Example sentences of "the [noun sg] whose [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Below it stood the childhood doll 's house she had intended to renovate for posterity and the guitar whose broken strings had halted her on the path to world fame as a singer of gypsy ballads , in a costume of scarlet and yellow sewn with little mirrors . |
2 | The register of " form " as " template " seems to catch exactly the potentially creative status of the text whose full form will only be realised when it is enacted . |
3 | Institutions have the pathetic megalomania of the computer whose whole vision of the world is its own programme . |
4 | But to follow these maxims was the duty of the Christian whose ultimate destiny was in God 's hands . |
5 | It was still running in New York , where Ellen Burstyn had won a Tony award for her performance as the mistress whose married lover conducts their affair on a once-a-year , same-time-same-place basis . |
6 | The name of the user whose special links are to be viewed . |
7 | Cleavers , or goosegrass , the weed whose sticky stems and seeds cling to clothing , appeared among the pea vines in June , but was quickly and easily dealt with . |
8 | Two of the things we do know about communication and representation within the brain are , first , that they are brought about by nerve cells , and , second , that the neocortex is the most interesting bit of the brain to consider since it is the part whose great expansion distinguishes the primates from other mammals , and makes humankind pre-eminent among primates . |
9 | And because her bag was light , with only Miss Gemma Dallam 's brown Chinese satin in it , and her hopes as high as she ever allowed them to be , she smiled at everybody else who came her way , the fishmonger , the old-clothes dealer pushing his cart with its flea-ridden bundles ; the organ-grinder whose emaciated monkey , cowering sadly on his shoulder , always caused her a stab of pain : |
10 | In this way , new requests for credit may run up against a powerful and undeniably sensible combination of background knowledge and personal experience which rules them out , even when the applicant whose personal circumstances ring these alarm bells would have been a satisfactory payer . |
11 | The soldier whose ugly face I had glimpsed on wakening punched me in the mouth . |
12 | It was the beginning of a new family we have dreamed of for years , ’ added the actress whose Californian mansion is also home to 40 pets including racoons . |
13 | So in our search for innovation we decided , without much conviction , to concentrate on a few of the rapidly developing fields , that is on the current fashions such as biotechnology , new materials , lasers and the like , but the emphasis was to be on supporting the research whose main objective was to improve understanding in these fields rather than on products . |
14 | It had approved Jean Monnet 's proposal for a Commissariat Général au Plan , the institution whose economic plans were to play an important role in France 's postwar modernization . |
15 | ‘ Si arrangia ’ says the lawyer whose double-doored apartment , three marble bathrooms , designer-dressed wife and powerful car bear no relation to his apparent income as an employee of the Comune . |
16 | And , although they do n't realise it , nobody is listening except the barman whose only interest is in closing up . |
17 | Freddie Head , rider of Pistol Packer , opined that ‘ Mill Reef was the best horse I 've ever seen ’ , and the French press compared him with the horse whose stunning victory in the Arc six years earlier had marked him out as the very best horse of the era : ‘ Comme Sea Bird II — mais plus vite ’ , raved Paris-Turf He was indeed plus vite , for his Arc time of 2 minutes 28.3 seconds set a new course record . |
18 | Lee grinned down at the girl whose auburn head scarcely reached his shoulder . |
19 | In 1549 , two years after the close of the first session of the Council of Trent — the Council whose stupendous achievements encompassed the comprehensive definition of Catholic doctrine and the unchallengeable assertion of papal power , and which has been described as the creator of the modern Catholic church — John Hamilton , archbishop of St Andrews since 1547 , held the first of his own reforming councils . |
20 | Charles Keating Jr , the multi-millionaire whose speculative activities and subsequent financial collapse came to epitomize the massive failure of the savings and loan industry , was convicted on 17 counts of securities fraud by a California Superior Court on Dec. 4 . |
21 | The honorary HDUR president , Bishop Laszlo Tokes , the pastor whose forced removal from his parish in Timisoara acted as the catalyst for the revolution [ see p. 37104 ] , called for a halt to the wave of emigration . |
22 | The shadow of the gunman fell upon the boy whose chief study was poetry and the world of the imagination . |
23 | Off to the manger — to the boy whose little sleep |
24 | I refer to the children closer and closer to the margins of predictable deviation — the hyperactive youngster with emotional problems , which brings autism to the edge of the teacher 's diagnosis ; the child , otherwise quick-witted , who has massively disabling short-term memory and a confusion in decoding letters : what some would call dyslexia ; the child whose spatial intelligence is exceptionally and marvellously out of line with the celebratory rites of the school community , who fails in conventional school work . |
25 | A strike of social workers is not only much more limited in its impact , but affects mostly the poor and underprivileged section of the community whose political muscle is very weak and limited anyway , even though the effect of such a strike on particular individuals or families may be very grave indeed . |
26 | And , on the other side , one outcome of the Truce of Orléans was that Charles took the abbacy of Ferrières away from Odo and gave it to a member of the community whose chief recommendation ( with still more pull than his fine scholarship ) was a readiness to commit himself to Charles . |
27 | ROOT_PACK/ — is an input parameter specifying the name of the package whose selected modules are to be read out and the issue number of the package . |
28 | The room whose light Charles had seen from the front . |
29 | However anti-elitist and however defensive of a culturally democratic popular , within a modernist film criticism growing out of romanticism a canon emerges in which difference was ( and is ) identified with the author whose individual signature separates the text and the oeuvre from the cynical indifference of mass production . |
30 | In fact , the other members of the cast were wary of the actor whose leading lady , a classical actress , had walked out on him little more than a year earlier in the stage play Same Time , Next Year . |