Example sentences of "to which it can [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To what then is the human psychobiological system adapted and what are the limits to which it can adjust without an excessive strain leading ultimately to reduced reproductive ability ? |
| 2 | This is by no means the end of the matter , but enough has been stated to show the breadth of the definition of development and the technical complexities to which it can give rise . |
| 3 | It may be that its functioning is impaired in various ways ; perhaps the extent to which it can suffer is impaired by the sensory deprivation . |
| 4 | Such relations occur in hierarchies , but for a proportional series all the structuring relations must be ‘ one-to-one ’ , that is to say , each relation must be such that for any element there is just one other element to which it can stand in that relation , and only the first element can stand in that relation to the second . |
| 5 | Paradoxically , the manner in which a given biographical narrative chooses to be false determines the extent to which it can make claims to truth . |
| 6 | Here there are evident overlaps with political theory and with general sociology , which cultural sociology can not replace but to which it can try to contribute its own kinds of evidence . |
| 7 | Here there are again overlaps with political theory and with general sociology , which cultural sociology can not replace but to which it can try to contribute its distinctive emphasis on the organization of signifying systems and on the special kinds of social formation which are professionally concerned with this , among them the difficult category usually identified as ‘ intellectuals ’ . |
| 8 | Nor is it quite like a Papal Encyclical , or a biblical prophecy , for sociology has no basic authority of revealed truth to which it can appeal . |
| 9 | Wherever you may locate your own particular response , I want in this book to discuss what is involved in giving RE the positive and creative image which it should have by virtue of the importance of its subject-matter , the challenging controversy it can generate , and the depth of feeling to which it can appeal . |
| 10 | The company anticipates that the personal communicator will open up new markets and will prove an ideal base to which it can add its own technology — the Digital European Cordless Telecommunications system . |
| 11 | Yet when the bee-eater starts to make its nest , it will fly repeatedly beak-first at the face of a sandstone cliff or the hard mud of a river bank until , by dislodging grain after grain , it manages to make a slight depression to which it can hang . |
| 12 | Two centuries later , the Enlightenment returns : but not at all as a way for the West to take cognizance of its present possibilities and of the liberties to which it can have access , but as a way of interrogating it on its limits and on the powers which it has abused . |