Example sentences of "a [noun] from which [pers pn] " 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 | Others found their way into the western reaches of Argyll , also using shore caves as a base from which they went out seasonally fishing , hunting and gathering fruit , nuts and birds ' eggs . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | This special report provides a base from which we can develop our health , safety and environmental service into the next century . |
| 5 | Leeds had given up by then but it is not hard to present a case from which they , rather than City , might have ended up celebrating . |
| 6 | It it 's , it 's er a , a level from which you y you er you progress and it 's the same with I S O Nine Thousand or five seven five O. |
| 7 | Though I was only sixteen , it was a decision from which I never wavered . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | At the time , as I recall , it was generally thought that Leavis had had the better of things , partly because he made his a personal attack , and dealt Snow 's reputation as a novelist , which was then high , a blow from which it has never really recovered . |
| 10 | Nicholas 's suppression of the Polish rebellion outraged public opinion in western Europe and dealt his reputation a blow from which it never recovered . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Mr Kanemaru 's reputation took a dive from which it has not recovered . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | One CR 42 overshot their aircraft and Taylour managed to score hits on it , forcing it into a spin from which he considered it would not be able to recover . |
| 15 | The shame of having her ‘ dirty linen ’ ritually washed in public in this way by representatives of the community is too great for the woman and she suffers a stroke from which she dies shortly afterwards . |
| 16 | The Labour party is utterly impaled on the horns of a dilemma from which it can not escape . |
| 17 | This now returned and it seemed that her meeting with Tom and Peter had been like a dream from which she was waking up to reality . |
| 18 | She had the sense she was inhabiting a dream from which she had no desire to wake . |
| 19 | His interest in tidal rivers began with work on the River Boyne and culminated in 1839 with re-employment in his native country as engineer to the Clyde River Trust , a post from which he was dismissed six years later after criticizing the trustees in a Glasgow newspaper . |
| 20 | Chevènement had resigned as a deputy in 1988 on becoming Defence Minister , a post from which he resigned in January 1991 [ see p. 37941 ] . |
| 21 | Alijon Selekhbayev was reinstated as Chair of the Committee for National Security , a post from which he had been removed by Nabiyev on Aug. 4 . |
| 22 | Bernard Tapie was reappointed on Dec. 24 as Minister for Towns , a post from which he was dismissed in May 1992 after being charged with misappropriation of funds and false accounting [ see p. 38928 ] . |
| 23 | It was a trap from which he could never escape . |
| 24 | Five days before his death , he took to his bed and soon sank into a coma from which he never recovered and died on 1st August 1837 at the age of 41 . |
| 25 | Mark fell onto the road with such force that he went into a coma from which he never recovered . |
| 26 | 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 . ’ |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | for proceeding from the premises of a manufacturer or repairer of or dealer in mechanically propelled vehicles to a place from which it is to be transported by train , ship or aircraft or for proceeding to the premises of such a manufacturer , repairer or dealer from a place to which it has been so transported ; |
| 30 | An individual is a member of a community from which he obtains considerable benefits , in return he develops special skills which he applies for the benefit of the community . |