Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [vb -s] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is presumably that time which is relevant to the comment which I have n't the heart to repeat here where I refers to the current narrator . |
| 2 | He believes ‘ That all individuals should be considered to be good , worthwhile and honest until he or she proves to the contrary ’ , It is a sentiment that still today remains his guiding light , and he would add that ‘ All things are possible through God ’ . |
| 3 | There are the actions he or she contributes to the total social process , and there are the accounts in which action is interpreted , criticized and justified . |
| 4 | Otherwise a seller 's spouse may be asked to sign the contract to demonstrate that he or she submits to the sale : the spouse will then be estopped from subsequently seeking to frustrate it . |
| 5 | The person is implicitly saying that he or she subscribes to the network of rules of the discipline in question . |
| 6 | But as there must always be some kind of observer-effect in patterns revealed in this analytic way , the position of the observer , and the preconceptions that he or she brings to the act of observing , must be accounted for at every phase of the research . |
| 7 | At first all that would come into it were moralising precepts about drink which he remembered from having to copy them as exercises when he was a student : I am told you go from street to street where everything stinks to the gods of alcohol . |
| 8 | There are also of course anaphoric usages of there ( cf. ( 40 ) above ) , and this explains why there is no necessary pragmatic anomaly in : ( 74 ) We 're there where there refers to the place we previously mentioned as our goal ( Fillmore , 1971b : 226 ) . |
| 9 | Just a brief response to a small part of Iain MacLaren 's letter , where he refers to the Royal Navy abandoning hammocks not long after the Second World War . |
| 10 | He has set up a pirate radio station in his bedroom , where he talks to the disaffected youth of his neighbourhood under the guise of Happy Harry Hard-On . |
| 11 | Sherlock Holmes leaves England for New York City where he comes to the aid of his long-time love , the famous stage actress Irene Adler . |
| 12 | Such an Order may be used where it appears to the authority to be expedient in the interests of proper planning of their area , including the interests of amenity , regard being had to the development plan and to any other material considerations . |
| 13 | Under Section 36 of the Criminal Justice Act 1988 , where it appears to the Attorney General that the sentencing of a person in the Crown Court has been unduly lenient he may refer the case to the Court of Appeal , with leave , for the sentence to be reviewed . |
| 14 | Under s37 a local authority may be directed to investigate a child 's circumstances in any family proceedings where it appears to the court that a care or supervision order may be appropriate . |
| 15 | Why should the assumption of a perfect detachment be retained in ethics , where it amounts to the transparent fiction that I can , so to speak , stand outside myself , withdraw to a point of observing Ego witnessing unmoved even my own emotions ? |
| 16 | ‘ The right to recovery after a demand colore officii rests upon the assumption that the position occupied by the defendant creates virtual compulsion , where it conveys to the person paying , the knowledge or belief that he has no means of escape from payment strictly so called if he wishes to avert injury to or deprivation of some right to which he is entitled without such payment . |
| 17 | I doubt very much whether they 'll be given any opportunity to voice what happens to them when they 're transferred or what happens to the fund . |
| 18 | It starts by proclaiming that God is dead or what comes to the same thing , that if he exists he is irrelevant . |
| 19 | Or what comes to the same thing judges changed their minds about what aspects or features of past decisions they were required to follow . |
| 20 | In order to ensure that everyone keeps to the laws there are specific penalties , such as fines or imprisonment , for those found guilty of breaking the law . |
| 21 | This introduces a factor 2 – so that which reduces to the previous result for the random array . |
| 22 | The actual administration of services authorized by Acts is a process that itself contributes to the making of social policy . |
| 23 | The prosody of Dame Sirith may be unobtrusive , but as such it represents a smooth and polished performance that itself contributes to the tone of the work . |
| 24 | On her way home she remembers that she forgot to buy any pet food so she returns to the shop to buy some . |
| 25 | so that one goes to the right and this one goes to the left |
| 26 | It is a group based on matrilineal descent , which means that one belongs to the group because one 's mother belonged to it and not because of the identity of the father , since this can not be known . |
| 27 | What one hopes , of course , is to find that one comes to the same conclusions from using the neuropsychological method as from using psychological methods of investigation : and , as we will show in Chapter 9 , such agreements between conclusions do actually occur . |
| 28 | In the case of words which combine a fairly definite descriptive meaning with a valuational meaning it is rather a puzzle to say what correct linguistic usage bids one do , if one recognizes that something answers to the descriptive meaning , but does not have the attitude towards it which the word expresses in virtue of its ‘ value charge ’ , as one might put it . |
| 29 | It is , however , an unusual building in that , although it conforms to the Vladimir plan and Byzantine pattern , the architect introduced Italian fifteenth century building methods , using light bricks and tie rods in the arches and vaults . |
| 30 | Timothy O'Riordan , of the University of East Anglia , thinks sustainability might be accepted as the ‘ mediating term ’ between developers and environmentalists , although he leans to the view that it will eventually languish as a ‘ good idea ’ which can not sensibly be put into practice . |