Example sentences of "[noun sg] [Wh det] [verb] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE NUNS in Northamptonshire who are battling to save their 5,000 chickens from slaughter said yesterday that the Ministry of Agriculture had changed its story over the type of salmonella responsible for the outbreak of food poisoning which led to the flock being tested . |
| 2 | A state entrance was under a porte-cochère on the Downing Street side which led to the suite of reception rooms occupying the entire first floor of the northern wing . |
| 3 | These gateways gave entrance to avenues with covered arcades on each side which led to the centre of the enclosure . |
| 4 | He found the warehouse which corresponded to the number on the invoice lying beside him on the passenger seat and slowed the Golf to a halt in front of it . |
| 5 | The reasoning which led to the discovery of the antimalarial pyrimethamine was applied equally fruitfully 15 years later , to the drug trimethoprim , which was as specific for certain bacteria as pyrimethamine was for malaria parasites . |
| 6 | Reference has already been made to the examination by the Sumner Committee of the 1905 Hague Convention , and the reasoning which led to the Committee 's recommendation that the United Kingdom should not accede to that Convention but proceed rather by way of bilateral treaties . |
| 7 | A short user 's guide at the front of the dictionary which explains to the learner in simple terms how to make the best use of the dictionary . |
| 8 | Anteriorly the frontal ganglion gives off a frontal nerve which passes to the clypeus , and a pair of lateral roots connect the frontal ganglion with the tritocerebrum . |
| 9 | The fundamental difference between the traditional City and Guilds awards and the new NVQ award is that the former were awarded by City and Guilds to students who had attended an approved course of study in a college which led to the student successfully passing the relevant City and Guilds examination . |
| 10 | Following assessment and successful completion of a period of consolidation the nurse is then encouraged to proceed into a two part professional studies programme which leads to the National Board for Scotland Diploma in Professional Studies . |
| 11 | The American writer Leslie Farber has a great deal to say about ‘ the life of suicide ’ , which he insists , ‘ must not be seen as the situation or state of mind which leads to the act , but that situation in which the act-as-possibility , quite apart from whether it eventually occurs or not , has a life of its own . ’ |
| 12 | If you were to take a pencil and cross out every verse in the New Testament which refers to the resurrection or to the idea that Jesus Christ is alive , you would not have much of the New Testament left . |
| 13 | In this analogy , the molecule in the cell which corresponds to the tool is ATP , which is short for adenosine triphosphate , and the ready-compressed spring corresponds to the high energy phosphate bond in the ATP . |
| 14 | If you can afford a magic standard then you can use this to increase the leadership or add to your combat result which amounts to the same thing for the all important break test . |
| 15 | This view is based on the weight which attaches to the processes by which decisions are reached as well as to the content of the decisions made , that is to process or procedural rather than end-state principles . |
| 16 | Happily , she is now flying again , the rather unusual engine fault which led to the premature landing now rectified . |
| 17 | In the Darlington records , there is an entry which refers to the tipping with silver of a horn spoon , one ounce , seven shillings and sixpence , so it seems there may be some basis in fact for this story . |
| 18 | It was the failure of this attempt which led to the gradual expansion of the regular police into rural areas in the first half of the twentieth century . |
| 19 | These are introduced in the next chapter which brings to the reader the concept of ‘ The Created God ’ . |
| 20 | The first is that , with the consumer being the main culprit in the spending boom which led to the current difficulties , there is a case for shifting the tax burden from industry to individuals . |
| 21 | The state as a whole functions as ‘ an ideal collective capitalist ’ ( Altvater , 1973 ) , a political institution which corresponds to the common needs of capital . |
| 22 | For field staff , however , a review which led to the relaxation of a large number of consents appeared to be in direct contradiction to their efforts ostensibly to bring all dischargers into compliance — ‘ trying to fiddle the books for when the Act comes into force ’ as a northern authority officer put it . |
| 23 | Are there any conditions of carriage which apply to the journey ? |
| 24 | A grammatical term which refers to the fact that certain words must agree in gender , number , case or person . |
| 25 | A grammatical term which refers to the fact that certain words must agree in gender , number , case or person . |
| 26 | Part of the reliquary consisted of a gold inscription plaque which referred to the fourteenth year of a particular Gadhara king , enabling the experts to date it precisely . |
| 27 | This inevitable tension which goes to the heart of the matter and which can be fruitful as well as sterile has been paradoxically heightened by the government 's capping of the advanced further education pool . |
| 28 | In addition , the conference was forced to accept the need to organize a campaign to compel the National government to drop its policy of non-intervention , an action which led to the formation of the Spain Campaign Committee . |
| 29 | By setting up the Secret Committee Alexander acted in the style of his father ; by ordering Nazimov to delve more deeply into the views of the north-westerners he showed sympathy for a landless concept of emancipation which belonged to the reign of Alexander I. The regime seemed to be moving in the direction not so much of freeing the serfs as of turning a blind eye to them ( by consigning their future to yet another assembly of antediluvian officials ) or making their condition worse ( by opting for a form of emancipation which would blight their future ) . |
| 30 | This is a partnership which works to the benefit of the patient . |