Example sentences of "to [Wh det] they [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other situations where a landlord has a guaranteed right of repossession are : lettings by temporarily absent owner occupiers ; lettings of retirement homes — a letting that enables people to let a home to which they intend to ultimately retire ; lettings by servicemen . |
| 2 | The reasons for these biases are many and varied , including the profitability of certain preparations ( zero for traditional methods , minimal for reusable contraceptives like the diaphragm ) , the extent to which they depend on continuing ‘ motivation ’ of the user ( high for traditional and barrier methods and the pill ) , and of course the efficiency of the method itself . |
| 3 | It can not be denied that Court–Country tensions did exist ; the question to consider is the extent to which they cut across party , and served to undermine the pattern of political allegiances mapped out above . |
| 4 | AIthough there are common concerns shared by the two theories , and indeed attempts to draw on both of them , there are also differences in terms of , for instance , the way in which they characterize society , or the part of it they are dealing with , the degree to which they focus on production and technology , whether their focus is on sectors or wider processes , and in relation to evidence ( both in terms of whether their balance is towards description or explanation and in terms of their interpretation of evidence ) . |
| 5 | The ganglion cells are the neurons which communicate with the brain by propagating impulses up their axons , while their dendrites detect patterns of excitation in the photoreceptors , to which they connect through intermediate cells . |
| 6 | The verderers were closely examined at the Forest Eyre as to the facts to which they deposed in their rolls of presentments , and even minor contradictions in their evidence might result in their committal to prison and subsequent amercement . |
| 7 | It focuses on corporate approaches to managing such staff , e.g. recruitment , selection , appraisal , development , motivation , salary structures , discipline , dismissal and on the characteristics of unions which are recruiting managers , on the extent that managerial unionists experience conflicts of interests between their employer and the union , on the extent to which they tend to be ‘ moderate ’ or ‘ militant ’ and on how managers ' unions relate to other unions . |
| 8 | It is a cause of women 's relatively low pay and limits women 's chances by the narrow range of occupations to which they tend to be confined . |
| 9 | The two broad categories of plants designated C 3 and C 4 differ in the biochemical pathways through which they fix carbon dioxide in photosynthesis and so differ in the degree to which they benefit from increased carbon dioxide . |
| 10 | We also need to consider the extent to which organisations have one dominant culture , or the extent to which they consist of sub-cultures . |
| 11 | There are three issues associated with institutional aims and objectives : ( i ) the extent to which they are aims and objectives rather than social platitudes and/or moral aspirations ; ( ii ) the extent to which objectives are differentiated from aims and are capable of implementation ; and ( iii ) the extent to which they refer to teaching and non-teaching staff as well as children . |
| 12 | It is very difficult , particularly for those who work in a stuffy , overcrowded office , to which they commute on a stuffy overcrowded train , successfully to avoid catching cold or other viruses . |
| 13 | If cars joining a crowded road take no account of the extent to which they slow down other road users , it may be almost impossible to rush from car to car offering or collecting bribes ! |
| 14 | Mature students bring their whole life experience to college , they have potentially much to gain — and , therefore , much to offer the communities to which they return after college . |
| 15 | For the future , research needs to address the extent to which these dimensions of organization imperatives do form coherent patterns ; the extent to which the coherent patterns form national clusters ; and the extent to which they relate to more common criteria of organizational analysis such as the Aston measures . |
| 16 | In view of the conclusion which their Lordships have reached , namely , that the defendant 's conviction should be quashed and that it must be for the Court of Appeal in Jamaica to say whether a new trial should be ordered , their Lordships consider that it is unnecessary , and indeed undesirable in the interests of justice , to examine the rival contentions and the facts to which they relate with the same particularity as their Lordships would have felt bound to do if their recommendation had been in favour of dismissing the appeal . |
| 17 | When these enterprises do manage to take hold the next key question is the extent to which they hire from the local community and from disadvantaged groups ( e.g. the long-term unemployed ) . |
| 18 | In assessing the relative efficiency of alternative forms of hierarchy , the extent to which they economize on bounded rationality and control opportunism is of some importance . |
| 19 | They were seen to be working in the same direction and although it has not yet been possible to gauge the extent to which they help in the task of managing new education , their contribution to quality assurance should , by tradition , be valuable . |
| 20 | Is it just , well I was j er I mean I find it hard cos I suppose everybody to some extent , in the , the extent to which they live in their own house , |
| 21 | The modernity or postmodernity of the nouveau roman resides not only in the degree to which the novels in question are transgressive in narrative terms , but also in the extent to which they call into question the legitimacy of the practices they install . |
| 22 | Their napkins were kept for them in specially designed pigeon-holes to which they homed on entering , before head-ing for their tables . |
| 23 | In fact , several believers have done excellent sociological studies of a religion in which they themselves believe ( eg Smith , 1982 ; Hornsby-Smith , 1979 ) , or to which they converted during the course of their study ( Jules-Rosette , 1975 , or , as an example of a partial conversion followed by a withdrawal , Rochford , 1985 ) . |
| 24 | In the past , such films have been judged for the ideological correctness of their depictions of Black people , the extent to which they rely on stereotypes and so on . |
| 25 | Assessment schemes vary in the extent to which they rely on a structured syllabus and defined test modes . |
| 26 | Languages vary in the extent to which they rely on word order to signal the relationship between elements in the clause . |
| 27 | These two points raise the issue of the extent to which pragmatic interpretation and discourse structure are culture specific , and the extent to which they need to be or can be taught . |
| 28 | Not all places are equal , and their siting must be considered in relation to other places to which they look for social , economic , religious or administrative relationships . |
| 29 | All of these texts can be read equally well as examples of the récit lacunaire paradigm in poststructuralist criticism , such is the extent to which they seem to be generated by a gap or an absence . |
| 30 | Councillors vary tremendously in the extent to which they expect to be involved in day-to-day matters of administration in the authority . |