Example sentences of "[noun] to which [noun sg] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Robert Balchin , chairman of the GM Schools Foundation , says : ‘ Many schools faced bitter hostility in opting out of the LEAs to which Labour will forcibly return them . |
| 2 | Whilst it is necessary that there be a national legal rule to which reference can be made , when the Convention stipulates ‘ law , ’ it is not sufficient . |
| 3 | As to the interaction between a contractual right to litigation costs and the court 's discretionary power under section 51(1) of the Supreme Court Act 1981 , there are several judicial dicta to which reference should be made . |
| 4 | In the domain of educational aims , it is possible to pick out three main areas to which linguistics can make important contributions : |
| 5 | Scholars were seeking to measure attitudes at a high level , and to infer from this different accounts or models of the personality by reference to which behaviour could be explained . |
| 6 | This kind of thing has an important influence on the degree to which congestion can arise . |
| 7 | term used to describe the degree to which paper will show print through . |
| 8 | To tell these in their own right and expect them to retain the charm they got from their larger setting would be a terrible error , an error to which Tolkien would be more sensitive than any man alive . |
| 9 | There are a number of matters to which attention might be drawn . |
| 10 | This is the question which vice-chancellors have sought to raise — and this is the question to which society must , as a matter of urgency , respond . |
| 11 | For the person with these projects the forwarding of them has an importance to which utilitarianism can not do justice , for it must regard them as simply among the many preferences of which as many as possible are to be satisfied . |
| 12 | So we complete that information , er tell them when you are actually finishing teaching er I E the last day you 'll actually be , your last day of actual teaching and the last day to which salary will be paid . |
| 13 | Not only were there also one or two very old statutes to which resort could be made , but the common law of conspiracy was generally held to preclude collective actions designed to harm employers ' interests : " it is not the denial to work except for more wages than is allowed by statute , but it is for a conspiracy to raise their wages , for which these defendants are indicted " , concluded a famous judgement against some striking tailors of Cambridge in 1721 . |
| 14 | Can we imagine , for instance , that rulers could effectively have articulated their image through Christ , had there been no religious feeling in society as a whole to which appeal could be made , when they projected the Christ-image of rule ? |
| 15 | There is a certain amount of authority to which reference should be made . |
| 16 | Mr Summerchild , however , was evidently feeling his way towards a quite different sense — the idea of some kind of grading system for our experience , of some variable level of satisfactoriness to which life might attain , and which , as he implied , might be enhanced by various practical means . |
| 17 | The only history that the critic must master is the history of words ; he must grasp the full historical meaning of the language used in the text , including all its associations , and of the names to which reference may be made , but only to the extent that their meaning is a matter of public record about the culture in which the text was produced . |
| 18 | In other words , he shows a recognition of the social uses to which reading can be put , the ways in which knowledge about texts is deployed . |
| 19 | The uses to which religion can be put are not always beneficial — indeed can be very damaging indeed . |
| 20 | They may well limit the uses to which property may be put and hence affect its value , even to the point where owners may prefer not to allow it to be used at all ; but they do not alter the fact that ownership confers the licence to use , or not to use . |
| 21 | The plainer truth is that this is so obvious , as obvious as Leeds Town Hall , that Mr Smith would be elected by any Labour Party forum , by a ballotted union membership , a ballotted constituency membership , or that secret vote of MPs to which Labour will do well to return . |
| 22 | This is necessary in order to clarify certain observations that some authors have made about the precise aspects or forms of psychosis to which creativity might be especially connected . |
| 23 | It should be said that there are certain other features of the case to which attention ought to be drawn . |
| 24 | Some place must be found for the principle of self-determination as a basis for altering international boundaries and the controlled and limited use of force in the service of this principle , and , in order to establish the boundaries of such legitimate force , it will be necessary to establish rules to which appeal can be made for the settlement of territorial disputes by international courts as an essential precondition of the legitimate resort to force . |
| 25 | This approach argues that the best way in which to use syntactic knowledge is to formalise the grammar and encode it as a set of rules to which input must conform if it is to be considered acceptable . |
| 26 | Such a tradition of behaviour ‘ is neither fixed nor finished ; it has no changeless centre to which understanding can anchor itself ; there is no sovereign purpose to be perceived or invariable direction to be detected ; there is no model to be copied , idea to be realised , or rule to be followed ’ . |
| 27 | The government departments to which attention must be given in the discussion of social policy in England ( the different situation in the other component countries of the United Kingdom is outlined later ) are the Treasury , the Department of Health and Social Security , the Department of the Environment , the Department of Education and Science and the Department of Employment . |
| 28 | It is not so much a book for reading as a book to which reference can confidently be made both on general matters and on points of detail . |
| 29 | The context determines what materials we can use in justifying a choice and the standards to which appeal will be made . |
| 30 | The most definitive statement to which attention may be drawn in this regard is the much-quoted reply of Gregory Nazianzen to Apollinarius : ‘ What is not assumed , is not redeemed ’ — or in Greek , ‘ not taken on , not healed ’ . |