Example sentences of "[noun] to which it could [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Holland had both a tradition of national independence to which it could look back , and important colonial possessions , but , like Belgium , was formally ‘ new ’ . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The degree of stability to which it could attain remained to be seen . |
| 4 | One of the crucial questions emerging for the CNAA during the 1970s was in fact the extent to which it could take initiatives as well as being responsive . |
| 5 | The extent to which it could have been foreseen and thus pre-empted by a more alert administration , which tried to foresee coming trends , seems to be a matter of disagreement among prison administrators , critics and researchers in many jurisdictions . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , the tendon developed in the right place even though it had no muscle to which it could attach . |
| 7 | He opened his recruitment consultancy in January 1991 , just as the recession was revealing the depths to which it could sink . |