Example sentences of "to which [pron] [modal v] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Given information represents the common ground between speaker and hearer and gives the latter a reference point to which s/he can relate new information . |
| 2 | For example , Meyer and Schvanevelt [ 1971 ] presented subjects with pairs of letter strings , to which they would answer ’ yes ’ if both letter strings were words , otherwise responding ’ no ’ . |
| 3 | In a 1970 survey , they asked respondents to name the main social classes and the class to which they would ascribe themselves . |
| 4 | And indeed , the very extent to which they would lie readable was called in question by their range and bulk . |
| 5 | The tour was appropriately chaotic , as most rock tours are : their first taste of the twenty-four hour a day , day to day flogging to which they would have to submit in order to compete . |
| 6 | Although based on research of lasting value , the draft Articles on service of documents rest overmuch on United States perceptions and would not have survived the sort of examination to which they would have been exposed at an international diplomatic conference . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Like many socialists and intellectuals educated in the traditions of the high establishment , he fussed about the education of his own children and about the schools to which they might go . |
| 9 | The presbytery asked members of the church to note that the South Ronaldsay Parents ' Action Committee had set up a fund for legal aid to which they might like to contribute , and they asked their Social Matters Committee to look into the question of guidance to ministers in cases involving the Social Work Department . |
| 10 | Even when the referential locus of noun and adjective are the same , however , there is no general guarantee that the overall " output " , in terms of intensional entities ( and the real or potential referents to which they may correspond ) will be the same under these two ways of linking an adjective to a noun , which amount respectively to introducing a subject x identified in part through having the property F , and to introducing a subject x and saying that it has the property F. For instance , if we move from the predicative structure : ( 7 ) clouds are small to the phrase small clouds , we pass to an expression which identifies a certain group of entities but does nothing more than identify them ; whereas expression ( 7 ) identifies a quite different ( and much larger ) group of entities , and says something about them ( which , as it happens , is not true , even though small clouds certainly do exist ) . |
| 11 | The elderly , unemployed , the less skilled , single-parent families , larger families are all concentrated in council tenure because it is the only form of tenure to which they may have easy access . |
| 12 | Temporary advisers , especially those with a secure job to which they can return , need not feel a great sense of responsibility . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , there must be a filter , as there is in the criminal courts , to ensure that the appellate system is not overloaded by those who enter Britain from a third safe country to which they can return if they manifestly have no claim to asylum here . |
| 14 | Hence it remains necessary to explain in further detail the present legal provisions and to highlight some of the problems to which they can give rise . |
| 15 | Given that it is a central goal of the Committee to encourage a public policy on education which will operate to generate and sustain an organic national culture , the only concrete examples within contemporary popular culture to which they can refer this policy in a favourable manner are those which are sufficiently residual as to be unable to offer more than a minimal oppositional purchase . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Second , that fertility of these cohorts depends on the extent to which they can match these aspirations in their subsequent adult life , any shortfall in ‘ relative income ’ being met with responses to limit fertility through deferred marriage or smaller family size . |
| 18 | A relation is many-to-one if several elements can stand in that relation to some other element , but for each of these there is only one element to which they can stand in that relation . |
| 19 | Lord Arran told how Minister Walsh , who spent over a day at the show , and he would be considering the extent to which they can co-operate mutually to the advantage of all involved in the food and drink industry in Ireland . |
| 20 | Parents are needed to respond to the overtures of their offspring , to stimulate their interest and to provide a living presence to which they can relate . |
| 21 | Because they spent their year off teaching children in a nursery school , or working in a home for mentally handicapped people , and they discovered a new area of interest to which they can relate , and they become motivated to read that subject . |
| 22 | The RECs can generate electricity on their own account but are strictly limited in the extent to which they can do so . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The Commission issues a written Statement of Objections to the parties , to which they can provide a written response , and holds oral hearings for the parties and for interested third parties . |
| 25 | Of course , a critical factor in this ‘ law ’ becoming a real check on executives is the extent to which they can operate in secrecy . |
| 26 | This will mean stating the following clearly : a ) the number of jobs offered annually ; b ) defining the nature of the training component ; c ) reviewing recruitment policies , especially testing , where this is used ; d ) interviewing young people from Compact schools and offering feedback and counselling to those who do not , for whatever reason , receive the offer of a job ; e ) stating the extent to which they can become involved in : 1 . |
| 27 | It is those who suffer from chronic malnutrition , caused by a poverty to which they can see no end , who are more likely to give evidence of the depressive effects of starvation . |
| 28 | Subsequently , the project will focus on possible reforms and examine the extent to which they will alter the distribution of either care or payment for that care . |
| 29 | The extent to which they will do so , of course , depends on their personal attraction to the ideals of the Convention and the jurisprudence of its court . |
| 30 | Instead they will be made up of a small professional core supplemented by part-timers plus a number of small firms to which they will contract out work . |