Example sentences of "to which [pers pn] would [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 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 ’ .
2 In a 1970 survey , they asked respondents to name the main social classes and the class to which they would ascribe themselves .
3 And indeed , the very extent to which they would lie readable was called in question by their range and bulk .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 The persons surveyed were certainly eminent , but mostly people ( even politicians ! ) whose achievements were rarely so enduring as to place them in the class apart to which we would assign the truly original thinkers in history .
8 One issue to which we would draw attention at this stage is the effect of injecting a specific sum of money from another source on the deployment of the school 's capitation and the way it is already supplemented by , for example , the PTA .
9 We can all think of examples to which we would apply these descriptions and be willing to give reasons .
10 ( 2 ) Any officer , servant or agent of the Bank may , on producing if required evidence of his authority , enter any premises occupied by any person on whom a notice could be served under section 39 above for the purpose of obtaining there such information or documents as are specified in the authority , being information or documents that could have been required by such a notice ; but the Bank shall not authorise any person to act under this subsection unless it has reasonable cause to believe that if such a notice were served it would not be complied with or that any documents to which it would relate would be removed , tampered with or destroyed .
11 Over time the Tree — and its fruit — came to be understood as part of the sacred source of life , a manifestation of Mother Goddess , from whose body the whole world sprang and to which it would return .
12 However , that was a matter which SACHR raised with me only this week and made it clear that it was a subject to which it would return .
13 The PLO failed to secure a UN-supervised peace conference to which it would send a delegation to represent " the Palestinian people " [ see pp. 38167 ] .
14 Thus they are doubtful as to whether or not SSE is likely to be superficial ; about whether it is too time-consuming ; about the extent to which it would reveal matters which could threaten professional reputations or harm relationships and whether any evidence produced as a result of SSE would be sufficiently objective .
15 On the other hand it was necessary to acquire an elementary understanding of the issues involved , examine previous work on measuring the required parameters and in particular learn something about canopy structure so as to assess the extent to which it would need to be taken into consideration .
16 Fancourt , the court denied validity to a promissory note made payable out of the maker 's money to which he would become entitled from his reversion .
17 Brian had chosen Bath as a place to which he would take Celia the following weekend , partly because it was not too far away and partly because he remembered how happy they had been there before .
18 Just as I am sure twenty-seven victories seemed utterly insufficient to Jackie — and had he not retired , he was certainly fit enough and a good enough driver , given the right cars , to which he would have had total access , to notch up another fifteen or twenty — I am sure that his first million seemed a trifle .
19 A vivid example of this occurred in the Hadmor case [ 1983 ] 1 A.C. 191 where Lord Denning in the Court of Appeal relied on his own researches into Hansard in reaching his conclusions : in the House of Lords , counsel protested that there were other passages to which he would have wished to draw the court 's attention had he known that Lord Denning was looking at Hansard : see the Hadmor case at p. 233 .
20 WHEN Capenhurst employees raised money 16 years ago to send cerebral palsy sufferer Alan Barnes to America for treatment , they little realised the heights to which he would rise .
21 The perfect line on to which you would tack to make the mark is called the layline .
22 The crux is that the amount of damages obtainable will , prima facie , be the total of the salary and fringe benefits to which you would have been entitled between the time of the job actually ending and the time at which the contract could lawfully have been ended by due notice .
23 To which I would answer — why not ?
24 To which I would answer , first , that the witness is not before the court and has not been cross-examined on the matter , and secondly that just because something 's a ‘ well-known fact ’ this does n't make it a well-known fact about me .
25 On another occasion , and because I felt he was a remote figure of whom the public knew nothing , I asked if he would be guest at an off-the-record private dinner-party to which I would invite half a dozen senior media people such as Robin Day , Perry Worsthorne of the Sunday Telegraph , and Tony Howard of the Observer for an exchange of views .
26 Erm on the seventeenth of June I was told that there was gon na be a meeting on the eighteenth erm to which I would have to appear concerning my drink driving .
27 The inspectors , through their union , say they are underfunded and understaffed ( to which I would add the problem of incredibly low morale ) .
28 They had been thinking of a job in Parma to which I would commute daily ; but this one sounded very interesting , something after my own heart .
29 The first voice made a request for permission to use the campsite area for a group of boys during the next school break , and after stopping the machine she made a note of the name and address to which she would send confirmation .
30 The last place to which she would have confided her secrets was this calendar diary .
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