Example sentences of "to [pron] they [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 ? |
2 | 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 . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | But they differ from normal girls in the extent to which they pursue these activities and their inability to desist from them . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | Domestic dogs are descendants of wolves , to which they show many similarities of appearance and behaviour . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | Cultures vary in the degree to which they take sexual deviance as a serious sin or crime , but all control sexuality in some way . |
9 | They have explored the extent to which they reflected mass aspirations and their role in the political outcome of the revolution . |
10 | THE recent attempts made by Hong Kong to have their sevens tournament accepted by the International Board as part of the official international calendar will not have been helped by the travesty to which they reduced this year 's tournament at the weekend . |
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 | 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 . |
13 | 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 ) . |
14 | It was this biotic aspect of human behaviour to which they gave special attention in trying to understand how populations and individuals adapted to one another and how this sorting process resulted in spatial distributions of social groups . |
15 | 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 . |