Example sentences of "[adj] to which the " in BNC.

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1 Stalin 's collectivization and industrialization drive launched at the end of the 1920s was accompanied by untold horrors : acute deprivation of workers and peasants alike , epitomized by a catastrophic famine in 1933 to which the government turned a blind eye ; repression and imprisonment on a truly mass scale ; and the blood-letting of the Great Terror of 1936–38 .
2 Amendments made : No. 62 , in page , 47 line , 43 , at end insert — ( ) The terms and conditions on which the Secretary of State may make any grants under this paragraph may include in particular conditions — ( a ) enabling him to require the repayment , in whole or in part , of sums paid by him if any other condition subject to which the sums were paid is not complied with ; and ( b ) requiring the payment of interest in respect of any period during which a sum due to him in accordance with any other condition remains unpaid , but shall not relate to the application by the college council to which the grant is made of any sums derived otherwise than from the Secretary of State . ' .
3 A description or list of the assets to be sold , assets excluded and the encumbrances subject to which the assets , particularly properties , are sold .
4 ( 6 ) An agreement to sell becomes a sale when the time elapses or the conditions are fulfilled subject to which the property in the goods is to be transferred .
5 ( iii ) Freedom from incumbrancesthe land shall be enjoyed free from any incumbrances other than those subject to which the conveyance is expressly made .
6 Can the reasoning of Lord Ellenborough C.J. in Bilbie v. Lumley , 2 East 469 , be appropriately applied to the complex legislation both primary and subordinate to which the citizen is subject in present times ?
7 The children will have their tea and be entertained during the banquet , prior to which the adults can enjoy the music of Peebles Pipe Band , thus creating a setting for what we hope will be a truly enjoyable and memorable evening .
8 The analogy between the diseases of the human body and those to which the horse is liable is very great .
9 It is rare for an instrument to prove objectionable to the Houses on any of these grounds and the vast majority of those to which the committee draws attention are innocent of serious blemish .
10 Tinbergen argued that rapid cultural change may have pushed human systems into an environment which is no longer that to which the species has adapted through evolution .
11 After this citation of authority , the Court of Appeal drew attention to an apparent discrepancy between the stricter rule applied in the earlier cases , and that to which the later decisions appear to have given effect .
12 We have made it clear that we regard this scheme as flawed since it fails to provide to those who are legally aided that to which the Act entitled them , namely that solicitors they select will be properly remunerated .
13 It is always interesting to note that the moment one reminds Labour Members of their party 's commitment to high taxation , they lose control of the argument completely and deliver tirades along the lines of that to which the hon. Gentleman has just subjected the House .
14 We must reduce the degree to which intervention plays a part and increase that to which the premium plays a part , and I am negotiating along those lines .
15 The " something " about which the lexeme is said , that to which the lexeme is " incident " , is called by Guillaume the " support " ; it forms part of the grammatical make-up of certain words , corresponding on the formal level to the category of person .
16 His humiliation was smaller than that to which the country had been subjected on being invaded by Napoleon in 1812 , but so was the likelihood that Russia would be able to reverse her defeat in the near future .
17 But yet it should not be regarded as a quirk development , but as part of that to which the other more familiar aspects of the religion are pointing .
18 The laws of yesteryear offered scant protection to the enemy loose-head and hooker , both of whom had to find their own salvation — the most original being , of course , that to which the Gala and Scotland loose-head , Tom Elliot , resorted when playing for a species of international XV versus Sedbergh .
19 A fair trial is one conducted according to certain procedural rules and perhaps one to which the participants bring certain appropriate judicial attitudes , rather than one which reaches the correct verdict .
20 Wesleyan membership in 1816 was 189,777 to which the breakaway New Connexion added only 8,146 .
21 Max Beerbohm 's generation must have been the last to which the delicious syllabub was a familiar childhood treat .
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