Example sentences of "to which the " in BNC.
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| 1 | What interests her , apparently , is not the remark itself , but ‘ the degree to which the piece of recall ’ — her piece of recall , presumably — ‘ failed to affect the novel in any way ’ . |
| 2 | Covenant politics has come to the forefront again with the Hillsborough agreement of 1985 and shows the extent to which the populist politics of the Democratic Unionists is rooted in protestant — loyalist tradition . |
| 3 | This shows the extent to which the republican ideal gained ground once independence was in place , furthering the ideological divide between protestant loyalism and catholic nationalism . |
| 4 | De Tocqueville 's notes reveal not only the conscious opposition to such a mode of religious power but also how deep the solidarity between clergy and people was , the degree to which the poor , half the catholic population at the time , looked to the clergy for material and spiritual leadership , guidance , and assistance , and how much they trusted them . |
| 5 | The second case reveals even more the extent to which the legitimation of the state was a Roman catholic affair , at least as one of the two principal sources of power in the alliance . |
| 6 | The case reveals the extent to which the church as an institution was coupled with the nation . |
| 7 | It was then more than a misjudgement : it revealed the extent to which the religious intellectuals ' theory of church and state was outdated and incoherent . |
| 8 | The base on to which the silver is electroplated is a mix of nickel , copper and zinc , called nickel silver , although there is no silver in the alloy . |
| 9 | The final settlement , as with the various disputes to which the Department seemed ever more prone , would be in my gift and mine alone . |
| 10 | Alongside this , there has been growing awareness of the plasticity of the nervous system and of the extent to which the ‘ hard-wiring ’ of the wetware of the brain is itself modulated by the brain 's own experience . |
| 11 | This feature can be used to update information stored in a receiver about programme services other than the one to which the set is tuned . |
| 12 | Carfax was , compared to RDS , a low-technology system based on a dedicated network of synchronised , time-multiplexed , low-power ( 0.5kW ) transmitters to which the car radio ( or player ) was switched automatically when a local traffic announcement was made . |
| 13 | Eagleton 's Althusserian phase of the mid-1970s was strongly attacked by a Marxist academic , Kiernan Ryan , who has since taken issue with another Marxist , Alan Sinfield , on the extent to which the great literary works of the past can transcend the reactionary ideologies that produced them . |
| 14 | ( In the days of Bertrand de Born , Aquitaine of course was a province of the English crown ; Eleanor of Aquitaine , the princess whose marriage to an English King brought this about , is one of the femmes fatales of the Cantos ; and Richard Coeur de Lion , trying to make good his claim to all this part of France , was killed at Chalus — a place in this area to which the Cantos refer repeatedly in connection with the King 's death . ) |
| 15 | Pound has no recourse to that staple of anti-Russian propaganda in every generation ( some of it was being aired in these years in Eliot 's Criterion ) according to which the Russian is ‘ asiatic ’ , outside the confines of Europe . |
| 16 | Though state-owned companies are able to achieve keener interest rates by borrowing from the Government through the National Loan Fund , they are constrained in the amount they can borrow and the uses to which the money can be put because all such borrowings count towards the public sector borrowing requirement . |
| 17 | Robin Cook , the party 's health spokesman , who retained his executive seat by coming second , said the vote showed the degree to which the party wanted to elect people who devoted their energies to helping Labour to win the next election . |
| 18 | ‘ It may be that those involved in the sale of gilt options did not realise that they actually increased the risk to which the council was exposed rather than reducing it . ’ |
| 19 | One argument to which the Government has no right to resort is that statistics do not matter . |
| 20 | Scott 's first venture into this unlikely field of design was at Battersea where , in 1930 , he was wheeled in as a famous knighted architect by the London Power Company to try to make acceptable the coal-fired monster power station to which the residents of Chelsea and Westminster were taking strong exception . |
| 21 | A Duxbury calculation could not by itself provide the answer as to the sum to which the wife was entitled , though it produced a figure to which the judge was entitled to have regard in deciding what was the right answer . |
| 22 | A Duxbury calculation could not by itself provide the answer as to the sum to which the wife was entitled , though it produced a figure to which the judge was entitled to have regard in deciding what was the right answer . |
| 23 | The Rover 800-series , to which the new 200 bears a strong family resemblance , was the first . |
| 24 | A guide to the collection , it seemed to many to underline , too , the extent to which the Saatchis had superseded the Tate Gallery as the most adventurous and successful purchasers of modern art in this country . |
| 25 | The most striking aspect of the past week is the degree to which the Government is underestimating Labour 's post-conference political strength . |
| 26 | To which the great shambling John Wayne figure replies : ‘ By stopping him getting on base in the first place . ’ |
| 27 | To which the reply is : ‘ Make sure we do n't load the bases if Clark is due up . ’ |
| 28 | Jobs were unavailable in the towns to which the hordes of young found their way . |
| 29 | A particularly important sacred cow to slaughter was local government , to which the Thatcher government devoted much attention . |
| 30 | There were limits to the extent to which the post-1945 consensus could be overturned . |