Example sentences of "to which [pers pn] be [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Previously the finance function within the FPCs has been largely a ‘ pay and rations ’ operation of paying to the doctors , dentists , pharmacists and opticians the allowances to which they are entitled in the ‘ Red Book ’ ( DHSS , 1989 ) . |
| 2 | There was thus a discrepancy between the increasing importance of the dukes in international affairs and the position to which they were relegated in terms of formal honours ; and as the seventeenth century progressed many governments became willing to regard them as de facto royal . |
| 3 | The extent to which these kinds of considerations can be included in the accounts depend upon the extent to which they were included in the budget . |
| 4 | I only add a few words of my own out of deference to the contrary view expressed by my noble and learned friend , Lord Lowry , and to consider the cases on thefts from companies to which we were referred in the course of argument . |
| 5 | Following the Oxford Dictionary , which is here a more lucid guide than my more abstruse colleagues , we can say that a symbol signifies something other than or complementary to itself ; it can therefore be used to represent , express , or image things which are external to it but to which it is linked in an appropriate fashion . |
| 6 | The town is now part of the City of Edinburgh to which it was joined in 1920 . |
| 7 | failed to comply with a condition subject to which it was granted in that |
| 8 | The Chiefs of Staff did not want to do this , and the Defence Committee was worried lest the Korean conflict should divert attention from other danger-spots in Asia and blind Britain to the risk to which it was exposed in Europe . |
| 9 | In calculating the time when a review is due , the starting point is : ( a ) where a person is arrested outside the police station ( i ) the time he arrives at the relevant station ; or ( ii ) the time 24 hours after the time of his arrest , whichever is the earlier ; ( b ) where a person attends the police station voluntarily and is subsequently arrested there the time of arrest ; ( c ) where a person is arrested outside England and Wales : ( i ) the time he arrives at the first station to which he is taken in the police area in which the offence for which he has been arrested is being investigated ; or ( ii ) 24 hours after the time of his entry into the country whichever is the earlier ; ( d ) where a person is arrested in another part of the country and has to be taken to the police area where the offence is being investigated for questioning — the time at which he arrived at the first police station in the police area in question . |
| 10 | A list can even rise to evoking the mood of a picture , as in this description by the Goncourt brothers of Chardin 's subjects ; ‘ He introduces into his pictures his wash-basin , his mastiff puppy , the objects and the creatures to which he is accustomed in his home … the pure simple features of the working middle class , happy in its tranquillity , its labour and its obscurity . |
| 11 | Sandford , a lawyer before becoming the youngest chief executive in local government , was upset when his name was leaked to the press , and Taylor is incensed to find himself suddenly only a contender for a job to which he was appointed in August . |
| 12 | This was to be headed by Hayling , who became the ‘ new Pilger ’ in the position of editorial director , to which he was appointed in the New Year . |
| 13 | In the case of Molla Sayyid Muhammad al-Nakib ( Yavuz Celebi ) , on the other hand , Ata'i merely notes that he started off his career as a kasabat kadi , then turned to the medrese system in which he was given a 40-akce medrese and subsequently worked his way up to the Suleymaniye Darulhadis — probably by this time the premier medrese in the empire to which he was appointed in 1012/1604 : he later became kadi of Eyup and then nakibulesraf . |
| 14 | Tony Crosland had been a don at Oxford during my undergraduate years , and then spent five years in the House of Commons , to which he was to return in 1959 . |
| 15 | In spite of his asthma and short-sightedness , Hornung was a competent club cricketer , a game for which he had a passion ; he was proud of his membership of the MCC , to which he was elected in 1907 . |
| 16 | Compared with the Derbyshire mill of Elias Needham to which he was moved in 1803 , this was a good mill . |
| 17 | Does he recall his recent visit to Stratford station , to which he was carried in his ministerial sedan chair by two sweating but cheerful typists ? |
| 18 | He got back for July , but only to complain of ‘ the day-to-day badgering ’ to which he was subjected in the House of Commons . |