Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] to [pron] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps these were the monoliths worshipped by the aboriginal Gaunches to which they offered sacrifices of milk , honey and sheep fat . |
| 2 | The costing of functions is done by estimating the proportion of the part cost that can notionally be attributed to each function to which it contributes . |
| 3 | The costing of functions is done by estimating the proportion of the part cost that can notionally be attributed to each function to which it contributes . |
| 4 | This is by no means the end of the matter , but enough has been stated to show the breadth of the definition of development and the technical complexities to which it can give rise . |
| 5 | Corporate members may only participate in elections of that branch to which they are attached . |
| 6 | Once again , however , she was surprised to find very little response to what she had feared would be an explosive situation as David remained apparently impassive after the initial courtesy greetings . |
| 7 | Apart from dealing with the matter of the will if one was made , it may be agreed , if your parent wishes , that he should also take on the responsibility for contacting various persons and organisations : the bank , to arrange for money to be available to her pending the settlement of her husband 's affairs ; her husband 's employer and Trade Union branch secretary , or the secretary of any professional association to which he belonged ; his insurance company ; the Department of Health and Social Security , to obtain forms for claiming the death grant and the widow 's pension ; the Inland Revenue , if her husband was still paying income tax ; the Building Society , the mortgagor ( or landlord if she and her husband lived in rented property ) and any other person or organisation concerned . |
| 8 | Formal signals are often grouped together in an induction programme , and so anxious are we to reduce the total uncertainty to something we can understand that we will swallow the formal induction without even a whimper . |
| 9 | There was nothing new in Lukacs 's total opposition to what he contemptuously referred to as the decadent and sick art of modernism . |
| 10 | She walked with total indifference to what she saw . |
| 11 | The characteristics which are common within a specialist collection of data may relate to the subject matter ( e.g. political opinion polls ) , to the time period ( e.g. historical social and demographic records ) , to the geographical coverage ( e.g. Northern Irish data ) , to the administrative units to which they relate ( e.g. New Town 's studies ) or even to the type ( e.g. spatially referenced data ) . |
| 12 | The official resolution said in reply that the gracefulness of his welcome was only increased because he ‘ did not belong to any of the Free Churches … and did not belong to any section of those political parties to which they might be supposed to belong ’ . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | This political landscape stood in some contrast to what I understood to be the quite exceptional role played by West Ham in the historical development of the Labour Party and the trade union and cooperative movements . |
| 15 | What we have now is much more than a game : an exciting story to which we do not know the end ; and a visual image which will lead us to an exciting starting point for a drama , an image which we know has engaged the children . |
| 16 | He looked at her for the first time since the beginning ; her head was still turned away , her hands over her face ; she had shown no further response to anything he had done . |
| 17 | In my opinion , the facts of this case to which I have referred fall far short of establishing that Mr. Occhi had so consented . |
| 18 | I would suggest that a sexual problem might best be defined as an obstacle to the satisfaction of sexual need — that need which arises in us partly from innate instinct and urge , partly from the circumstances of any given time , and which is tempered by our personal upbringing and development , our moral outlook and the social norms to which we subscribe . |
| 19 | Any spontaneous pull to which he yields ( for example , a proneness due to laziness to exaggerate the difficulty of getting things done in time for the earlier flight ) will merely bias his judgement ; in the pure choice of means you either choose rationally or surrender to the spontaneous . |
| 20 | My hon. Friend the Member for Ashford ( Mr. Speed ) , the hon. Member for St. Helens , South ( Mr. Bermingham ) and my hon. Friend the Member for Mid-Kent ( Mr. Rowe ) touched on aspects of British Rail to which I was tempted to respond . |
| 21 | Instead , meaning and order is imposed on our lives as our behaviour , experiences , thoughts , feelings , and so on , are transformed into statistical data and interpreted within a scientific framework to which we have no access unless we 've been trained in the technical language of psychology . |
| 22 | An adjustable control system allows you to pass in a different direction to which you 're running , enabling lots of teamwork between your players , including clever one-twos . |
| 23 | What we are as individuals is decided by the particular society in which we live , and by the particular social groups to which we belong . |
| 24 | as far as I can make out it 's a different Roger to what she knows . |
| 25 | This is in direct contrast to what we might expect to follow according to the inductivist view , namely , that in order to establish the truth of some problematic observation statement we appeal to more secure observation statements , and perhaps laws derived inductively from them , but not to theory . |
| 26 | The Divisional Court and the Court of Appeal [ 1991 ] 1 W.L.R. 1277 did not consider in any detail the old authorities to which I have referred . |
| 27 | My , next day I come in and say oh I 'm going to add some money to what you 've got , and you think oh that 's good . |
| 28 | When Gyggle first explained this experiment to me I almost laughed at how facile it was . |
| 29 | I append the headings of a few subjects to which I have given some attention , and which I could write a readable article upon . |
| 30 | Is there no gentleman or lady of virtue in this neighbourhood to whom I may fly only till I can find a way to get to my poor father and mother ? |