Example sentences of "of whose [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Otaka 's penchant is for the post-Wagnerian Romantics , particularly Strauss , three of whose works he conducted . |
| 2 | It is up to the reader to keep track of whose turn it is to speak , and to retain the distinctiveness of the characters and their roles . |
| 3 | A case of gamekeeper turned poacher , given that she had been a fast-stream entrant to the Treasury , much of whose function it is to resist that sort of demand . ’ |
| 4 | 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 ) … |
| 5 | The Enham material has been discussed at such length because it suggests much about contemporary conditions , and is essential to an understanding of the documents which Wulfstan wrote under Cnut , some of whose actions must have been disapproved . |
| 6 | Bush proposed a 6 per cent increase in the budget of the Department of Health and Human Services , the bulk of whose spending was concerned with income support and medical assistance . |
| 7 | Relatively recently , feminist scholars , now drawn closer through common experience to an older generation many of whose values they had challenged , have extended their concerns and pushed forward a more subtle questioning of women 's experience of ageing and how it might differ from men 's as a result of inequalities right through the life cycle . |
| 8 | Noting the claim of central and local government that they are simply the servants of the public and not its masters , the discussion paper for this seminar raises the question of whose values inform policy decisions which affect local communities . |
| 9 | Sixties author Todd Gitlin , appalled , wrote a piece called ‘ The end of the age of Aquarius ’ , in which he asked : ‘ If there is so much bad acid around why does n't this contaminated culture , many of whose claims are based on the virtues of drugs , help its own brothers and sisters ? |
| 10 | The Zoffany was offered to the Tate , who want it but all of whose energies are at present devoted to acquiring another work by Zoffany , the Willoughby de Broke ‘ Family at Breakfast ’ . |
| 11 | Boniface was looking back to an age in which the privileges of the churches of the Anglo-Saxons had been untouched and inviolate , or so it was thought , and he saw this age as ending — as he tells Aethelbald — in the time of Ceolred , king of the Mercians , and Osred , king of the Northumbrians ( both of whose reigns ended in 716 ) , whom Boniface accuses of behaving as Aethelbald was now doing and as a consequence of which they both perished miserably . |
| 12 | The curiosity of Sainte-Croix , however , is a small dome over the crossing ( inside the tambour that is ) , the ribs of whose vaulting are interwoven to make an eight-pointed star pattern ; this unusual work was done by Spanish stonemasons in the thirteenth century , on the model of the Great Mosque at Córdoba . |
| 13 | Its architect was J. L. Pearson , a highly accomplished church designer , most of whose work was for the ‘ High Church ’ wing of Anglicanism . |
| 14 | The house was built in 1573 by the sculptor Leone Leoni , ( an example of whose work we have seen in the Duomo ) . |
| 15 | Meeting Ricci later , Galileo also learned about Archimedes , a Latin version of whose work had been published in 1543 . |
| 16 | As part of a series of exhibitions which reassess the work of individual sculptors , Galerie Patrice Bellanger is presenting an exhibition of the work of Joseph-Charles Marin ( 1759–1834 ) , pupil , rival and friend of Claude Michel Clodion , an exhibition of whose work is on at the Louvre . |
| 17 | And it is interesting , as Toril Moi ( 1985 ) points out , that in her discussion of literature , Millett concentrates almost wholly on male authors , with the exception of Charlotte Bronte , of whose work she tends to be very dismissive . |
| 18 | I have been asked by your Committee to tell you something of Professor Cizek and his School of Arts and Crafts for children in Vienna , reproductions of whose work can be seen exhibited on these walls . |
| 19 | Bradstreet 's first wife Anne [ q.v. ] achieved note as a distinguished poet , much of whose work described aspects of their family life . |
| 20 | A certain amount of further confusion about Molla Fenari 's death date is created by Nesri , the earliest extant version of whose work ( a draft text , possibly an autograph ) contains a marginal note , in the same hand as the text , stating that " Mevlana Shams al-Din Fenari died in 838/1434–5 , despite the fact that his death has previously been noted as having occurred in 832 : the statement is incorporated in the text of an early manuscript of the later recension of Nesri but is omitted in the Ankara edition . |
| 21 | Of particular interest , in sculpture , is the Herefordshire School , of whose work Kilpeck Church is the outstanding example . |
| 22 | Castells , much of whose work was based on France in the late 1960s , argued that new kinds of social and political alliances were being organised around collective consumption . |
| 23 | As an emancipated woman of the 20th century , much of whose life was spent in New England , Yourcenar feels compassion for those whose lives were thwarted by what she calls the philistinism of 19th-century Catholicism , that of her Belgian ancestors in particular . |
| 24 | This is so irrespective of whose possession the goods were in at the time . |
| 25 | They entered a large garden , which was protected from the heat by the umbrella of a huge and ancient vine , the shadow of whose leaves dappled the paved floor . |
| 26 | Even in the merchant activities of the outports , however , a great number of people were taking shares in trading ventures , and from much further down the social scale than was the case with the East India Company , only 1.6 per cent of whose investors held less than £100 in 1764 . |
| 27 | Not showing this year are Agnew 's and the Redfern , both of whose galleries are in extremely close proximity to the Royal Academy . |
| 28 | A princess fair , the whiteness of whose skin would shame th ’ Arctic snows to a blush , the brightness of whose hair would provoke fabl 'd Helen to a fit of the envious humours … ’ |
| 29 | ‘ On the contrary , ’ he smiled thinly , ‘ Petula 's the only one of whose love and fidelity I have no doubts . ’ |
| 30 | But you talk with a group of youngsters , one of whose friends has just been flown back from a border patrol paralysed for life ; or to a big warm-hearted farmer who tells you , as he jokes with his grandchildren , how he sleeps with his rifle beside his bed and watches every road for landmines — and you see the other side of the coin . |