Example sentences of "from [Wh det] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the bar on which they stood had evolved from a simple counter or hatch to something approaching the form we know today : in his Encyclopaedia of Cottage , Farm and Villa Architecture of 1833 J C Loudon described the ideal bar ( the place ‘ from which all orders are issued ’ ) as being ‘ of some size ’ , with ‘ commanding views of the front entrance hall and back entrance ’ . |
| 2 | As at Buckland , all of the original divisions have been removed to make one long , characterless room , from which all trace of its former features has disappeared . |
| 3 | Having registered , he set about ordering his life as he saw it developing , by giving himself over to the muse , by associating with those whose lives found proper space for literary reflection and endeavour , by getting close to that bohemian existence which he loved and from which all modern art seemed to spring . |
| 4 | While superficially this sounds sensible enough , other countries including the UK are concerned that it will reinforce the suspicion across the Atlantic and in Asia that the EC 's main preoccupation is to build a fortress Europe from which all others are excluded . |
| 5 | figure including a space between three lines , is the real as well as nominal essence of a triangle ; it being not only the abstract idea to which the general name is annexed , but the very essentia , or being , of the thing itself , that foundation from which all its properties flow , and to which they are all inseparably annexed . |
| 6 | Their humour did not consist of mere jokes ( though they could make those too ) but in their whole attitude to life , as the violin runs through the Benedictus of the Missa Solemnis like a golden thread from which all else rises and falls ; an unforced humour which has known tragedy , and learnt to surmount it . |
| 7 | The Council 's thirteenth-century oath , ‘ You will in all things to be moved , treated and debated in Council , faithfully declare your Mind and Opinion , according to your Heart and Conscience ; and will keep secret all Matters committed and revealed unto you , ’ lies at the heart of the British culture of official secrecy , and the enigma of monarchy remains the secret from which all other secrets flow . |
| 8 | Moreover , federal states , whether they are based on Christian Democratic ‘ subsidiarity ’ theories or on Anglo-Saxon separation of power theories , have been unable to resist the tendency to centralise , from which all states suffer . |
| 9 | A gas that is present only in a trace — carbon dioxide — is , in practice , the stuff from which all flesh is made . |
| 10 | They regarded the world as being based on a single live space-filling substance from which all things developed spontaneously by the interplay of opposed processes such as separation and combination or rarefaction and condensation . |
| 11 | love from which all loves flow . |
| 12 | In that year Peyton Rous of the Rockefeller Institute in New York reported that solid tumours could be transmitted between chickens by filtered solutions from which all bacterial and animal cells had been removed . |
| 13 | She lay in a room from which all the wood had been stripped , save for the pallet beneath her . |
| 14 | The sad walls , from which all colour had faded , were covered by dark cracked mirrors and big sooty paintings which disappeared one by one when we were out , though there were no other signs of burglary . |
| 15 | We are only just realising that this is the first calling from which all else must flow . |
| 16 | Maharishi Yogi identified it as ‘ the creative field of intelligence from which all knowledge and all possibilities for physical existence is manifested . ’ |
| 17 | ( It is the zero point from which all other energies are measured . ) |
| 18 | One might surmise that this is because they represent elemental features from which all other structures are compounded and so constitute basic units of mental processing from which all learning proceeds . |
| 19 | One might surmise that this is because they represent elemental features from which all other structures are compounded and so constitute basic units of mental processing from which all learning proceeds . |
| 20 | The fact that elements could change from one into another was the startling discovery and had renewed interest in an old idea of William Prout , the nineteenth-century British chemist , that hydrogen could be the primordial substance from which all other atomic elements , including helium , were constructed . |
| 21 | For him the Bible was a precise historical narrative from which all lessons of conduct could be drawn . |
| 22 | ‘ It is thought by some , ’ said Megan , in a smooth lecturer 's voice from which all trace of her faint Welsh lilt had vanished , ‘ that the Scottish brochs may be an extension of the southern round-house culture , as exemplified in some sites of south-western England , but this seems unlikely , in view of- ’ |
| 23 | To be included are : original drawings by Galileo of sunspots ; the earliest surviving Greek manuscript of Euclid 's Elements ; the earliest illustration of a subject seen through a microscope ; a ninth-century Greek manuscript of Plautus ; the fifteenth-century Latin History of Peloponnesian War by Thucydides , from which all later editions derived , and love letters from Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn . |
| 24 | The political parties of the narrow and fragmented centre of the political spectrum , from which all governments had to be drawn , were agreed only on the fundamental issue of preserving the Fourth Republic : they had , as it were , reserved their right to disagree on everything else . |
| 25 | Corporatism is thus a non-zero-sum game from which all the parties can benefit if they refrain from unenlightened egoistic behaviour . |
| 26 | In the long run administrators try to make capitalism a positive-sum game from which all classes can gain . |
| 27 | Oakeshott does not agree with Hart 's views either about the need for a ‘ minimum content of natural law ’ or that there can be a single ultimate rule of recognition in the sense of an unconditional and unquestionable norm from which all others derive their authority . |
| 28 | A relevant summary list is displayed , from which all or some reports may be selected for printing . |
| 29 | It has been repeatedly stressed above that OED is the ground from which all other dictionaries and English language reference books take their origin . |
| 30 | We should therefore be suspicious of any expository textbook which presents the criminal law as if it could be stated in a finite number of propositions from which all solutions could ultimately be derived without further choices at the point of application . |