Example sentences of "to [Wh det] [pron] [vb mod] [not/n't] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But then one of their number was cut down by musket fire , to which they could not reply , for , clinging to the side , they had no hands free . |
| 2 | Most of the students were able to answer most of the questions but , as you would expect , many of the viewers had one or more questions to which they could not remember the answer . |
| 3 | Some of them brought to it a breadth of experience of teaching to which we could not lay claim . |
| 4 | These fundamental rights are variously described and vindicated by a variety of philosophical arguments to which we can not do justice here . |
| 5 | Awareness , although aided by propositional knowledge , is primarily of the concrete situation , to which one can not attend without being causally affected , so that to have become aware of it at all one must already be responding to it in ways which vary with the range and degree of awareness . |
| 6 | Her trick was to establish during the early part of the evening roughly where the man lived ; then to announce a destination for herself to which he could not suggest accompanying her without seeming over keen . |
| 7 | He said : ‘ He knows perfectly well how to hit the headlines and there seem to be no depths to which he will not plummet . |
| 8 | William Gallacher , looking back at the activity of the Women 's Peace Crusade in Glasgow at the end of 1917 , put the same point : ‘ … if you have the women with you there are no heights to which you can not rise . ’ |
| 9 | Er again that 's a very specific question to which I ca n't give a specific answer . |
| 10 | ‘ You will add great distinction to the office in ways to which I could not aspire ; but I fear you will find a great deal of the work here work which does not really interest you . ’ |
| 11 | Run from the ambitious young man who was her husband and who was bringing fear into her existence , a horrible fear to which she dare n't put a name and which had sprung into life a month ago . |
| 12 | There is also the question whether she made a decision which was limited in duration and to which she would not have adhered if she had been alerted to dangers of a refusal to accept blood transfusions or similar blood-based treatment . |
| 13 | ‘ Just outstanding , ’ Rickie said , but referring to what I could not tell . |
| 14 | ‘ when , as is common , the state has a more summary remedy , such as distress , and the party indicates by protest that he is yielding to what he can not prevent , courts sometimes perhaps have been a little too slow to recognise the implied duress under which payment is made . |
| 15 | In these latter he can interpose his objections by way of defence , but when , as it common , the state has a more summary remedy , such as distress , and the party indicates by protest that he is yielding to what he can not prevent , courts sometimes perhaps have been a little too slow to recognise the implied duress under which payment is made . |
| 16 | In these latter he can interpose his objections by way of defence , but when , as is common , the state has a more summary remedy , such as distress , and the party indicates by protest that he is yielding to what he can not prevent , courts sometimes perhaps have been a little too slow to recognise the implied duress under which payment is made . |
| 17 | In these latter he can interpose his objections by way of defence , but when , as is common , the state has a more summary remedy , such as distress , and the party indicates by protest that he is yielding to what he can not prevent , courts sometimes perhaps have been a little too slow to recognise the implied duress under which payment is made . |