Example sentences of "[Wh det] [adv] [verb] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The duty arises from the real concern that management may benefit from an opportunity which properly belongs to the company and its shareholders . |
| 2 | We now know that during the Saturday daylight raids on London , a chiefs-of-staff meeting took urgent action on deciding that invasion was likely within a few hours ; they had the code word ‘ Cromwell ’ flashed from the War Room to military units at 20.07 hours that evening ( which presumably led to the flap at my unit ; the station commander was away that weekend , and the acting CO in charge ) . |
| 3 | The failure of this ‘ mechanical speech ’ approach ( which eventually led to the development of speech synthesis by rule ) has many lessons to teach us about pronunciation teaching and learning , and it will be useful , in looking at connected speech , to bear in mind the difference between the way humans speak and what would be found in ‘ mechanical speech ’ . |
| 4 | Subsequently , and very shortly after having written that letter , the father sought legal advice in Australia and then took the steps which eventually led to the issue of this originating summons . |
| 5 | The fact that none of the lesbians I knew wanted to pick up a woman in a public toilet underpinned those very basic differences in the sexuality of gay women and men , at that time , which eventually led to the split . |
| 6 | Ever since 1914 , when the great majority of the leaders of social democratic parties in Europe supported the war effort of their own nation states — under a variety of influences , one of which was undoubtedly the nationalist fervour of the peoples involved — the capacity of the socialist movement to bring about a new kind of political relationship among the peoples of the world has seemed more questionable ; and the doubts have multiplied not only as a result of the course taken by the revolution in Russia , culminating in the project of building ‘ socialism in one country ’ , which eventually led to the identification of socialism with the national interests of the Soviet Union , but also in the light of the actual relations that developed between the communist countries in the postwar period . |
| 7 | It was in this capacity that Le Duc Tho conducted secret negotiations in the early 1970s with Henry Kissinger , US President Nixon 's National Security Adviser , which eventually led to the signing of the 1973 Paris agreements . |
| 8 | In late 1959 Goleniewski had given MI5 enough information to identify Harry Houghton , who worked at the Admiralty 's underwater research laboratory at Portland , which eventually led to the exposure of the Portland spy ring . |
| 9 | First , although it was a serious issue which eventually led to the introduction of the Public Order Act in 1936 , such violence was only a pale reflection of the conflict which led to the growth of fascism in Italy and Germany in the inter-war period . |
| 10 | The whole reason for the existence of finite time appears to have been to bring about that conflict of good and evil which eventually leads to the triumph of the former . |
| 11 | Trudge up this to find a well-defined narrow path which eventually leads to the south-east face of the crag . |
| 12 | They had allowed others to commit waste and make assarts ; they had embezzled fines which rightfully belonged to the king , taken large sums for the agistment of animals in the Forest pastures so as to overburden them , and illegally kept unlawed dogs . |
| 13 | Bone is a living tissue which constantly adapts to the body 's changing requirements . |
| 14 | ‘ We have strong reservations , ’ it says in its response to the document , ‘ about the usefulness of information contained in accounts which only relate to the activity of a branch in an economic entity . |
| 15 | Some harbour resentments going back many years , which only come to the surface when a crisis causes the couple to come for counselling . |
| 16 | It certainly seems to escape the circularity inherent in a Kantian attempt to link the particularity of entities with the numerical identity of the places that such entities occupy in a general spatio-temporal framework , which only leads to the problem of having to presuppose the existence of numerically identical entities in order to be able to refer to identical places . |
| 17 | Webster 's resignation came only a month after a fire in the US embassy in Moscow , which apparently led to the loss of computer disks and other sensitive material when Soviet firefighters , possibly including State Security ( KGB ) agents , were allowed to move unescorted through parts of the building . |
| 18 | He had imposed heavy and illegal exactions upon the forest dwellers , prevented the men of the royal demesnes from having their customary rights of housebote and haybote , and taken for himself the dues for escapes of cattle and other animals in the forest , which rightly belonged to the king . |
| 19 | Associated with the growth of the proletariat in the towns of feudal times were other processes which together led to the concentration of the means of production in ever-fewer hands , a process which ultimately led to the capitalism of the nineteenth century . |
| 20 | ‘ If physicists had tried to discover a way to release nuclear energy before 1939 , they would have worked on anything else rather than the field which finally led to the discovery of fission , namely radiochemistry . |
| 21 | There , the coal bearing Carboniferous has been covered later on by Mesozoic and Cainozoic sediments , the thickness of which generally increases to the north . |
| 22 | Instead of creating another SSR to reply to the new SPR , it is possible in this case to add the SPR to the SSR which already responds to the problem . |
| 23 | Instead of creating another SSR to reply to the new SPR , it is possible in this case to add the SPR to the SSR which already responds to the problem . |
| 24 | They thought of the movies as a mechanical novelty , a meaningless and trivial craze which might be allowed to provide a moment 's distraction at a music-hall or vaudeville show but which normally belonged to the amusement arcade or fairground . |
| 25 | But it can scarcely be in doubt that these books have in them home truths , and an ironic obliquity or duplicity , which richly relate to the world of Jaruzelski 's predecessors , and indeed to the experience of other countries where literature and opinion have been repressed . |
| 26 | A compass is really a magnetized needle which always points to the North . |
| 27 | The sovereign 's power to debase the currency has passed to the commercial banks and so has the seigniorage which once accrued to the state . |
| 28 | And there was an almost disastrous end for this 1913 American motorbike , which once belonged to the actor , Steve McQueen … |
| 29 | The same is true of the coinage of medieval Europe : we can tell that a coin is , say , Spanish or English from the inscription , which usually refers to the kingdom in question , but the date may well be far from apparent . |
| 30 | Words ( other than invented words , e. g. ‘ tabloid' ) which directly refer to the character or quality of the goods , and names of places , can not be so appropriated . |