Example sentences of "[noun pl] to which [pron] [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 There were always polite formulae to which one could adhere .
3 This is shown by the Hellenic prototype , thanks to which we can see that we are now recreating the Hellenic epochs , hut in reverse order , passing from the Alexandrian to the tragic .
4 Perhaps , too , he may have believed that once the gloss on my love affair dimmed , his money would act as a reminder of the comforts to which I could return .
5 Like many socialists and intellectuals educated in the traditions of the high establishment , he fussed about the education of his own children and about the schools to which they might go .
6 These are matters to which we must return , but first we need to examine more closely the trends and patterns of overseas trade .
7 There has been , as I have emphasised , no criticism of his judgment on the material that was before him and besides those to which I have already drawn attention , there are two other matters to which I should make reference .
8 Two centuries later , the Enlightenment returns : but not at all as a way for the West to take cognizance of its present possibilities and of the liberties to which it can have access , but as a way of interrogating it on its limits and on the powers which it has abused .
9 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
10 The local authority , the Croydon London Borough Council , had applied to the justices in circumstances to which I will refer for an interim care order .
11 If you are unlucky enough to be in a firm where this is not yet done , or if you are self-employed , there are a number of organisations to which you can turn for advice and help .
12 How strange that from all the many places to which she might have been drafted , chance had come up with Ardneavie .
13 The sender now faces the receivers so that he can see their reactions and they are allowed to ask questions to which he will reply .
14 British town planning , both as a movement and as a profession , found that it had a relevance to wider questions to which it could respond .
15 A vivid example of this occurred in the Hadmor case [ 1983 ] 1 A.C. 191 where Lord Denning in the Court of Appeal relied on his own researches into Hansard in reaching his conclusions : in the House of Lords , counsel protested that there were other passages to which he would have wished to draw the court 's attention had he known that Lord Denning was looking at Hansard : see the Hadmor case at p. 233 .
16 He wrote to all his senior departmental ministers asking , ‘ have you any problems to which we shall have to give our early attention ? ’
17 Hence it remains necessary to explain in further detail the present legal provisions and to highlight some of the problems to which they can give rise .
18 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 .
19 We have seen accomplished within a few brief months or years reforms to which we should have assigned , not decades , but generations .
20 ‘ Nurse Dungarvan , this may have slipped your notice , but patients are human beings and not machines to which one can fix tidy little labels .
21 In the case of the Londoners , however , they may have been more vulnerable to plague than were country dwellers , unless they themselves had , as they might , country properties to which they could flee in time of pestilence .
22 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 .
23 You can join by contacting the Law Society in London , and from time to time the Law Society arranges national media campaigns and an annual insertion in the local Yellow Pages to which you can subscribe .
24 Are there not shops or agencies to which you can send off parcels ?
25 One answer to this question might utilize an optical theory of the telescope that explains its magnifying properties and that also gives an account of the various aberrations to which we can expect telescopic images to be subject .
26 What has to be recognized , though , is that to a large extent , consumers select the stimuli to which they will respond .
27 Behind a blank and perfectly uniform wall , he needs to find the studs to which he can attach the cabinet .
28 There are two main uses to which we will put these concepts .
29 For reasons to which I shall refer later I do not think that we should do that .
30 Anyway , if the right hon. Gentleman had remained in the Chamber , he would have realised that much of what he said was total nonsense , for reasons to which I shall turn in a moment .
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