Example sentences of "to which [pron] have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His voice rang hollowly in the confines of the tunnel to which they had descended . |
| 2 | The National Audit Office Report on the FMI ( 1986 ) found , in practice , that departments differed in the extent to which they had adopted the FMI . |
| 3 | He had seen the writing on the wall : after the oil crisis of 1973 there was n't going to be enough money to keep all the universities enthusiastically created or expanded in the booming sixties in the style to which they had become accustomed . |
| 4 | It was their duty to permit themselves a swift handshake and a kindly word to those , less august than themselves , whose long evenings on the ‘ knocker ’ , canvassing for the party , sustained them in the political positions to which they had become all too easily accustomed . |
| 5 | Stephen had gone out first , scrambling up the shaft , putting all his weight this time on the rope and wondering what would happen , whether they would ever be found alive , if the rope came unfastened from the spur of rock to which they had tied it . |
| 6 | The policy of withholding funds for investment in the reconstruction of the Basque Country , Catalonia and Asturias was a deliberate , punitive gesture , as well as a precautionary measure , lest too rapid or too successful economic recovery should lead to agitation for the political autonomy to which they had aspired — and , in the case of the Basque Country and Catalonia , enjoyed — under the Republic . |
| 7 | Nevertheless mortality had begun to fall in most Western countries only slightly later than in Britain , almost irrespective of the degree to which they had industrialized their economies , and with a similar diminution of particular causes of death ( Preston 1975 , 1976 ) . |
| 8 | In Northern Nigeria , he succeeded in detaching the judicial system and the technical departments from the grip of the administrative service , whose claims to omnipotence and omnicompetence were thereby permanently reduced from the heights to which they had risen a decade before . |
| 9 | The other European countries acted much more like the Romans : they had conquered large existing populations in the territories to which they had gone , and had established substantial colonies that were ruled by the sovereign power at home much more directly than was the case in the English colonies . |
| 10 | Annoyed at the fellow leaping up and down like a jack-in-the-box , wishing that he could escape as easily , and regretful that he had not demanded his urgent message for somewhat earlier , the Prince of Wales shifted uneasily in his plush upright seat in the ballroom to which they had adjourned . |
| 11 | With the failure of these discussions on economic union the Nordic states were left with the limited form of cooperation to which they had agreed in 1946 , and also with Uniscan , a loose , consultative structure they had entered into , albeit reluctantly , with Britain under the latter 's urging , but one which would involve little more than a multilateral attempt at coordinating economic policies . |
| 12 | The rest of this section describes in detail how this is all achieved , since there are some problems which can affect your users by allowing them to access more than one LIFESPAN Process , and by your stopping of the LIFESPAN Process to which they had attached on login . |
| 13 | Central banks agreed to buy or sell unlimited amounts of currency at points 1 per cent either side of their established par values , although the mere fact that they were prepared and willing to do this was often sufficient to limit the extent to which they had to intervene in practice . |
| 14 | Women were also handicapped by the constant cycle of pregnancy and childbirth to which they had to resign themselves . |
| 15 | The first that Winchester knew of the decision in regard to which they had had no opportunity to make any prior representations , was when the copy announced itself upon their fax machine on 31 October . |
| 16 | This government is actually cutting back on everything here just so that the French farmers and the mafia can live in the manner to which they 've become accustomed , Douglas . |
| 17 | If we 've got to close homes , let's close them but make sure the homes that 's left are warm welcoming and give these people the dignity and the independence to which they are entitled to which they 've earned and which they thoroughly deserve . |
| 18 | The two companies claim the agreement will mean that customers switching from leased line services to local network interconnect systems will be able to maintain the level of control over their internetworks to which they have become accustomed . |
| 19 | The two companies claim the agreement will mean that customers switching from leased line services to local network interconnect systems will be able to maintain the level of control over their internetworks to which they have become accustomed . |
| 20 | Will Ministers be prepared to surrender the close degree of control over the Prison Service to which they have grown accustomed , and to the extent necessary to allow a Chief Executive the freedom required for true agency status ? |
| 21 | The normal tendency of such a ‘ preparation ’ ( biologists ' speak for an animal to which they have done something nasty , akin to the use of the term ‘ sacrifice , that I commented on earlier ) is to extend its legs into the liquid bath . |
| 22 | The main difference between the design of Labov 's neighbourhood studies and the Belfast community studies is probably the extent to which they have endeavoured to adopt the major principle of this method — that the observer should be part of the setting being studied . |
| 23 | Art schools have been closed down and those that survive are permitted only to the extent to which they have converted to a market economy . |
| 24 | In the maritime Antarctic they form short mats or cushions up to 25 cm across and 5–1Ocm deep , typically on warm north — or west-facing slopes close to sea level , in association with each other and with mosses ; they are usually underlain with brown soils to which they have contributed roots and other organic material ( Longton , 1985 ) . |
| 25 | Is not it unacceptable that pensioners should be defrauded of pensions to which they have contributed throughout their entire working lives , as is the case with the Mirror Group Newspapers pensioners ? |
| 26 | Recruits will normally have an informal interview with the manager and perhaps a senior worker in the bureau to which they have applied . |
| 27 | In fact , most people publish in the hope that their findings will continue to be relevant long after the particular theory to which they have attached them has been finally laid to rest . |
| 28 | Asset specificity has implications for organization because of the reluctance of parties to terminate transactions to which they have committed specific assets . |
| 29 | It is perfectly clear that , while the defence of this country is the first priority of the present Government , it might not be the first priority of the Opposition if they were to make the defence cuts to which they have committed themselves . |
| 30 | ( d ) Restraint covenants Whenever it is intended to open up a new office the partners must as a matter of urgency consider the adequacy of the restraint covenants to which they have agreed to submit themselves and which they have imposed on their key employees . |