Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] to which [pron] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is by no means the end of the matter , but enough has been stated to show the breadth of the definition of development and the technical complexities to which it can give rise . |
| 2 | Our system of government is being changed , with increasing disregard for tradition , the only unwritten rules to which one might appeal as ‘ constitutional ’ principles . |
| 3 | There were always polite formulae to which one could adhere . |
| 4 | The official resolution said in reply that the gracefulness of his welcome was only increased because he ‘ did not belong to any of the Free Churches … and did not belong to any section of those political parties to which they might be supposed to belong ’ . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The next English authority to which I must refer is Avon Finance Co . |
| 7 | Its difference from simple empirical generalization is that whereas this former extends its local names to a variety of historical situations to which they may be only partly appropriate , this latter , theoreticist tendency extends its presumptive interpretations and categories in what is always , essentially , a search for illustrative instances . |
| 8 | The band play both Austrian and English music to which you can dance and there will also be organised games for you to join in if you wish . |
| 9 | Given that it is a central goal of the Committee to encourage a public policy on education which will operate to generate and sustain an organic national culture , the only concrete examples within contemporary popular culture to which they can refer this policy in a favourable manner are those which are sufficiently residual as to be unable to offer more than a minimal oppositional purchase . |
| 10 | You need old clothes to which you can add soot from a burning candle . |
| 11 | They do n't experience the same problems socially or finding cultural events to which they can really relate . |
| 12 | When the going got rough the brothers usually sent a deputy to face the unpleasant hostility to which they would be exposed . |
| 13 | Er again that 's a very specific question to which I ca n't give a specific answer . |
| 14 | I mean that is a serious social and political issue to which there should be in my submission a planning response . |
| 15 | For instance , Dorothy Heathcote , in working on the Minamata tragedy towards performance , required the sixth form ‘ actors ’ to remain emotionally detached from their roles , an example of ‘ protection ’ from personal exposure to which we shall be returning later . |
| 16 | What is reading ? — a simple question to which one would expect a simple answer . |
| 17 | These fundamental rights are variously described and vindicated by a variety of philosophical arguments to which we can not do justice here . |
| 18 | These depredations and the lack of a firm response by corrupt local magnates were to have a violent sequel to which we shall return . |
| 19 | Since the scheme only started in 1978 , the current maximum amount of additional pension to which you would be entitled is £66.97 a week . |
| 20 | As our awareness of this quality of light increases , we may perceive it as centring on another figure — an inner or outer ‘ Lady of Light ’ — or as an identifiable principle to which we can begin to relate . |
| 21 | Finally in this short resumé of the teachers ' predicament , we should mention the more personal factors to which we shall return later in the book : their aspirations , ambitions , values and concerns . |
| 22 | If 5% , let us say , of the total of first-preference votes are given to minute parties and frivolous independent candidates , there is no good reason why they should secure even the minimal representation to which they might in strict theoretical proportionality be entitled . |
| 23 | But for those who can no longer rely on belonging anywhere else , there is at least one other imagined community to which one can belong : which is permanent , indestructible , and whose membership is certain . |
| 24 | The company anticipates that the personal communicator will open up new markets and will prove an ideal base to which it can add its own technology — the Digital European Cordless Telecommunications system . |
| 25 | By the end of the book , " culture " has become a metaphor for some kind of Bradleyan unity to which we may aspire but which we can never reach ; idealism consorts oddly with Eliot 's sociology , however , and it is not at all clear if " culture " is a neutral term used to describe the whole way of life of a people or if it is being employed as a diagnostic tool to evaluate the various standards and aspirations of a society . |
| 26 | Where objects are deliberately unique it may be that they are intended to signify some generic concept of uniqueness , such as in art ; the object is then both an individual form and an example of a larger category to which it must be related . |
| 27 | They will remain fundamental to our concern , and a basic issue to which we shall return at the end . |
| 28 | on the basis of a hundred per hundred thousand square feet to which you 'd have to add obviously a sort of surrounding area from the square footage used for a distribution warehouse , it looks as though it 's around about the thirteen |
| 29 | Holland had both a tradition of national independence to which it could look back , and important colonial possessions , but , like Belgium , was formally ‘ new ’ . |
| 30 | 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 ? |