Example sentences of "to which it is " in BNC.
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| 1 | The enigmatic three dots to which it is impelled are those of a romantic orphan , as well as those of his reticent doctor . |
| 2 | ‘ Something under a fifth of a teaspoonful — say four or five drops — added to which it is highly soluble . ’ |
| 3 | Altering the look of a step can involve changing the time signature or tempo to which it is danced , the direction it takes or a change of épaulement , its quality and expressiveness , to name but a few . |
| 4 | The difference lies in the rhythm of the pipe tune to which it is danced . |
| 5 | The ‘ snatch policy ’ overturns a Carter administration edict , to which it is diametrically opposed . |
| 6 | More empirically however , on the other hand , and drawing upon the work of Peter Bürger , Callinicos accepts the case for Modernism having contained a critical moment — a ‘ protest against the capitalist society to which it is in complex ways related ’ ( p. 53 ) . |
| 7 | The opportunities for successfully re-using a structure to which it is necessary to make major modifications in order to suit it to its new task are small , even with ironwork of exceptionally good quality . |
| 8 | It is also time to worry , for such a strong consensus generally has an over-reaction on its coat-tails , one that could do more damage than the action to which it is a response . |
| 9 | Thermoluminescence is a complementary technique in the material and date range to which it is applicable ; it also enables the authenticity of ceramics to be tested . |
| 10 | The basic cutting is a whole leaf , together with the short section of stem to which it is attached and the bud at its base . |
| 11 | Again , courses in politics , society and economics retained priority in the task of educating for citizenship ; for the WEA ‘ it must be the acid test of the extent to which it is doing its job that the primacy should lie in these fields ’ . |
| 12 | This material is particularly interesting because it combines the radical with the species to which it is structurally related . |
| 13 | As Michael Goldman ( 1975 ) suggests , fashions in acting can be seen in terms of the varying degrees to which it is thought proper to expose the private feeling of the actor . |
| 14 | The body , bound to the soil to which it is destined to return , remained the source of those evil behaviours that , judged by God , lead to hell . |
| 15 | An individual 's genes are not unique to itself ; they occur also in animals to which it is genetically related through genealogical descent . |
| 16 | I have a routine to which it is not always possible to keep : writing in the morning for about three hours , then the rest of the day for other business . |
| 17 | They have suggested that the loss of associability suffered by a pre-exposed stimulus is determined not by the extent to which it is predicted by its antecedents but by the relationship it bears to subsequent events . |
| 18 | It is true that these processes may well have a spatial expression in a specific situation , but there are others to which it is difficult to attribute any physical manifestation , or by definition which can not have a spatial expression at all . |
| 19 | There is debate as to the extent to which it is sexually transmitted , but in some reports up to 70 per cent of male partners of infected women have been shown to harbour the organism . |
| 20 | Such hard experience has taught the Yugoslavs that there is no guarantee that ‘ foreign aid ’ solves the problem to which it is directed . |
| 21 | There is considerable reported variation in the methodology and location of scanning , and the degree to which it is carried out by a formally constituted unit or units ( B.1 ) . |
| 22 | However , he was much more explicit in his references to the nature of ‘ adolescence ’ , referring to it as the age of ‘ terrible peril ’ which had to be responded to ; the ‘ wayward forces ’ had to be ‘ rightly directed ’ , so that the ‘ new instincts and impulses , the new faculties and powers … shall be rightly exercised and trained , and that protection shall be given as far as possible against the temptations to which it is exposed ’ . |
| 23 | The first was to trace small mammal bone in modern cave environments , to examine the extent to which it is transported and what effect this has on the breakage and preservation of the bone assemblages . |
| 24 | McLean quotes Mueller 's definition , according to which it is ‘ the economic study of non-market decision-making ’ ( 1987 , p. 1 ) . |
| 25 | The extent to which it is appropriate to describe the new arrangements as local corporatism is rather more problematic . |
| 26 | One result of Barclays 's policy is the number of high-technology firms to which it is lending money under what it calls its business start loan scheme . |
| 27 | A poorly-run gasifier rapidly becomes unusable and may destroy the engine to which it is attached . |
| 28 | Emotionally and mentally our mind seeks out the things , people and ideas to which it is already habituated . |
| 29 | No one wished , said Mill , to curtail ‘ commercial credit ’ , but ‘ that which is given by retail dealers to unproductive consumers is no doubt , to the excess to which it is carried [ in 1848 ] , a considerable evil . ’ |
| 30 | For the Chardonnay , however , to which it is best suited , four shoots require five buds , as the first bud on this vine is always infertile . |