Example sentences of "whose head " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it is entirely characteristic of Williams , whose head was always buzzing with Dante , and with the dangerous borderlines between sacred and profane love , that he should have read The Allegory in that way . |
| 2 | In the most terrifying story in all Scripture God decides to begin again with a single family , this time with one whose head , Noah , has shown some signs of righteousness . |
| 3 | ‘ Morning , ’ he said to the nearest policeman , whose head was buried in the engine . |
| 4 | They brought one , and he said to them , ‘ Whose head is this and whose inscription ? ’ |
| 5 | The male ruff is a long-legged wading bird whose head and neck feathers are specially developed for use in a jumping display on a lek display ground . |
| 6 | Some cities housed larger proportions of households whose head was born in the New Commonwealth than national statistics would indicate . |
| 7 | This phenomenon naturally occurs in all animals with the exception of man whose head is being constantly thrown back when a movement takes place . |
| 8 | She glanced at Conrad whose head was near the hatch where she was working and , sure enough , he had transferred his attention from her cat to the young man who had melted into the rocking-chair ; his expression was quieter , more thoughtful . |
| 9 | More recently , the American writer Washington Irving ( 1783- 1959 ) described the ghost of a cavalryman ‘ whose head had been carried away by a cannonball in some nameless battle ’ during the American War of Independence . |
| 10 | Monday dawned to a nameless figure answering questions for a non-department whose head had been defeated in the election and now reigned in a spiritual fashion from the Lords . |
| 11 | Jesus called for a coin and asked whose head and inscription were engraved on it . |
| 12 | He was at Bristol University in England where the physics department was leading the world in the study of cosmic rays , and whose head , Cecil Powell , was about to win the Nobel Prize for his role in this . |
| 13 | It may also have brought some families into his service for the first time , among them the Pulleys ( or Pullowes ) of Helmsley , whose head , Henry , was to be one of Richard 's yeomen after his accession . |
| 14 | But Ember was saying with a quiet despair of his own , ‘ Or maybe chop a little off his brain to grow some cortex material for a rich man whose head 's on fire with cancer . |
| 15 | Conversely , a significant proportion of the companies operating in this country are off-shoots of enterprises whose head offices are situated abroad . |
| 16 | Resource allocation from central to local government does take into account the a real disadvantage through the use of an index of deprivation derived by combining estimates of the proportion of the children under 17 in the local authority who were in households lacking amenities ; in one-parent households ; in households with four or more dependent children ; with a head of household in a semi-skilled , unskilled or agricultural occupation ; in families receiving supplementary benefit ; themselves born outside the United Kingdom , or in a family whose head was born abroad . |
| 17 | Several Serbian leaders who had remained loyal to their Turkish masters were savagely butchered , including Glavaš , whose head was on display in the Kalemegdan fortress when Miloš went to a conference of the knezovi called by Süleiman Pasha . |
| 18 | Fifty of the deaths were in men whose head circumference at birth was 14 inches ( 35.6 cm ) or more . |
| 19 | He was described by the engineering historian Samuel Smiles [ q.v. ] as a ‘ heavy-browed man without any polish of manner or speech ’ whose head was ‘ a complete repertory of inventions ’ and who liked nothing better than a ‘ tough job ’ . |
| 20 | Martha , whose head was as strong as her sister 's , sometimes climbed up as well , and , clinging on about a foot lower down , read aloud from a horror comic . |
| 21 | He dropped the wig into the papyrus-chest , wondering what he would do with it , and whose head it had adorned before Nubenehem had come by it . |
| 22 | Auguste 's agonised shout was addressed to the rear end of a gentleman , whose head was in an oven apparently examining a goose at close quarters . |
| 23 | And figures for the country of birth of heads of household give only a rough estimate of ethnic minority populations , as some members of ethnic minorities live in households whose head was born in the United Kingdom , and some of those living in households whose head was born outside the United Kingdom do not belong to ethnic minorities . |
| 24 | And figures for the country of birth of heads of household give only a rough estimate of ethnic minority populations , as some members of ethnic minorities live in households whose head was born in the United Kingdom , and some of those living in households whose head was born outside the United Kingdom do not belong to ethnic minorities . |
| 25 | So she found herself staying in a single room at one of the hotels in Monaco and the following morning making her way back to the cottage with a very much subdued André , whose head was feeling all the after-effects of too much wine . |
| 26 | Whose head hangs under its mother 's anus . |
| 27 | The sort of man whose head has been turned by success and left him staring in the wrong direction . |
| 28 | Gaselee , whose head lad Peter Heaney comes from Ulster — ‘ and I would n't be without him ’ — is one of the old school who takes life as it comes . |
| 29 | It is an absolute monarchy , whose head of state , the Amir ( currently Shaikh Isa bin Sulman al-Khalifa ) , governs through an appointed Cabinet . |
| 30 | These were the Bani Umayyah , whose head , Abu Sofian , was a particularly determined opponent of Muhammad during the early years of the propagation of his message , and the Bani Hashem , of which Muhammad was himself a member . |