Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] to [Wh det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The classic Hollywood narrative , he proposes , in a manner quite similar to Bakhtin 's , is defined by the centrality of a logic of causation to which character is central , and to which space and time are always subordinate : ‘ In the Hollywood style the systems do not play equal roles : space and time are almost invariably made vehicles for narrative causality ’ . |
| 2 | The mixture consisted of a dialysed solution of FeCl 3 ( parchment or animal gut could be used for this ) resulting in a solution of FeO(OH) to which NaCl was added — this mixture gave a thixotropic sol that set in about an hour and closely resembled the brown-coloured holy relic in Naples . |
| 3 | Any policy which aims at exorcising envy and the concomitant sense of guilt — the reason why so many intellectually eminent individuals are attracted to levelling doctrines , because they aspire to purge the sense of guilt to which eminence itself is prone — by measures of social or economic equalisation is foredoomed to failure , because it rests on the false presumption that envy and envy-guilt exist only because they are ‘ justified ’ , because the materials exist on which they feed . |
| 4 | A priority for the committee will be to establish the categories of organisation to which participation in the ownership of the clearing house would be extended , and the requirements that such an arrangement would be expected to fulfil . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | And it remains a matter of debate to what extent Luke is exercising editorial privilege in his accounts of the apostolic preaching . |
| 7 | The subroutine or procedure is another important programming device , whereby several pieces of similar program code are replaced by one piece of code to which control is passed as required . |
| 8 | The length of notice to which business executives are due varies greatly from company to company . |
| 9 | There is a certain amount of authority to which reference should be made . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The recent history of community care projects has not been encouraging ( Grundy , 1986 , p. 22 ) But this is precisely the sort of area to which research needs to be directed in the immediate future of relative demographic stability , because it is so crucial and because our ignorance of future patterns of demand is so great . |
| 12 | When she applies this to her test situations , however , she tends to interpret it in the narrow sense of explicitness rather than with reference to the higher orders of logic to which abstractness usually refers and which the general weight of her argument implies . |
| 13 | The plaintiff slipped and injured himself on an area of floor to which sawdust had not been applied . |
| 14 | Such studies exemplify the kind of fetishism to which material culture studies are always prone , when people are superseded as the subject of investigation by objects , and become essentially labels for their movement or pattern . |
| 15 | However , it is too soon to say with any degree of certainty to what extent computerization spells the end of TNC jobs in the Third , or in the First World ( Caulkin , 1989 ) . |
| 16 | Responsibility is an aspect of autonomy to which lip-service is commonly paid but which takes a back seat in most discussions about children . |
| 17 | All mechanisms have a centre of energy to which constituent elements contribute and refer . |
| 18 | These latter worked on route 7 to Uxbridge and a few weeks before that route was to be converted to trolleybus operation , they were each fitted out with plough carriers and the necessary switch gear for conduit operation , so that they could make their own way under power to whichever depôt they were sent . |
| 19 | The guidelines are in response to what BAAF claims is overwhelming evidence that babies and children with respiratory illnesses are particularly at risk from passive smoking . |
| 20 | In one long PROF note , written in response to goodness-knows-what upbraiding from Poindexter , he offered to move on , since Poindexter evidently thought him ‘ too emotionally involved … to be objective . ’ |
| 21 | In this case , the offender would be liable ( at the discretion of the sentencing court ) to be ordered to be returned to prison to serve up to almost six years of the original sentence , in addition to whatever sentence is imposed for the latest offence . |
| 22 | Now I 'd like you to home in in relationship to whatever target you 've got there erm you can relate or you need n't , but that five thousand pound is the start point for fifteen percent bonuses . |
| 23 | But in another way some stubbornness was at work in me , some determination never to give up , and to cling in secret to whatever reality I could find for myself . |
| 24 | Of course , and again , the differences are considerable ; after all , the unconscious , that which in psychoanalysis undermines conscious autonomy , and in relation to which Lacan rewrites the cogito , is a modern discovery . |
| 25 | The Statement of Practice applies both to new claims and existing claims in relation to which valuation negotiations may already have started . |
| 26 | Unable to see beyond the short-term gain he went from whim to whim , reacting without thought to whatever gossip he happened to have heard last . |
| 27 | Assert your right to walk on land to which access is denied by taking part in the Ramblers ' Association Forbidden Britain Day . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Elsewhere , I have criticized functionalism as a myth of the division of labour by sex to which ethology and anthropology make their own contributions . |