Example sentences of "to [pron] [pers pn] [modal v] return " in BNC.
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| 1 | One powerful source of fresh blood came from new men to whom we shall return , the Sussex ironmasters , like the Bowyers of Cuckfield who disputed so effectively with Bishop Curteys . |
| 2 | Something ancient is surfacing here , in other words , and it is tempting to believe that some French critics , especially those who are hostile to the English a cappella tradition ( to whom we shall return ) , can hear in English choral recordings the voice of their ancient Protestant adversary all too clearly . |
| 3 | Temporary advisers , especially those with a secure job to which they can return , need not feel a great sense of responsibility . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , there must be a filter , as there is in the criminal courts , to ensure that the appellate system is not overloaded by those who enter Britain from a third safe country to which they can return if they manifestly have no claim to asylum here . |
| 5 | Even hardy explorers needed strongpoints to which they could return after exhausting expeditions into unknown regions . |
| 6 | Once established they underwent a number of evolutionary ‘ bursts ’ in which diverse kinds of reptiles occupied a variety of habitats , the most spectacular of which was the dinosaur radiation in the Mesozoic , to which we shall return later . |
| 7 | They will remain fundamental to our concern , and a basic issue to which we shall return at the end . |
| 8 | Daraprim ( pyrimethamine ) , a very different substance , evolved some years later from research of more general significance , to which we shall return in the next chapter . |
| 9 | This is an important idea to which we shall return . |
| 10 | These depredations and the lack of a firm response by corrupt local magnates were to have a violent sequel to which we shall return . |
| 11 | When Curteys hit at Lewkenor 's and his associates ' involvement in corn speculation he acted in the tradition to which we shall return , of the magnate 's dispensing reasonable justice , but it was a politically fatal manoeuvre . |
| 12 | Apart from political intervention and law-giving , to which we shall return , a steadily more onerous pressure emerged in the form of military service . |
| 13 | Finally in this short resumé of the teachers ' predicament , we should mention the more personal factors to which we shall return later in the book : their aspirations , ambitions , values and concerns . |
| 14 | The responsibilities of magisterium remain an issue to which we shall return . |
| 15 | In addition there is the complex constitutional position of the constable to which we shall return later . |
| 16 | Evidently there is a problem , to which we shall return , of the general definition of a causal circumstance . |
| 17 | To note a possibility to which we shall return in a moment , it is allowed that a possible world w " might be more like our actual world than a possible world w " even though the laws of our world are to some extent suspended or do not exist in w " and are intact in w " . |
| 18 | ( The interpersonal function is something extra to which we shall return in Chapter 8 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The point of this discussion is to bring out the important link between contestability and sustainability , a topic to which we shall return . |
| 21 | This question of how much deindustrialization matters is an issue to which we shall return in Chapter 6 . |
| 22 | This raises further issues about what is meant by the ‘ importance of manufacturing ’ , and how it should be measured , to which we shall return later . |
| 23 | This is an issue to which we shall return at the end of the chapter ; first , however , we must explore the broad classification of degree courses which has emerged from this analysis of their relationship with employment . |
| 24 | This is an issue to which we shall return in the final section of this chapter . |
| 25 | He sees part of the answer in the massive recession suffered by the British economy at that time , a point to which we shall return below . |
| 26 | ( This is a point to which we shall return . ) |
| 27 | Thus the difference between prenominal attributive , ordinary predicative , and postnominal attributive adjectives is that they instantiate , respectively , the position of the P in the three intensional structures which , for the moment , we represent as follows : ( 37 ) Note that the structure in ( b ) is equivalent to a sentence , whereas that in ( c ) corresponds to a noun phrase ; this is an issue to which we shall return at the end of this chapter , where we shall propose a slight modification to these representations . |
| 28 | Whether such a prognosis is indeed likely or not is a question to which we shall return shortly , but for the time being let us merely note the danger , which is in any event a very real one , and pass on . |
| 29 | Nevertheless , if pragmatics is to be considered a component within linguistic theory ( a question to which we shall return ) , it may be that to include such principles is indeed to include too much . |
| 30 | ‘ Solitude ’ and its cognates — a much more positive expression of the reality — but seven times , a not insignificant indication to which we must return . ) |