Example sentences of "[noun pl] to which [pron] could [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Even hardy explorers needed strongpoints to which they could return after exhausting expeditions into unknown regions . |
| 9 | He opened his recruitment consultancy in January 1991 , just as the recession was revealing the depths to which it could sink . |