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

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1 That said , the book is one which all local historians should own or to which they should have easy access .
2 The major field monuments , which are better documented , almost certainly provided the foci in the landscape , around which such subsistence settlements would have been placed and to which they would have looked for some specialised goods and services .
3 It is also often useful to include in the side letter , by way of illustration only , a worked example of a pro forma completion statement to which both sets of accountants agree and to which they can refer back when the actual accounts are to be prepared .
4 Also , to some extent copying adult places of worship , children have provided for themselves hideaway places that they treasure , and to which they can go when they can get no comfort from the adults around them .
5 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 .
6 Over time the Tree — and its fruit — came to be understood as part of the sacred source of life , a manifestation of Mother Goddess , from whose body the whole world sprang and to which it would return .
7 The consumer body 's report New Metering Technology , published last month , speaks of ‘ an opportunity … that the industry should welcome and to which it should respond rapidly and enthusiastically ’ .
8 Her scheme envisaged a palatial brothel for women only — a sanctuary ‘ to which any lady of rank and fortune may subscribe , and to which she may repair incog ; the married to commit what the world calls adultery , and the single to commit what at the tabernacle is called fornication , or in a gentler phrase , to obey the dictates of all-powerful Nature , by offering up a cheerful sacrifice to the God Priapus , the most ancient of deities . ’
9 Here there are evident overlaps with political theory and with general sociology , which cultural sociology can not replace but to which it can try to contribute its own kinds of evidence .
10 Here there are again overlaps with political theory and with general sociology , which cultural sociology can not replace but to which it can try to contribute its distinctive emphasis on the organization of signifying systems and on the special kinds of social formation which are professionally concerned with this , among them the difficult category usually identified as ‘ intellectuals ’ .
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