Example sentences of "of [v-ing] to [Wh det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SERAFIN : So we can prefer what we 're not aware of enjoying to what we are aware of enjoying ? |
| 2 | In such cases the use of a professionally drafted memorandum of understanding to which all shareholders are party is recommended . |
| 3 | People with mental disorder can not act like consumers in the ordinary sense of the word because of the nature of their problems — they can not , for example , forsake the NHS for another service as they might McDonalds for Burger King — but we can , nevertheless , devise ways of listening to what they have to say and ensuring their voices are heard . |
| 4 | If anything , the most common strategy by far seems to be to abandon the thematic organization of the source text in favour of adhering to whatever word-order principles may be operating in the target language . |
| 5 | Advocates of this type of curriculum not only have the problem of deciding who can speak for the culture ( or cultures ? ) and making an appropriate selection from it , but of deciding to what extent the curriculum should attempt to conserve , reform , revolutionize or even reverse cultural patterns and trends . |
| 6 | To Mary , reading that if she did not do so , ‘ this pre-eminence wherein ye are placed shall be your dejection to torment and pain everlasting ’ , it looked more like the kind of bullying to which , on his own account , he would later subject her daughter . |
| 7 | Some of them brought to it a breadth of experience of teaching to which we could not lay claim . |
| 8 | It was thought by some that too great a burden might be placed on principals in smaller firms or on sole practitioners if such a proposal were made mandatory , and that either the ‘ net ’ of suitable signatories should be widened to include assistant solicitors or Fellows of ILEX , or that the category of undertaking to which the ‘ rule ’ might apply should exclude those of a routine or non-financial nature . |
| 9 | But again there is the problem of knowing to what extent inputs are associated with outcomes and how relevant are any statistical associations found . |
| 10 | One of the most powerful forms of learning to which I was exposed on my course was active collaborative work . |
| 11 | If so , it would seem to be no more than a logically disreputable form of reasoning to which I have to resort until the scientific study of behaviour puts more rigorous methods at my disposal . |
| 12 | For our conclusions about the group would then be in every way prior to any conclusions about individuals ; we would have relied on principles of responsibility that draw their sense from a practice or way of thinking to which the personification is indispensable . |
| 13 | The adult Nizan , the uncompromising communist militant , may quite legitimately be angrily dismissive of the process of schooling to which he was subjected as an adolescent and young man . |
| 14 | But whether man 's inward mind patterning , which provides him with the capacity for verbal language , is underlain by a subtle and universal language of meaning to which we all relate when using verbal language , is an interesting possibility I discussed in The Web of Life . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The basis for the continuum they put forward is was the level of processing to which the input is subjected . |