Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] whose [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Please accept my application and enrol me as a member of The Literary Guild and send me the introductory books whose numbers I have printed in the boxes provided . |
| 2 | Please accept my application and enrol me into Quality Paperbacks Direct , and send me the five introductory books whose numbers I have printed in the boxes provided . |
| 3 | Second , I shall consider how this framework was used by the subject working parties whose job it was to produce the detailed lists of statements of attainment . |
| 4 | Within their data they found recurrent ungrammatical constructions whose forms they characterised and included in the parsing grammar . |
| 5 | He was fearless in his attacks on public figures whose actions he considered unconscionable . |
| 6 | In 1915 and ‘ 16 he had proved he had n't lost his old touch , and so died in bed at a great age , garnished with colourful honours , many of them from grateful countries whose soldiers he had n't got killed even on purpose . |
| 7 | Is the pig in there with the whale and the dolphin , the dog and the monkey , in that charismatic class of clever animals whose heads we 're forever trying to get into ? |
| 8 | Sometimes they approach language as if it expresses power relations and subjectivity directly , and originates from the very autonomous , fixed subjects whose existence they are challenging . |
| 9 | Following disclosures to the press that the World Wide Fund for Nature ( WWF ) invests in trans-national companies whose activities it campaigns against , WWF has agreed to re-invest in " ethical and Green " companies . |
| 10 | Material culture studies derive their importance from this continual simultaneity between the artefact as the form of natural materials whose nature we continually experience through practices , and also as the form through which we continually experience the very particular nature or our cultural order . |
| 11 | Those socialist feminists whose contributions I find most exciting and challenging have drawn back the curtains to expose the contradictions and complexity of desire . |
| 12 | He could even turn up as one of soccer 's infamous ‘ jobsworths , ’ the stony-faced commissionaires whose job it is to keep ticketless journalists in a state of blind panic . |
| 13 | There were letters to write , interviews to give , meetings with eminent writers whose work he might never have read or of whom he had no very high opinion , and of course the official round of duties : a speech at the Alliance Française on 19 January , and another at a lunch of the Anglo-Swedish society two weeks later . |
| 14 | As the apostle of revolution against unjust government he became the bête noire of the Sussex establishment , burnt in effigy by the very groups whose conditions he hoped to improve in a series of loyalist demonstrations in local market towns during the 1790s . |
| 15 | This was the corner to which she had tottered , her mother holding her on white leather reins , her legs encased in knitted leggings whose scratchiness she could still remember . |
| 16 | The regrading of every qualified nurse in post has of course proved to be a colossal and traumatic exercise for both management ( acting under Department of Health directives ) and the nursing unions whose job it is to mediate on behalf of members . |
| 17 | With respect to certain of the other temporary workers whose use we studied in more detail , it was not their employment status which was of interest but the way in which their " temporariness " was distinguished [ see Chapter 7 ] . |
| 18 | Given the widespread feelings of disillusionment abroad in 1976 , Carter 's strategy of offering himself as a new broom was electorally well judged , but if he impressed the voters , his relentless and sanctimonious moralizing irritated and alienated legislators whose support he would eventually need . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Medieval hierarchies survived into an epoch of industrial capitalism ; feudal military castes presided over national states and industrial societies whose needs they did not understand . |
| 21 | As David Shulman , equity strategist at Salomon Brothers , was the first to point out , the danger for investors these days lies less with the few hot shares whose rise he misses than with the many dubious ones already in his portfolio . |
| 22 | The most important elements specifically missing from both of these formulations are the professional purveyors of the culture-ideology of consumerism , the mass media and promotional personnel whose task it is to sell the consumerist goals of the global capitalist system to the masses . |
| 23 | For his supporters , the resignation was an embarrassing puzzle : why had he resigned so soon after accepting the presidency , as a result of a quarrel with a " system " that he had largely created , over constitutional principles whose significance he had never bothered to explain to the French people ? |
| 24 | But in 1816 there were no American poets whose names I could recall . |
| 25 | International banking is an interesting business anyway , but what makes it rather more interesting in this case — both to me and to the hapless Ohioans whose money I am selling — is that I am 25 years old with just one and a half years banking experience . |
| 26 | She could n't bear that — could n't stand to become just another in a long line of faceless women whose names he probably could n't even remember . |
| 27 | In addition , museum assistants or other personnel whose task it is to prepare the objects for visitors and to supervise their access to the collections may have more time for other tasks . |
| 28 | Sometimes he would secretly watch other eagles whose territory he had trespassed over , to learn from them the art of quartering back and forth over an area to find prey and flush it out |
| 29 | Marley had a revolutionary 's zeal and a charismatic presence which made him an intensely romantic figure not only to the young blacks whose predicament he articulated , but also to the white rock audience . |
| 30 | The development of radio and television , of new technologies to record speech , create new emphases whose significance it is as yet difficult to grasp . |