Example sentences of "from [Wh det] he [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He may suffer a severe personality change from which he might not recover . |
| 2 | Yet he had never been assigned any lands from which he might maintain himself and his Queen in their proper estate . |
| 3 | First , we may think of the traditional or even oldfashioned type of man with tangible material things which belong to him — land and houses , horses and cattle , furniture and jewellery and pictures — things which he may use or destroy ( so far as that is physically possible ) ; from which he may exclude others ; which he may sell or give away or bequeath ; which , if he has made no disposition of them , will pass on his death to persons related to him . |
| 4 | They wished their uncle would come and they could vanish into the huge car but no motor could be heard in the direction from which he would come . |
| 5 | Even their kisses might give him a disease from which he would die or become horribly spotty . |
| 6 | It was a nightmare from which he would awaken at any moment . |
| 7 | He could not seem to sleep or rest for fear that some danger would come from which he would have to flee . |
| 8 | He would , I said , do himself an immense disservice which he would indeed regret and from which he would never recover . |
| 9 | And you were away , along the same road , the road to the ferry , to Preston from which he would be coming , to Longner , where you were bound , when he died . ’ |
| 10 | Leaning back in his chair John-William was unaware of the sleep which abruptly overcame him , an old man 's sleep from which he would wake presently with a start and in great confusion . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Beside him on the counter were large dirty bottles of gilt glass from which he would take out the stoppers and daub them on the sleeves of passers-by . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | In the arts it has become over the last century not the exception but almost the rule for the innovator at the crucial time of forming his style to find something in another culture from which he can learn , an influence not superficial , as in eighteenth century chinoiserie , but radical ( the Impressionists and the Japanese woodcut , Debussy and the Javanese gamelan , Frank Lloyd Wright and Japanese architecture , the Imagists and Japanese and Chinese poetry , the Cubists and African sculpture , Henry Moore and the Mexican Chac Mool , Brecht and Chinese theatre , Artaud and Balinese dance ) . |
| 15 | For Kirton , the assistant-coach position may fall slightly below his highest expectations , but will be a satisfactory position from which he can expand , if not introduce , his sometimes exotic ideas about back play . |
| 16 | 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 . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Rather he is informed about the situation and the purpose of informing him is to provide a knowledge base from which he can work out his own actions . |
| 19 | His ‘ robust realism ’ results from the fact that he can not attain the standpoint of transcendental reflection from which he can notice what we take to be idealist tendencies in his work . |
| 20 | Montano reacts to this inversion of the truth with the correct response ( assuming it to be true ) which Iago has elicited from him , namely that Othello ought to be told ; at which point Iago demurs , with the pretence of friendship : From that declaration , after the ensuing brawl , Iago has built himself a platform from which he can now act the perfect friend : As we alone know , to get the truth from what Iago says about Cassio one must simply invert everything he says . |
| 21 | It 's up to you to give him the visual reference material from which he can start planning his camera angles , his cast positionings , etc . ’ |
| 22 | The genius of the football supporter is that he has managed to convert something as unappetizing and unpromising as an English football season into something from which he can take pleasure . |
| 23 | If there is a vacuum of this kind , far from the field being clear for political decision-taking ( as Ramsay Muir suggests ) , the minister is lost because there are no properly prepared and documented alternatives from which he can choose . |
| 24 | The subjunctive in French allows the speaker to adopt this purely imaginary position from which he can give a verdict on whether a happening should have occurred or not . |
| 25 | What was the error from which he could only be saved by the apocalyptic vision of the future world itself ? |
| 26 | Cocooned in the nylon sack , from which he could escape only with difficulty , he is suddenly on his side heading downhill at speed . |
| 27 | It was a trap from which he could never escape . |
| 28 | It became more of a defensive round , seldom in positions from which he could attack the hole and three-putting both the 11th and 15th . |
| 29 | It had become quite acceptable for such a man , in his early sixties , to shift his money to safer investments , hand over the family home next to the workplace to his son , and move into a house in the suburbs from which he could maintain a benevolent but less taxing interest in family concerns . |
| 30 | It was fairly large , with a stove — even a small balcony , from which he could see the heath , huts , and in the distance one of the lifting bridges typical of the region . |