Example sentences of "of [noun] from which [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the very book of Malachi from which he derived the understanding of his own mission to prepare the way of the Lord , he would have read of fire both burning up evil-doers and also refining and purifying the faithful like a refiner 's fire ( Mal. 4 : If , 3:1–4 ) . |
| 2 | Social phenomena have a disconcerting habit of climbing up to positions of eminence from which they conveniently repudiate their humble origins ; we must not be misled by this . |
| 3 | In short , capitalist states were becoming thoroughly entangled in a set of conflicts from which they could not easily extricate themselves . |
| 4 | I had made a start in Burmese at the School of Oriental Languages in London , going up from Stepney for a weekly lesson , so I could read haltingly and use a score or more greetings and questions , which deceived the kindly village people into thinking that I knew more than I did , with the result that an opening sentence of mine would elicit a whole string of Burmese from which I would only pick up a word or two . |
| 5 | A few of the ulema , highly placed in the government , encouraged him in his attacks on the gazi emirates , ulema " whose ideas and sentiments had remained attached to the ancient centres of Islam from which they had come as poor adventurers and to which they intended to return as wealthy ministers of the new master " . |
| 6 | The whole thing hidden beneath layers of ice and rock , untraceable from the air : a flexible and formidable system of defences from which they would launch their attack on the Seven . |
| 7 | A more important reason not to experiment is to avoid the possibility of getting the glider into an untested mode of spin from which it might be difficult or impossible to recover . |
| 8 | For one way of denying someone the respect to which he is entitled is by failing to treat him as an autonomous agent , for example , by unreasonably restricting the range of alternative courses of action from which he can choose . |
| 9 | They were thus driving the wedge further and further into a division of labour from which they were the first to suffer . |
| 10 | The fears are now that the outgoing government of the Christian Democrats , Socialists , Liberals and Social Democrats will no longer be able to command a majority , leaving a plethora of parties from which it will be impossible to form a working coalition . |
| 11 | The editor concentrates on a small number of books from which he quotes extensively . |
| 12 | At the same time , it has permitted the formation of a more precise theory of relationships from which we may deduce evolutionary pathways . |
| 13 | Identified and sorted into groups representing the types and parts of animals from which they come , a catalogue of the bones is compiled including bone measurement which indicates the size of the animals and even their age at death . |
| 14 | The meanings of certain types of phrases have come to mean more than simply the combination of words from which they are composed ( sometimes they bear no relation to their constituents ) . |
| 15 | Romantic he certainly was , but I feel there was a deeper layer of consciousness from which he had decided to take a calculated risk , fully believing he would survive . |
| 16 | And then I came to a promontory of rock from which I had a view of Geneva , and was shaken . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | One of the reasons for writing so much about growing your own plants is that not all flowers and foliage suitable for pressing are available from florists , which can considerably limit the palette of colours from which you will work . |
| 19 | The anthropological elements in the final poem are also present in the collection of manuscripts from which it emerged . |
| 20 | At Abernethy , when she had teased Bishop Malduin over his squirrel , the confusion of allegiance from which he was suffering had been very plain . |
| 21 | There is an unlimited number of ideas from which you can choose to back your picture , using any fabric from a dainty piece of real silk through tweeds , rough and raw silks and linens , to hessians , velvets , cottons and even several layers or pieces of different materials . |
| 22 | 2.47 Lord Pearson would have awarded a multiplicand of £4,000 from which he would have deducted £250 for the accelerated receipt of the £10,000 . |
| 23 | Merit is defined by the hierarchy of metals from which they are struck : gold for the winner , silver for the second best and bronze for the third ( fig. 43 ) . |
| 24 | No one , apart from the Palestinians , seriously thought of a return to the ( Israeli ) part of Palestine from which they came . |
| 25 | Therefore , the condition for that balance of restraint from which we started out is that W < D , that is the value of winning the resource must be less than the cost of injury . |
| 26 | The experience of tragic art confirms that the relation of pleasure and awareness is two-way ; if a welcoming of the sharpest awareness of things from which we most deeply recoil , without any reservations of the sort of ‘ This hurts but it is good for me ’ , can make even the fate of Lear or Oedipus enjoyable , it would seem that there can be no involuntary quickening of awareness without joy . |
| 27 | At the same time , in contrast to earlier eras , the housework is more likely to be carried out in isolation , without reference to others or without any external standard of comparison from which she might derive status or recognition for her particular skills as a cook or a housewife . |
| 28 | The various types of igneous rock associated with different forms of extrusive and intrusive activity , and the different types of magma from which they originate , play an important role in influencing the ultimate landforms created . |
| 29 | Royal College records show that the only disorder in his health noted in 1953 was an attack of VD from which he quickly recovered . |
| 30 | If objectives from the higher categories of Bloom 's taxonomy are included , where students are asked to make judgements , to criticise and evaluate ; and if students are given a range of objectives from which they may make their own choices and even , at the later stages of training , are encouraged to write their own , then this will go a long way to meeting this criticism . |