Example sentences of "whose [noun] have been [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only the older ones , the ones whose husbands had been engineers and farmers and management consultants first , agreed with her . |
| 2 | There was the binding of wounds and examining of bruises to be considered , and the saying of prayers and sewing-up in bedding of those whose lives had been forfeit and above all there was a great deal of talking to be one , for , as the Magistrate scientifically observed , nothing unusual can happen among human beings without generating an immense , compensating volume of chatter . |
| 3 | The government on July 18 took direct control of the State Property Agency ( SPA ) , whose officials had been members of the former communist government , and a week later announced that the head of the SPA , Istvan Tompe , would be replaced by Lajos Crepi ( former vice-president of the old post office ) . |
| 4 | So did Kiffin Rockwell , the twenty-one-year-old medical student from North Carolina , both of whose grandfathers had been officers in the Confederate Army . |
| 5 | These are almost always the same men , the ones who own the guns and the best-trained dogs , whose families have been hunters for years , passing their knowledge and experience down through the generations until it 's almost in the blood . |
| 6 | And it is no bad thing that Karajan , whose concerts have been gala occasions now for the best part of forty years , also sold around one hundred million records since he began recording in earnest in 1946 . |
| 7 | To commemorate the visit , the Prime Warden the next year , Mr. John Prideaux ( whose father had been Clerk at the time of the 450th Anniversary ) , called at the School in April with designs of a second cup and cover , which was commissioned by the Company from Miss Jocelyn Burton and was presented to the Chairman and Headmaster in July 1974 . |
| 8 | William John Tomlinson , whose forbears had been watermen and then boat builders , had turned his skills into property building and eventually he managed to acquire land of his own on which to develop houses . |
| 9 | J. R. Clynes , the new Lord Privy Seal , wrote picturesquely of ‘ the strange turn in Fortune 's wheel which had brought MacDonald the starveling clerk , Thomas the engine driver , Henderson the foundry labourer and Clynes the mill-hand , to this pinnacle beside the man whose forebears had been Kings for so many splendid generations . |
| 10 | Eighty-one MPs had some connection with a landed family ( on Burke 's celebrated definition ) and fifty-five of these sat for seats that were adjacent to their family holdings ; conversely there were only two whose fathers had been working-class ( Jessie Collings and Henry Duke ) but a host whose fathers had been lawyers , clergymen or doctors ( including Law , Smith and Aitken ) . |
| 11 | A man who has slept on ice , whose clothes have been ice , should not be prevented by a stranger from making his journey to what freedom he can find . |
| 12 | His doubts circled around two elements of Estabrook 's story : the assassin himself ( this Mr Pie , hired out of nowhere ) and more particularly , around the man who 'd introduced Estabrook to his hired hand : Chant , whose death had been media fodder for the past several days . |
| 13 | Down whose son had been bestman at his wedding . |
| 14 | , Thomas ( d. c. 1276 ) , revolutionary mayor of London 1263–5 , was a draper with considerable property in the city , whose family had been part of its aldermanic ruling class since at least the 1220s . |
| 15 | , Peter ( 1806–1883 ) , industrial chemist and alum manufacturer , was born 19 February 1806 in Brechin , Forfarshire , Scotland , the son of a hand-loom weaver of Brechin , and his wife , whose family had been farmers for generations . |