Example sentences of "to which they [verb] [been] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tree to which they had been tethered was still there , but the horses had disappeared . |
| 2 | The giving of often lavish presents to diplomats when they left a court to which they had been accredited , when a treaty was signed between two states or a special embassy of congratulation or condolence was sent , still a widespread practice in the first years of the nineteenth century , fairly soon became unimportant . |
| 3 | In Chapter 6 , it was suggested that one factor which contributed to the variations in fortune between different towns was the extent to which they had been affected by developments in the manufacture of cloth . |
| 4 | At a time when potential reformers included senior officials and members of the royal family , it was to be expected that educated people outside the government would emerge from the bunker to which they had been relegated in 1848 . |
| 5 | However , on Oct. 8 the " Prime Ministers " of Krajina and Slavonia — two self-proclaimed Serbian autonomous regions ( SARs ) in Croatia , Milan Babic and Goran Hadzic , boycotted the meeting in The Hague to which they had been invited , because they refused to be treated as a " minority " . |
| 6 | The immediate increase in those deposits will come from transfers from banks but the ultimate origin will be a diversion of funds away from the destinations to which they had been channelled by unit trust managements . |
| 7 | In November 1286 Robert of Everingham , hereditary warden of Sherwood Forest , and ten others were released on bail from prison in Nottingham , to which they had been committed for venison offences . |
| 8 | Ellison 's 1932 British study of measles showed a significant mortality reduction , but the patients were allocated by the ward to which they had been admitted . |
| 9 | Their chances rose or fell depending upon the country to which they had been allotted . |
| 10 | I congratulate my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary on the Bill , which provides for tougher action against prisoners who wish to carry out their war against society after conviction and sentence from within — or worse , outside — the prison to which they have been sentenced . |
| 11 | Nevertheless there has been a slow but perceptible change in the basis of such control , which is no longer in the hands of particular landowning families and individuals as such , but part of the duties of the office to which they have been elected . |
| 12 | Yet if the only sense in which two statements of attainment from different attainment targets are equivalent is the number of the level to which they have been assigned , then the production of a combined score is a calculation devoid of meaning . |
| 13 | But we know children can be at risk from even well-qualified professionals appointed to care for them ( not least in children 's homes to which they have been sent for their own welfare and safety ) , or from parents not burdened by a ‘ learning difficulty ’ label ( witness the recent ‘ home alone ’ cases here and in the United States ) . |
| 14 | Many press releases are poorly written , irrelevant to the newspaper or journal to which they have been sent , often are mailed to the wrong person on a publication , and are incredibly boring . |
| 15 | The most significant and the most controversial documents will , however , usually be the subject of full inquiry by the Sub-Committee to which they have been sifted . |
| 16 | Editor 's comment : The Australian government are quite entitled to apply sanctions against South Africa if they so wish but the correct time to apply them is not after competitors have arrived for a World Championships in Australia to which they have been invited . |
| 17 | Guests will be lawful visitors to those parts of the hotel to which they have been invited , i.e. all public rooms ( lounge , reception , restaurant ) , their bedrooms , conveniences , etc. provided for guests ' use . |
| 18 | Asian hoteliers and restaurateurs have been reluctant to disclose the extent to which they have been affected by the collapse of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International ( BCCI ) . |
| 19 | It is to be hoped that some of the numerous shales in the Devonian and Carboniferous sections may prove to have been sufficiently ductile to restrain escape over the long timespan involved , despite the degree of deformation to which they have been subjected . |
| 20 | Yet the experience to which they have been subjected is one of which it is proper for the criminal law to take notice . |
| 21 | It is found experimentally that practical materials " remember previous deformations to which they have been subjected … stress depends on … strains to which the material was subjected at all times up to and including t " ( Lockett 1973 ) . |
| 22 | The same number of players were utilised during the 1990 Grand Slam and for all the flak to which they have been subjected , such consistency reflects creditably on the selectors . |
| 23 | Social anthropologists employ comparatively few technical terms which do not form part of the ordinary colloquial language to which they have been accustomed since childhood . |