Example sentences of "to [Wh det] he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His particular interest , it turns out , is in the ‘ non-You Sonnets ’ , the ‘ dramatic meditations ’ of his title , in other words the exception to the norm , to which he dedicates most of his space , studying in detail Sonnets 94 , 121 , 20 , 129 , and 146 . |
| 2 | Powell was the nearest thing to an orthodox businessman to be found in the Virgin offices , with an understanding of business techniques and practices and no little amount of jargon — studiously drawn from the American magazines to which he subscribed . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Let us make a careful assessment of the extent to which he succeeded in defending a rationalist position . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Chilperic 's wish to appear as a cultivated monarch is not in question ; he wrote poetry , however badly , and he showed some interest in such issues as the alphabet , to which he wished to add four letters , and in theology , where he came close to heresy , when he decided to abolish the distinctions between the persons of the Trinity . |
| 8 | But in practice he found himself able to control the Residents only by appointing men he deemed to be sufficiently compliant , an expedient to which he resorted when Temple retired prematurely from the service in 1917 . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , Irwin appears to have reconciled the two to his own satisfaction , though the arguments to which he resorted owed more to the theological aptitude displayed in his youthful biography of Keble than to ordinary practical intelligence . |
| 10 | His life had been spent tending the land to which he 'd been born and what more could any man want ? |
| 11 | And as Joe Lucas was unwinding from the pitch to which he 'd momentarily raised himself , Lucy was seated at a side-table in a Wardour Street coffee shop . |
| 12 | He wore a priest 's cassock and clerical collar and seemed perfectly at home in the sacristy at the back of the church to which he 'd taken me . |
| 13 | Rosengarten 's forte lay in the fine arts , painting and sculpture in particular , to which he committed himself at McGill ahead of Leonard . |
| 14 | ROS : On the boat to which he meets |
| 15 | in a world to which he brought |
| 16 | So he turned to other forms of theatre , directing operas , writing and staging revues and musicals , to which he brought new ideas and methods that were widely admired . |
| 17 | He puts forward an ethic consisting of habits of mind and of behaviour to which he thinks one will inevitably move to the extent that one has rational insight into the human situation and is under the control of that rational part of one 's nature which gives one unity as a personality . |
| 18 | The increase in complaints may have something to do with the fact that we believe that it is important that if someone has not received the care to which he thinks he is entitled from the NHS , his right to complain should not be a well-kept secret , as has too often happened in the past . |
| 19 | ‘ Home no later than 9.30 , Jo , ’ to which he received some inarticulate reply . |
| 20 | Cameron first worked for Catherine at the palace of Tsarskoe Selo , to which he made several additions over a period of fifteen years , notably the Agate Pavilion and the Cameron Gallery , an elegant building based on the neo-classical style developed in England by Robert Adam , about which Cameron had probably learned from Clérisseau . |
| 21 | I was at a temporal disadvantage , for some things to which he made reference were unknown to me . |
| 22 | Labour leader returns from Berlin meetings sensing need for forward options to which he says Thatcher 's policies are opposed . |
| 23 | Luke 's mouth pleasured while it dominated , and his hands roaming insolently about her body were creating havoc , the skilled , confident caresses to which he subjected her a bold proclamation of ownership . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Corman directed most of the picture but then had stop because union rules , to which he adhered religiously in terms of actors ' and technicians ' payments , made it impossible to continue with a fully fledged production team . |
| 26 | At Trinity College , Cambridge , to which he proceeded , he was a very serious student whose frail health suffered from overwork . |
| 27 | He would become again a Northern Ireland Protestant — though with a difference , certainly : he was no longer a resident ; he was learned ; he had the wonderful gifts both of imagination and a clear and analytical mind ; and above all his faith came of Grace to which he responded heroically , in patience and self-sacrifice — when he was aware of himself . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | I believe that when Milton Friedman defends capitalism as a necessary but not sufficient condition to ensure a free society , it is not capitalism as an ideology to which he refers , but the guarantee by the state to respect private property rights . |
| 30 | As these figures are identical to those given for the Amytal test by Rasmussen and B. Milner ( 1975 ) it is presumably these data to which he refers ) . |