Example sentences of "to [pron] we [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When Edwards spoke to me we discussed other football matters , such as Webb leaving , Mark Hughes might be going and United returning with an increased bid for Hirst . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The extent to which we aggregate individual units in this way depends of course on the purpose at hand . |
| 7 | It is the kind of rapid , critical examination to which we expose another person when we encounter them for the first time . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | There were the Bingley summer courses , and those at Grantley to which we invited professional painters to meet and work with West Riding teachers . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The central drives are those to which we gave considerable prominence at the start of this book , and are those associated with survival and identity , as well as with the preservation and expansion of family , kin and blood relations . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | And at various stages during the organic you 'll also be coming to what we call optical isomers . |