Example sentences of "people whose [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But right now what is needed is a bottom-up approach ; entrusting the forests to those increasingly organised peoples whose survival has depended for generations on environmental knowledge . |
| 2 | Marx and Engels , like all their contemporaries , including anthropologists and archaeologists and Morgan in particular , felt that information gained about contemporary peoples whose life depended on a simple technology was valid for understanding the social institutions of prehistoric populations who had relied on a similar technology . |
| 3 | Such vacuous waffle , pretentious to boot , is of great interest to the harpooned whale , the slaughtered dolphin , the elephant murderously poached for its tusks ( repellent netsuke ) and to the primitive peoples whose rain forest habitats are felled for chopsticks . |
| 4 | Administrators also reacted with less than a becoming degree of sympathy to the problems of neighbouring agricultural peoples whose population was outstripping their resources in land . |
| 5 | The emancipation of the serfs had been drawn up at a time when most of the tsar 's principal advisers belonged to the age of Nicholas I. Within a year of the promulgation of the statutes , most of the chief posts in the empire were held by people whose sympathy with the new social order was greater than that of the emancipators . |
| 6 | They are … the people whose position and activities enable them to fuse and mediate both neighbourhood involvement and social services care … |
| 7 | Perhaps , together , these totems could banish the modern-day spectres of inflation and spending cuts ; of strike action that endangered hospital patients or people whose houses were on fire ; of lying politicians and rampaging football hooligans ; of the seemingly irreversible rise in unemployment , and the terrible inner-city disturbances of the summer of 1981 , from which the country was still reeling , and which had brought a suddenly sinister resonance to otherwise neighbourly sounding places . |
| 8 | ‘ In this new environment business requires many more highly qualified people whose skills and abilities play a major part in determining competitive advantage . ’ |
| 9 | There has also been criticism of members of my family for behaviour which was judged to be unseemly for people whose responsibility is to set a good example . |
| 10 | There are many informal groups of older people whose purpose is to meet these very needs , groups organized by residential and day-care units , luncheon clubs , church-based groups , social clubs and many others . |
| 11 | For those people whose ego ideal has ruled them with especial strictness , the group situation can appear particularly attractive . |
| 12 | Although I do n't want to work with people whose music I ca n't stand and people who are assholes . ’ |
| 13 | Now she is considered seriously under threat from people whose views of women would , under other circumstances , be treated as unworthy of respect . |
| 14 | They are also talking to managers , union officials , local government officers , estate agents and similar people whose views and knowledge are relevant . |
| 15 | It is especially important with regard to those people whose views are very different from one 's own . |
| 16 | There will be no wavering from the course of reform , there will be no more compromises with people whose views are beyond the pale . |
| 17 | Support was evident from small business people whose firms were bankrupt , housewives who found themselves queuing for the basic necessities and civil servants and skilled workers whose salaries had fallen in real terms as a result of the inflation . |
| 18 | Sarsby , ( 1984 : 130–1 ) echoing Cheater , points out that ‘ anthropologists have tended to study people whose values and life-styles are different , even in their own society … [ seeking ] the unfamiliar at home as well as abroad ’ . |
| 19 | If the emphasis is on people whose holiday activities are more or less self-explanatory , a main title ( which can be pre-recorded onto the beginning of the tape or superimposed live over the opening shot by your camcorder 's titling facility ) may be all that is required to set the scene . |
| 20 | I guess I 've been lucky in finding people whose playing I love and who I do n't have to tell what to do . ’ |
| 21 | I have had the great privilege to know some very talented young people whose dreams did come true . |
| 22 | I cried desperately for recognition at people whose identities I had confused . |
| 23 | People whose disabilities begin with severe illness or injury find themselves in medical hands whether they like it or not . |
| 24 | The pamphlet could be seen as nought but a placebo for people whose intelligence is being seriously under-rated . |
| 25 | Babies were not the only people whose rights were being demanded at the end of the Second World War ; other groups , too , submerged in anonymous poverty through years of unemployment , had in wartime received for the first time their fair share both of work and of food , and were now making it clear that neither malnutrition nor the grinding degradation of worklessness could any longer be tolerated by the ‘ lower classes ’ of the victorious nations . |
| 26 | In those circumstances , does he really think that a dying Parliament , a week after the Maastricht summit , should empower a lame-duck Prime Minister to use the royal prerogative to sign that treaty without any consultation with the British people whose rights will be affected far more than this Parliament ? |
| 27 | The other group of people whose space and autonomy we routinely violate in this way are children . |
| 28 | I am one of those people whose money burns a hole in the pocket whenever anything promising arrives on the market . |
| 29 | It is being paid by people whose money , as of 1 July , has been halved in value . |
| 30 | Well over half of those killed are young children or elderly people who are overcome by smoke and fumes while they sleep at night — people whose chances of survival would be drastically improved if only they were able to reach safety in time . |