Example sentences of "to [Wh det] they [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Their napkins were kept for them in specially designed pigeon-holes to which they homed on entering , before head-ing for their tables . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | It is likely that they paid a price close to what they received from Telecom . |
| 5 | The action takes place thousands of miles from ‘ the perennial roar of London ’ , but the reader remains very much aware of London and the civilization it stands for as moral standards crumble ; ‘ savage ’ and ‘ white man ’ become confused until the conduct of the whites , intent on mutual destruction , seems worse than that of ‘ these poor souls — and even Sally Day , the child of cannibals , in all likelihood a cannibal himself — so faithful to what they knew of good ’ . |
| 6 | Other early ministers were pushed into politics by the reaction of others to what they saw as religious activity . |
| 7 | The new emphasis was not universally approved of , purists objecting to what they saw as a tendency for accountants to look a project over and approve or disapprove of it from the beginning . |
| 8 | The philosophers may have been generally unsympathetic to what they saw as an encroachment on their territory , while the sociologists have done their best to incorporate or adapt Mannheim 's project to fit with a paradigm in which they were already working . |
| 9 | Strong trade unions , especially in the public sector , had successfully resisted attacks on the Welfare State in the past , and so needed to be defeated if the Tories ’ solution to what they saw as the major problem — inflation — were to be successful . |
| 10 | The two opposition members of parliament were firmly opposed to what they saw as a further extension of government power . |
| 11 | Its extension would now oblige the left to find new ways of campaigning among party members , because they tended to cast their votes according to what they saw on television . |
| 12 | The sources from which the children could find information enabling them to make fullest use of the church study were not confined to what they saw in the booklet nor what they could see and think out for themselves ; a number of people , both inside and outside the school , were enthusiastic and available for consultation . |
| 13 | This manoeuvre caused dissension within feminist ranks , however , and in 1889 a small group of women , including Mrs Pankhurst and Josephine Butler , formed the Women 's Franchise League , in reaction to what they perceived as a preoccupation with the cause of spinsters and widows . |
| 14 | The general shortage of comforts and of everything which kept us just above the lowest level of life was sufficiently great to make individuals cling to what they had with something like fanaticism . |
| 15 | If , in the years to follow , he did relatively little to help the Valois war effort , his defection greatly angered the English who reacted in strongly emotional terms to what they regarded as an act of betrayal and treason against the English crown . |
| 16 | Several firms , in both food processing and engineering , felt that productivity and competitiveness could be enhanced if they could guarantee security of employment to what they regarded as their " core " staff . |
| 17 | North Yorkshire in that context was different to what they found in the rest of the region . |
| 18 | As was suggested earlier , the arguments put forward both by reformers and their opponents were closely tied to what they considered to be the especially ‘ sensitive ’ position of the ‘ young ’ in modern Britain . |
| 19 | Although upper class men varied their clothing rather more , according to what they happened to be doing , for formal public appearances they sometimes wore the toga . |