Example sentences of "whose [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its tree-like structures provide shelters for the polyps , the anemone-like organisms from whose secretions it is built . |
| 2 | That led them to a Kamalian whose secretions matched the saliva found at the scene of the crime . ’ |
| 3 | If politics is regarded as conflict over whose preferences are to prevail in the determination of policy , then the budget records the outcomes of this struggle . |
| 4 | It is well established that there are voters whose preferences are influenced by the alphabetical sequence in which candidates ' surnames appear on the ballot paper . |
| 5 | But voters whose preferences have been distributed between these two parties will have been doing no more than indicate acceptable alternatives , of which the basic pattern must have been , " Let that candidate of Party B have my vote IF and only IF my higher preference for this candidate of Party A has not been effective " . |
| 6 | But Jarvis 's greatest pleasure came from knowing that this line , whose builders had had to work in compressed air because of the high water-table in downtown San Francisco , passed through the rock under the deepest bay in the world . |
| 7 | ( e ) any investment company , unit trust or other person whose investments are managed by an associate on a discretionary basis ; |
| 8 | ( d ) a fund manager ( including an exempt fund manager ) with any investment company , unit trust or other person whose investments are managed by the manager on a discretionary basis , in respect of the relevant investment accounts ; |
| 9 | But the game ended in a victory for the BNFL lads whose scorers were ( 2 ) , and , who the players voted man of the match . |
| 10 | The evidence for this came from birds collected near the host 's nest , whose throats were often found to contain an egg . |
| 11 | The Consumer Congress called for a working party to draft a code of good practice and it was intended that working party should make use of the information generated by the 1988 transport workshop , whose discussions were reported to the congress . |
| 12 | The lenders , whose objects were left in embarrassing limbo when the show made museum history and went bankrupt a month early , may have asked themselves whether they would have been prepared to lend had it not been held at the V&A , and , in fact , it was the V&A which was left with the unbudgeted task of getting the exhibits back to the owners . |
| 13 | Wales YFC is an affiliated member of CPRW and the definition of such is ‘ a corporate member whose objects appear to the Council to be similar to those of CPRW ’ . |
| 14 | However , the important additional point in that case was that the transferor foundation was in principle and in fact a legal person whose objects were non-commercial . |
| 15 | The little semi-det that Maxim 's parents had bought when they retired to the outskirts of Littlehampton sported a Geor-gian bow window , timber cladding above the garage — which had a metal door — and tile-hung patches around the first-floor windows , whose balconies were just big enough for a seagull to stand on . |
| 16 | I referred to it and you oddly enough in a handwritten letter to my father the other night after referring to Lord XXXXX one of whose contemporaries and friends is coming to stay here a couple of nights next week , and who has been a pillar in the fabric of my life , a man for whom consistency , continuity and courtesy are all — and who is often concerned at the unhappiness which is my ? ? ? ? ? ? ? it is in anything other than a bit of paper , which most of my old friends who wish me well , doubt ) … |
| 17 | The successful reader is one who can transcend her social background to make a sympathetic adjustment to a writer whose norms and values may be those of a different age . |
| 18 | Then there are the large international hotels whose operations are geared to the needs of overseas travellers . |
| 19 | A fragile alliance between them had crumbled in February 1989 , and fighting ensued when the LF were forced to relinquish control of the ports whose operations they had hitherto controlled [ see pp. 36476 ; 36538 ] . |
| 20 | In terms of applications , multimedia databases offer obvious advantages to any organisations whose operations are based on documents , drawings and images . |
| 21 | Fish are unable to spawn as their breeding grounds are buried or destroyed by sand banks created by the dredgers , whose operations render water undrinkable as far as 60 km downstream . |
| 22 | British Gas will endeavour to procure such goods and services from suppliers whose operations are controlled in an environmentally acceptable manner . |
| 23 | There were no French madrigalists but , beginning in the 1560s , the native polyphonic chanson was given new life by the immensely popular example of Lassus , whose chansons are often shot through with madrigalian techniques . |
| 24 | He took her to the biggest house , whose womenfolk she knew well . |
| 25 | The splendid open aspect in all directions probably accounts for the building of Britain 's highest Iron Age hill fort whose ramparts encircled the plateau . |
| 26 | When an enzyme binds to its ‘ substrates ’ ( that is , the substances whose reactions it catalyses ) , the bonds formed are again non-covalent . |
| 27 | The French mathematician Descartes remarked on the similarity between this sort of toy and the behaviour of animals , arguing that the latter were nothing more than automatons whose reactions were constantly triggered by events in the environment ( Jeannerod 1985 ) . |
| 28 | He supports these contentions with the words of parents of children with trisomy 21 whose reactions to , and following , the birth of their children belie the simplified professional stereotypes which he sets beside them . |
| 29 | Perhaps it is inevitable that the west empathises more with countries whose cultures it comprehends better than those of Africa and Asia . |
| 30 | More recent casualties have been Asil Nadir and Roger Levitt , whose groups have now crashed with stunning speed . |