Example sentences of "[noun] to [pron] [pron] could [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We gave them two addresses to which they could write in case we did not return and told them where our more precious belongings were . |
| 2 | If he sets his mind to it he could make it in the cross-channel game , ’ says Scottish goal scoring ace Derek Cook , who himself will pose a considerable threat to Ards . |
| 3 | There were always polite formulae to which one could adhere . |
| 4 | Perhaps , too , he may have believed that once the gloss on my love affair dimmed , his money would act as a reminder of the comforts to which I could return . |
| 5 | Venetian diplomats were likely to demand every ceremonial honour to which they could assert any shred of claim , and to be very touchy when faced with any apparent threat , however slight , to their status . |
| 6 | Such intimacy as life with my mother entailed should cease with parturition , and since Syl so resembled her in his attitude to me I could see no end to my continued childhood . |
| 7 | Holland had both a tradition of national independence to which it could look back , and important colonial possessions , but , like Belgium , was formally ‘ new ’ . |
| 8 | Too many people , she said , had used AIDS as an issue to which they could add their own prejudices . |
| 9 | It was not a place to which he could take Maureen MacQuillan or any woman , and only partly because he shared it with a fellow MP . |
| 10 | Su'a received the third lbw of the match to which one could raise an eyebrow — this one was coming across him from a suspiciously sharp angle as DeFreitas bowled round the wicket and wide out . |
| 11 | Romania 's ethnic Germans once estimated at between 200,000 and 220,000 , were reported to be flooding out of the country , taking advantage of the policy of West Germany which granted citizenship to anyone who could prove German descent . |
| 12 | British town planning , both as a movement and as a profession , found that it had a relevance to wider questions to which it could respond . |
| 13 | If a potential philanthropist did exist , he might have found it a deterrent that there was no established leadership to whom he could talk . |
| 14 | She began to feel foolish but she had to talk to somebody and Miss Hatherby was the only person to whom she could turn . |
| 15 | It seems ludicrous that Scottish Back-Benchers do not even have the facility of a Select Committee on Scottish Affairs to which we could summon Ministers and ask them in detail about the problems that we face . |
| 16 | In the case of the Londoners , however , they may have been more vulnerable to plague than were country dwellers , unless they themselves had , as they might , country properties to which they could flee in time of pestilence . |
| 17 | Their price of £4,000 to anyone who could find a typographical error in their works remains unclaimed to this day . |
| 18 | There was no one of my age to whom I could talk , and I did n't want to venture out any more . |
| 19 | But as the BUF acquired a Chelsea headquarters where activists lived as soldiers in barracks , and a Blackshirt uniform was issued to remove the distinction of class and wealth , there emerged a political ideal to which he could give his complete loyalty . |
| 20 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that although business sponsorship of the arts is extremely important and welcome , it would be just as beneficial for the arts , particularly local theatres such as the Civic theatre in Chelmsford , if we had a national lottery to which everyone could contribute to help to raise funds for the arts ? |
| 21 | The meat was often sold on stalls in the villages , but there was a limit to what one could buy . |
| 22 | There seemed no limit to what it could achieve . |
| 23 | There was a limit to what she could make out , given the angle and that she was trying to see the page upside-down , but what she saw was enough to confirm that this book , or perhaps its predecessor for the previous year , had the potential to tell her exactly what she most needed to know . |
| 24 | We 're gon na , we 're gon na stay on this issue of ownership and surpluses for a little time , cos it 's actually so important , but it 's not unreasonable for your pensioners to think that here was this pot of money to which one could dip into , but the only thing is the pot of money disappeared did n't it ? |
| 25 | John always remained very concerned about the designing of his own ballets but was never specifically credited with responsibility for their designs , preferring to collaborate with an artist to whom he could explain his ideas and from whom he expected further ideas to enhance the final outcome . |
| 26 | At least out here they had to play according to some sort of standard of fairness , even if it was a standard they could change as they went along according to how it suited them ( like doubling the bus fares just after he 'd found that job way out in Brentford ) , but in prison , even more so than in a mental hospital , there were no real limits to what they could do to him . |
| 27 | This situation , coupled with the insuperable physical difficulties of governing a huge , thinly populated empire , set inescapable limits to what she could hope to achieve . |
| 28 | She shut her bedroom door , knowing fate had decreed that the book she was reading should be resting in the sitting-room , leaving her with nothing to do but make her bed , sit on it , lie on it , unmake it , jump on it , push it round the floor — there were limits to what you could do with a bed , and it was the only piece of furniture in the room . |
| 29 | He also saw the need to rewrite roles around the talents of the actors , as he did for Crawford , but there were limits to what he could do to make the most of the story for the cinema . |
| 30 | The degree of stability to which it could attain remained to be seen . |