Example sentences of "from which [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It sustains the flow of rivers , from which we take water for drinking and many industrial uses . |
| 2 | There is a mistaken tendency , nourished perhaps by too partial examples , to see perception as the passive reception of evidence from an external world from which we make inferences to its causes . |
| 3 | From which we make a deduction and I 'll come back to that deduction in a moment if I may sir . |
| 4 | So we 've got iron ore obviously from which we get the iron . |
| 5 | But the enormous changes in the social life and industrial occupations of the vast majority of our people , changes begun in the sixteenth century and greatly accentuated by the so-called Industrial Revolution , have created a gulf between the world of poetry and that world of everyday life from which we receive our " habitual impressions " . |
| 6 | Since the awareness from which we recoil is constantly being forced on us by pain or misfortune , no doubt many or most people can take every opportunity they have to avoid the unpleasant without being in any danger of becoming more aware of the bright side than the dark . |
| 7 | I looked up the phone directory and , sure enough , there was a P.Lawn , ( luckily not a common name ! ) , from which we surmised , correctly , that Ken had died but Pat was still there . |
| 8 | But no , she was sure it was Queen Victoria , personally , who had spread this grey fog over Britain from which we 've never recovered . |
| 9 | Not to mention a massive oil crisis from which we 've never really recovered and … |
| 10 | It symbolizes our social experience and locates us with social groups from which we draw our identities . |
| 11 | Each offers slightly different and more appropriate benefits to the players , so that the individuals have a secure platform from which we hope they will make serious bids for international success . |
| 12 | In the same way , the collection of information from the classroom from which we hope to draw inferences about teaching material must be such that distorting factors due to the circumstances of collection do not invalidate its use . |
| 13 | One of the most exciting events towards the year end was the transfer of the Geotech site investigation team at Uphall to Environmental , giving us not only a stronger resource in geology and land assessment , but also a well established presence in Scotland from which we hope to offer all our other services in future . |
| 14 | seminar which is to be held a week on Saturday in Ipswich from which we hope will er quite a bit by a way of input to the forthcoming lorry management plan , thank you . |
| 15 | In practice , although this way of thinking was one perspective from which we looked at our material , it proved much less useful than we expected . |
| 16 | We found the brêche , from which we knew a steep couloir dropped to the Talefre Glacier , and started abseiling from such old slings and pegs as we could find on the sidewalls . |
| 17 | We pray for those who suffer as prisoners without trial ; for hostages , for deported people , for all victims of violence in this land and in the countries from which we come ; may they be comforted and delivered ; |
| 18 | We are not here simply in response to what has been described as the ’ West Lothian question ’ in deference to my hon. Friend the Member for Linlithgow ( Mr. Dalyell ) , When we arrive to take up our seats in the House of Commons , we are obviously strongly influenced by the constituency that we represent and the part of the country from which we come . |
| 19 | 4859 ) ; Bakal is another native name , attested in a late fourth-century decree of Ptolemy I from which we derive much of our knowledge about the early hellenistic city ( SEG ix.1 , line 81 ; M. Austin ( 1981 ) The Hellenistic World , no.264 for translation , but omitting the names at the end ) . |
| 20 | The curtains have been drawn aside to reveal the female subject as she speaks , writes , paints — making and doing , in the original Greek sense of poiein , from which we derive ‘ poet ’ . |
| 21 | It was a tiny place — nothing more than a shop knocked through from the street at ground level , no more than 60 feet long At one end was a small bar — from which we sold orange juices on top of the counter with the booze tucked away underneath . |
| 22 | In order to be sure that our data would be as reliable as possible a decision was made to report only on those countries from which we had received at least three questionnaires among which there was a high level of agreement . |
| 23 | I remember that we did n't have a tap in the house but used a communal tap from which we had to fill two barrels in our garden . |
| 24 | I looked over towards the Pasanggrahan Hotel , and the balcony from which we had longingly watched so many prahus which we could not sail aboard . |
| 25 | ‘ We only had a matchbox size kitchen from which we had to fees the likes of Spike Milligan , Harold Wilson and Ken Dodd . |
| 26 | And although there may be a limit after which no more can be said , we do not describe a full circle and return to the proposition from which we began . |
| 27 | The reconstruction of our control tower and the field from which we flew so many missions , is a beautiful reminder and a lasting memorial to all the men in Three- Ninetieth . |
| 28 | As Alan Oliver points out : ‘ We always have new stuff in the pipeline and odious little poet Oswald works without rest to produce a steady flow of obnoxious material from which we select anything that 's printable . ’ |
| 29 | Do we really see the movements of the dog , or , in the spirit of such theorising , should we limit our visual world to one of rapidly succeeding shapes and colours from which we hazard the inference that a leaping dog is in the vicinity ? ) |
| 30 | replied , ‘ We can not agree to single pole construction , from which we presume you mean bracket arm construction , in place of span wires . ’ |