Example sentences of "which [art] [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.

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1 Nor could a looser grouping of sovereign states cope with the awkward trade-offs which the Western response to Eastern Europe will involve .
2 It did , however , make clear the extent to which the Soviet approach to international affairs had changed as compared with the relatively simple priorities of the Brezhnev era .
3 But once the Parliamentary material was brought to our attention , it seemed to me , as , I believe , to others of your Lordships who had heard the appeal first argued , to raise an acute question as to whether it could possibly be right to give effect to taxing legislation in such a way as to impose a tax which the Financial Secretary to the Treasury , during the passage of the Bill containing the relevant provision , had , in effect , assured the House of Commons it was not intended to impose .
4 Backed happily by Safeguard , Rabbit can afford to expand on the back of acquisitions , which the firm points to as being part of its growth policy , whether such acquisitions be based on product or on sales/marketing synergies , in the US and in Europe .
5 These proposals were not adopted , they were seldom referred to although in the USA much physical geography did not develop in geography departments , but exactly 50 years later a paper with the same title as Barrows 's ( Chorley , 1973 ) sought to examine the extent to which the ecological approach to geography provided a unifying link between the human and physical sides of the subject .
6 The terms of this argument repeat exactly those of the critical debate about univocal meaning , according to which the only alternative to the idea that history has a single meaning must be that it has none at all .
7 Yet the paradox gets deeper if devolving budgets to the front-line is seen as the very key by which the golden doorway to needs-led rather than service-led care packages is to be opened .
8 It would , as Mr. Lloyd conceded , be exercisable also in a case where no misrepresentation inducing the transaction could be pointed to but where a registered proprietor had entered into a transaction under a misapprehension for which the other party to the transaction was not responsible , a misapprehension as to the value of the property , for example .
9 On the other hand , stretches of Creole embedded in a London English turn often correspond to the most salient parts of the utterance , those which the other parties to the conversation respond to .
10 Altered integrin receptor expression by hepatocytes during disease provides a mechanism by which the cellular response to normal and abnormal matrix may be further modulated .
11 The languages which the young aspirant to diplomacy needed to acquire were those of western Europe , of which French was now by far the most important .
12 Thus Kafka 's novel The Trial , for example , can be read , from different positions , as ( a ) mediation by projection — an arbitrary and irrational social system is not directly described , in its own terms , but projected , in its essentials , as strange and alien ; or ( b ) mediation by the discovery of an ‘ objective correlative' — a situation and characters are composed to produce , in an objective form , the subjective or actual feelings — an inexpressible guilt — from which the original impulse to composition came ; or ( c ) mediation as a function of the fundamental social processes of consciousness , in which certain crises which can not otherwise be directly apprehended are ‘ crystallized ’ in certain direct images and forms of art — images which then illuminate a basic ( social and psychological ) condition : not just Kafka 's but a general alienation .
13 It must pay to reach the point at which the marginal benefit to one of you equals the marginal cost to the other .
14 ( The population size should be increased to the point at which the marginal gains to residents are made equal to the marginal costs to club residents as a result of increasing the number in the locality ; i.e. the property rights are vested with existing club members . )
15 Poems in which the attracted turn to pests
16 For example , they may frequently be given a role in maintaining employment and thus helping to preserve the political accommodations between classes upon which a successful response to the crisis depends ; this may conflict with their central role in the restructuring of industries in crisis .
17 They saw the role of the state not merely as a set of instrumentalities for securing material welfare but as the focus of a sense of community and citizenship , an institution in which a good common to all classes and recognizable to all interest groups could be articulated .
18 When required to learn a further discrimination involving these same cues but a different response ( for example , a reversal in which a simple push to the previously non-rewarded cue now yielded reward ) the animals pre-trained with the larger magnitude response learned more readily .
19 It is , however , Proust 's much longer novel , In Search of Lost Time ( Remembrance of Things Past ) , in which a similar enterprise to Wordsworth 's is undertaken for the benefit of our century .
20 A dreary diet of lessons based upon textbook and worksheet is never going to inspire children to regard schooling with enthusiasm , nor will it provide the base on which a personal commitment to learning can be built .
21 True it was that the plaintiff did not undertake to do any work additional to that which he had originally undertaken to do but the terms on which he was to carry out the work were varied and , in my judgment , that variation was supported by consideration which a pragmatic approach to the true relationship between the parties readily demonstrates .
22 What is , however , in both our interest and that of the country is to work with others to assemble the ideas around which a non-socialist alternative to the Conservatives can be constructed . ’
23 Furthermore , the symptoms of even full-blown affective psychosis and schizophrenia overlap considerably , suggesting that they simply represent different ways in which a common tendency to insanity can manifest itself .
24 Thus , after two days in which a negotiated settlement to the original squabble seemed possible , an ultimatum to the Vietminh to clear out of Haiphong in two hours led to a bombardment which must have killed at least 1,000 people , many if not most of whom would be described as innocent civilians .
25 It provides a benchmark against which every proposed change to practices and procedures will be measured .
26 This recommendation , which has not been implemented , appears to accept that legal need can be defined by reference to the existence of a legal problem on which an individual wishes to be advised , albeit that part of the half-hour would be used to examine the case and determine the ‘ need ’ for further advice .
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