Example sentences of "to [det] [prep] [Wh det] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the security and long-term attractions of many of the investor/developers , as opposed to the property traders which hold on to little of what they develop , makes many of the downgradings a nonsense . |
| 2 | There is a presumption that amounts included in debt represent unconditional contractual obligations of the reporting entity and would give rise to a claim on a winding up for an amount similar to that at which they are stated in the financial statements . |
| 3 | Sometimes he thought that he 'd have liked nothing more than to be like Michael of the tarmac boys , gap-toothed and thick-headed and with no greater concern than that of pissing his money away at a speed roughly equal to that at which he made it , but he had to make do with the hand that he 'd been dealt — thin-skinned and solitary , one of nature 's observers . |
| 4 | Her exit caused him more concern than if she had made it in the blaze of anger similar to that with which she had first confronted him . |
| 5 | Secondly , section 239 entitles any member or debentureholder to be furnished , on demand and without charge , with a copy of the last accounts in addition to that to which he is entitled under section 238 . |
| 6 | As he will be aware , for the most part attacks have been going in the direction opposite to that to which he drew attention . |
| 7 | When the land was elevated , and the climate improved , the arctic plants retreated up the mountainsides in order to remain in an environment similar to that from which they had been derived . |
| 8 | John Stuart Mill notices this ( he quotes the sentence in question , italicising ‘ and of individual qualities ’ ) , and proceeds ( 1 ) to ask what is meant by an ‘ individual quality ’ ; ( 2 ) as if he knows the answer to this question ( namely , the individual qualities of an object are ‘ the individual and instantaneous impressions which it produces in us ’ ) , to deny that predicating a quality of an object is predicating of it one of its individual qualities ; and ( 3 ) to say what it is to predicate a quality of an object ( namely , ‘ to assert that the object affects us in a manner similar to that in which we are affected by a known class of objects ’ ) . |
| 9 | When we ascribe a quality to an object we intend to assert that the object affects us in a manner similar to that in which we are affected by a known class of objects . |
| 10 | The first is a set of mathematical objects which will serve to represent the physically observable quantities in a similar way to that in which we used vectors to represent the physical states . |
| 11 | Gregory himself seems to refer to at least two : in addition to that in which he thought Clovis had been converted , he mentions a battle at Tolbiac or Zülpich where Sigibert , king of the Ripuarian Franks , was wounded . |
| 12 | A mineral undertaker can not however , be required to put the land to any specific use after extraction has been completed , but where practicable , he can be required to leave it in a condition comparable to that in which he found it . |
| 13 | When you have finished studying the web-building of your spider , release it in a place similar to that in which it was found . |
| 14 | Do n't listen to half of what they say . |
| 15 | All these actions led to the reduction of oil prices until they dropped to half of what they used to be … |
| 16 | I hope that the Government will listen to some of what she had to say and enshrine it in law . |
| 17 | We can therefore generalize from one experiment in which short-term storage is believed to operate to another in which we also believe it to be present . |
| 18 | The Tories , and their ruling-class supporters , wish to keep the ordinary worker from knowing what the substance of this social chapter is , how it really just gives more backing to much of what they have already gained through industrial struggles for nearly 200 years , and the extension of these rights to every worker , especially the more isolated ones . |
| 19 | The best that a practitioner can do is to have regard to the sort of multiplier which has in the past been adopted by judges in similar circumstances to those with which he is concerned . |
| 20 | It will be used to mean the exercise of power for purposes alien to those for which it was conferred . |
| 21 | Analogy means that the events being investigated are essentially similar in kind to those of which we ourselves have direct experience . |
| 22 | We hear a wide range of noises all day and every day but we only listen to those to which we wish to pay attention . |
| 23 | They have a socially diverse array of friends and colleagues , some of them ‘ old ’ working class friends but many of them in circumstances similar to those in which they now find themselves . |
| 24 | Captain Cook broached the forbidding shores of west New Guinea , and lost several men there in a fight with the Asmat cannibals , under circumstances similar to those in which he would later lose his own life in the Hawaiian Islands . |
| 25 | I 'll try my best to respond to most of what we 've already heard this morning . |