Example sentences of "[Wh det] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is also occasionally found after the passive voice , but the usual construction after a passive is one in which to is used . |
| 2 | To signifies this relation of subsequence in virtue of its potential meaning of a movement from one point in time to another and has been seen to give rise to two clearly identifiable actual meanings according to whether the speaker conceives the whole movement which to is capable of signifying or only the initial part thereof . |
| 3 | But the police force she joined in 1963 was a very different and difficult place in which to be ambitious . |
| 4 | THERE are more glamorous places than Glasgow in which to be liberated , but Dariusz Dziekanowski has no complaints . |
| 5 | For a host of reasons , the nation today has much for which to be thankful . |
| 6 | The magazines of the time carried article after article laying down the law of correct and essential dress in which to be seen on ocean crossings and cruises . |
| 7 | Most of us went to church on Christmas Eve and on Christmas Day , and I felt I had so much for which to be profoundly thankful . |
| 8 | All year , as each season reveals its particular joy , there is so much for which to be thankful . |
| 9 | Mr ‘ Spike ’ Milligan , the manic depressive , is a man of many parts — the latest of which to be revealed is that of philanderer . |
| 10 | A gene , for purposes of the theory , is a segment of genetic material divided off as best suits the investigator , who needs a unit small enough to be treated as identical through successive generations ; it has no self with which to be selfish . |
| 11 | ‘ That is surely something for which to be thankful . ’ |
| 12 | Women do not have the one way in which to be beautiful , but many . |
| 13 | The following method was used : ( a ) a date of interview ( nominated date ) was randomly selected from all 1096 days in the study period , ( b ) the control was then randomly allocated an age at which to be interviewed , ( c ) the date of birth was calculated from age and date of interview , ( d ) an obstetric hospital was randomly chosen in proportion to the number of births in 1986 , and ( e ) random numbers were used to select a particular infant from those born on the date of birth in the nominated obstetric hospital . |
| 14 | We are convinced that the best way for works of art to communicate to the public is for those works to have the most beautiful and natural context in which to be shown . |
| 15 | In 1874 the widow of the latter , carrying out her husband 's wishes , left £1650 , the annual interest of which to be applied to augment the minister 's stipend . |
| 16 | Which to be honest , a lot of people do not understand . |
| 17 | I can not imagine a happier place from which to be taken unto Him . ’ |
| 18 | With sales soaring to more than 12 million bottles last year , the Australian wine presence is certainly a force with which to be reckoned . |
| 19 | While attention has been paid to the modification of adjudicative procedures to meet the requirements of a particular area , there has been little thought directed to the broader question of whether adjudication is the correct decision-making process on which to be fashioning procedures . |
| 20 | For this reason they are bound to remain as very secondary aids to choral music , which to be genuinely original and vital needs musicianship much more than exploitation of mere sound effects . |
| 21 | I says how come you deputation , you gave us a time of which to be here , now we said , we turned up a quarter hour beforehand and I says we get a phone call er a an intermission from Councillor that you could n't make it because that your car broke down . |
| 22 | The movement that began with Greek sculpture rapidly added other new areas of study to the familiar territories of language and literature , issuing in a serious concern not simply with " the classics " , but with ancient civilization in all its aspects : aspects that might well centre on the " facts " of ancient life , its physical relics , its customs and institutions : all of which to be summed up in the German word Realien . |
| 23 | It 's not the sort of material in which to be indulgent . |
| 24 | The Government have a great deal of which to be proud in their record since 1979 . |
| 25 | As Past President , , has said to me on more than one occasion , there is no finer Institute of which to be a member than the British Institute of Embalmers . |
| 26 | Now I have to tell you that last year we raised a hundred and thirteen million pounds and of that over ninety per cent , that 's a hundred and four million pounds were actually spent on projects for children and I 'm very proud of that ratio indeed and I think it ought to give you , the raisers of money , a great deal of comfort because for a fund with two headquarters buildings which operates all over the world this is a distribution of funds of which to be proud . |
| 27 | There was another small mercy for which to be grateful . |
| 28 | This was not an office from which to be dispensing medical advice . |
| 29 | The movement , if odd , was well paced , giving the voices space in which to be heard , and the dance was fluid and convincing . |
| 30 | The Gallup survey , commissioned by the Daily Telegraph , also found that more than a third could not think of a single thing about Britain of which to be proud . |