Example sentences of "which from the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 One is the counting of visiting as leisure which from the viewpoint of child-care it really is not .
2 Indeed the railway companies resisted the idea of workmen 's trains , for which from the middle of the nineteenth century there had been a vocal lobby .
3 There was an iron gate which looked rusted and stuck but which opened to a touch , a flight of stone steps to the water level , and then she let herself be led along a narrow shelf which from the look of it was usually under water .
4 The invaders were backed up by warships which from the mouth of the river Esk poured a crippling cannonade into the Scottish ranks .
5 The interpretation given by Mosley and Chesterton to such findings would suggest that there was already a pronounced anti-semitic influence within the BUF which from the autumn of 1934 onwards was officially condoned by the leadership .
6 Middleclass youths are often ‘ mouths ’ but rarely become gougers because the latter require an element of ‘ pure badness ’ , which from the view of the police tends to exclude the middle classes , for ‘ pure badness ’ derives from being ( or appearing to be ) educationally subnormal , coming from ‘ bad homes ’ , or having a history of crime .
7 Assignment , however , has a secondary characteristic which from the point of view of linguistic communication becomes equally important .
8 The practical result of this is that when we study the individual child we see a succession of stages of development which from the point of view of the id are just as they should be and — because the id is the oldest , most fundamental and , from the point of view of the instinctual drives which originate it , the most important agency — are just what they should be .
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