Example sentences of "by [noun] whose [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At least such is the picture presented us by biologists whose political sympathies and social attitudes tend towards liberalism and socialism . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , the proliferation that has occurred is serious , since it entails an acquisition of nuclear weaponry by states whose ruling groups may become desperate enough to use it . |
| 3 | These were manned by guards whose only access to the towers was by way of a single rope which they had to climb in a gymnastic fashion ; they then pulled up the rope and remained in the towers for the rest of the shift . |
| 4 | MUCH of the most thought provoking cricket writing over the years has been produced by authors whose major interests lie outside cricket . |
| 5 | Though this term was originally applied to invasion of the visceral tissues of an animal by parasites whose natural hosts were other animals , it has now , in common usage , come to represent this type of invasion in humans alone and , in particular , by the larvae of Toxocara canis . |
| 6 | At home , some of the children are wrapped in cotton wool by parents whose natural instinct is to cosset their sick or disabled child . |
| 7 | Under the Arctic night sky we are going gentle uphill without effort , hauled by dogs whose only noise is a gently effort-driven panting . |
| 8 | Jonathan Dollimore 's and Alan Sinfield 's collection Political Shakespeare : New Essays in Cultural Materialism , for example , contains work by writers whose same essays in other contexts are labelled New Historicist . |
| 9 | We must beware of hysterical solutions to complex problems urged by people whose real motive is often hatred of industry and capitalism . |
| 10 | At the moment the academy has a nearmonopoly of the subject , and I would like to see it broken , in a recognition of the traditional cultural truth that good criticism can be written by poets and novelists , and indeed by people whose professional concern is not with literature at all . |
| 11 | Here are some sentences ( written by people whose first language is not English ) where we would not have used " the " : No movement in the British literary history before Aestheticism … |
| 12 | The farm minister also went on to say that the fundamental flaw in the package was the attempt to halt the drift from the land by people whose main reason for leaving farming was that they could attain a higher standard of living elsewhere . |
| 13 | Moreover , in dealing with a phenomenon as complex as war — which produces an infinite variety of situations and is conducted by means whose technical features alter almost from year to year — there are inherent difficulties in laying down the law in the form of treaties . |
| 14 | The view that written language and spoken language serve , in general , quite different functions in society has been forcefully propounded , hardly surprisingly , by scholars whose main interest lies in anthropology and sociology . |
| 15 | At the same time , however , discussion tended to be dominated by certain sets of people ; by academics , by Americans , by mathematicians and scientists , by people with little experience of younger children or of the teachers who normally guide them , by scholars whose passionate concern for their own disciplines and the elegance of thought within them may have outweighed their concern for the school curriculum and the balanced development of school children . |
| 16 | Of course , from a strictly scientific viewpoint these individual biographical studies can be criticised on the grounds that they are biased towards rather special cases ; added to which , as Becker points out , such accounts were usually written by clinicians whose professional interest in the abnormal inevitably caused them to focus on signs of pathology . |
| 17 | However , there was available to them an unlimited quantity of quality seasoned wood , excellent metals and fabrics , and sound examples of rare stone , all worked by men whose seven-year apprenticeships made them masters of their craft . |
| 18 | The statutes made peasant communes rather than individuals responsible for redemption payments , with the result that an economically successful peasant was prevented from bettering himself quickly by peasants whose entrepreneurial inclinations were less well developed than his own . |
| 19 | There is nothing more I can do to help them , nor can they collect any low-preference votes that may have been given to them by voters whose higher-preference votes have been given to candidates of other parties . |
| 20 | At present , the development of such components relies heavily on individual initiatives taken by historians whose own research involves some element of computation . |
| 21 | This was also the reality of the covert world , fuelled by information others did not know relayed by carriers whose real identity was hidden ; a world of secret agents , mystery papers , dreadful imaginings and improbable suspicions . |
| 22 | ( This last observation unwittingly evokes the constraints imposed by Oxbridge chapels and by cathedrals whose spacious acoustics may sometimes invite slower speeds and may discourage some kinds of dynamic variation . ) |
| 23 | By the eighties , affluence was expressed , to a growing degree , in the purchase of a second home , often by city-dwellers whose alternative residence hastened the endemic decay of village life — or open political hostility in Wales where a campaign of house incendiarism by some cultural nationalists , the ‘ Sons of Glyn Dŵr ’ , punctuated the otherwise peaceful history of the principality from the 1960s to the 1980s . |