Example sentences of "to which [pron] [adv] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Soviet , Italian and German governments naturally justified their own infringement of non-intervention , to which they officially subscribed , by reference to the conduct of the other side . |
| 2 | Slightly embarrassed by the formality of these surroundings , they would relax in the pub , to which they always retired when the official business had been completed . |
| 3 | The government officials recognized the system since most bureaucrats owed their own position to nepotism and patronage , perpetuating ‘ a procedure to which they originally resorted and to which they are committed and indebted ’ . |
| 4 | It seems rare , however , for muscles to transgress the limits of the segments to which they originally belonged . |
| 5 | First , like Dearlove , it still seems to exaggerate the localness of local politics and the extent to which they ever presented a substantial obstacle to the programmes of the centre . |
| 6 | Both have also documented a high level of family discord in the homes these girls left and to which they sometimes returned . |
| 7 | Most Boards were , however , able to reach agreement with local contractors on acceptable principles of fair competition , to which they formally agreed to adhere . |
| 8 | It has opened up a market to Apple , to which it previously had no direct access . |
| 9 | By this he means that the principle he had known as dominant in his life was the principle of sin and the death to which it inevitably led . |
| 10 | Safer to close his eyes and his mind to her and give his entire concentration to the matter in hand ; a resolution to which he firmly held , even when , after a tumultuous welcome at Brighouse — the nearest railway station to Frizingley — he was escorted , with an appropriate accompaniment of banners and Chartist hymns , to a lodging-house at the top of St Jude 's street where the landlady , Mrs Sairellen Thackray , had offered to accommodate him free of charge . |
| 11 | He deserves most of the credit for the Welsh Intermediate Education Act of 1889 ; and from 1895 to the end of his life he was president of the University College at Aberystwyth , to which he regularly contributed £1,000 a year . |
| 12 | To which he allegedly received the reply , ‘ Kangaroo ’ — ; native tongue for ‘ I do n't understand what you are saying . ’ |
| 13 | Albert as chairman asked me a number of questions to which he already knew the answers for the good reason that we had already gone over them in Fulham . |
| 14 | But there was another version of the Lambeth story told within the British Union of Fascists , to which he later belonged . |
| 15 | He was wearing a coat and a thick woollen scarf , to which he later claimed he owed his life . |
| 16 | He retained an affection for Paris and a gratitude for the intellectual advantages that it had given him to which he later referred as pope . |
| 17 | It may have been during this period that he was supported by a canonry in St Peter 's , to which he later referred as pope . |
| 18 | Such continuity was valuable to Gloucester , but it is important not to exaggerate the extent to which he simply took over a ready-made connection . |
| 19 | Such continuity was valuable to Gloucester , but it is important not to exaggerate the extent to which he simply took over a ready-made connection . |
| 20 | However , after attention lapses he can retain his insights into another person , and use them in choices of means , without abandoning his long-term egoistic ends for the altruistic goals to which he briefly felt himself drawn ; he can therefore claim to have obeyed ‘ Be aware ’ without ceasing to be an egoist . |
| 21 | It is owing to that dynamic force , and that remarkable personality , that the Liberal Party , to which he formerly belonged , has been smashed to pieces ; and it is my firm conviction that , in time , the same thing will happen to our party . |
| 22 | The last time I spoke to him , over tea , Pyke discussed the best techniques for committing suicide — to which he eventually resorted . |
| 23 | Prince Adam promptly donated the entire museum to a foundation which he set up for the purpose , to which he also ceded all his rights to his pre-war estates and property . |
| 24 | Does my right hon. Friend accept that the sort of project to which he just referred is another example of where a national lottery could be of great assistance ? |
| 25 | His unsuccessful second marriage , to which he never referred , was to Audrey Morten Chester Hutchinson . |
| 26 | It was always farming circulars for her father , copies of the newspaper to which he occasionally contributed articles on sheep , seldom anything for her mother beyond invitations the senders knew they were safe from her accepting , or appeals for money from charities , the Scottish Women 's Institute , funds to save a painting for the Glasgow Art Gallery . |
| 27 | The government did offer a reward of £30,000 for the Pretender 's capture , to which he cheekily replied with an offer of the same sum for ‘ The Elector of Hanover ’ , but the authorities in Scotland reacted feebly and reluctantly to the news . |
| 28 | Here Heisenberg refers to a notion to which he often had recourse , that quantum mechanics had revived Aristotle 's old idea of potentia . |
| 29 | This was an act of sheer bravado , to which he merely smiled politely and pointed at my stomach : |
| 30 | It was the site of a counter-culture , an alternative society to which he fully subscribed . |