Example sentences of "from which [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its prize assets are holes in the ground , the brickfields from which London was built . |
| 2 | 15–4 The body of Malcolm MacKinnon was found near Schouler on Daill farm and it was remarkable that it had not been found sooner as it was lying in the vicinity of a well from which water was being drawn daily . |
| 3 | Small bodies can also bear volatiles in less volatile compounds , such as carbonates from which CO 2 can be obtained , and hydroxy silicates from which water can be obtained . |
| 4 | In most cases having a piped water supply means nothing more than stand-pipes set up here and there from which water has to be carried to the houses . |
| 5 | This dissolves hair by breaking the sulphur bonds of the keratin , the protein from which hair is made . |
| 6 | Under this proposal , the resulting revenue would be earmarked ( no doubt against strong Treasury opposition ) for a fund , from which capital sums could be paid to selected groups in the population . |
| 7 | Other writers have emphasized the narrow social strata from which judges are drawn and have questioned the degree to which they are able to relate to ordinary people and to stand up against the powerful and the rich . |
| 8 | The fact that English judges are recruited almost exclusively from the ranks of successful practising barristers has also had the effect of narrowing considerably the background from which judges are drawn , even in comparison with the far from represen-tative magistracy . |
| 9 | IT WAS one of those Test matches from which memories of some fine individual deeds will forever be overshadowed by some onfield behaviour which was as childish as it was explosive . |
| 10 | The world of fashion and advertising ( from which Victoria has not quite made her escape — she is like someone with one boot stuck deep in the mud , unable to move either way ) now uses places like that as themes for new looks or as inspiration for ‘ lifestyles ’ . |
| 11 | The cairn was erected in the 1870s by the local gamekeeper and named after him : it stands twelve feet high with an interior providing shelter , and occupies a vantage point from which Josse could survey the whole of his domain . |
| 12 | I thanked him , and soon we were making our way along Anani 's main street , from which lanes led to the houses in the foothills behind . |
| 13 | ( ii ) The Lancashire coal provides fuel from which gas is obtained for use in making acids. ( iii ) The port of Liverpool is used to import other raw materials for the heavy chemical industry , and recently oil , both as raw material and fuel for the petrochemical industry . |
| 14 | Pre-Reformation churches were painted in imitation of the colours of the woodland , from which gods and elementals looked out upon the worshippers . |
| 15 | The membrane stores from which calcium is released contain three major components — pumps to sequester calcium , binding proteins ( such as calsequestrin and calreticulin ) to store calcium and the specific IP 3 R or RYR channels to release calcium back into the cytosol ( Fig. 2 ) . |
| 16 | Being highly centralized , the British system has not been to have powerful centres outside London from which groups of services can be conducted for that area , but to administer each of the important functions of government from Whitehall for the whole of the country . |
| 17 | Because every teacher group which decides to discuss disruption will need to find its own starting point , its own trigger for concern or anxiety , the materials are offered , not as a prescribed course of discussion , but as a resource bank from which groups are invited to select discussion units appropriate to their needs . |
| 18 | The study of the legal process of any society can reveal much about the distribution of power in that society , for example how and by whom any Bill of Rights is interpreted and enforced , how and from which groups and classes in society judges are recruited , and how decisions are reached . |
| 19 | She sat in an envelope from which air was removed . |
| 20 | A new political convergence was occuring between East and West , from which Mrs Thatcher was excluded by her market liberalism . |
| 21 | At the same time , he said , it was clear the European Community — another institution from which Mrs Thatcher had ‘ absented ’ herself — would have to be the chief forum by which the West would help the East . |
| 22 | During 1918 they met principally at Lord Derby 's breakfasts , from which Baldwin recorded impressions and interchanges which indicate both that the Prime Minister was a near stranger to him and that he was not above a little daring toadying . |
| 23 | Aidan Chambers ( 1983 , p. 103 ) notes that ‘ Wide , voracious , indiscriminate reading is the base soil from which discrimination and taste eventually grow ’ . |
| 24 | In the second exercise , in which groups are required to come up with ideas about how to improve education , force of personality ensures that she is elected as chairman , in which capacity she proposes new local authorities to supervise the schools , ‘ from which councillors would be banned . ’ |
| 25 | The organist 's life is probably easier , however , where there is either a choir school or an arrangement with just one school from which choristers are recruited . |
| 26 | This was accepted , this was known , it was a rule from which Edouard never relented , never deviated . |
| 27 | The plasteel door of the airlock was a grim grin of great interlocking teeth , surrounded by tubular lips from which ducts ran to pressure gauges . |
| 28 | Nato is served by an integrated military command structure , from which France withdrew in 1965 as the result of General de Gaulle 's hostility to ‘ Anglo-Saxon domination ’ , although she remains a signatory to the Treaty and is bound by its terms . |
| 29 | And this half hour of sweet silence was the greatest pleasure that night , it was its crowning moment ( Boy thought , this is as good as coming together ) , the precious moment from which Boy was to go home exhausted and almost jaded with pleasure , the moment to which all the overtures of the night had led . |
| 30 | To the left was only stygian darkness , too syrupy tor me to think of penetrating , the black from which ignorance is made . |