Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] to which they [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ’ . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | They do n't experience the same problems socially or finding cultural events to which they can really relate . |
| 5 | When the going got rough the brothers usually sent a deputy to face the unpleasant hostility to which they would be exposed . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | British filmmakers have always needed to face two ways , inwards towards the hopes and fears of the native audience to which they must address their pictures , and out to a broader , international public . |
| 8 | They stood on the step and waited for the taxi with black bands on their arms and suitcases in their hands , forlorn passengers from a wrecked ship , clutching a few haphazardly salvaged possessions and staring in dismay at the choppy sea to which they must commit themselves . |
| 9 | However , such concerns are beyond the scope of this article , and although we are not always able to separate out the different areas of linguistic interest in the characterisation of an individual in a dramatic text ( many individual character traits are receptive to a number of different linguistic approaches ) , the large number of insights into characterisation offered by discourse and pragmatic analysis indicates the large extent to which they may be used effectively by the student of dramatic texts . |
| 10 | The presbytery asked members of the church to note that the South Ronaldsay Parents ' Action Committee had set up a fund for legal aid to which they might like to contribute , and they asked their Social Matters Committee to look into the question of guidance to ministers in cases involving the Social Work Department . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Most of the students were able to answer most of the questions but , as you would expect , many of the viewers had one or more questions to which they could not remember the answer . |
| 13 | This led to a debate within the company as to whether the role of ‘ Laura Ashley ’ was to demonstrate the sort of rooms ‘ Mr and Mrs Average ’ might own , decorated only to those standards to which they could aspire , or should it display exotically luxurious settings , thus attaining an often impossibly high level in taste and quality . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , there must be a filter , as there is in the criminal courts , to ensure that the appellate system is not overloaded by those who enter Britain from a third safe country to which they can return if they manifestly have no claim to asylum here . |
| 15 | And indeed , the very extent to which they would lie readable was called in question by their range and bulk . |
| 16 | Parents are needed to respond to the overtures of their offspring , to stimulate their interest and to provide a living presence to which they can relate . |
| 17 | However , if you attempt to arrest any man or woman here on a charge of vagrancy I will see they are defended in your court — and in any higher court to which they may be sent for trial . |
| 18 | Instead they will be made up of a small professional core supplemented by part-timers plus a number of small firms to which they will contract out work . |
| 19 | A relation is many-to-one if several elements can stand in that relation to some other element , but for each of these there is only one element to which they can stand in that relation . |
| 20 | If anthropologists from centres of learning in New Guinea or the Congo were to turn the tables on us and publish studies of the behaviour patterns found among the English-speaking peoples of Great Britain and the United States , one phenomenon to which they would surely pay special attention would be the cult of Child Psychology . |
| 21 | They should be aware of any risks to which they may be exposed , or any relevant limitations inherent in the design or operating procedures , and of any implications for their conduct . |
| 22 | Seek to ensure that all those involved with a project are aware of any risks to which they may be exposed , of any relevant limitations inherent in the design or operating procedures , and of any implications for their conduct . |
| 23 | This is a shift in negative potential which occurs when subjects are presented with a stimulus signalling some imminent event to which they must respond . |
| 24 | He found instead the only possible protuberance to which they could safely have anchored their rope . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Mass-spectrometry techniques ( see glossary ) are currently receiving attention because they are superior to other methods in sensitivity and the range of chemical elements to which they can be applied . |
| 27 | The mouthparts vary in form to a greater extent than almost any other organs , the variation being correlated with the method of feeding and other uses to which they may be subjected . |
| 28 | Even when the referential locus of noun and adjective are the same , however , there is no general guarantee that the overall " output " , in terms of intensional entities ( and the real or potential referents to which they may correspond ) will be the same under these two ways of linking an adjective to a noun , which amount respectively to introducing a subject x identified in part through having the property F , and to introducing a subject x and saying that it has the property F. For instance , if we move from the predicative structure : ( 7 ) clouds are small to the phrase small clouds , we pass to an expression which identifies a certain group of entities but does nothing more than identify them ; whereas expression ( 7 ) identifies a quite different ( and much larger ) group of entities , and says something about them ( which , as it happens , is not true , even though small clouds certainly do exist ) . |
| 29 | Temporary advisers , especially those with a secure job to which they can return , need not feel a great sense of responsibility . |