Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pron] [adv] [verb] to " in BNC.

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1 In both cases I worked on oil on panel which I later fixed to the walls .
2 The landlord wants a months deposit and another month 's rent in advance which I already paid to the agency .
3 The answer is 0.9 recurring , but I do not expect to be awarded great sums of public money for this discovery , which I freely give to the world ; nor do I demand the overthrow of government and its takeover by a gang of lower-class hooligans .
4 As time went on , and particularly by the early Seventies , I began to question whether one could take this point of view in a situation where things were going on which I clearly saw to be ‘ bad ’ .
5 It is a claim additional to this , but one which I also believe to be true , that human conventions , at least beyond a certain state of elaboration , can be understood only with the help of history , and that the social sciences accordingly have an essential historical base .
6 Well this year 's capital expenditure will be around twenty five million and last year 's figure was twenty three million the point I was making in the speech was that twenty three million included nine million pounds for the , we must have some static in our nine million pounds for the purchase of freeholds , erm but the capital expenditure this year is spread right across the operation includes introduction of erm re-fits in a number of stores includes expansion in France , investment in systems and hardware and indeed also includes ah about five million pounds for a retail park development which I also referred to the park development on which we have an interest in the sense that we are developing an M F I store .
7 In this he stated his loyalty to the ‘ Church of England , whose faith and government and worship are … free from the extremes of irreverence and superstition … and which I firmly believe to be a sound part of the Church universal ; and which teaches me charity to those who dissent from me ’ .
8 One more issue , which I often return to from these Benches , although I hope that before long I shall be able to support those on the Treasury Bench from the other side of the House —
9 ‘ I began reading politics early on but also my parents taught me that the greatest value was compassion , which I undoubtedly linked to the Labour Party . ’
10 We 've also submitted er on your behalf er motions to the er regional conference er and to the er Cardiff er federal conference , which I mistakenly referred to as a national conference .
11 Even the family allowances , though based in their present form upon the experience and conditions of the inter-war years — when Seebohm Rowntree 's surveys in York suggested that one male in four earned less than was necessary to maintain a man , wife and two children above the poverty line — consist of a simple system of payments and enter into budgetary habits and expectations no more and no less than the fiscal allowances , of which I once suggested to a CPC conference they might be regarded as an extension .
12 We did a great deal of work with music and in listening to sounds and in rhythms , and then a lot of work in which I actually read to him and he followed all the time what I was reading , so that he would try to link the sounds and the words together .
13 Looking through the contents list of the first edition of Observations , I cam across the following titles — ‘ Money from SOED ’ , ‘ Local Authority Support for Teacher Research ’ , ‘ Classroom Observation ’ and ‘ Your Observations ’ , and I realised that the report of a small scale study which I recently submitted to RIU contained all these features .
14 If in the future the single management committee on the two headed centre decide that they want a single headed project then only Pharuk hearing which I always subscribe to that it should be decided locally , they may have that said project I 'm sure you 'd agree , if they choose to have such one , if they feel that they need it , but we want to ensure , do we not , and the amendment does n't do this that we actually get a move on , that we spend the money we have , what little there is and there is very little on delivering the services , that we fuse the bureaucracy which is clearly contained in the other and , clearly contained , it 's spelt out in in in in tablets of stone in a way that 's never been done before .
15 So I got er experience of three months now , that was really very nice experience which I always wanted to be a teacher although I did n't join here .
16 By sublimation I mean here not the conversion of sexuality per se into a higher , non-sexual aim , but the displacement of one kind of sexuality into another — or , more exactly ( and this is the sense in which I still subscribe to Freud 's notion ) , the contamination of a higher ( i.e. socially approved ) sexuality by a lower ( i.e. proscribed ) one .
17 When I rejoined the conversation you were talking about your ‘ strikers ’ and your ‘ defenders ’ , by which I for a moment thought you meant the miners and their supporters , but which I then understood to be part of an extended football metaphor and to refer respectively to your Policy Unit and your Private Office .
18 In the first case , I remember watching the old man come slowly down the stairs after ‘ a secret operation ’ never openly discussed but which I now take to be a colostomy .
19 It has taken me 30 years to come to terms with my own guilt , which I now know to be unjustified , and with my anger .
20 The very next day , Sunday , I would have to attend the same chapel in its religious function , and the fact that the previous evening it had been a battleground for people who were supposed to be friends and allies , while the ‘ enemy ’ got on with his job uninterrupted outside , led to a more or less permanent confusion in my mind , which I now believe to be totally justified , between violence and religion , and between fact and fancy [ or film ] .
21 Nevertheless , shared housing in private or college accommodation can be as educative and stimulating as the studies for which you primarily go to college .
22 She enters the feminist debate here , arguing that some feminists have misunderstood the significance of pornography , taking it to be a major cause of the oppression of women , rather than a symptom of it , albeit a symptom which itself then contributes to that oppression .
23 And Madame Dietrich describes this in a letter which she later wrote to her brother .
24 In a conversation which she later recalled to friends Diana told him : ‘ You looked so sad when you walked up the aisle at the funeral .
25 He was particularly scathing about the feather , which she immediately agreed to be a mistake .
26 Although alienating some support by her excessive regard for the physiologically and morally uplifting properties of semen , she emphasized the erotic , mystical , and fulfilling aspects of sexual relations and for these reasons rejected the use of coitus interruptus and the condom , recommending instead the use of the vaginal rubber cap and the quinine ( spermicidal ) pessary which she naïvely believed to be generally available in chemist 's shops and which have never , in the event , proved to be very popular .
27 Entering it he could imagine her sitting there in the summer days and evenings , working on the papers which she occasionally contributed to ornithological journals and looking up from time to time to gaze out over the headland to the sea and the far horizon , could see again that carved , weather-browned Aztec face with its hooded eyes under the grey-black hair , drawn back into a bun , could hear again a voice which , for him , had been one of the most beautiful female voices he had ever heard .
28 She wondered who had been reading so recently on the carefully made bed , or if this fat book , which she now saw to be a collection of Sherlock Holmes stories , were a relic of the past summer , and the maid , or whoever cleared the house , was devotedly keeping her employer 's place .
29 There is little to be gained in trying out something which one already knows to be inadequate .
30 Thus , if one wants to get to London , it is irrational to take a train which one should have known not to be going to London or which one wrongly calculated to be quicker than the bus .
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