Example sentences of "[noun] to [Wh det] it be [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Adequate credit control systems will still be necessary and , above all , it is essential to recommend to the client that it obtains adequate insurance cover to guard against the risks to which it is exposed .
2 If , in accordance with the foregoing , a company is eligible as a small or medium-sized company , the concessions to which it is entitled are :
3 As for the anti-Francoist labour movement , it was severely restricted by its illegal and , consequently , clandestine nature , and weakened by the internal wranglings of the exiled Leftist political parties to which it was linked .
4 cylindrical pierced metal candle shades which , placed in a shallow dish of water , steadied the flame and prevented the candle from setting light to what it was standing on .
5 The fate of any bill , whether initiated by the President or by a member , is effectively decided by the committee to which it is allocated on its introduction to Congress .
6 But the success of review in some areas can lead to a keener awareness of its absence in others ; and however sophisticated the review process , it can affect only those dimensions of course management to which it is applied .
7 And let us say that the meaning of a statement is valuational if and only if there is a certain attitude to which it is related just as a cognitive statement is related to a certain belief .
8 In 1918 his stock was confiscated , but he became chairman of the cooperative to which it was assigned .
9 What differentiates them is the degree to which it is acknowledged that an attempt to influence those above is being made .
10 A refusal to correct or apologise for an obvious mistake will enlarge the damages , as will the seriousness of the libel and the degree to which it is repeated .
11 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 ) .
12 A poorly-run gasifier rapidly becomes unusable and may destroy the engine to which it is attached .
13 The plaintiffs gathered information as to the results of horse races from various courses and transmitted that information to subscribers on terms that it should be used only in the newspaper or posted only in the club , newsroom , office or other place to which it was delivered .
14 Its major weakness was not of its own making ; rather it lay in the narrow geographical confines to which it was addressed : the Administrative County of London , whereas territorially what was in fact London spread far wider than that .
15 The fuel does however contain high levels of dangerous metals such as nickel and vanadium , but the stations to which it is supplied would be expected to be fitted with filtering equipment .
16 The future is a plate of steel floor covering that creaks and whistles as it is dragged clear of the supports to which it was bolted down thirty years before .
17 The bureaucracy , according to this line of analysis , exercises neither class power of its own nor the power of classes to which it is affiliated .
18 The head of the figure at the extreme left , for instance , is different in colour from those of the central figures , and even different from the body to which it is attached ; in it the pale pinks that had characterized so much of the work of 1906 have been mixed with black to produce a much more sombre effect .
19 The drugs coverage underlined that the paper was shifting rapidly — if erratically — from its earlier goal of being a London community paper , or maybe that the community to which it was addressing itself had changed rapidly in the year since its birth .
20 What this implies is that a group of people who , as consumers , constructed and sustained this image of the individualist tradition also , as producers , constructed the very image of change , community and modernity to which it is opposed .
21 We must therefore give careful examination to the basis on which the order was drafted and the purposes to which it was directed .
22 But even when practical concerns are uppermost there is still a framework , a wider context , into which the research and the questions to which it is directed have to fit .
23 The delightful gardens , at their best in the late August sunshine , were home to peacocks and hens , cockerels , a caged canary , a goat that kept the grass trim in a neat semi-circle around the tree to which it was tethered , several dogs and a sizeable cattery — stars of which were some blue-grey Abyssinians .
24 The comparative implications of adopting this approach are that the meaning of what we are labelling ‘ aggression ’ will necessarily vary from case to case , depending on how the native concepts to which it is opposed vary from case to case .
25 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 . ’
26 The Safe Supporter ‘ flotel ’ was forced to ditch its anchors at around 2am yesterday when mountainous seas and 70mph winds threatened to send it crashing into the Lomond platform to which it was attached by a telescopic gangway .
27 In America , cassia is often sold as cinnamon to which it is related .
28 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 .
29 It has led some people to argue that the only sensible way to study learning is by examining it in the ecological conditions to which it is adapted ( Johnston , 1981 ) .
30 His steam engine was awarded a prize of £100 by the Aeronautical Society for having the greatest power-to-weight ratio of all the fifteen engines exhibited , but unfortunately the triplane could never be tested in the still-air conditions to which it was suited , and so never proved itself to be , if indeed it was , a practical flying machine .
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