Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] from which [pers pn] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | In short , capitalist states were becoming thoroughly entangled in a set of conflicts from which they could not easily extricate themselves . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Most finds that were simply lost ( small and easily mislaid , such as coins and brooches ) or objects that fell into places from which they could not be retrieved , such as wells , are often complete and may be in very good condition , depending on the materials from which they are made and the conditions in which they have been buried . |
| 4 | Most of the information available from institutions from which we could sample concerned adult applicants rather than adult enquirers . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I have never read of any firm in Britain from which I could purchase a light box . |
| 7 | I have never read of any firm in Britain from which I could purchase a light box . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Stalinism posed a crisis for Marxism from which it could , in a sense , be said never to have recovered , the conundrum being that if Marxism is true , as it claims that it is , how did the first Marxist state end up as Stalinist ? |