Example sentences of "of a [noun] [noun] whose " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1985 a conference of PGCE tutors drafted a description of a core curriculum whose status remains indefinite . |
| 2 | They were also aware of an even deeper change in the texture of Christianity : it had become the religion of a warrior nobility whose values and culture it had necessarily to absorb in the process of Christianizing them . |
| 3 | A motorist who went to the aid of a lorry driver whose vehicle was on fire has been killed by another vehicle which hit them from behind . |
| 4 | What would we think today of a Lewis Carroll whose passion was to photograph little girls naked ? |
| 5 | The ashes of a Hartlepool woman whose son died during the Falklands War were scattered at sea yesterday . |
| 6 | Let us see how the tax operates by taking the example of a haulage firm whose managing director died on 31 December 1986 . |
| 7 | Although no specific motive was given , the threats may be connected to Dr Umaña 's role in representing the surviving members of a peasant family whose relatives were allegedly killed by members of the Colombian army in August 1991 . |
| 8 | At a time when graduates are finding that academic success is not an automatic open sesame to the job market — a recent advertisement for a relatively junior clerical/admin post at the University produced a crop of graduate applications , including at least one First Class Honours graduate — it is heartwarming to read of a Nottingham man whose business and his hobby stem directly from his campus experience . |
| 9 | Great Stourford had been built as the ostentatiously fashionable home of a sugar millionaire whose wealth was so substantial and political skill so keen that his grandson was elevated to the title of Lord Chamfer by Queen Victoria . |
| 10 | Considering literary texts not as autonomous utterances out of history , but as illustrations of a Renaissance culture whose forms of representation are conditioned by the social , political world they participate in has prompted readings of texts which seek to restore their former agencies and original discursive energies . |
| 11 | A long-serving backbencher ( and amateur detective who had recently helped to unmask the murderer of a woman MP whose body had been found hanging in a House of Commons lift ) , he sat uncomfortably at the back of the hall . |
| 12 | It is impossible to confine a discussion of Europe 's economy solely to Europe ; it was already by 1880 a part — the dominant part — of a world economy whose organization was to be elaborated even more before 1914 . |
| 13 | The international system is often conceived along the lines of a market system whose moving force is maximization . |
| 14 | Three men and a woman are being questioned by police in connection with the murder of a car dealer whose remains were found in a lake . |
| 15 | The instructions for binary arithmetic refer to these accumulators and to the contents of a 32-bit word whose left-hand byte is specified in the instruction . |
| 16 | The Whitney Museum is to take photography seriously : its director , David Ross , has announced the setting up of an acquisitions committee whose job will be to establish a coherent acquisitions policy , mainly by filling gaps in the present collections . |
| 17 | His bride was called Anne Nickerson , the daughter of an Essex landowner whose reluctant consent to an army marriage had turned to whole-hearted approval when Peter d'Alembord had put up his captaincy for sale . |
| 18 | He said that he hoped that legislation would be approved by June for the establishment of a transitional executive council and of an election committee whose aims would be to create the conditions for free and fair elections . |
| 19 | Dauberval 's exclusion from the Académie Royale ( later the Paris Opera ) was justified by those in charge because they felt his idea of making farmers , peasants and the like the heroes and heroines of his ballets was beneath the dignity of an opera house whose stage had hitherto been occupied with the deeds of noble heroes , heroines and courts . |