Example sentences of "[prep] which we [vb mod] return " in BNC.
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1 | Once established they underwent a number of evolutionary ‘ bursts ’ in which diverse kinds of reptiles occupied a variety of habitats , the most spectacular of which was the dinosaur radiation in the Mesozoic , to which we shall return later . |
2 | They will remain fundamental to our concern , and a basic issue to which we shall return at the end . |
3 | Daraprim ( pyrimethamine ) , a very different substance , evolved some years later from research of more general significance , to which we shall return in the next chapter . |
4 | This is an important idea to which we shall return . |
5 | These depredations and the lack of a firm response by corrupt local magnates were to have a violent sequel to which we shall return . |
6 | When Curteys hit at Lewkenor 's and his associates ' involvement in corn speculation he acted in the tradition to which we shall return , of the magnate 's dispensing reasonable justice , but it was a politically fatal manoeuvre . |
7 | Apart from political intervention and law-giving , to which we shall return , a steadily more onerous pressure emerged in the form of military service . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | The responsibilities of magisterium remain an issue to which we shall return . |
10 | In addition there is the complex constitutional position of the constable to which we shall return later . |
11 | Evidently there is a problem , to which we shall return , of the general definition of a causal circumstance . |
12 | To note a possibility to which we shall return in a moment , it is allowed that a possible world w " might be more like our actual world than a possible world w " even though the laws of our world are to some extent suspended or do not exist in w " and are intact in w " . |
13 | ( The interpersonal function is something extra to which we shall return in Chapter 8 . |
14 | It is this creative extendability of the linguistic code that we had in mind in the earlier discussion of deviation and foregrounding ( see 1.4. ) and to which we shall return in 4.6 ; but it is now time to recognize that these are relative , not absolute concepts . |
15 | The point of this discussion is to bring out the important link between contestability and sustainability , a topic to which we shall return . |
16 | This question of how much deindustrialization matters is an issue to which we shall return in Chapter 6 . |
17 | This raises further issues about what is meant by the ‘ importance of manufacturing ’ , and how it should be measured , to which we shall return later . |
18 | This is an issue to which we shall return at the end of the chapter ; first , however , we must explore the broad classification of degree courses which has emerged from this analysis of their relationship with employment . |
19 | This is an issue to which we shall return in the final section of this chapter . |
20 | He sees part of the answer in the massive recession suffered by the British economy at that time , a point to which we shall return below . |
21 | ( This is a point to which we shall return . ) |
22 | Thus the difference between prenominal attributive , ordinary predicative , and postnominal attributive adjectives is that they instantiate , respectively , the position of the P in the three intensional structures which , for the moment , we represent as follows : ( 37 ) Note that the structure in ( b ) is equivalent to a sentence , whereas that in ( c ) corresponds to a noun phrase ; this is an issue to which we shall return at the end of this chapter , where we shall propose a slight modification to these representations . |
23 | Whether such a prognosis is indeed likely or not is a question to which we shall return shortly , but for the time being let us merely note the danger , which is in any event a very real one , and pass on . |
24 | Nevertheless , if pragmatics is to be considered a component within linguistic theory ( a question to which we shall return ) , it may be that to include such principles is indeed to include too much . |
25 | ‘ Solitude ’ and its cognates — a much more positive expression of the reality — but seven times , a not insignificant indication to which we must return . ) |
26 | Apollinaire ( who coined the word ‘ surrealism ’ , to which we must return ) had commented . |
27 | Within these were many divisions ; and the second and third , in particular , obscure one of the great barriers , that between freedom and unfreedom , to which we must return . |
28 | These are matters to which we must return , but first we need to examine more closely the trends and patterns of overseas trade . |
29 | That is the proof of our achievement in the 1980s , to which we can return . |
30 | This is a point to which we will return later . |