Example sentences of "whose [noun pl] [verb] " in BNC.

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31 Some railways refused to carry parties whose projects clashed with their own .
32 Combinations of options allow investors to create a huge variety of contingent contracts : paper assets whose returns depend on the change in price of the underlying asset in very particular ways .
33 Already the trade showed signs of becoming restricted to the immediate neighbourhood of Reading , whose clothiers seem to have controlled most of the output of Berkshire .
34 AN ARTIST whose talents lay unused for 20 years headed an exhibition by five women at the weekend .
35 His old friend , the abbot of St Peter 's Abbey in Salzburg , noted that Leopold had been a man of ‘ much wit and wisdom ’ , whose talents went far beyond those of music alone , yet he had ‘ had the misfortune always to be persecuted ’ and was consequently held in less esteem in Salzburg than elsewhere in Europe .
36 In a way Mark was too close to home , too much a part of the world whose foundations had just been rocked , yet somehow on the outside .
37 Such bonds are important in holding together two molecules whose surfaces fit accurately into one another .
38 These habits become small gears churning nowhere , whose teeth snarl the fine fabric of the relationship between the housewife and her mate .
39 Dental appointments were booked for seven ( 70 per cent ) of the children whose teeth had not recently been inspected , and at least four of these had been carried out within three months of the first assessment .
40 It was in that House that he scored his greatest triumph for the cause of deaf people by persuading the Labour Government of Attlee that to provide free spectacles to the partially-sighted , free dentures to those whose teeth had rotted , free artificial limbs to the disabled , but to actually charge the sum of £10 to deaf people for National Health hearing-aids was blatant discrimination !
41 They are the only members of the first-team squad whose contracts expire at the end of the season .
42 They are the only senior players whose contracts expire this summer .
43 However , on Dec. 17 a spokesman at the Soviet embassy in Baghdad said that Iraq had refused exit visas to Soviet workers whose contracts had not yet expired .
44 Middlesbrough manager Lennie Lawrence plans another meeting with full back Jimmy Phillips and midfielder Mark Proctor , whose contracts run out this summer .
45 That consists mainly of recession-resistant retail properties , whose values fell only 5 per cent last year .
46 2 Whose values count ?
47 Noting the claim of central and local government that they are simply the servants of the public and not its masters , the discussion paper for this seminar raises the question of whose values inform policy decisions which affect local communities .
48 ’ genus ’ is a function on animal species , whose values include mammal bird insect arachnid fish
49 A woman whose values lead her to all that is genuine .
50 He said such practical statements were ‘ disturbing to a society whose values appear to be dangerously selfish , namely economic success at the expense of our neighbours and a morality largely based on what the individual wants ’ .
51 This Soviet specialist , whose views remain unofficial , proposed a Non-Alignment Pact for Afghanistan , ‘ which would both guarantee the West against our continued presence there and guarantee us against a Western presence ’ .
52 It was understandably difficult for those whose views had been formed in a period of high unemployment to shift them radically and swiftly .
53 Mr Ishihara is no more than an entertaining distraction in Japanese politics : a member of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party , but one with no power base and whose views count for little .
54 Christopher Hill had always acknowledged that it was doubtful that there had been a Ranter organisation and difficult to define what ‘ the Ranters ’ as a group believed as opposed to individuals whose views came to be labelled as Ranters .
55 Alternatively outside experts or personalities whose views coincide with those of the company may be used .
56 I would like to have read more on the subject by Frank Bowling , whose views seem not to be harmonised with Araeen 's somewhat dogmatic viewpoint .
57 Therefore , he is likely to nominate those whose views seem most in line with his own , although there is no way a president can guarantee the direction of a justice 's decision and it is estimated that the President 's choices have backfired in a quarter of appointments .
58 That leaves about 500 delegates who are still undecided , and whose views have so far been ignored .
59 However , his conception of the ‘ underclass ’ , its causation and policy remedies , differs markedly from those of the far Right whose views have been so easily absorbed into British government and establishment thinking .
60 Mr Edward Pearce , the political pundit whose views have appeared in an impressive number of different newspapers over the past few years , has been pondering the curse of the accountant for the benefit of Guardian readers .
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