday afternoon . |
| 22 | If the demand for pedigree dogs and the size of the dog population in general falls as a result , this is the price that all whose livelihood depends on pet dogs will have to pay . |
| 23 | The first task is to separate out cultivators , who are defined as landowners or tenants whose livelihood was in agriculture , usually the production of rice . |
| 24 | Worst hit are the hundreds of thousands of landless plantation workers , whose livelihood has disappeared . |
| 25 | Both worry about the fishing villages whose livelihood has been commercial whaling . |
| 26 | Pete has a bottle of Bourbon in his hand and is telling stories about Powell , whose ghost still haunts every Colorado River trip . |
| 27 | We asked her ‘ Whose ghost are you ? |
| 28 | Scrooge 's late partner whose ghost appears in a Christmas |
| 29 | Malton and however , were hammered 29–0 in the Shield competition whose try scorers were lock forward Ian Richmond ( 2 ) , number eight Andy Read and full back Keith Thompson . |
| 30 | Hartlepool went down 22–13 whose try scorers were Courty , Smith and nall , Hails kicking two conversions and two penalties . |