Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] whose [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they seemed to work for researchers whose single-minded concern was to delineate the biochemistry , neurophysiology and cell biology of learning and memory . |
| 2 | The Edinburgh side are now at full strength which is bad news for Kelburne whose international players , David Fowler and Michael Starling , have to readjust to the indoor set-up after their trip to Cairo last week with the Scottish outdoor squad . |
| 3 | This leads to a system of values whose chief criterion seems to be lack of popularity ( that is , of commercial success ) , whose musical politics is governed by a continuous effort to be ‘ challenging ’ and ‘ difficult ’ so as to outwit the equally continuous capacity of the industry to exploit innovation , and whose approach to production is based on a ‘ folk spontaneity ’ model which sees ‘ real ’ music-making as arising ‘ naturally ’ , independent of the influence of existing codes , roles and practices . |
| 4 | It was not just that they helped out at the occasional by-election , but that they ‘ pointed to new sources of support whose eventual accommodation , and to new issues whose eventual resolution , would ultimately modify the party itself and help equip it for the challenges of post-war politics ’ . |
| 5 | His underground hideout is protected by all manner of nasties whose sole reason for living is to tear Jeremy limb from limb or , failing that , pinch his film ! |
| 6 | The 1980 Constitution , which was put into effect in March 1981 [ see pp. 30619-20 ; 30931 ] , provided for the re-establishment , effective 1989 , of the bi-cameral National Congress , consisting of a Senate of 38 elected and nine appointed members , all of whom were to serve an eight-year term , and a Chamber of Deputies whose 120 members were to be directly elected for a four-year term . |
| 7 | During the 1960s and 1970s , she and her late husband collected mainly Surrealism and Chicago Imagism , and knew a number of artists whose chosen works were in the collection , including Calder . |
| 8 | In as much , however , as the cultural forms thereby produced become the external environment through which emerge other groups whose interests are not identical , and indeed may be contrary , to their own , we are faced with the situation described in the discussion of building styles above , where the dominated group is forced to attempt to invest itself in the domain of culture represented by the built environment in terms of a set of objects whose initial meanings are antagonistic to its own interests . |
| 9 | In addition to containing the Banking Department of the Bank of England , the monetary sector includes a very large number of institutions whose principal function is to take deposits and to make loans . |
| 10 | The family had changed , and its various functions of education , food production , and the manufacture of clothing were already in part relinquished to a variety of institutions whose smooth functioning rested on the intervention and guidance of the nation state . |
| 11 | In Sweden a combination of government concern and consumer pressure have already put a ban on the use of chlorine whose only purpose is to give soft paper products that pseudo-sterile ’ whiter-than-white ’ look . |
| 12 | Those were the broken spears and spinning , shattered wheels of chariots whose mournful death had so affected her as she had tried to protect Scathach from the Scald-crows . |
| 13 | This task is an important one because of the enormous amounts of program in the hands of organizations whose original writers have long since left without leaving any description of what they had done . |
| 14 | These holes will probe the vertical relations between types of rock whose horizontal relations nature has already revealed in creating the Troodos massif . |
| 15 | Darwin accordingly opened his Notebook B , in July 1837 , with an integrated sequence of entries whose twenty-seven pages of argumentation were to match the structure of Lyell 's exposition of Lamarck . |
| 16 | The old standards have decayed , the aristocracy no longer take the intellectual lead ; men of letters and booksellers are left face to face with a multitude of readers whose intellectual appetites and tastes are emancipated from all direct influence and control . |
| 17 | Similarly , despite Lupus 's heartful pleas , Charles decided to leave St-Josse in the hands of Odulf whose continuing fidelity it guaranteed . |
| 18 | Hence an important tool of management whose common usefulness could be judged by the essential partners to collaboration failed to provide what had appeared to be promised — and one says " appeared " because it may have been the wish of some college managers not to allow information by which their efficiency might be judged to become available to other parties . |
| 19 | Agony aunt Claire Rayner said last night : ‘ People are often despairing — especially in the cases of offspring whose ageing parents fear they will not be properly looked after when they have gone . |
| 20 | Henry , it transpires , is very much the protege of Jane whose negative experiences of residential living have combined with a complex of personal problems and have generated an anger that she has tempered to a cause . |
| 21 | After the plans had been shelved , the whole place had been leased out to various small-time manufacturers and warehousemen ; the broken-down sheds and godowns must still be the property of somebody , so too must be the piles of crates whose stencilled lettering had long since faded to pallor . |
| 22 | The Department of Social Security has clarified the National Insurance contribution position of directors whose personal bills are paid by their employing company and who then reimburse the company by reducing the credit balance of their loan/ current accounts . |
| 23 | The only child of parents whose steady outrageousness was only charming to outsiders — oh , the luck , Anna used to think as a child , oh , the sublime luck of being an outsider ! — Anna , at university , sought out friends who seemed to be defiantly normal . |
| 24 | At the same time it was essential to maintain the goodwill of enthusiasts whose voluntary support they intended to use . |
| 25 | In the absence of its national chief , José Antonio Primo de Rivera , the party had become divided into a number of factions whose mutual animosity was only kept in check by their common interest in a Nationalist victory in the war . |
| 26 | They see the Church as something negative ; a group of Christians whose main cry is ‘ You must not do this and you must not do that . ’ |
| 27 | The apostle Paul , answering the anxious questions of Christians whose loved ones had died , reminded them that Jesus ' own victory over death makes it certain that those who have come into a close relationship with him will share his new , full life which goes beyond the grave . |
| 28 | They believe that the world is flat and triangular ; that it is composed of seven distinct habitations … and that each is surrounded by its own peculiar sea ; that one sea is of milk ; another of sugar ; a third of butter ; a fourth of wine ; and so on … [ also that ] the whole of this world is supported on the heads of a number of elephants whose occasional motion is the cause of earthquakes . |
| 29 | If individuals in the society ( except for those at the very top and the very bottom of the social ladder ) are socially mobile in each direction to some extent , then the " continuum " can be seen as consisting of a collection of individuals whose linguistic competences in intermediate varieties ( or " lects " ) overlap to form an unbroken chain linking the archetypal Creole ( or " basilect " ) with the Standard ( or " acrolect " ) . |
| 30 | Its peerless blue crab and shellfish support fleets of fishermen whose rakish skipjacks still travel under canvas . |