Example sentences of "[noun sg] to [pron] [pers pn] could [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he sets his mind to it he could make it in the cross-channel game , ’ says Scottish goal scoring ace Derek Cook , who himself will pose a considerable threat to Ards . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Such intimacy as life with my mother entailed should cease with parturition , and since Syl so resembled her in his attitude to me I could see no end to my continued childhood . |
| 4 | Holland had both a tradition of national independence to which it could look back , and important colonial possessions , but , like Belgium , was formally ‘ new ’ . |
| 5 | Too many people , she said , had used AIDS as an issue to which they could add their own prejudices . |
| 6 | It was not a place to which he could take Maureen MacQuillan or any woman , and only partly because he shared it with a fellow MP . |
| 7 | If a potential philanthropist did exist , he might have found it a deterrent that there was no established leadership to whom he could talk . |
| 8 | She began to feel foolish but she had to talk to somebody and Miss Hatherby was the only person to whom she could turn . |
| 9 | There was no one of my age to whom I could talk , and I did n't want to venture out any more . |
| 10 | But as the BUF acquired a Chelsea headquarters where activists lived as soldiers in barracks , and a Blackshirt uniform was issued to remove the distinction of class and wealth , there emerged a political ideal to which he could give his complete loyalty . |
| 11 | There seemed no limit to what it could achieve . |
| 12 | There was a limit to what she could make out , given the angle and that she was trying to see the page upside-down , but what she saw was enough to confirm that this book , or perhaps its predecessor for the previous year , had the potential to tell her exactly what she most needed to know . |
| 13 | John always remained very concerned about the designing of his own ballets but was never specifically credited with responsibility for their designs , preferring to collaborate with an artist to whom he could explain his ideas and from whom he expected further ideas to enhance the final outcome . |
| 14 | The degree of stability to which it could attain remained to be seen . |
| 15 | Henry wondered where the brake cable was , what it looked like , whether it was the kind of thing to which you could take a saw . |
| 16 | There must be one woman in the whole world to whom he could tell the truth . |
| 17 | This method allowed us to generalise the result to all Scottish schools but limited the extent to which we could explore potentially interesting responses . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Section 11(4) requires regard to be had to the financial resources of a party claiming the protection of an exemption clause which limits liability by reference to a specified sum of money , and also to the extent to which he could cover his liability by insurance . |
| 21 | The reasonableness of such clauses depends mainly upon the questions raised by s 11(4) of the UCTA " is the amount a reasonable one having regard to the financial resources of the party seeking its protection , and the extent to which he could insure against the relevant liabilities ? |
| 22 | Premack 's plastic tokens which Sarah , his only real success , was required to arrange in series on the magnetised slate , were designed to discover the extent to which she could make judgements about the qualities of objects ; for example , ‘ the apple is red and round ’ . |
| 23 | Not only were the subjects told of what Dement thought might be the probable results of the regime , but they were provided with a psychiatrist on duty all the time to whom they could report any unusual sensation . |
| 24 | Nevertheless , the tendon developed in the right place even though it had no muscle to which it could attach . |
| 25 | If anything , these developments strengthened the links with England : the sugar planters , just like the tobacco farmers , needed a market to which they could send their staple export product , and England was turning into a market that was always ready to absorb new products for domestic consumption or for re-export through its expanding commercial system . |