Example sentences of "which [vb -s] [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fifth matter of complaint , which goes partly to the intention of the appellants and to the difficulty they found themselves in before the judge was that their solicitor never explained these matters to the judge , that is to say the technical nature of the breach , the details of the two charges that had been made , and the advice that their solicitor himself had given to the appellants when they came to consult him . |
| 2 | The restriction will also apply to related allowances — the additional personal allowance ( which goes mainly to single parents ) ; the widow 's bereavement allowance ( which is paid to a widow in the year of her husband 's death and in the following year ) ; and the relief for maintenance payments to a divorced or separated spouse . |
| 3 | The Greek version of Isaiah 7 uses a word which refers specifically to a virgin , whereas the underlying Hebrew simply denotes a young girl . |
| 4 | litre economy engine , similar to the Corsa 's Eco unit , which produces close to miles per gallon at a constant mph . |
| 5 | The lyrics are pleasantly vague except for the curiously annoyed ‘ Candy Everybody Wants ’ , which veers close to wounded cynicism and nothing much else happens . |
| 6 | This commonly results in the loss of the corneo-retinal potential , a standing potential difference of the order of one tenth of a volt across the back of the eyeball which contributes largely to the measurable changes in potential on the face resulting from eye movements in sighted people . |
| 7 | The most startling thing about fresh pineapple is quite how much acid balances the sweetness , something which contributes enormously to its enjoyment and versatility . |
| 8 | It is too much work : or , more precisely , too much time spent by too many people on work of a kind which contributes insufficiently to their fulfilment and which may tend to diminish their capacity for fulfilling themselves , too much soul-destroying toil or boredom . |
| 9 | Organisational design : establishing a structure where form follows function and which contributes directly to institutional purposes and processes . |
| 10 | It was the kind of speech which plays well to the gallery of bemused parents in a violent world . |
| 11 | The third function , which belongs principally to ministerial and public enquiries , is advice . |
| 12 | Whether this clamour is loud enough to bring about so fundamental a change in the EEC at the very time when Community institutions wish to move in the opposite direction is a question which needs now to be addressed . |
| 13 | This is the general picture which needs now to be examined in detail . |
| 14 | They have links with the state government in Albany as well as City Hall , which adds hugely to their clout . |
| 15 | Kilvert was very conscientious ( and apparently much loved ) in his discharge of his pastoral duties , and this gave him an acquaintance with an unusually broad spectrum of village society , which adds greatly to the interest of the diary . |
| 16 | Too high a PSBR requires either that the government borrow heavily from the banks — which adds directly to the money supply — or , failing this , that it borrows from individuals and institutions , but at ever-increasing rates of interest , which place an unacceptable squeeze on the private sector . ’ |
| 17 | Finally , Chapter 8 deals with the dynamics of composite systems in a manner which owes much to the pioneering work of Kron . |
| 18 | The striking exception among the super-egos is Professor Charles Handy , a modest and witty Irishman with a spiritual perspective which owes much to his four years as warden of St George 's House in Windsor Castle , a private study and conference centre in the UK concerned with ethics and values in society . |
| 19 | Meanwhile , the proposal — which owes much to the structure of Aegon ( itself the product of a proprietary company , ENNEA , merging with a mutual one , AGO , more than a decade ago ) — is being closely studied by the many other mutual UK life assurers who find themselves short of free capital . |
| 20 | I am saying we must not supplant Anglican worship for a free-wheeling non-conformist style which owes more to Spring Harvest than the A.S.B . |
| 21 | True to their word , the troupe perform a joyously irreverent show called Oops Uranus , which owes more to Monty Python and Carry On than Murphy or Pryor . |
| 22 | Other minor fissures will be noticed as the track goes forward , soon to be crossed by the Three Peaks route , which heads away to the left at a tangent . |
| 23 | Once again we are saying something in general form which corresponds exactly to the particularities of wave mechanics . |
| 24 | If any question arises as to this , the defence is entitled , and is under a duty , to invite the trial judge to exercise the discretionary power given to him by section 17 of the Evidence Act , which corresponds exactly to section 5 of the Criminal Procedure Act 1865 ( 28 & 29 Vict. c. 18 ) and provides : |
| 25 | This is quite understandable if the non-specified version of the infinitive 's support corresponds to a " generalized person " : since this person is the virtual sum of all persons ( first , second or third ) , if to snow is not explicitly referred to it , the infinitive is felt as having a possible reference to " me " or " you " , which corresponds exactly to the impression produced by the sentence above and explains why it does not make sense . |
| 26 | The story presents a picture of the luckless , homeless skinhead which corresponds closely to the movement 's own mythology about itself . |
| 27 | A second hypothesis ( which corresponds closely to the timing of events ) is that the decision was taken in the wake of the first major attempt to restructure Cuban society : an Agrarian Reform Law , introduced on 17 May 1959 . |
| 28 | Many people have a mental map of the world which corresponds approximately to the Mercator projection . |
| 29 | Furthermore , these plateaux coincide with deep minima in the longitudinal voltage , in the direction of current flow , which drops essentially to zero at the critical values of Vg . |
| 30 | The achievement of that purpose must on occasion require action which has urgently to be taken , and the entertainment of representations may not be compatible with the urgency . |