Example sentences of "the [noun] to [Wh det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It lacks the grandeur of Macbeth 's earlier apocalyptic image of pity , Yet it is no less the response to what Macbeth knows to be his ‘ horrid deed ’ . |
| 2 | The response to which act was terrible : all the inhabitants of this and other Basque villages nearby , including Sare , As Cain , Espelette and Ainhoa , were arrested and deported into the Landes . |
| 3 | Neither urgency nor unanimity were easy to achieve , and the ‘ blue book ’ of 1979 clearly went only one step , though a significant step , in the direction to which Sir Michael Clapham pointed . |
| 4 | There is a concern , not so much about formal aspects of Language Study ( linguistics ) as for the learning relations that language involve , and the meanings to which Language points . |
| 5 | They would have been less well advised to move from temporary obligation to redemption if they had had to wait for the money which the peasants owed them , but the government realized that peasants were in no position to redeem their obligations overnight and advanced most of the money to which nobles were entitled in the form of interest-bearing bonds . |
| 6 | Instead of sending donations to different charities direct , providing the minimum annual sum is over £120 a year ( or over £10 a month ) , donors can ‘ gift ’ the money to CAF who will maintain a ‘ charity cheque account ’ for them and will distribute the money to whichever charities they nominate . |
| 7 | From Ho Chi Minh , however , it was a matter on which apparently no opinion was ever recorded and it may serve to illustrate the dangers to which communism in Vietnam was exposed when decisions and even understanding were subject to foreign direction . |
| 8 | For example , we clearly stated in the text that serum concentrations should be measured 24 hours after the start of treatment ; the case to which MacGowan and Reeves refer was one in which the clinician measured the serum concentration after 48 hours . |
| 9 | It should be said that there are certain other features of the case to which attention ought to be drawn . |
| 10 | It was on this issue that his controversy with R. J. Campbell , then minister of the City Temple in London , centred ; many had accepted the views to which Forsyth had taken exception . |
| 11 | ‘ It is ’ , said Quigley , with quiet dignity , ‘ a festival of the faith to which Simon belongs . ’ |
| 12 | The baths at least , therefore , might predate the abaton — the opposite to what Wheeler concluded -and , more important the mosaics of both structures are assignable to a period before 367 . |
| 13 | The cases to which Cooke P. referred are to the like effect . |
| 14 | Sometimes , however , the difficulty to which Labov alludes in defining the set of possible choices is of a rather different kind , involving ( linguistic ) contextual constraints on possible variants . |
| 15 | These steps complied with the requirements of the instruction issued by the Clerk of the Rules to which Lord Donaldson of Lymington M.R. has referred . |
| 16 | It is understood that Mr Dunn 's position became untenable when GEC-Ferranti 's initial budget for the coming year — which revealed the extent of the cost overrun — was rejected a few weeks ago by Derek Dickinson , chief executive of GEC-Marconi Avionics , the division to which GEC-Ferranti belongs . |
| 17 | He had seated himself in an armchair adjacent to the settee to which Elisa had naturally returned although now she was sitting rather prim and upright on the edge . |
| 18 | There are cases , including the authorities to which Cooke P. referred , in which an order apparently final has been treated as interlocutory so as to deprive a litigant of a right of appeal or so as to restrict such right . |
| 19 | the objects to which men give most preference , their ideals , proceed from the same perceptions and experiences as the objects which they most abhor , and … they were originally only distinguished from one another through slight modifications … |
| 20 | The level to which noise needs to be reduced depends to some extent on the noise generated by the occupants : for , an elderly couple living next door to a young and lively family would complain about the noise from next door , but if the old people were replaced by another young and lively family , they would probably not find the noise excessive . |
| 21 | The issue never addressed is the level to which interest rates should be reduced to enable British industry to compete effectively , let alone give it an edge over the rest of the industrialised world — probably because they have not reached such a level for decades ; nor is there reason to hope they might in the foreseeable future . . |
| 22 | Nicholson was one of the first students at the college to which A. W. Hofmann was appointed professor . |
| 23 | There is a congruity between the eye to which things are " imperceptible " and the mind to which things are " incomprehensible " . |
| 24 | Its consistency and coherence were supposed to encourage a common view about the future to which firms would respond with bold investment plans — nudged , if necessary , by government tax and credit policies . |
| 25 | Science progresses by learning which similarities are the key to which sequences . |
| 26 | Alternatively , they can be taken to the entrance to what Bardul knows only as ‘ the rooms of light and darkness ’ , where ( Bardul believes ) Drachenfels has some important magical secrets hidden . |
| 27 | A lingering concern ( given great prominence in the press ) is whether the violence to which children are exposed in countless images on the small screen has an effect on their own behaviour . |
| 28 | The study to which Minerva refers , by Sepkoski et al , compared women who received epidural analgesia , without randomisation , with poorly matched controls who had no pain relief ; matching was based on criteria expected to affect the placental transfer of the local anaesthetic bupivacaine . |
| 29 | The narrator comments : The accounts of the torments to which Christina subjected herself convey a feeling of a disturbed personality although she apparently miraculously survived them . |
| 30 | He took the seat to which Carson had gestured him and glanced at the message slip . |