Example sentences of "but whose [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this respect , interest in the celebrated networks , managerial staff who receive technical support from RX but whose contract is defined solely by time or task , has overshadowed the more important alterations to the relationships between RX and its supplier network ( Judkins et al. , 1985 ) . |
| 2 | Wilson , who was not due to face a gubernatorial election until 1994 , but whose position as a possible future Republican presidential candidate was already damaged by his decision to raise taxes in 1991 , had been adamant that the deficit should be rectified through public expenditure cuts rather than by further tax increases . |
| 3 | but whose mass is greater than the ringed planet ? ’ |
| 4 | The latter are clearly evidenced by Gilgamesh , who contemptuously repudiates the normally irresistible advances of Ishtar , goddess of love , but whose feelings for his friend Enkidu are ‘ like those of a man for a woman ’ . |
| 5 | And let us hope that the reader , on summing-up this look into the past at the Gorbals of yester-year , may say : ‘ These were real people , ordinary men and women , whose passage through the Gorbals not only added colour to a drab area of this Scottish city , but whose presence may remain a lasting influence for good . ’ |
| 6 | There are other categories of prisoner , too , smaller in number but whose presence raises serious questions about human rights . |
| 7 | But he has brought with him the Furies who appear at key moments of the action — the spectral creatures whose gaze he can not endure but whose presence he understands , since he believes he has murdered his wife . |
| 8 | He 's become skipper Mike Gatting 's problem boy , a player who bats like a dream but whose behaviour is becoming a nightmare . |
| 9 | Hence there is a painful dilemma for the policy-maker between treating a problem as a black box which will not go away but whose size does not seem intimidating and is amenable to exorcism by benign rhetoric and minor policy adjustments ; or as a more diffuse , analytically complex and sophisticated explanation of why most of the problems exist . |
| 10 | That creature was of course Dowd , whose existence was known to the Society 's members but whose origins were not . |
| 11 | We conclude that further diagnostic tests are required for patients whose clinical course suggests CF , but whose sweat test result is normal . |
| 12 | No-one was more anti-populist than Charles Leslie , admittedly a rather extreme Tory , but whose Rehearsal was nevertheless a powerful vehicle for the propagation of Tory ideology for the middle years of Anne 's reign . |
| 13 | Camp is a response to pop performances that are artificial , ludicrously stylized ( Liberace , Tom Jones , Shirley Bassey ) , but whose stars enter into it all with a seriousness , a passion that affects with its holy , innocent imbecility . |
| 14 | A magazine that virtually invented the ‘ designer ’ lifestyle of Soho and Covent Garden , but which operates from the light-industrial slums of London 's Farringdon Road ; which obsessively dissects the most costly clothing , but whose editor , Sheryl Garratt , is a friendly size 14 in sloppy shirt and leggings ; a paper that lists 40 smart writers on its masthead — but buys in their columns and does n't employ them on its staff . |
| 15 | In this a group of friends form a syndicate to create the Hopkin myth , inventing biographical details ( ‘ a near genius living in the country with a romantic proletarian background , possibly a dipsomaniac mother and so on ’ ) for a painter who does not exist but whose paintings they churn out in a fashionable style ( ‘ with dots , crescent shapes and bright colours ’ ) and exhibit in a sensational first exhibition . |
| 16 | It was a fascinating glimpse of a people who in the sixteenth century had never seen a wheel or a sea-going ship , had never faced an armoured knight on horseback or the fire power of crossbows and guns , but whose roads and lines of communication through the incredible terrain of the Andes , whose methods of agriculture by irrigation and whose whole political set-up , so close to what we know as Communism , was in some ways more advanced than that of their conquerors . |
| 17 | ( 3 ) those who are vulnerable to particular types of event , but whose circumstances either make their occurrence unlikely , or provide resources for dealing with the event should it occur ; |
| 18 | But whose interests does it really serve ? |
| 19 | It is at first sight difficult to account for the anomalous position of Birmingham , which has a rather high productivity score , but whose proportion of first papers in the core journal set is low . |
| 20 | In addition , there are also examples of a more eclectic but " static " figural sequence , whose composite arrangements are extremely rich in figures but whose figures are linked only conceptually or are envisaged as nothing more than numerous , individual representations . |
| 21 | We learned soon that the money for Frank had come from the wife of our new romantic juvenile , Laurence Wheldon , a blonde and willowy man whose good looks far exceeded his acting powers but whose wife 's money was underwriting the company , to say nothing of her husband 's ambitions . |
| 22 | Whose proprietor was currently , as they say , in prison , but whose wife , mother and seven sisters were running the place . |
| 23 | A police riot squad has helped baillifs evict a family who 'd paid their rent , but whose landlord had n't paid the mortgage . |
| 24 | In the case of an article written by five authors , for example , the availability of one extra slot may work to the advantage of a colleague whose goodwill is valued but whose involvement with the project had been only marginal ; such circumstances may help create a dip in the number of articles with five authors ( figs 2 and 4 ) which further accentuates the peak at six authors . |
| 25 | But whose bones were they ? |
| 26 | She asked : but whose bones were they ? |
| 27 | The Board 's task would be to help fledgling media and in particular media with extensive readerships but whose inability to attract advertising support , perhaps because of their politics , puts them in constant danger of closing down . |
| 28 | Betty Jackson may well be a designer whose clothes you admire but whose price tags you ca n't afford . |
| 29 | Even crystal beads , whose actual source is unknown , but whose type of geographic distribution places them with this group , has a similar fall-off with a peak at Sleaford . |
| 30 | Lund ( 1984 ) looked at three groups of six- to nine-year-old children post-divorce : those with no contact with the non-custodial parent , those with access but whose parents were in conflict , and those whose parents worked harmoniously together . |