Example sentences of "and to which [pron] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The major field monuments , which are better documented , almost certainly provided the foci in the landscape , around which such subsistence settlements would have been placed and to which they would have looked for some specialised goods and services . |
| 2 | Also , to some extent copying adult places of worship , children have provided for themselves hideaway places that they treasure , and to which they can go when they can get no comfort from the adults around them . |
| 3 | On the other hand it is equally important not to minimize the effects of sentencing practice on penal policy by assuming that the courts are at the mercy of pressures over which they have no control , and to which they can only passively respond . |
| 4 | It is also often useful to include in the side letter , by way of illustration only , a worked example of a pro forma completion statement to which both sets of accountants agree and to which they can refer back when the actual accounts are to be prepared . |
| 5 | It is this creative extendability of the linguistic code that we had in mind in the earlier discussion of deviation and foregrounding ( see 1.4. ) and to which we shall return in 4.6 ; but it is now time to recognize that these are relative , not absolute concepts . |
| 6 | What caused me concern was , as I say , the slightly uncomfortable feeling that Eliot had been bounced into writing an article which he did not particularly relish doing and to which he would in any case have wished to devote much more reflection . |
| 7 | Over time the Tree — and its fruit — came to be understood as part of the sacred source of life , a manifestation of Mother Goddess , from whose body the whole world sprang and to which it would return . |
| 8 | The consumer body 's report New Metering Technology , published last month , speaks of ‘ an opportunity … that the industry should welcome and to which it should respond rapidly and enthusiastically ’ . |
| 9 | Her scheme envisaged a palatial brothel for women only — a sanctuary ‘ to which any lady of rank and fortune may subscribe , and to which she may repair incog ; the married to commit what the world calls adultery , and the single to commit what at the tabernacle is called fornication , or in a gentler phrase , to obey the dictates of all-powerful Nature , by offering up a cheerful sacrifice to the God Priapus , the most ancient of deities . ’ |
| 10 | There is also the question whether she made a decision which was limited in duration and to which she would not have adhered if she had been alerted to dangers of a refusal to accept blood transfusions or similar blood-based treatment . |