Example sentences of "to [pron] [pers pn] [vb base] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean it 's interesting you 're using that , that second you used erm empowerment a number of people are saying to me you know that empowerment is a word they have problems with . |
| 2 | Someone said to me you take three years to mourn . |
| 3 | Of course , Freud , to whom we owe this discovery , did not arrive at it by way of evolutionary theory ; on the contrary , he reached his conclusions by direct observation of adults and children and by a study of the psychology of human sexuality . |
| 4 | The ever-present anthropologist to whom we owe this quotation ( Penny Wright ) was told : ‘ Just as native doctors here meet in the witch bush to find new medicines , scientists in your place meet in their witch bush to invent new things . |
| 5 | Those who find it objectionable that an aesthetic problem should be taken so seriously may be assured that art represents the highest task and the true metaphysical activity of this life : witness the illustrious pioneer on my path , to whom I dedicate this essay . |
| 6 | The inductivist wishes to make a fairly sharp distinction between direct observation , which he hopes will form a secure foundation for scientific knowledge , and theories , which are to be justified by the extent to which they receive inductive support from the secure observational foundation . |
| 7 | But they differ from normal girls in the extent to which they pursue these activities and their inability to desist from them . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Domestic dogs are descendants of wolves , to which they show many similarities of appearance and behaviour . |
| 10 | Cultures vary in the degree to which they take sexual deviance as a serious sin or crime , but all control sexuality in some way . |
| 11 | Transactions differ in the strains they place on decision-making ability , the scope they give for opportunism , and the degree to which they involve human dignity . |
| 12 | He proposes four bonds : attachment ( the extent to which individuals have close emotional ties to other people ) ; commitment ( the extent to which they see conventional behaviour , for example at school , as offering immediate or long-term rewards ) ; involvement ( the extent to which their time is taken up with conventional activities ) ; belief ( the extent to which their beliefs about what is permissible or not coincide with conventional ones ) . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The extent to which we aggregate individual units in this way depends of course on the purpose at hand . |
| 17 | It is the kind of rapid , critical examination to which we expose another person when we encounter them for the first time . |
| 18 | For it often happens that the things we take for granted are the very things that need most explaining , but to which we give least attention because we are barely conscious of them ourselves . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | It relates to that other world , the great shabby confusion outside these walls to which I return each evening , to Timmy and Cheryl , to my mother-in-law who comes to help out at the weekends , to everything unresolved and unsatisfactory . |
| 22 | We might find an account of what knowledge is which would suffice to undermine crucial sceptical moves , and hence confirm the possibility that some of our beliefs are justified ; the account to which I give tentative support in chapter 3 has pretensions in this direction . |
| 23 | But , what we would say to you I think this morning , Chair , is that in your officers ' view erm , yes , we think it is sensible to go forward and manage on the basis of five hundred thousand pounds addition towards that shortfall , we become increasingly nervous if that five hundred thousand pounds is reduced , and because of the uncertainty , again later in the papers you will see still have some contingencies that you could use from savings in previous years , and we will be strongly recommending to you that you retain some of those contingencies because of the uncertainty that still attaches to demands in the community care grants . |
| 24 | And at various stages during the organic you 'll also be coming to what we call optical isomers . |