Example sentences of "a [noun] from which [pers pn] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For it was , in truth , as if his legs followed a route from which he could not turn them back — along the sales signs in Oxford Street occupied by a bedraggled army of Christmas bargain hunters , and off that up to the grandiose frontage of the hotel . |
| 2 | So the choir has a base from which they can work and now the same hills which inspired Elgar are echoing to the sound of 28 powerful Ukranian voices . |
| 3 | This special report provides a base from which we can develop our health , safety and environmental service into the next century . |
| 4 | The gunpowder either killed the poor man or caused such grievous wounds as to send him into a swoon from which he would never recover . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The Labour party is utterly impaled on the horns of a dilemma from which it can not escape . |
| 8 | It was a trap from which he could never escape . |
| 9 | Industry will be carrying our costs and we will bring the research to a point from which they can then take it on to the market . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | For desk work the pupils should be in a place from which they can most clearly and easily see any demonstration or illustration work that is being shown . |
| 12 | The home in which we both live is a nonsense , and a nonsense from which I can see no way of ever extracting us . |
| 13 | Despite the reported remarks ‘ to scorer colleagues … it must be very difficult to give a decision so far out ’ , it is n't ; we stand at a distance from which we can see . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Montano reacts to this inversion of the truth with the correct response ( assuming it to be true ) which Iago has elicited from him , namely that Othello ought to be told ; at which point Iago demurs , with the pretence of friendship : From that declaration , after the ensuing brawl , Iago has built himself a platform from which he can now act the perfect friend : As we alone know , to get the truth from what Iago says about Cassio one must simply invert everything he says . |
| 16 | Yes , a Portakabin from which you would have to produce three cooked meals a day for roughly 2,000 people , including a turkey dinner with all the trimmings . |
| 17 | Now unemployed , she lives on thirty four pounds a week from which she must pay for all her food and living expenses including some rent . |
| 18 | On steep snow the leader should always plant the axe in a manner from which it would be easy to hold a sudden load . |
| 19 | This would build up a fund from which they could afford to bid for new discoveries at fair market prices . |
| 20 | I packed my things , and as I was manoeuvring the car I reversed it into a ditch from which it would not shift . |
| 21 | If only there were some way in which she could let him know that his feelings for her were not something for which he needed to apologise without landing them both in a situation from which they could not retreat . |
| 22 | In the reference section on pages 264–5 is a list from which you may be able to find one or more near you . |
| 23 | ‘ Contrary to what your mother may have told you , the de Rochefort family is no longer a well from which you can draw money like water . ’ |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | If the weaker goat gets itself into a position from which it can not escape , it may be gored , and indeed may be killed . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Wedged inside that drum he drowned , his little legs waggling pathetically as he gulped and squirmed and tried to get his arms into a position from which he could lever himself out . |
| 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 | Instead I have to start by describing something of the unease I feel about its use and study within the literature , and gradually move toward a position from which I can either offer a definition of labourism or construct boundaries within which it exists and operates . |