Example sentences of "to [pron] they could [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problem for the Scots this time , whatever their varying political and religious persuasions , was that there was no-one to whom they could turn as a counter-weight . |
| 2 | Where our Investigation Department operations involved shipping and small craft we were the specialists to whom they could turn for practical assistance . |
| 3 | Customers were unable to find a manager in Lockheed to whom they could take their problems and queries about their particular orders , and Lockheed found it necessary to employ ‘ project expediters ’ as customer liaison officials . |
| 4 | Not only were the subjects told of what Dement thought might be the probable results of the regime , but they were provided with a psychiatrist on duty all the time to whom they could report any unusual sensation . |
| 5 | This led to a debate within the company as to whether the role of ‘ Laura Ashley ’ was to demonstrate the sort of rooms ‘ Mr and Mrs Average ’ might own , decorated only to those standards to which they could aspire , or should it display exotically luxurious settings , thus attaining an often impossibly high level in taste and quality . |
| 6 | If anything , these developments strengthened the links with England : the sugar planters , just like the tobacco farmers , needed a market to which they could send their staple export product , and England was turning into a market that was always ready to absorb new products for domestic consumption or for re-export through its expanding commercial system . |
| 7 | Even hardy explorers needed strongpoints to which they could return after exhausting expeditions into unknown regions . |
| 8 | Venetian diplomats were likely to demand every ceremonial honour to which they could assert any shred of claim , and to be very touchy when faced with any apparent threat , however slight , to their status . |
| 9 | We gave them two addresses to which they could write in case we did not return and told them where our more precious belongings were . |
| 10 | Too many people , she said , had used AIDS as an issue to which they could add their own prejudices . |
| 11 | In the case of the Londoners , however , they may have been more vulnerable to plague than were country dwellers , unless they themselves had , as they might , country properties to which they could flee in time of pestilence . |
| 12 | Dorothy had an inspiration as to who they could go as , and for the rest of the evening they amused themselves digging through an old encyclopedia to find pictures from which to copy costumes . |
| 13 | Their measure of their health status was related to what they could do , rather than to the presence of current disease or conditions . |
| 14 | At least out here they had to play according to some sort of standard of fairness , even if it was a standard they could change as they went along according to how it suited them ( like doubling the bus fares just after he 'd found that job way out in Brentford ) , but in prison , even more so than in a mental hospital , there were no real limits to what they could do to him . |