Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] whose [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How can a cultural paradigm whose main principle is de-differentiation contribute to a political culture grounded in the apparently opposite principle of difference ? |
| 2 | Beccaria starts by looking at the justification of the right to punish ; he concludes that it is to be found in the social contract whose central tenet he declares to be ‘ the greatest happiness of the greatest number ’ ( it is possible that he is responsible for originating this particular cliché ) . |
| 3 | SunSoft , however , thanks to a license it inherited when it bought the Systems Products Division of Interactive Systems Corp , has a time-to-market advantage whose exact terms are still unclear . |
| 4 | When the Prince moved to a small lodge on the edge of the Steine in the 1780s fashion followed , and Brighton over the next fifty years provided perhaps the ultimate example of the marked contrast between attempts at a classical social order and a barely restrained chaos whose uneasy juxtaposition opened wider chasms in late Georgian society . |
| 5 | He saw Mary , standing by the doorway , looking at him directly as he rode towards her , unflinching in her look at this stranger whose jingling tackle whinnied against the soft crush of the accustomed evening sounds of the valley , the sun behind him and he , as he drew near , as intent on her . |
| 6 | The mandate , it seems , extends to discussing directly with Andrea Corcoran , the engaging lawyer whose unfortunate task it has been to negotiate on the CFTC 's behalf , a solution to the intricate questions of extra-territoriality and segregation of clients ' funds on the London Metal Exchange . |
| 7 | In addition to the facial motor neurons in the basal plate of r4 , retrograde tracing from the vii/viii nerve exit point revealed a segment-specific group of sensory efferent neurons belonging to the vestibuloacoustic nerve whose primary dendrites extend across the midline . |
| 8 | He was not just ahead of his times , but a timeless figure whose prophetic words were cast as perceptive wit . |
| 9 | All that I ever learned at college of philosophy had been a conception of the external world as a colourless and soundless wilderness whose true nature one could never know , which one could not even imagine — but which I did , none the less , imagine as a vast landscape of polar spaces in whose eternal twilight one wandered , preoccupied and deluded by a flicker of magic-lantern pictures which danced inside one 's mind and for ever remained private to oneself . |
| 10 | Duggie Brown is excruciatingly convincing as the sleazy , no-talent compere whose best reward is to grope all and sundry . |
| 11 | Families are still per-ceived as consisting of one breadwinner who only exceptionally is a woman , and one dependent spouse whose primary responsibilities lie in the home . |
| 12 | Set atop one of the hills which hug Lake Trasimeno , Panicale is a tranquil little medieval town whose main attraction is its views — rivalled only by its wines . |
| 13 | This collection of science/fantasy short stories unfolds like a finely crafted patchwork whose recurring motif is the woman outsider . |
| 14 | it is worth reminding him , however , that unlike the BBC , Sky is a commercial organisation whose sole interest in cricket is with the profit which can be made from it . |
| 15 | The eldest Miss Fricker never forgot the arrival of the travel-weary student whose brilliant reputation had gone so powerfully before him . |
| 16 | This means we can work out how a given circle might have been produced or drawn : perhaps it was traced by the movement of one end of a rigid rod whose other end was fixed , perhaps by a weight whirled round on string . |
| 17 | The publican at the Red Lion was Sam 's girlfriend 's brother-in-law , a popular man whose large carpark was usually well-filled . |
| 18 | It seemed unlikely that the undertaker had troubled sufficiently about those who survived him to take such precautions , but no one could speak with confidence of what had passed through the mind of this man whose deepest preoccupations seemed to be represented by a few scored lines in a medical book and a little bundle of poems . |
| 19 | venerable old Jew whose noble nature and gratitude to Fledgeby for releasing him from debts owed to Fledgeby 's father cause him to serve the young man devotedly as agent for Pubsey & Co . |
| 20 | Most observers , therefore , saw him as a tough and humourless man whose intransigent attitude had led to the quarrels with his friends ; Keats dubbed him ‘ the Egotistical Sublime ’ . |
| 21 | Where was such-and-such street , I asked , or the beautiful shop where my mother regularly bought her hats and gloves , or the church with the gilded domes , or the cake shop which had such a show of delicate confections at Christmas time , or the butcher 's where I could hardly bring myself to look at the great sides of dead meat hanging on hooks , or the musty bookshop , smelling of dust and leather , kept by the bent old man whose white hair seemed to be falling off the back of his head , leaving his bald crown all shiny and hopeful and new ? |
| 22 | Edward Ruscha , another artist whose non-visual vocabulary is often on view in his paintings , did a series of works in the Sixties and Seventies he called ‘ Liquid Words ’ . |
| 23 | I was half expecting some serious , mumbling classical music type , but instead I found an intelligent and lively personality whose last opera was a portrait of American comedian Jack Benny . |
| 24 | And so it came to pass that on Friday 24 April , at 11am our time , 94 ladies and gentleman of the British press are gathered at Stansted Airport inside a privately chartered plane whose previous occupants were Neil Kinnock and the Labour Party election campaign team . |
| 25 | MacWhirter , though settled in London from his middle years on , was a Scottish painter whose best work was in the tradition of landscape painting traced back to the early seventeenth century . |
| 26 | A German youth whose exaggerated features looked as though they had been moulded from foam rubber explained loudly to his companion how he needed the sun , the sun for him was a physical necessity . |
| 27 | Instead of cooperation we have a destructive form of conflict in a social system whose very existence depends on cooperation . |
| 28 | The Wellington is a stylish licensed hotel whose satisfied guests continue to enjoy our fully inclusive terms for bed , breakfast and evening dinner throughout the year . |
| 29 | Trotting confidently out of his burrow into a jungly , prehistoric world , he is rescued by bats from slimy , groping creatures , only to fall into cavernous waters and swim out to sea , from where he is plucked by a vulture-like bird whose hungry chicks he has ‘ fun ’ avoiding before tumbling safely home . |
| 30 | He picked up a rubber glove whose open end was sucking in brown greasy water . |