Example sentences of "whose [adj] [n mass] " in BNC.
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1 | Less than forty pictures exist by the fifteenth-century Sicilian artist , who was credited by Vasari with bringing the ‘ Flemish ’ technique of oil painting to Italy , and whose placid works were of decisive influence on contemporary Venetian painters , especially Giovanni Bellini . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | IT is a privilege to be able to pay tribute to Sheppard Frere whose published works have set a very high standard for us all . |
4 | The accession of the Tudors was fairly smooth in Sussex , and the sixteenth century saw a reasonable degree of internal political order under the powerful influence of the great local noble families — the Arundels , Montagues , Sackvilles , Lumleys and de la Warrs — whose dependent gentry kept the peace at parish level . |
5 | While it is undeniable that Robbe-Grillet'– early novels are indeed capable of being read as essentially modernist texts whose narrative strategics consist in the representation of a distorted perception of reality , nevertheless , ‘ retrospectively ’ , they can also be considered to demonstrate reflexivity . |
6 | There had nevertheless been some significant overproduction against individual country quotas , apparently mainly by Iran ( an estimated 3,400,000 bpd against a quota of 3,184,000 ) and Kuwait ( whose 812,000 bpd quota reflected artificially low output levels in the aftermath of the destruction of production facilities in the Gulf War ) . |
7 | I GIVE my estate free of all taxes and duties to the Royal Air Forces Association ( Registered charity No. 226686 ) whose Central Headquarters is at 43 Grove Park Road , Chiswick , London , W4 3RX and I declare that the receipt of the Treasurer or other proper officer for the time being of the said Association shall be sufficient discharge to my executors or trustees . |
8 | At the south-western corner of the city walls two smaller castles were built , Baynard 's and Mountfichet , but never allowed to become great fortresses ; and they were finally removed from this strategic place by Edward I in the late thirteenth century : by a king whose mighty works at the Tower mirrored his determination to keep the Londoners under firm control ; but who greatly expanded the western end and formed a large new enclosure there for the Dominican friars , who could help him to ensure that no hostile presence met him when he came from Westminster to the City . |
9 | Donaldson , whose previous works have included a biography of the Canadian skier , Steve Podborski , has quizzed just about every available friend , colleague and observer of Villeneuve 's . |
10 | Furthermore , Mr Chris Mullin , the author of the book which asserts the innocence of the six people convicted of the Birmingham bombing ( Error of Judgement , Chatto and Windus , £10.95 ) is a former editor of Tribune , one of whose previous works was a novel about that tedious left-wing fantasy : a right-wing coup in Britain . |
11 | During the 1960s and 1970s , she and her late husband collected mainly Surrealism and Chicago Imagism , and knew a number of artists whose chosen works were in the collection , including Calder . |
12 | Bolton Report , 1971 ] : The government takes the view that the rationalization which the proposed merger would facilitate would increase the efficiency and productivity of the electrical engineering industries , and in particular the effectiveness of the export effort of the companies whose overseas sales are of the greatest importance to the Balance of Payments . |
13 | It was at this moment that there arrived at AFHQ a " personal " and " urgent " signal for Alexander from Gen McCreery , the Commander of Eighth Army , whose 13 Corps and 5 Corps were directly involved in the front line in North-East Italy and Austria . |
14 | Paradoxically , this is the one day of the week when there IS some justification for allowing traffic into the Park — so that it can be enjoyed by the aged and infirm whose only means of access is by car . |
15 | Furthermore even in a fused profession , the barristers in chambers in the Inns of Court and elsewhere would undoubtedly enter into partnership as specialist trial advocates and do agency work for other solicitors , whose own staff were unable to act as advocates in every case or where the complexity of the case justified bringing in a specialist advocate . |
16 | ‘ If artists have the right to fail , Glasgay ! does not , ’ says D'Angelo , whose modest £65,000 budget projection has been kept that way by trying to involve many indigenous grant-aided bodies in the year one programme . |
17 | Melton , whose 78 rpm recordings were sold by the million across the USA and Canada , was a charming fellow . |
18 | Youatt said the bust of Coleman by Sievier ( among whose other works is the bust of Edward Jenner in Gloucester cathedral ) was a lifelike portrayal . |
19 | None of his portraits , however , has yet reached the market value of his mother 's Annigonis , whose other works now fetch upwards of £18,000 at auction . |
20 | Ford , whose new £35million movie is a box office smash in America had spent all day shooting the physically demanding scene in a huge water tank in Hollywood . |
21 | One man who has been with science for many years now — and his experience certainly tells — is Mick Rhodes , whose new series of QED began last week . |
22 | JUDITH Chalmers , whose new series of Wish You Were Here starts on December 7 , is not immune from travel difficulties . |
23 | The picture is of a freely developing microcosm whose internal dynamics nevertheless parallel those of the social macrocosm . |
24 | She had surely not learnt them at her boarding-school , whose high-minded staff and prissy pupils she had described to him , and whose old-fashioned upper-classy slang she sometimes employed . |
25 | We did n't see a single soldier or vehicle and assumed that the US army was blocking off La Boca from the Panama Defence Force , whose local headquarters is only about 300 yards from our house . |
26 | Feijóo , ‘ father of the Enlightenment ’ , whose encyclopaedic works first popularized ideas of experimental science early in the century , was a monk and devout believer . |
27 | Bruce , therefore , became a kind of guerilla leader whose main means of harming the English was to harass them rather than seek a formal confrontation with them . |