Example sentences of "[noun] from which [pron] could [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was almost on top of the river before she realised that this was where the path was leading , and here she found another seat from which she could see a boat or two plaiting lazy fans of rippling wake through the smooth water . |
| 2 | The two were now inside the grille together and Mena Iskander had been given strict instructions to try to secure Miss Postlethwaite a seat from which she could see Zoser clearly and if possible his wife as well . |
| 3 | The 18 neighbours of an animal are the 18 different kinds of children that it can give rise to , and the 18 different kinds of parent from which it could have come , given the rules of our computer model . |
| 4 | Only a small amount of money could be taken out of the country because of post-war restrictions and , as this was a personal rather than a business trip , he was forced to prepare lectures from which he could earn income while he was away . |
| 5 | After they had been searching and moving on quietly for some time , they reached a place from which they could see that the field below them broadened out . |
| 6 | His idea was to set up a self-contained base inland from the coastal plain from which they could raid on an almost nightly basis . |
| 7 | The Model Railways and Locomotives magazine was founded by him in 1908 and became a platform from which he could share his knowledge and expertise with others . |
| 8 | I think everyone felt it was stodgy ; it was not a dynamic springboard from which we could leap into a new era of effective education . |
| 9 | The Brighton Constabulary , whose marksmen had taken up positions from which they could command the Grand Hotel , was stood down after half an hour . |
| 10 | It became more of a defensive round , seldom in positions from which he could attack the hole and three-putting both the 11th and 15th . |
| 11 | This was held to be incorrect , but irrelevant ; incorrect , because a mere sense of alarm was insufficient to give rise to a fear of a breach of the peace , and irrelevant because the justices had found ( or there was evidence from which they could have found ) that the constables reasonably believed that the defendant 's own behaviour was likely to constitute a breach of the peace . |
| 12 | This contract was , perhaps , the only evidence from which I could deduce Helmut 's hurt . |
| 13 | It had become quite acceptable for such a man , in his early sixties , to shift his money to safer investments , hand over the family home next to the workplace to his son , and move into a house in the suburbs from which he could maintain a benevolent but less taxing interest in family concerns . |
| 14 | Most of the information available from institutions from which we could sample concerned adult applicants rather than adult enquirers . |
| 15 | He promised to bring me a few notes from which I could prepare a draft but he never did . ’ |
| 16 | At one level , he finally found a spiritual home , a sanctuary from which he could vent his spleen on the oppressive bourgeois institutions which had duped him . |
| 17 | In 1686 they declared war on him in order to establish a separate company state from which they could trade . |
| 18 | I have never read of any firm in Britain from which I could purchase a light box . |
| 19 | I have never read of any firm in Britain from which I could purchase a light box . |
| 20 | Many commentators interpreted his decision to run for the council as a means of preserving his extensive political machine while also providing a platform within the city government from which he could launch a future mayoral bid . |
| 21 | It cast a shadow from which nothing could escape . |
| 22 | They were set up to provide young people with basic , well-ordered accommodation from which they could experience the countryside . |
| 23 | These were groups of people with a common bond who had joined together to make regular contributions into a pool from which they could borrow at low rates of interest . |
| 24 | This would build up a fund from which they could afford to bid for new discoveries at fair market prices . |
| 25 | This particular airfield had been chosen for the test-flight because it was surrounded by open country , and there in front of me were fields from which I could choose . |
| 26 | The vital role ( which contemporaries fully appreciated ) played by such relatively small ports as Le Crotoy , at the mouth of the river Somme , in the period 1420–50 , together with the fact that the ports of Dieppe and Harfleur were among the first places to be snatched from English control in 1435 ( leaving them with Cherbourg as the only port from which they could maintain regular links with England between 1435 and 1440 , a vital period in the military history of the occupation ) , shows how important the Burgundian connection was to both main protagonists as they struggled to acquire and maintain a measure of control over the sea . |
| 27 | At four hundred feet he had n't enough altitude from which he could recover if he went into a spin . |
| 28 | So next morning the thousand mosstroopers divided into three sections , two hundred to go with the Regent as decoys , two hundred to hide near Sunlaws ford and the remainder , six hundred , with a score or two of Heiton 's own men , to head for the Kale Water valley where Heiton would place them in position from which they could ambush the pursuit once Murray 's fleeing party was past . |
| 29 | I thus made my way as quietly as possible to a position from which I could execute such a march , and clutching my implements firmly about me , succeeded in propelling myself through the doorway and several paces down the corridor before a somewhat astonished Miss Kenton could recover her wits . |
| 30 | The Collector had gone up to join Ford on the roof because he wanted to be in a position from which he could give the order to retreat at the right moment ; in his own mind there was no doubt but that he would have to give it sooner or later . |