Example sentences of "whose [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Her father ( about whose parentage there is some mystery ) had given up his army commission and gone into business . |
2 | Even a prince whose parentage was known could not be certain of succeeding his father , especially if his mother had been discarded from the royal bed . |
3 | And another senior colleague Steve Mcleod on my right , whose primary responsibility is with the value for money work that we undertake on your behalf . |
4 | Its tree-like structures provide shelters for the polyps , the anemone-like organisms from whose secretions it is built . |
5 | That led them to a Kamalian whose secretions matched the saliva found at the scene of the crime . ’ |
6 | If politics is regarded as conflict over whose preferences are to prevail in the determination of policy , then the budget records the outcomes of this struggle . |
7 | It is well established that there are voters whose preferences are influenced by the alphabetical sequence in which candidates ' surnames appear on the ballot paper . |
8 | But voters whose preferences have been distributed between these two parties will have been doing no more than indicate acceptable alternatives , of which the basic pattern must have been , " Let that candidate of Party B have my vote IF and only IF my higher preference for this candidate of Party A has not been effective " . |
9 | But Jarvis 's greatest pleasure came from knowing that this line , whose builders had had to work in compressed air because of the high water-table in downtown San Francisco , passed through the rock under the deepest bay in the world . |
10 | I do n't know whose T-shirt 's whose . |
11 | Kelly concludes : ‘ Obviously there are still choices about whose money you 'll accept . |
12 | But what it meant to both of them was that all the money was frozen because there was a dispute over whose money was what and how much money had been spent — that was a problem for David and for Tony . |
13 | But whose money was it that tempted these stupid girls ? |
14 | I am one of those people whose money burns a hole in the pocket whenever anything promising arrives on the market . |
15 | ‘ It depends on whose money it is , ’ he said . |
16 | The discussion groups ( Appendix II , section 5 ) show how easily a change for the worse in someone 's circumstances can lead to debt troubles : the man in hospital after an accident at work , who then had a breakdown , while overdue credit instalments mounted up to over £100 and led to a court summons ; the family who owed £30 a week on furniture and carpet instalments for their new flat — eventually taken to court after a series of lost jobs ; or ( Appendix III ) the previously secure young widow whose money troubles started when her husband died — although an understanding bank wrote off the outstanding balance on a car loan , a furniture firm refused to accept the reduced instalments which were all that she could afford . |
17 | If his vigilance fails , he faces the wrath of ordinary people : depositors whose savings are at risk and taxpayers whose money is used to stop one bank collapse from knocking down the entire banking system . |
18 | The client , whose money it is , has the final say . |
19 | He did not suspect whose money was helping him become a partner . |
20 | The idea seems self-evident : a local authority occupies a position of trust , or a fiduciary duty , in relation to the ratepayers whose money it is using , and who are the beneficiaries of the services being provided . |
21 | International banking is an interesting business anyway , but what makes it rather more interesting in this case — both to me and to the hapless Ohioans whose money I am selling — is that I am 25 years old with just one and a half years banking experience . |
22 | It is being paid by people whose money , as of 1 July , has been halved in value . |
23 | Whose money ? |
24 | It left open the question of whose money had paid for the House of Fraser but made clear that nothing in the career of Mr Mohamed Al Fayed could account for such new-found wealth . |
25 | The new day ward is named after the late Doris Field , whose money helped get it going . |
26 | ( e ) any investment company , unit trust or other person whose investments are managed by an associate on a discretionary basis ; |
27 | ( d ) a fund manager ( including an exempt fund manager ) with any investment company , unit trust or other person whose investments are managed by the manager on a discretionary basis , in respect of the relevant investment accounts ; |
28 | But the game ended in a victory for the BNFL lads whose scorers were ( 2 ) , and , who the players voted man of the match . |
29 | The evidence for this came from birds collected near the host 's nest , whose throats were often found to contain an egg . |
30 | By 1980 it was clear that such villages were doing little to improve the lot of their members , whose livelihood now depended on their effective integration into the cash economy . |