Example sentences of "out [prep] which [pron] [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 Disabled and older patients who experience difficulty when rising from a chair will like most people , have their ‘ special ’ chair at home , out of which they can rise relatively easily , and on which they may hang a walking stick to help with safe rising .
2 Single-parent women can earn relatively little money out of which they will have to pay the expenses of child-minding .
3 Expansion , give him a little straw out of which he can make the bricks , have a couple of good stories and so on .
4 Repressing it , on the other hand , would mean existing in a drab , twilight world of pretended affections out of which I could see no escape .
5 Second , the Commission was urging that the EEC , by which it meant itself , should have an independent source of revenue out of which it could finance its own activities : the EEC was still dependent upon direct contributions from national treasuries .
6 They will have suggested topics which will bind the poor as a class together ; topics which will excite them against the rich ; topics the discussion of which in the only form in which that discussion reaches the ear will be to make them think that some new law can make them comfortable … — that Government has at its disposal an inexhaustible fund out of which it can give to those who now want without also creating elsewhere other and greater wants .
7 Further , no married woman could make a will without her husband 's consent , nor ( with trifling exceptions ) make any contract , except as agent either for her husband or for some other person : it would have been absurd to let her contract when she had no free property out of which she could pay .
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