Example sentences of "[noun] from which [pers pn] [vb mod] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , unlike definitions , there is no convenient repository from which they can be instantly extracted . |
| 2 | The only words from which it can be contended that it is to be implied are the words , ‘ I am glad to hear of your intended marriage with Ellen Nicholl . |
| 3 | The fears are now that the outgoing government of the Christian Democrats , Socialists , Liberals and Social Democrats will no longer be able to command a majority , leaving a plethora of parties from which it will be impossible to form a working coalition . |
| 4 | A more important reason not to experiment is to avoid the possibility of getting the glider into an untested mode of spin from which it might be difficult or impossible to recover . |
| 5 | The structure of dialogue , moreover , disallows the taking up of any position beyond the interlocutors from which they can be integrated into a larger totality . |
| 6 | We may define ‘ egoism ’ as the principle of acting only for the goals to which one inclines from one 's own viewpoint , and suggest two directions from which it might be approached . |
| 7 | Prudent homeowners build their houses on continuous foundations rather than rest them on pier blocks from which they can be bucked when the big shake comes . |
| 8 | At home in London she rarely bothered with such irrelevances ; here she knew it was expected of her and accordingly she had showered , dumped her travel-weary jeans into the laundry basket from which they would be rescued by a maid , washed , ironed and returned to her next day , and dressed herself in a loose silk jersey jacket and pants suit , simple and easy enough to please her yet enough of a transformation to satisfy her father and Sally . |
| 9 | On the other hand , the mere fact that money is paid under protest will not give rise of itself to the inference of such an agreement ; though it may form part of the evidence from which it may be inferred that the payee did not intend to close the transaction : see Maskell v. Horner [ 1915 ] 3 K.B . |
| 10 | The results ( e.g. Figure 3.9 ) can be plotted in a graph of the rate of correct choices against the number of times the rat has been made to run through the maze ( where a ‘ correct ’ choice is one in the direction in which it will be rewarded , or in the opposite direction from which it will be shocked ) . |
| 11 | The system of credited contributions covers the situation where individuals are precluded through no fault of their own from making payments , because there is no income from which they can be paid . |
| 12 | On steep snow the leader should always plant the axe in a manner from which it would be easy to hold a sudden load . |
| 13 | Well I mean you ca n't have rules without a police force , can you , and since there 's no poets ' union from which you could be expelled , clearly whether there are any rules depends entirely on the poets themselves and their readers , and everybody knows that until about the end of the nineteenth century almost all poetry was written in regular metre and regular patterns and , except for blank verse , in regular rhyme , and that this is no longer so and now you would either be deliberately old fashioned or you would have some special purpose , I think , if you wrote your poems in traditional rhyming schemes . |
| 14 | The first occurs at the transition from the institution to independence , when the girls were often in need of help and about to launch themselves on a course in life from which it might be hard to turn back . |
| 15 | It is not far away ; an hour 's journey through the Forest would bring us to the shore from which it can be seen . |
| 16 | In these the water flow is from end to end or from middle to side , respectively , the clear water leaving by weirs or troughs , and the sludge on the bottom being removed by mechanical scraping gear that carries it to a sump from which it can be pumped away . |
| 17 | It is both " in itself " and is " conceived through itself " — i.e. it is that " the conception of which does not need the conception of another thing from which it must be formed " . |
| 18 | These were allayed by sending a formal letter to all teachers in the sample stating categorically that no information from which it would be possible to identify individuals would be published . |
| 19 | B : [ pragmatically interpreted particle ] the milkman came at some time prior to the time of speaking Yet it is clear to native speakers that what would ordinarily be communicated by such an exchange involves considerably more , along the lines of the italicized material in ( 3 ) : ( 3 ) A : Do you have the ability to tell me the time of the present moment , as standardly indicated on a watch , and if so please do so tell me B : No I do n't know the exact time of the present moment , but I can provide some information from which you may be able to deduce the approximate time , namely the milkman has come ( see R. Lakoff , 1973a ; Smith & Wilson , 1979 : 172ff for a discussion of such examples ) . |
| 20 | In the reference section on pages 264–5 is a list from which you may be able to find one or more near you . |
| 21 | The other lanes show the time course of the dissociation from which it can be seen that there are time dependent changes in the footprinting pattern which eventually becomes like that of the control . |
| 22 | And you were away , along the same road , the road to the ferry , to Preston from which he would be coming , to Longner , where you were bound , when he died . ’ |
| 23 | In Gaddis Smith 's account this is something which happened in 1950 and there was , as will be seen , a cluster of commitments round about April and May of that year from which it would be difficult to turn back ; although another of Acheson 's biographers has argued that , contrary to what revisionist historians say , Acheson 's Indo-China policy did not make future American military involvement inevitable . |
| 24 | The conduct of the defenders and the effect of such conduct on the minds of the pursuers are significant factors from which it may be inferred that the defenders intended to repudiate the contract . |
| 25 | This helps to break down the pockets of cellulite , thus releasing the toxins into the circulatory systems from which they can be eliminated . |
| 26 | That is the position from which he should be negotiating , but he has not started to do so yet . |
| 27 | According to the theory of relativity , nothing can travel faster than the speed of light , so there would be a region from which it would be impossible for anything to escape . |