Example sentences of "to which [pers pn] [was/were] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some political activists concluded from this that what was needed was to ‘ empower the poor ’ , encourage their civic and political participation as a way to redress the balance , give them the strength to organize in such a way as to make effective claims on society , to receive those citizen 's rights to which they were said to be entitled . |
| 2 | Their duties were varied : to send back information to England , to negotiate with the government to which they were accredited , and , occasionally , to stir up trouble abroad . |
| 3 | There was thus a discrepancy between the increasing importance of the dukes in international affairs and the position to which they were relegated in terms of formal honours ; and as the seventeenth century progressed many governments became willing to regard them as de facto royal . |
| 4 | They inspired the efforts of Admirals D'Estaing and De Grasse in the War of the American Revolution to seize British West Indian islands and evade rather than destroy the fleets to which they were opposed . |
| 5 | The officials chosen to represent her on intermittent and shortlived embassies were usually ignorant of the languages of the countries to which they were sent and often ‘ Moscow Germans ’ ( descendants of foreigners who had settled in Russia ) rather than Russians by ancestry . |
| 6 | The maintenance of diplomats by the states to which they were sent , still common in the sixteenth century , ebbed away in western Europe in that which followed . |
| 7 | More and more they were now given the title of " extraordinary " , even when they remained for long periods at the courts to which they were sent : increasingly the term , applied to either an ambassador or an envoy , became a mere title of honour . |
| 8 | The radioactivity to which they were exposed was so powerful that the dead men 's bodies were themselves a radiation hazard . |
| 9 | Some worried that they were gradually being made sterile by welding equipment or the ultra-violet and infra-red rays to which they were exposed . |
| 10 | Darwin 's theory emphasized the interaction between organisms and their environment and made it clear that species could be driven to extinction when the conditions to which they were exposed changed too rapidly for them to cope . |
| 11 | This was no doubt why land transfers were often arranged at meetings , to which they were announced . |
| 12 | Well my Lord I must say it had occurred to me erm that certainly on the basis on which I 'm contending for damages to be assessed with the plaintiffs and it is completely irrelevant , er er many of the matters to which the defendant 's expert goes to as to the damages and the extent to which they were caused by the negligence of the defendant , the breach of duty . |
| 13 | The fibres are then spun , either by hand or machine , into a continuous threads , in the opposite direction to which they were spun , to form the yarn . |
| 14 | Gregory of Tours and Bede both knew that the conversion of their peoples to Christianity had done something to the religion to which they were converted . |
| 15 | For example , the author discovered an early fifteenth-century ‘ survey ’ of a village ( describing the sizes of fields and the uses to which they were put ) which mentioned a grange close to the manor house . |
| 16 | On the other hand in the far north they were evidently highly esteemed , to judge from the purposes to which they were put . |
| 17 | The extent to which these kinds of considerations can be included in the accounts depend upon the extent to which they were included in the budget . |
| 18 | The war , then , provided opportunities , but the extent to which they were taken up depended in large degree upon the contingent circumstances of the case being argued . |
| 19 | the strong muscles leave scars on the interior of the shell at the places to which they were attached ( usually two in each valve ) , and these muscle scars may also be seen on fossil shells . |
| 20 | The anthropologist Margaret Murray used to say that the god of one religion becomes the devil of the next , and these legends may be a way of indicating that the sites to which they were attached had been sacred in pre-Christian times . |
| 21 | Often only broken fragments of these inlays survive , and nothing of the item of furniture to which they were attached , so it is difficult to visualize the original effect or even the extent of the shell decoration . |
| 22 | When the colleges of education existed as a separate sector of higher education , all their courses were validated by the universities to which they were attached . |
| 23 | In the vaulted auditorium to which they were carried , a score and a half of robed figures sat around a horseshoe of data-desks . |
| 24 | The beneficiaries thus regard themselves as having received no more than their due , to which they were entitled anyhow , while those whose benefits are discontinued regard themselves as cheated of what they had a right to and had been encouraged to expect . |
| 25 | ‘ Appalling delays ’ had been experienced by disability benefits claimants and nearly 2.5 million households missed out on means-tested benefits to which they were entitled , leaving £1.5 billion unclaimed every year in the government 's coffers . |
| 26 | Even before the witchhunt began , one million eligible claimants were estimated to have failed to collect £240 million in supplementary benefits to which they were entitled . |
| 27 | But where thousands of claimants did not receive repayments to which they were entitled because of errors of local officials the Court of Appeal held that the Minister was not obliged to carry out a fullscale review of files . |
| 28 | We wanted to make it easier for people to get the money to which they were entitled , and I set my hand to introducing the reforms in a way that would enable people to do so . |
| 29 | Labour and Delivery was quiet tonight , and so was Recovery , to which they were directed by the matronly grandmother of five who presided over the ward . |
| 30 | The king is but rarely mentioned even in the archive tablets , where the preoccupation is with lists of offerings and the deities and sanctuaries to which they were dedicated . |