Example sentences of "to which they [modal v] be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If they broke the vow a curse would ensue according to which they would be savaged by a bear , split apart by an axe , knifed to death or even choked by food . |
| 2 | When the going got rough the brothers usually sent a deputy to face the unpleasant hostility to which they would be exposed . |
| 3 | The hardships that Ceauşescu imposed were not only necessary to provide the funds and material for everything from the House of the People ( to which they would be denied access ) to canals without traffic and power-stations without fuel , but also formed part of the folk-wisdom of tyrants going back much further in history than Ceauşescu 's own model , Stalin . |
| 4 | Philip Ball and his fellow prisoners feared that life in the stricter Queen 's Bench Prison ( so named since 1837 ) , to which they would be transferred , would be less jovial . |
| 5 | Hoffmann J. declared that in each case the beneficial interest in the property was owned by the bankrupt and his wife in equal shares and he made orders for possession and sale but , after considering the circumstances of the two wives and their children and , in particular , that the half shares to which they would be entitled would be insufficient for them to acquire other accommodation in the area and the educational problems of the children , imposed a provision for postponement until the youngest child in each case attained the age of sixteen . |
| 6 | The victims would resist more if they knew the limits of ill-treatment to which they might be subjected . |
| 7 | These are listed in the area of the schedule to which they may be applied . |
| 8 | FCA of who had been found to be in breach of Investment Business Regulation 1.32 in that in Camberley between 6 October 1989 and 22 August 1991 the firm failed to carry out a review of its compliance procedures in accordance with the terms of the Regulation and having been in breach of Investment Business Regulation 2.09 in that in Camberley between 6 October 1989 and 22 August 1991 the firm failed to warn clients of the extent to which they may be exposed to risk in accordance with the terms of the Regulation and having been in breach of Investment Business Regulation 2.32 in that in Camberley between 6 October 1989 and 22 August 1991 , when the firm gave advice to clients such that , if acted upon , it would result in commission being received , it failed to inform those clients of that position in writing in accordance with the terms of the Regulation and having been in breach of Investment Business Regulation 2.47 in that in Camberley between 6 October 1989 and 22 August 1991 the firm failed to issue engagement letters in accordance with the terms of the Regulation and having been in breach of Investment Business Regulation 2.60 in that in Camberley between 6 October 1989 and 22 August 1991 the firm failed to ensure that it had adequate records in accordance with the terms of the Regulation was reprimanded , fined £500 and ordered to pay £250 by way of costs . |
| 9 | They should be aware of any risks to which they may be exposed , or any relevant limitations inherent in the design or operating procedures , and of any implications for their conduct . |
| 10 | Seek to ensure that all those involved with a project are aware of any risks to which they may be exposed , of any relevant limitations inherent in the design or operating procedures , and of any implications for their conduct . |
| 11 | However , if you attempt to arrest any man or woman here on a charge of vagrancy I will see they are defended in your court — and in any higher court to which they may be sent for trial . |
| 12 | The mouthparts vary in form to a greater extent than almost any other organs , the variation being correlated with the method of feeding and other uses to which they may be subjected . |
| 13 | However , such concerns are beyond the scope of this article , and although we are not always able to separate out the different areas of linguistic interest in the characterisation of an individual in a dramatic text ( many individual character traits are receptive to a number of different linguistic approaches ) , the large number of insights into characterisation offered by discourse and pragmatic analysis indicates the large extent to which they may be used effectively by the student of dramatic texts . |
| 14 | The facts of deixis should act as a constant reminder to theoretical linguists of the simple but immensely important fact that natural languages are primarily designed , so to speak , for use in face-to-face interaction , and thus there are limits to the extent to which they can be analysed without taking this into account ( Lyons , 1977a : 589ff ) . |
| 15 | For social reasons , both the degree of concentration of certain acknowledged problems and the extent to which they can be explained by internal processes of self-generation rather externally imposed processes may be grossly exaggerated . |
| 16 | Mass-spectrometry techniques ( see glossary ) are currently receiving attention because they are superior to other methods in sensitivity and the range of chemical elements to which they can be applied . |
| 17 | Lord Parker and the third Privy Councillor ( Mr J. A. Boyd-Carpenter ) concluded that these methods , subject to proper safeguards , and limiting the occasions on which and the degree to which they could be applied , conformed to the authority given . |
| 18 | It is essential , as HMI argued in 1983 , ‘ that all pupils should be guaranteed a curriculum of distinctive breadth and depth to which they should be entitled irrespective of the type of school they attended or their level of ability ’ . |