Example sentences of "to which we [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once established they underwent a number of evolutionary ‘ bursts ’ in which diverse kinds of reptiles occupied a variety of habitats , the most spectacular of which was the dinosaur radiation in the Mesozoic , to which we shall return later . |
| 2 | They will remain fundamental to our concern , and a basic issue to which we shall return at the end . |
| 3 | Daraprim ( pyrimethamine ) , a very different substance , evolved some years later from research of more general significance , to which we shall return in the next chapter . |
| 4 | This is an important idea to which we shall return . |
| 5 | These depredations and the lack of a firm response by corrupt local magnates were to have a violent sequel to which we shall return . |
| 6 | When Curteys hit at Lewkenor 's and his associates ' involvement in corn speculation he acted in the tradition to which we shall return , of the magnate 's dispensing reasonable justice , but it was a politically fatal manoeuvre . |
| 7 | Apart from political intervention and law-giving , to which we shall return , a steadily more onerous pressure emerged in the form of military service . |
| 8 | Finally in this short resumé of the teachers ' predicament , we should mention the more personal factors to which we shall return later in the book : their aspirations , ambitions , values and concerns . |
| 9 | The responsibilities of magisterium remain an issue to which we shall return . |
| 10 | In addition there is the complex constitutional position of the constable to which we shall return later . |
| 11 | Evidently there is a problem , to which we shall return , of the general definition of a causal circumstance . |
| 12 | To note a possibility to which we shall return in a moment , it is allowed that a possible world w " might be more like our actual world than a possible world w " even though the laws of our world are to some extent suspended or do not exist in w " and are intact in w " . |
| 13 | ( The interpersonal function is something extra to which we shall return in Chapter 8 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The point of this discussion is to bring out the important link between contestability and sustainability , a topic to which we shall return . |
| 16 | This question of how much deindustrialization matters is an issue to which we shall return in Chapter 6 . |
| 17 | This raises further issues about what is meant by the ‘ importance of manufacturing ’ , and how it should be measured , to which we shall return later . |
| 18 | This is an issue to which we shall return at the end of the chapter ; first , however , we must explore the broad classification of degree courses which has emerged from this analysis of their relationship with employment . |
| 19 | This is an issue to which we shall return in the final section of this chapter . |
| 20 | He sees part of the answer in the massive recession suffered by the British economy at that time , a point to which we shall return below . |
| 21 | ( This is a point to which we shall return . ) |
| 22 | Thus the difference between prenominal attributive , ordinary predicative , and postnominal attributive adjectives is that they instantiate , respectively , the position of the P in the three intensional structures which , for the moment , we represent as follows : ( 37 ) Note that the structure in ( b ) is equivalent to a sentence , whereas that in ( c ) corresponds to a noun phrase ; this is an issue to which we shall return at the end of this chapter , where we shall propose a slight modification to these representations . |
| 23 | Whether such a prognosis is indeed likely or not is a question to which we shall return shortly , but for the time being let us merely note the danger , which is in any event a very real one , and pass on . |
| 24 | Nevertheless , if pragmatics is to be considered a component within linguistic theory ( a question to which we shall return ) , it may be that to include such principles is indeed to include too much . |
| 25 | This is the situation to which we shall give fullest consideration ( Section 22.5 ) . |
| 26 | Medical science was not yet equipped for investigation into near-death experiences , to which we shall refer in the final chapter ; almost the only form of resuscitation with which doctors were familiar was that following near-fatal immersion in water , accompanied , as it often is , by a rapid replay of the victim 's life . |
| 27 | It was conceded by counsel for the defendant , necessarily and rightly , that the old offence of larceny by a trick is covered by section 1(1) of the Act of 1968 , as well as by section 15(1) to which we shall refer later , despite what may be called the apparent consent of the victim . |
| 28 | As will also turn out to be the case , given the definition of the physical to which we shall come , they are all of them physical . |
| 29 | Nor is it different in terms of another relation between cause and effect to which we shall come , or any relation between causal circumstance and effect . |
| 30 | He wrote to all his senior departmental ministers asking , ‘ have you any problems to which we shall have to give our early attention ? ’ |