Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [Wh det] [pron] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | that , that there are others equally we say that we women to determine what happens to their own bodies and their destiny is for them , I respect that view too but in those circumstances you do n't resolve problems by the majority whatever it happens to be determining what the minority will do . |
| 2 | Erm reference has been made er a couple of times to the appendix which I attached to my submission , that 's the map and the schedule of strategic constraints , I feel I ought not to let it pass without some comment . |
| 3 | However , it remains possible that people do see the support which they give to elderly relatives as part of a two-way pattern which stretches over time and across generations , and where they themselves will benefit ultimately from the support of someone in a younger generation . |
| 4 | He will recall that , when British Rail proposed that Waterloo should be the first channel tunnel station , not only did it say that one station was sufficient and that it did not need a second one but , in the case which it put to the House of Lords during the discussions , it said specifically that King 's Cross was not an appropriate location for a second station . |
| 5 | Known for his quirky sayings , Kahn taught his pupils always to ask the building what it wanted to be . |
| 6 | After the vote Etpison expressed his disappointment over the result which he attributed to a weariness towards the issue by the voters , a sentiment apparently underlined by the comparatively low turnout . |
| 7 | On 20 June 1757 , Bartram acknowledged the February letter , together with six cedar cones , parts of the Dictionary and Figures , and confirmed that he had sent the Gale which he believed to be a new genus ; in this he was right , for L'Heritier later founded the genus Comptonia upon it . |
| 8 | I 'm quite convinced that that the A sixty four corridor north east of York would fulfil the criterion which you refer to and and I think that in general all the sectors score reasonably well against this against this particular criterion . |
| 9 | I would say to the queen what I say to you . |
| 10 | " Since literature is a reflection of social life " , he argued , " the standard by which it should be gauged is precisely the attitude which it takes to such great facts of historical development as the war , the October Revolution and fascism . " |
| 11 | There are several such comments in the sermon which he preached to a national council apparently in 1008 , and which became the law codes V and VI Æthelred . |
| 12 | " And have you told the child what you had to ? " she asked . |
| 13 | but that surprised the man in the queue and yet interestingly I think that and she said I was right in my assumption that that is part of the partnership philosophy of John Lewis that they work in partnership with their staff and in partnership with the community and they make their profit which is generated to start through the community which they sell to and therefore they quietly give back without wanting to play their own trumpets and in a sense I think that 's how it should be . |
| 14 | The danger which they believe to be increasing is precisely the danger of the war ending too soon . |
| 15 | Marx was , as Engels stressed in his funeral oration , first and foremost a revolutionary , and so the importance which he attached to the study of pre-literate peoples , the traditional field of anthropology , might at first seem strange . |
| 16 | I have dealt at length with these tedious and superficially unimportant details because they are the only area of activity in Anselm 's years as archbishop in which a clear , persistent , and deeply felt course of action — such as can properly be described as a ‘ policy ’ — can be detected ; and if we are to understand his mind , we must understand the importance which he attached to this issue . |
| 17 | This latter step emphasizes the importance which you attach to the whole process . |
| 18 | The evidence for it is very thinly spread , although there is one rather strange letter written in this year to Mary Hutchinson , in which he questioned the importance which anyone attached to his friendship . |
| 19 | The point is that the inference which you give to it is that they 're not quite fit to be Governors , by comparison with others , and I 'd like to defend that because I can assure you that I have never ever nominated a Governor for a school who I have not thought would be advantageous to that Board of Governors to have as a member and that he will be he or she will be a contributor to that particular school , and I 've done it time and time and time again and indeed on occasions have had headmasters coming to me and thanking me for the particular person that I put in . |
| 20 | ‘ On sentencing any person convicted of murder to imprisonment for life the court may at the same time declare the period which it recommends to the Secretary of State as the minimum period which in its view should elapse before the Secretary of State orders the release of that person on licence under section 27 of the Prison Act 1952 … |
| 21 | ‘ declare the period which it recommends to the Secretary of State as the minimum period which in its view should elapse before the Secretary of State orders the release of that person on licence … |
| 22 | Indeed overall , he says surprisingly little about Grace and next to nothing about the sacramental life ; for these reasons one might regret the title which he gave to the three books gathered into one — Mere Christianity — for it implies that he has written a sort of mini-Summa or encyclopaedia of theology . |
| 23 | Saving only the fealty which he owed to his father he swore allegiance to Philip against all men . |
| 24 | Gray 's comments evoke a kind of mystical disenchantment with the movement which he found to be too focused on an intellectual critique of society . |
| 25 | One of the consequences of the questionnaire which we sent to you a year ago was that we are making particular links with alumni who are teachers . |
| 26 | Officials and administrators can not divest themselves of all ideological clothing in the advice which they tender to their political masters , or in the independent decisions which they are in a position to take . |
| 27 | That has brought us back again to the conundrum which you posed to me and in the face of which I had to express my helplessness — namely , how do we make the silent majority unsilent since that is by definition impossible ? |
| 28 | Charles 's following ( populus ) then swore " in its own language , the lingua romana " : " If Louis keeps the oath which he swears to his brother Charles , and my lord Charles for his part does not keep his , if I can not make him refrain [ from that action ] , then neither I nor any other whom I can make refrain will give him any aid against Louis " . |
| 29 | In Yip Kai-foon the Privy Council rejected the solution which has been adopted in some jurisdictions of directing the jury to convict of the offence which they consider to be more probable . |
| 30 | The solution rejected in Yip Kai-foon of directing the jury to convict of the offence which they consider to be the more probable is , at least , rational and less potentially repugnant to the principle that the prosecution must prove its case . |