Example sentences of "to [Wh det] we [vb mod] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wrote to all his senior departmental ministers asking , ‘ have you any problems to which we shall have to give our early attention ? ’ |
| 2 | That is one of the problems of democracy to which we shall have to return . |
| 3 | Whether such a primitive level of ego-development and insight is appropriate today is a question to which we shall have to return in due course . |
| 4 | We have seen accomplished within a few brief months or years reforms to which we should have assigned , not decades , but generations . |
| 5 | As our awareness of this quality of light increases , we may perceive it as centring on another figure — an inner or outer ‘ Lady of Light ’ — or as an identifiable principle to which we can begin to relate . |
| 6 | Clearly , this is important and the relationship between the state , civil society and different sections of the working class is one to which we will need to return . |
| 7 | Benjamin and Elizabeth and their family belonged , in effect , to what we might choose to call the ‘ comfortable working class ’ ; they benefited from the general rise in Britain 's prosperity in Victorian times — cheaper food and clothing , better sanitation , faster transport , more substantial housing — but their money still had to be earned , had to be worked for . |
| 8 | This is in direct contrast to what we might expect to follow according to the inductivist view , namely , that in order to establish the truth of some problematic observation statement we appeal to more secure observation statements , and perhaps laws derived inductively from them , but not to theory . |