Example sentences of "[noun] to which i [vb mod] " in BNC.

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1 Perhaps , too , he may have believed that once the gloss on my love affair dimmed , his money would act as a reminder of the comforts to which I could return .
2 However , while this tells us how not to solve the problem , it is less clear what positive steps we are to take — a dilemma to which I shall return later in the chapter .
3 Not all objectors to the Hinkley C plan supported such a straightforward advocacy of coal , especially with the growing problems of acid rain pollution and the greenhouse effect to which I shall return in Part Three .
4 They had been thinking of a job in Parma to which I would commute daily ; but this one sounded very interesting , something after my own heart .
5 Erm the er most important item I think Chairman is the work programme for the future year which commences at erm about twelve and forms the second half of the report and I would be very happy to deal with any questions and it is very clearly in the light of things that we 've already said , the first part of er that latter half of the report er which er emphasises the erm principal activities er to the department er that of strategic policy in paragraphs thirteen one , thirteen two and thirteen three are therefore perhaps the areas to which I would er draw you attention er most , but the report as whole is er I hope a reasonably succinct summary of what has gone on or what is proposed to be done and er in order to avoid simply what is already in the report , I , I would leave it at that point and say I 'm happy to deal with any questions .
6 This is an issue to which I shall return later in this chapter , when I consider relationships between siblings specifically .
7 Whether this is the case in contemporary societies is an issue to which I shall return in later chapters .
8 I joined in the debate because I felt that this was one issue to which I could meaningfully contribute .
9 There has been , as I have emphasised , no criticism of his judgment on the material that was before him and besides those to which I have already drawn attention , there are two other matters to which I should make reference .
10 How they are set is a difficult question to which I shall return , but those who decry as too narrow the scope of a Convention running to over a hundred Articles must surely embody the resuscitated spirit of Oliver Twist who will always cry for more !
11 Er again that 's a very specific question to which I ca n't give a specific answer .
12 He stopped as he heard her gasp , then went on steadily , ‘ But I have a question to which I 'd like to know the answer .
13 The local authority , the Croydon London Borough Council , had applied to the justices in circumstances to which I will refer for an interim care order .
14 We intend to ask the local government commission , which we hope to set up , to consider whether people want unitary authorities to be treated as part of historical counties for certain traditional or non-administrative purposes such as sport , a theme to which I shall return .
15 On the one hand — and this is a point to which I shall return — there is a dual claim against Lukács ' evolutionism ( to the effect that different levels of a social formation are relatively autonomous : crudely , if bourgeois society is decadent this does not necessarily mean , as Lukács thought it did , that its art is too ) , and in favour of the possibility of being able to pass a positive ‘ aesthetic judgement ’ upon a particular work however questionable the general category under which it has been produced ( a position related to Brecht 's polemic against Lukács ) .
16 Most importantly , this brotherhood was seen as extending laterally across a generation , vertically to fathers , grandfathers , sons and grandsons , and ultimately to God — a point to which I shall return .
17 This idea that relatives will acknowledge their responsibilities more effectively if alternatives are kept to the minimum has retained a strong hold on British social policy — a point to which I shall return .
18 One important distinction between the two writers is that Bentham became much more favourably disposed towards the prison as a medium of criminal reformation than Beccaria appeared to be ( a point to which I shall return later ) .
19 This is a point to which I shall be returning .
20 The problem is not length as such but the infrequency and brevity of meetings at which the scientific work is conducted , a point to which I shall return towards the end of this paper .
21 This is a point to which I shall return in the concluding chapter .
22 The Hon. Member for Renfrew , West and Inverclyde ( Mr. Graham ) who is just out for a moment , made a particular point to which I should like to respond .
23 Pop videos themselves are consistently reactionary in their sexual imagery ( and this is an aspect of the cooption of new pop to which I will return ) if only because they draw on visual conventions of masculinity and femininity ( taken from cinema history and television commercials ) that are much more coherent than pop 's adolescent ambiguities .
24 The awful , abrupt finality of a man pitching forward , so easily , so arbitrarily terminated — the convenience of it to the killer : they were things to which I could never become habituated , however many times I saw it .
25 Subject to one argument to which I shall come , concerning the proper application of the relevant insolvency rule , Hambros Jersey does not challenge the judge 's view that , if the court has jurisdiction to grant leave to serve these section 238 proceedings on Hambros Jersey out of the jurisdiction , this was a proper case for the court to exercise its discretion in favour of granting leave .
26 The next English authority to which I must refer is Avon Finance Co .
27 923 , an authority to which I must subsequently return .
28 ‘ 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 . ’
29 For instance , I can see that writing this book is a function of my job and as such is part of the responsibility of earning a living , but it is also an escape for me , a kind of haven to which I can take refuge from the hundred and one pressures that impinge on the practical business of living .
30 Such doubts as exist stem from the power which curriculum control gives to the curriculum designers ( a topic to which I will return in later chapters ) .
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