Example sentences of "and whose [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The standard land lawyer 's view of the nineteenth century heritage … is portrayed as one whose lands were fettered by the strict settlement , whose buildings were falling into ruin and whose agriculture was stagnant .
2 Margaret , who comes from a rural background , and whose sympathies have much in common with Dorothea 's , objects to this as ‘ an unchristian and isolated position ’ .
3 On the opposite side to the door and window was the staircase , and two doors ; one of which ( the nearest to the fire ) led into a sort of little back kitchen , where dirty work , such as washing up dishes , might be done , and whose shelves served as larder , and pantry , and store-room , and all .
4 In fact , the statistical significance test controversy was the precursor of concerns that turned out to be rather more fundamental to variable analysis ; concerns that were not voiced by such as Becker and other Symbolic Interactionists who wanted no truck with a sociology derived from variable analysis ( and whose criticisms we shall review later in this chapter ) , but by advocates of variable analytic and survey approaches .
5 Dermot Desmond , who secured his investment in UPH and whose executives Kevin Barry and Chris McHugh indirectly controlled the site until days before Telecom purchased it , apparently never advised him as to the potential conflict of interest .
6 But he is also a writer of remarkable ability who has managed to capture and to keep the readership he has bewildered and delighted and offended , and whose work is strong in an intelligent and generous-hearted awareness of public matters , some of them quite remote from the Family Roth : The Counterlife , for instance , carries a telling serio-comic critique of the hard line in Israel , the Israeli toughness , that refuses to ‘ give ground ’ .
7 The award of the medal is accompanied by a cash prize and is normally made annually to the candidate who , in the opinion of Analytical Division Council , has made the greatest contribution , and whose work has made the most significant impact on any branch of analytical chemistry .
8 Other able practitioners of homoeopathy in America were Allen , Nash , Boenninghausen and Boericke — all of whom added to the homoeopathic literature and whose work is still used today by students of homoeopathy .
9 It was in those days , when Margaret was still alive , that I gave my former colleague Peter Duval-Smith — whose private life and whose work as an academic journalist always seemed to be equally chaotic — the introduction to Braemar Mansions that he so much wanted .
10 We say goodbye in this issue to Kevin Chevis who has beavered away in Key Publishing 's Photo Department and whose work has graced the pages of FlyPast for the last three years .
11 The arbiter over these matters would appear to be the VPK , which is empowered to commandeer resources where required , and whose work programmes carry the force of law .
12 He knew which cinemas occasionally showed good films , and which cinemas never ; he knew about a painter who had been born in Northam , and whose work could be seen in a room at the Public Library .
13 Cleveland County has also recently set up a drawing residency with a Cypriot artist who is Newcastlebased and whose work is to be exhibited at the Cleveland Gallery .
14 The case of the Vietnamese refugees has highlighted a very broad problem , but within it , of course , there are number of differences and have been particularly involved in the question of people from universities and institutes in the Third World are uprooted and whose work is interrupted by political upheaval .
15 A In the northern part of the Beaujolais region there are 10 ‘ crus ’ or ‘ villages ’ which use their own names and whose wines show distinct characteristics of their own .
16 For a man who always looks so morose when batting — ‘ I know I look a miserable sod out there , but I ca n't help it , ’ he once said — and whose captaincy had previously seemed rather ordinary , it was a revelation .
17 It can offer advice on publications to concentrate upon for the member or officer whose interest is either general or specific and whose reading time may be limited .
18 It was impossible not to compare him with her stepfather , so cold , reserved and cautious , and whose passions seemed solely aroused by his business and moneymaking skill .
19 The heavy makeup melting even in the air-conditioning , the legless beggar who sleeps under the office porch and cleans their shoes in gratitude , the slums you can not observe because no roads go through the swamps and whose inhabitants do not exist for the State because the census officials can not reach them , the bomb-carriers serving as flower-pots , the boys selling themselves to the rich English ex-public schoolboys , the girls selling themselves to the fat German tourists , the police raping the boys and the girls they are protecting in the police-stations , the Committee officers boasting to Kate about the elegant jerk-offs in the massage parlours , their ever-decorative ever-bored wives boasting to Kate about their jewellery , the Thai girls saving up for eye and breast jobs , the luxury hotels where the high-class white whores hang out , the students shot by the military during a demonstration against the army regime , the girl students daring for the first time to stay out at night on the streets to picket , the crushing of strikes with bullets and beatings , the barring of political books in the Committee library , the anti-Communist adverts punctuating the Western films on TV .
20 So is Charles Aught , that rather camp man in advertising , who writes poems and art-criticism , and whose correspondence with his fellow-critic Elwyn West was auctioned at Sotheby 's and fetched £25 .
21 Oh , there were some very strong-minded individuals , whose papers I 've been reading , and whose correspondence is , is fascinating .
22 That leaves about 500 delegates who are still undecided , and whose views have so far been ignored .
23 Mr Ishihara is no more than an entertaining distraction in Japanese politics : a member of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party , but one with no power base and whose views count for little .
24 To manage education through a partnership requires that those who are untrained and whose views and reactions are unpredictable must be treated nevertheless as full contributors rather than as nominal collaborators .
25 Walter Sisulu , ANC deputy president , declared that " no part of South Africa , be it Ciskei , Bophuthatswana or Kwazulu , should be no-go areas for the democratic forces " , singling out three of the bantustans where political activity was restricted and whose leaders were opposed to the ANC .
26 A number of undergraduates were men in their mid-twenties who had served in the war and whose university education had therefore been deferred .
27 Of 70 male young persons and children who worked at the mine , and whose ages ranged from 7 to 17 , only 8 or 11.5 per cent were able to write — only one of the eight being below 13 years old .
28 Lord Haw-Haw , the British traitor who goes here by the name of Froelich , but whose real name is William Joyce and whose voice millions of English listen to on the radio every night , and his English wife were at the party , but I avoided them . ’
29 Dikeledi , the tough woman , who smoked and swaggered and whose voice was as hoarse as an old man 's , turned tear-filled eyes on the white woman 's face .
30 Many of the people fostering older people are middle-aged women themselves whose children have left home and whose parents or partner has died .
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