Example sentences of "to which [pers pn] [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 | So he told me in the diner to which we resorted for coffee and blueberry pie . |
| 5 | These are matters to which we alluded in Chapter 2 . |
| 6 | The present policy of the UK government towards the exchange rate , to which we alluded in Section 9.5.1 , is to prevent depreciation , and one of the reasons for this policy is an anxiety that a depreciating pound would raise costs of imports and thus cause a further deterioration in the inflationary situation . |
| 7 | In both cases the MMC held that these companies were efficiently run and had contributed to substantial cost savings , the Schumpeterian view of monopoly to which we referred in Chapter 9 and illustrated in Figure 17–2 . |
| 8 | Ultimately the spores of the entity would pervade all of humanity , to which it vectored by design . |
| 9 | Held , granting the application , that the Act of 1987 placed the Bank of England under a wide public duty to supervise deposit-taking businesses , the fulfilment of which often required it to take urgent action in the interests of those whom the Act was designed to protect ; that a notice from the Bank of England under section 39(3) ( a ) of the Act of 1987 requiring production of documents overrode an injunction restraining that bank from disclosure of the documents to a third party , and the existence of an injunction did not constitute a reasonable excuse under section 39(11) for failure to comply with the section 39 notice ; and that the injunction should not , in any event , be interpreted as prohibiting compliance with the notice ; that it was proper for such a notice to specify the documents to which it applied by class rather than individually ; and that , accordingly , the defendants should be directed to comply with the notice ( post , pp. 717G–H , 718C , 719B–C , 721C , 722C ) . |
| 10 | The Durham Players had found the base for their pageant wagon in a farmyard , to which it had to be returned . |
| 11 | Even so , it is not at all obvious how he relocates writing in relation to the history to which it had until then been opposed . |
| 12 | Protest attracted violence to which it reacted with sometimes devastating consequences . |
| 13 | What made this trade especially useful was the small extent to which it depended on re-exports and the very great extent to which it brought markets for English manufacturers , especially in woollen and worsted textiles of the lighter and cheaper kinds . |
| 14 | The government also began negotiations seeking membership of the IMF ( to which it acceded in October ) and the World Bank and indicated its desire to join the European Communities . |
| 15 | On 1 September 1613 Elsynge was granted the reversion of the office of clerk of the parliaments , to which he succeeded on Bowyer 's death on 15 March 1621 . |
| 16 | In view of the consternation which Khrushchev 's policies aroused in the Party itself , his eventual deposition is less striking than the degree to which he succeeded in imposing his will on a reluctant leadership . |
| 17 | Let us make a careful assessment of the extent to which he succeeded in defending a rationalist position . |
| 18 | This obstinate refusal to be a conformist explains not only the difficulties of integration that Nizan experienced within the party , but also — and this needs stressing — underlines the extent to which he succeeded in retaining intellectual autonomy and integrity within the party itself . |
| 19 | Lutyens had been struck by the emphasis she had placed on the word — and on her choice of it ; chaste was not a word Miss Jekyll usually employed when planning her gardens , and Lutyens bore it in mind throughout — hence the austerity to which he adhered on the terraces . |
| 20 | Section 33(3) requires the court to have regard to all the circumstances of the case and in particular to : ( a ) the length of , and the reasons for , the delay on the part of the plaintiff ; ( b ) the extent to which , having regard to the delay , the evidence adduced or likely to be adduced by the plaintiff or the defendant is or is likely to be less cogent than if the action had been brought within the time allowed by s11 or ( as the case may be ) by s12 ; ( c ) the conduct of the defendant after the cause of action arose , including the extent ( if any ) to which he responded to requests reasonably made by the plaintiff for information or inspection for the purpose of ascertaining facts which were or might be relevant to the plaintiff 's cause of action against the defendant ; ( d ) the duration of any disability of the plaintiff arising after the date of the accrual of the cause of action ; ( e ) the extent to which the plaintiff acted promptly and reasonably once he knew whether or not the act or omission of the defendant , to which the injury was attributable , might be capable at that time of giving rise to an action for damages ; ( f ) the steps , if any , taken by the plaintiff to obtain medical , legal or other expert advice and the nature of any such advice he may have received . |
| 21 | His position — the position , indeed , to which he clung throughout the long controversy — is made clear in his reply to the Staufer and in the early letters of the register . |
| 22 | Neither of these assignments nor his cure in a new church in Oxford , St Aloysius , to which he returned with high hopes , was conspicuously successful , although the Oxford stay resulted in another burst of lyricism , including ‘ Duns Scotus 's Oxford ’ and ‘ Binsey Poplars ’ . |
| 23 | On that day the invitation was sent to William of Orange , James 's nephew and son-in-law , in response to which he landed in England to restore its liberties . |
| 24 | Erle returned to Dorset a few years later to become a ship-money refuser and to head the poll in the county election of March 1640 ; but he resigned the seat to George Digby , second Earl of Bristol [ q.v. ] , and served for Lyme Regis in the Short Parliament , to which he reported on innovations in religion . |
| 25 | In 1931 Eliot reviewed Middleton Murry 's biographical study of Lawrence and went on to read Lawrence 's letters , to which he referred in 1933 . |
| 26 | The church and state broadcasts to which he referred in his next letter were noteworthy as containing one of his own , of which I thought highly . |
| 27 | Will my hon. Friend confirm that the state of affairs to which he referred in Wolverhampton has continued for about 10 years now ? |
| 28 | When will the tendering process be opened for the craft to which he referred in his statement ? |
| 29 | Their daughter Mary was born at Linlithgow , of which her father was also fond and to which he fled after defeat by the English at Solway Moss , before going on to Falkland in the wooded heartland of Fife . |
| 30 | Barron bought forty acres for a nursery site in nearby Borrowash , to which he moved from Elvaston in 1865 . |