Example sentences of "to [pron] they [modal v] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If , however , a society is so divided that it contains within itself one or more permanent minorities , who know that on the issues that matter most to them they can never hope to get their way , precisely because of the operation of the majority principle , then that principle ceases to be adequate . |
| 2 | If anthropologists from centres of learning in New Guinea or the Congo were to turn the tables on us and publish studies of the behaviour patterns found among the English-speaking peoples of Great Britain and the United States , one phenomenon to which they would surely pay special attention would be the cult of Child Psychology . |
| 3 | In this prologue we discuss some of the questions which few beginners seem to have the courage to ask and yet to which they would surely like some kind of answer . |
| 4 | They do n't experience the same problems socially or finding cultural events to which they can really relate . |
| 5 | Senior officers applaud a world of ‘ real work ’ , to which they can never return , and implicitly deny the world of managerial power to which they now belong . |
| 6 | This is the major challenge facing adult educators today , the extent to which they can actively assist this process . |
| 7 | At one extreme is the structured interview in which interviewers use a schedule to which they must strictly adhere for all respondents . |
| 8 | He found instead the only possible protuberance to which they could safely have anchored their rope . |
| 9 | The king and his judges were already acting on the assumption that all ecclesiastical endowments within the realm were originally held by and from the crown , to which they should therefore revert if and when a church failed of its purpose . |
| 10 | Now I 'm not quite sure whether it 's because we 've known , like Naomi , we 've we know periods of barrenness and leanness that his blessing seems so much more , I do n't know if that 's what it is , or whether it is just because his blessings are so bountiful , but she is overwhelmed by God 's goodness and by God 's blessing to her they could now experience God 's blessing . |
| 11 | So ba but what you are , but what you are telling , what you have told me is that erm there is , there is erm work being done to try and get people compensation in addition to what they would normally get |
| 12 | So I ‘ open it an inch ’ and thus I delay further , giving them time to take it all in and to adjust to the exposure to what they must ultimately cope with : the witch addressing them directly . |