Example sentences of "to [Wh det] [pers pn] could [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of the students were able to answer most of the questions but , as you would expect , many of the viewers had one or more questions to which they could not remember the answer . |
| 2 | But then one of their number was cut down by musket fire , to which they could not reply , for , clinging to the side , they had no hands free . |
| 3 | He found instead the only possible protuberance to which they could safely have anchored their rope . |
| 4 | Some of them brought to it a breadth of experience of teaching to which we could not lay claim . |
| 5 | In his inaugural address to ministers earlier that day the Czechoslovak President , Vaclav Havel , had urged the CSCE to create " a smaller organ similar to that of the UN Security Council , to which it could also give some executive powers " . |
| 6 | This meant that while from our side they appeared cautious and reactionary , for the Board they provided a cheerful dawn chorus to which it could always confidently wake up . |
| 7 | Perhaps the aspect of the postwar settlement to which he could most easily reconcile himself was decolonization , because that at least could be understood within a fundamentally nationalist framework . |
| 8 | Her trick was to establish during the early part of the evening roughly where the man lived ; then to announce a destination for herself to which he could not suggest accompanying her without seeming over keen . |
| 9 | It seems to me that it is impossible to say that in carrying out that exercise he misdirected himself or came to a conclusion to which he could not reasonably have come in the exercise of his discretion . |
| 10 | Standing with him , chewing the chalky corn , it was not difficult to enter his vision of the only past to which he could comfortably look ; a spiritual homeland to which he could never return . |
| 11 | The psychological insights which he might once have applied were no longer applicable ; thus , like most people , like all of us would in a similar circumstance , the degree to which he could realistically perceive what was going on within his body and what was becoming of him came and went . |
| 12 | Standing with him , chewing the chalky corn , it was not difficult to enter his vision of the only past to which he could comfortably look ; a spiritual homeland to which he could never return . |
| 13 | If you were to tell me that there are people , like the man upstairs to whom you now threaten to turn yourself in , who actually do have a strong sense of themselves , I would have to tell you that they are only impersonating people with a strong sense of themselves — to which you could correctly reply that since there is no way of proving whether I 'm right or not , this is a circular argument from which there is no escape . |
| 14 | If the wall surface is very uneven , it would be a good idea to create a new surface on to which you could then mount the mirror tiles . |
| 15 | They saw abstractions as in some warm and coloured , and the sort of things to which you could appropriately apply quite vivid adjectives . |
| 16 | They saw abstractions as in some way warm and coloured , and the sort of things to which you could appropriately apply quite vivid adjectives . |
| 17 | ‘ You will add great distinction to the office in ways to which I could not aspire ; but I fear you will find a great deal of the work here work which does not really interest you . ’ |
| 18 | I joined in the debate because I felt that this was one issue to which I could meaningfully contribute . |
| 19 | The awful , abrupt finality of a man pitching forward , so easily , so arbitrarily terminated — the convenience of it to the killer : they were things to which I could never become habituated , however many times I saw it . |
| 20 | A far narrower range of beliefs are attributable to the dog , specifically those that hark back to what we could immediately read off from similar behaviour in the case of a human being ; thus the dog believes his master is at the door but it would be a false move in the game also to ask if it believed that its master would be late the next day . |
| 21 | Would anybody like to hazard a guess as to what we could possibly mean as the difference between these two words ? |
| 22 | But what we have to bear in mind of course er the f financial propriety of this council would in a sense have been very easy over the years if the labour party previously had trimmed its budget according to what we could all afford . |
| 23 | ‘ Just outstanding , ’ Rickie said , but referring to what I could not tell . |
| 24 | The railway started to what I could only term , improve . |