Example sentences of "to which [pers pn] [vb mod] return [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even hardy explorers needed strongpoints to which they could return after exhausting expeditions into unknown regions . |
| 2 | They will remain fundamental to our concern , and a basic issue to which we shall return at the end . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 " . |
| 7 | ( The interpersonal function is something extra to which we shall return in Chapter 8 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | This question of how much deindustrialization matters is an issue to which we shall return in Chapter 6 . |
| 10 | This is an issue to which we shall return in the final section of this chapter . |
| 11 | Leaving aside the fact , to which we will return in a moment , that less skilled people can usually be paid less wages than those who are skilled , an important characteristic of craft workers is that they often exercise tight control as an occupation over the job that they do . |
| 12 | Of course , middle-class users are also more likely to avoid contact with statutory and voluntary agencies for several reasons ( such as private treatment , or fewer financial problems ) , an important consideration to which we will return in later chapters . |
| 13 | The problem is not length as such but the infrequency and brevity of meetings at which the scientific work is conducted , a point to which I shall return towards the end of this paper . |
| 14 | Not all objectors to the Hinkley C plan supported such a straightforward advocacy of coal , especially with the growing problems of acid rain pollution and the greenhouse effect to which I shall return in Part Three . |
| 15 | This is the point ( not self-advertisement — the book is out of print ) of referring to my own work in such detail , and it is one to which I shall return in discussing the treatment of anorexics , in particular their apparent imperviousness to psycho-analysis and their liability to relapse . |
| 16 | Whether this is the case in contemporary societies is an issue to which I shall return in later chapters . |
| 17 | The slow , retrograde axial rotation of Venus is a puzzle to which I shall return in section 4.2 . |
| 18 | This is a point to which I shall return in the concluding chapter . |
| 19 | I look forward to hearing thoughtful and far-reaching speeches such as that made by the hon. Member for Chichester when these matters are discussed at Maastricht , and I hope that views such as his will be reflected in Maastricht — a subject to which I may return in due course . |
| 20 | Such doubts as exist stem from the power which curriculum control gives to the curriculum designers ( a topic to which I will return in later chapters ) . |
| 21 | Having argued that animals can act intentionally ( to which I will return in the section on autonomy ) , he thinks this to be ‘ possible only for those who are self-conscious ’ ( 1983 : 75 ) . |
| 22 | A great deal of ink has been spilled over the nature of indirect duties , to which I will return in the next section . |
| 23 | While such phrases do not do justice to its many insights — to which I will return in Chapter 8 — there are nevertheless some serious weaknesses in the approach . |