Example sentences of "to [pron] [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To them it represented infinite riches , well worth committing murder for . |
| 2 | Someone said to me you take three years to mourn . |
| 3 | As British Governments of both colours have failed the Turkish Cypriot community in Cyprus , to whom they undertook certain responsibilities under the constitution of 1960 and the treaty of guarantee , would not it be advisable for the Government to be a bit more sensitive to the concerns of the Turkish Cypriots who do not want to see — under whatever agreement , which may be too favourable to the Greek Cypriots — a return to the situation in the 1960s ? |
| 4 | Others who may well have had reservations about him ( though we shall probably have to wait some time before their reflections can be made available to us ) were the oil-company spokesmen to whom he advanced new facts of life during the earnestly disputed discussions between OPEC and the major companies in Tehran in December 1973 . |
| 5 | De Quincey was more or less in hiding from Edinburgh people to whom he owed large sums of money , so Glasgow , a thriving and blackening metropolis of 365 , 000 souls , was the ideal place in which to eat your opium and keep your head down . |
| 6 | George Boole 's father had been curator of the Lincoln Mechanics ' Institute when Bromhead was president , and the connection led to the latter 's support and encouragement for the younger Boole , to whom he lent mathematical books . |
| 7 | An open sale of a vote , such as this , was quite unusual , however , and Buchanan of Balfunning appears to have been particularly unscrupulous , even on Ardkinglas 's own showing , for the latter suggessed that if Buchanan could see a commission for his son , ‘ we have him , if not Montrose has him , to whom he ows many obligations ’ . |
| 8 | Thankfully , he found St Erconwald 's fairly deserted except for Watkin to whom he gave strict instructions about the custody of the church , and Ranulf the rat-catcher who had come to remind him of his promise that if a Guild of Rat-Catchers were founded , St Erconwald 's could be their chantry church . |
| 9 | Was he ashamed to meet men to whom he talked two ways ? … |
| 10 | The company , which has been in the hands of receivers since February , faces the prospect of its production lines halting after a judge refused to rule that a crucial supplier , to whom it owes large sums of money , was legally obliged to continue providing vital components . |
| 11 | It is worth noting that such important modern choreographers as Kurt Jooss and Martha Graham and the leader of the Dance Theatre of Harlem , George Mitchell , insisted that their dancershave knowledge of some school of classical technique , to which they added other exercises to develop the flexibility of their dancers ' bodies , athletic qualities and an ability to explore more thoroughly the space around them in all its dimensions . |
| 12 | But they differ from normal girls in the extent to which they pursue these activities and their inability to desist from them . |
| 13 | In other words , just as people differ in extraversion , intelligence , and proneness to anxiety so , too , do they differ in the extent to which they show psychotic characteristics . |
| 14 | Domestic dogs are descendants of wolves , to which they show many similarities of appearance and behaviour . |
| 15 | The four categories of need chosen by the Authority varied considerably in the extent to which they met these conditions , at both LEA and school level . |
| 16 | They have explored the extent to which they reflected mass aspirations and their role in the political outcome of the revolution . |
| 17 | The secret meeting organised by MPs Tim Devlin and Michael Bates , to which they invited selected headteachers to discuss opting out , drags the education debate down into the gutter of political furtiveness and secrecy . |
| 18 | We followed up the representations that were made by the hon. Lady and by others on that point , and the regional offices of the Department of Employment have been in negotiation with TECs to try to establish the extent to which they need additional resources to meet the YT guarantee . |
| 19 | For the clinical and educational professions ( and the lay notions which derive their values from them ) , their very practice makes it clear what fact it is that you ‘ come to terms ’ with : you have not given birth to a member of the human species as we define it , and to which we allocate certain rights and social roles , but to an object of pathology — a ‘ monster ’ , to use a technical term employed in medical anatomy . |
| 20 | He himself , he says , does ‘ not belong to the party that would condemn the common and familiar ways of speaking ’ , according to which we know many things at the level of appearances , such as that I am now seated rather than standing , and that fire appears hot rather than cold . |
| 21 | The extent to which we aggregate individual units in this way depends of course on the purpose at hand . |
| 22 | On Thursday March 9 , Spare Rib hosted a forum to which we invited eleven women representing a broad range of positions within the women 's movement . |
| 23 | There were the Bingley summer courses , and those at Grantley to which we invited professional painters to meet and work with West Riding teachers . |
| 24 | He considers that many occurrences of phenomena to which we give diverse names like UFOs , ghosts , will-o-the-wisps , and apparitions of various sorts , may all be manifestations of earth lights . |
| 25 | Most people do not make their position explicit , partly at least because this is still one of the many questions to which we have uncertain answers . |
| 26 | It is , however , still very easy to pick up tufa from the latter on the coast of East Africa , to which it took 6 months to float across the Indian Ocean . |
| 27 | 21 ) who explicitly rejected the ‘ classical doctrine ’ of democracy , according to which it embodies distinctive ideals concerning participation in political life and the relationship between political leaders and the people , and replaced it by another theory of democracy as ‘ competition for political leadership ’ : ‘ the democratic method is that institutional arrangement for arriving at political decisions in which individuals acquire the power to decide by means of a competitive struggle for the people 's vote ’ ( p. 269 ) . |
| 28 | A particular point of contention is likely to arise where a group claims that it was unaware of an intention to hold a march by a group to which it holds opposing views until some time within the notification period . |
| 29 | So he turned to other forms of theatre , directing operas , writing and staging revues and musicals , to which he brought new ideas and methods that were widely admired . |
| 30 | Cameron first worked for Catherine at the palace of Tsarskoe Selo , to which he made several additions over a period of fifteen years , notably the Agate Pavilion and the Cameron Gallery , an elegant building based on the neo-classical style developed in England by Robert Adam , about which Cameron had probably learned from Clérisseau . |