Example sentences of "[vb infin] and [prep] [Wh det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bets are also being taken until ‘ at least 2am ’ at IG Index , both on the number of seats the parties will win and on what the FT-SE Index might be . |
| 2 | The most that could be offered would be autonomous areas within regional self-government ‘ towards which members of the respective nationalities , scattered all over the country or even all over the world , would gravitate and with which they could enter into relations and free associations ’ — some measure of accommodation to Bauerism . |
| 3 | They were all the kind of diplomatic event which in normal times Mr Heath would much enjoy and at which he would perform very well . |
| 4 | A defiance of its orders is a defiance of the state , in whose name the government alone may speak and for whose actions it must assume ultimate responsibility … |
| 5 | The consumer body 's report New Metering Technology , published last month , speaks of ‘ an opportunity … that the industry should welcome and to which it should respond rapidly and enthusiastically ’ . |
| 6 | Children should be judged on what they can do and on what they know , not on who they are . |
| 7 | There are certain other circumstances in which this problem of unduly encouraging an authority to reach a particular decision does not arise and in which a scheme of compensation might be feasible and desirable : where there is no question of a decision being re-made , notably where the time-limit for challenging an allegedly illegal decision has run out ( through no fault of the applicant ) ; or where a citizen has suffered loss by relying on a representation by a public body that it will act in a particular way , in circumstances where the law will not require the body to make good its representation because it has undertaken to act illegally ; or where a court exercises its discretion not to quash an illegal decision In such cases the problem of causation does not exist because the decision in question will not be reconsidered . |
| 8 | The committee went on to recommend ‘ some form of overall plan towards which the authority will work and against which it can measure its achievement ’ . |
| 9 | If you can understand Berlin then perhaps it is also possible to make some sense of what Europe may now become and of what it means to be a European . |
| 10 | If they use this formula and then get a report they do not like and on which they do not intend to rely at trial , then they are not committed to disclose it . |
| 11 | But technical descriptions only indicate the positions through which the feet and legs should move and at which moment they should co-ordinate with the arms as weight is transferred from one step and pose to the next . |
| 12 | The latter is a good example of his more extended type of cantata with fewer but longer sections than Rossi 's : The opening of the duet will also illustrate one of Carissimi 's most striking characteristics , his genuine sense of key : The slow , uncertain supersession of mode by key had not yet generally revealed the possibilities of tonality for variety and dynamic structure ; composers still treated a key very much as a mode , a tonal area within which they could move and from which they wandered uncertainly , and which helped to give unity to a composition . |
| 13 | stories because they are encouraging it does make us feel that even though we are a small denomination that does not stop us from preventing new ideas which we can share and in which we can learn from each other . |
| 14 | The only this group could admit were reforms that benefited its members : the sale of the common lands and the entailed estates of the Church , an operation that they could dominate and from which they could draw profit . |
| 15 | But what is more difficult is to have an agreed view on how many people will die and at what rate , in the year two thousand and one and beyond . |
| 16 | Assessing his father retrospectively with a mixture of filial compassion and uncompromising lucidity , Nizan remarked : My father depicted culture as power and wealth , as the one thing that he did not have and without which he could not become a bourgeois . |
| 17 | ‘ Indefinite ’ science is obviously extremely important , for without some understanding of what general shape a causal explanation should take and of what concepts it should use , it would not be possible to give a detailed , or ’ limited' , causal account of the particular causes of some particular effect . |
| 18 | Took discussed this with Marty Feldman — told him what jokes Ken would tell and in what order . |
| 19 | Their–very wildness provides ideal shelter in which guerrillas can hide and from which to launch attacks . |
| 20 | The hardware manufacturers themselves offer not only systems software , which comprises the most basic sets of instructions that make computers operate and with which users are normally powerless to interfere . |
| 21 | Does the Minister agree that in any society , the public interest requires a system of law enforcement and justice that all can support and in which all can have confidence ? |
| 22 | What I can not comply with , is the regular imposition of a psychometric system of evaluation , which has already decided who will fail and in what proportions , because it is based on a deficit model of learners , and a culturally and politically determined view of intelligence and ability . |
| 23 | He would , I said , do himself an immense disservice which he would indeed regret and from which he would never recover . |
| 24 | Jointly with its American equivalent — which has half-a-dozen scientific professionals on the job — it decides how far the ball may fly and with what it may be hit . |