Example sentences of "whose [noun pl] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That led them to a Kamalian whose secretions matched the saliva found at the scene of the crime . ’ |
| 2 | 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 " . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Wales YFC is an affiliated member of CPRW and the definition of such is ‘ a corporate member whose objects appear to the Council to be similar to those of CPRW ’ . |
| 5 | Fish are unable to spawn as their breeding grounds are buried or destroyed by sand banks created by the dredgers , whose operations render water undrinkable as far as 60 km downstream . |
| 6 | The splendid open aspect in all directions probably accounts for the building of Britain 's highest Iron Age hill fort whose ramparts encircled the plateau . |
| 7 | More recent casualties have been Asil Nadir and Roger Levitt , whose groups have now crashed with stunning speed . |
| 8 | Resolution was longer in younger children and those whose parent(s) smoked , irrespective of treatment . |
| 9 | Among the most significant were the Lewkenors of West Dean , the Pelhams of Laughton and the Palmers of Parham , men whose estates grew steadily as they bought in a good market and judiciously married their sons and daughters . |
| 10 | The feudal Prussian Junkers , whose estates had limped on for as long as anyone could remember , were hit particularly hard by the Corridor . |
| 11 | County freeholders , often indiscriminately styled ‘ barons ’ , as indeed some of them were , whose estates had been erected into free baronies by a crown charter , were gentlemen landowners of the shire , the direct vassals of the crown , and most of them were fully conscious of holding a social position which demanded that they should not be seen to be in any man 's pocket . |
| 12 | Although the heart of his empire was the Neville land , it would be wrong to cast Gloucester in the role of hereditary northern magnate , whose estates made him an independent regional force . |
| 13 | Although the heart of his empire was the Neville land , it would be wrong to cast Gloucester in the role of hereditary northern magnate , whose estates made him an independent regional force . |
| 14 | Gloucester 's associate Francis viscount Lovell , whose estates included land in Oxfordshire along the Thames valley , replaced Richard Grey as constable and steward of the duchy of Cornwall honour of Wallingford ( Oxon. ) , with the right to appoint officers there . |
| 15 | Gloucester 's associate Francis viscount Lovell , whose estates included land in Oxfordshire along the Thames valley , replaced Richard Grey as constable and steward of the duchy of Cornwall honour of Wallingford ( Oxon. ) , with the right to appoint officers there . |
| 16 | She felt like a mother whose sons kept dying in overseas wars . |
| 17 | Its priests were drawn from the ruling houses of the tribes , many of whose sons became Druids , and sometimes even the kings themselves , as in the case of Diviacus , the friend of Caesar . |
| 18 | In Derbyshire , the farmers who replied that their expectations had changed in the past five years were those whose sons had returned to the farm in that time . |
| 19 | Wordsworth was the guest in Bristol of a wealthy sugar merchant , John Pretor Pinney , whose sons had recently befriended the poet , and it may have been at the Pinney town house in Great George Street that the meeting with Coleridge took place . |
| 20 | On the other hand , until 1870 , and even thereafter , there were still German industrialists who refused to allow their nephews to become reserve-officers , as being unsuitable for young men of their class , or whose sons insisted on doing their military service in the infantry or engineers rather than the socially more exclusive cavalry . |
| 21 | It was the 1730s before the government stumped up compensation for those whose houses had been damaged or destroyed and among them was one James Sharp , ancestor of Jane , my great-grandmother , whom I still remember being taken to visit as a child . |
| 22 | We 're also hoping to place others with those whose houses have remained intact . ’ |
| 23 | At a deeper level it safeguards the feelings of those whose houses have been entered . |
| 24 | Ashbourne had about 25 yards , whose houses provided shelter for some 750 people , or nearly a quarter of the town 's inhabitants . |
| 25 | For he knew he must act fast now , and more than that , that the time was coming when if he was really to escape he must leave the protection of the Park and venture north over the great city whose houses frightened him . |
| 26 | We employ a wide range of staff whose skills range from electronic communication engineers to porters . |
| 27 | Welford 's Cambridge group set out to identify the nature of the work for which the older worker was best suited and the most suitable methods of retraining those whose skills had become redundant as the result of modifications in the industrial process ( Welford 1951 ) . |
| 28 | This is naturally most relevant in the case of employees whose skills have been overtaken by changing business patterns and the increasing use of new technology and who have fallen victim to redundancy or reorganisation plans . |
| 29 | Lele men who have produced sons and daughters are allowed to join the pangolin club , whose rituals concentrate upon fertility and success in hunting . |
| 30 | His exposing of the inanity and hideousness for his own time of the rites which underlay Sweeney Agonistes only helped confirm his choice of the only religion whose rituals seemed open and potent to him . |