Example sentences of "from [Wh det] [pers pn] [modal v] not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I must , therefore , introduce some rather harsh facts of life which we may choose to ignore but from which we can not escape . |
| 2 | The argument for feminist education , free from male control , is not as a remedial exercise , it is because we have important work to do together , from which we can not afford to be distracted by the interference and destruction we know happens when men remain in control . |
| 3 | They held a series of seminars and workshops to indoctrinate their members in the newly defined ways of fair trading from which they should not stray . |
| 4 | If only there were some way in which she could let him know that his feelings for her were not something for which he needed to apologise without landing them both in a situation from which they could not retreat . |
| 5 | The parties to a conflict remain , moreover , parts of a single society by virtue of their acknowledgement of a common name , by their participation in certain common divisions of labour and allocation from which they can not extricate themselves except by secession , emigration or anchoritic or cenobitic withdrawal . |
| 6 | Working people are reduced to a relationship of immediacy from which they can not escape . |
| 7 | It is partly because they are desperate to divert attention from the recession — which they created , from which they can not escape and which will lose them the election — and partly because they are desperate to conceal the enormity of what they have done in wilfully impoverishing the poorer half of the nation . |
| 8 | I packed my things , and as I was manoeuvring the car I reversed it into a ditch from which it would not shift . |
| 9 | If the weaker goat gets itself into a position from which it can not escape , it may be gored , and indeed may be killed . |
| 10 | The Labour party is utterly impaled on the horns of a dilemma from which it can not escape . |
| 11 | From which you should not conclude that he favoured tyranny , or absolute monarchy , or bourgeois monarchy , or bureaucratised totalitarianism , or anarchy , or whatever . |
| 12 | High ladders from which she must not look down ? |
| 13 | He may suffer a severe personality change from which he might not recover . |
| 14 | A specific combination of sounds was ‘ sacred to a certain demon , for whom it has an unaccountable , mysterious , and irresistible fascination , from which he can not free himself . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He had found nothing more , except that on the beaten earth of the floor there had been a single dark stain , from what he could not tell . |