Example sentences of "from an [noun] [prep] which [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Given that the majority was aligned on grounds which had nothing to do with policy , it was difficult for strangers to vote so publicly and at the same time to hold aloof from an alignment in which they had no personal interest , and which might even have damaged their commercial interests . |
| 2 | Rockne , waking from an operation in which he has lost his legs , asks ‘ Where 's the rest of me ? ’ |
| 3 | He was at this time already suffering from an ailment from which he and his friends would suffer until the end of his life — piles . |
| 4 | Does he control presentation , identify the item , sequence properly ? 10 If a certain item is dealt with , how far removed is it from an item with which it could easily be confused ? 11 Are the contexts situational , natural and not contrived ? 12 Compare dialogue and prose texts : how many new words are introduced , and in what proportion to running words ( words already used ) ? |
| 5 | After retirement he became a respected commentator , chairman of selectors and eventually president of Yorkshire ( 1981-4 ) until , saddened by the internal strife , he resigned from an office in which he took great pride . |
| 6 | Our respective manners proved so widely different , that it would have been quite presumptuous in me to do anything but separate from an undertaking upon which I could only have been a clog . ’ |
| 7 | It was an uneasy night , pondering the risks of leaving illegally , with a barely seaworthy vessel , from an island of which we had read so fondly in Wallace and had come so far to see . |