Example sentences of "to a [noun] [Wh det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the processes of digestion is to reduce food to a substance which can be absorbed in the bloodstream as sugar . |
| 2 | All allergies are inappropriate responses by the body 's immune system to a substance which is not normally harmful . |
| 3 | Dr Roger Pertwee claims it is only a matter of time before marijuana moves from being regarded as a drug of abuse to a substance which can be used positively . |
| 4 | ‘ That one 's for going , ’ said the Headmaster pointing to a sign which read ‘ GOING ’ in large red letters . |
| 5 | This means that in the case of a community service order , the court which revokes the order must sentence the offender to a sentence which would have been available on the occasion when the community service order was made , and if it is considering whether the offender qualifies for a custodial sentence for the purposes of Criminal Justice Act 1982 , s.1(4) and 1(4A) , must consider his history and attitude on the day when the original order was made . |
| 6 | Hi ho , hi ho it 's off to win we go … despite a row in the Dexter lines when the breed award went to a cow which finished only second in its class , the diminutive breed dwarfed all other dairy classes at the East of England Show . |
| 7 | It is not a view which includes the recognition that educated , underemployed women are singularly lacking in personal autonomy , and so prone to a frustration which is not necessarily or primarily sexual . |
| 8 | Nuclei were prepared according to a procedure which gives transcriptionally active , intact nuclei ( 23 ) . |
| 9 | No manner of election can entitle him to a siege which is not vacant . |
| 10 | The working man takes naturally to a creed which aims to help the weak . |
| 11 | The pipe must not pass through the foundations and should enter the external wall of the house through a sleeve which permits movement , and then lead to a meter which controls the volume and pressure . |
| 12 | My suggestion is that the Audio Telescope output ( with two microphones ) could be coupled to a meter which would show by its maximum reading the direction of the sound . |
| 13 | Equally , Mailer 's reflections on the similarities between the condition of the writer and of the boxer ( 'There is a support system but you are alone … ‘ ) led you to a parallel which the programme tactfully left unstated . |
| 14 | A centre will not have to take on devolved responsibility at a level which it is unwilling to accept — and SCOTVEC will not offer devolved responsibility to a centre whose internal quality systems are not ready for that responsibility . |
| 15 | Because the communities are so stable in relation to a centre which is largely in their imagination , it matters little whether in fact the real centre is itself actually in turmoil . |
| 16 | Once again in this phrase reaction against the nineteenth century is bound to a standpoint which relies on anthropology . |
| 17 | In many organisations you will be put through to a secretary whose job it is to filter calls . |
| 18 | If we transfer this sail to a board which is restrained by its daggerboard from moving sideways , we can look more closely at the driving force ( Fig 18 ) . |
| 19 | We shall be considering The Prelude as a poem at the appropriate point in the Critical Survey ; for the moment I propose to refer to it simply as evidence of Wordsworth 's internal struggles and preoccupations , as if it were a diary or a letter to a friend which just happens to be in verse . |
| 20 | My village in central Vietnam is a small one , lying close to a river which winds through the rice paddies . |
| 21 | It refers not only to a present which is constantly breaking down to form reveal the fragments of the past , but a view of our surroundings which may seem whole and contiguous , but which in fact is forever splintering and reshaping itself as our minds piece together the fragments that our eyes actually perceive . |
| 22 | The sooner that idea is introduced universally , the sooner individuals will have the right to a credit which they can cash in for training and further education , and we should be talking of both — of further education colleges and training schemes . |
| 23 | He feels the nomadic lifestyle contributed to a shyness which has made it difficult for him to establish close friendships ever since . |
| 24 | Which not too surprisingly in my view led to a misunderstanding which , while ultimately regrettable , was surely purged of culpability on the part of the hapless instructor . |
| 25 | The tone of my previous paragraphs is open to a misunderstanding which I must dispel . |
| 26 | Short of switching to a leger what can I do ? |
| 27 | Stairs to the south lead up to a gallery which runs around the room above the level of the archways ( some 16 feet up ) , with a door visible on the north side . |
| 28 | Thus in painting , where patronal relations , in directly commissioned works ( the simplest example is the portrait ) , have also persisted , there are still some examples of artisanal and many post-artisanal relations , the latter still often in their first phase , where a painter 's relations to a gallery which sells his work are still commonly in the distributive phase . |
| 29 | They favoured ZOPFAN as the kind of indigenous initiative they had hoped to stimulate under the umbrella notion of collective security , but in the absence of clear agreement in ASEAN over neutralisation they were loath to become committed to a proposal which could be turned against themselves . |
| 30 | The courts should not deny themselves the light which Parliamentary materials may shed on the meaning of the words Parliament has used and thereby risk subjecting the individual to a law which Parliament never intended to enact . |