Example sentences of "[noun pl] which [verb] [pers pn] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has , of course , many other characteristics , of which companionship and mutual support is an important one , but the characteristics which distinguish it from all other relationships can only be met by two persons of the opposite sex . |
| 2 | a considerable collection of under-utilised data , possibly with some characteristics which differentiate them from the main archive collections ; and , |
| 3 | But whichever approach one adopts , market coordination has characteristics which differentiate it from hierarchies and networks . |
| 4 | To test whether recognising the land beneath is essential to them in finding the way , opaque contact lenses were fitted to their eyes which prevented them from seeing more than a few yards ahead . |
| 5 | It is the result of a six-year trek around the world by the Kienholzes which took them from an Indian reservation in South Dakota to China and got them thinking about how the chance of one 's birth is all important in one 's life . |
| 6 | He spent several weeks calling on the homes around his church to discover the needs of the community and the inhibitions which kept them from church attendance ( Schuller 1974:81 ) . |
| 7 | The great egg race experiment was something to break into the Midlands , something to ask them to have opinions about puzzles , because there 's an awful lot of science in schools which precludes you from having an opinion . |
| 8 | For a few decades , too , the English also used hobelars with success along the borders which separated them from the enemy in France , and in particular at the siege of Calais in 1346–7 , where they had some 600 or so to help them keep the French at a distance . |
| 9 | A real state consists of a naive state and a sequence of naive operations which produces it from the naive start state . |
| 10 | We will find ourselves missing golden opportunities , getting ourselves involved in time-consuming , time-wasting activities which distract us from our main goals . |
| 11 | Born into a provincial Liberal family in 1858 , Hobson developed unorthodox views which prevented him from securing an academic career in his chosen field of economics . |
| 12 | A commitment to East European art seems to be prominent ; so too African and broadly Third-World developments , with an implied attempt to transcend the barriers which isolate them from a self-defining ‘ First World ’ ; historical figures whose critical recuperation is overdue ; promising younger artists , whom the remainder of the British art world traditionally shun . |
| 13 | From travelling around I get the impression that , although they say they want to , most branches have other concerns which prevent them from taking up recruitment in an effective way . |
| 14 | It is only their sheltered lives which keep them from facing the same problem . |
| 15 | Learning hath of late years met with an obstruction in many places which suppresses it from flourishing or increasing … and that is the inquisition upon the press , which prohibits any book from coming forth without an imprimature . |
| 16 | By various tricks which save us from the full load of naive combinatorics , one can show that the student 's original result ( 61 with red eyes , 23 with white ) gives Mendel 's explanation a backing of nearly 100% ; so the professor was right . |
| 17 | The course content includes : exploring fantasy , sexual response , body image , and a look at some of the underlying feelings which prevent us from reaching our sexual potential . |
| 18 | We find our arts opportunities restricted at all levels , from lack of physical access to arts facilities and regulations which bar us from training courses , to our invisibility and misrepresentation in the images produced and promoted . |
| 19 | Madam Deputy Speaker I only wanted to make a short intervention er er on this point and I think I will return to it from time to time because it is a perennial , annual problem of every time the minister introduces a a rule and regulation we can understand it 's extremely useful and how can one say that er regulations about fraud are not useful , it 's just the culture of our country has been besieged by these rules and regulations and I 'm surprised that anybody can actually make any profit or do any business simply because of the weight of officialdom and the weight of rules and regulations which prevents them from getting above er the the surface . |
| 20 | ARC Northern wants a relaxation of planning conditions which prevent them from working their roadstone coating plant at their Penmaenmawr quarry on Sundays . |
| 21 | As Taylor rightly says , most academics simply do not feel competent to comment on what goes on outside their discipline , and even if they do , there are powerful professional and institutional demarcations which deter them from doing so . |
| 22 | ‘ The council also hopes that the package will help many women who are subjected to violence to overcome the problems which prevent them from seeking help . ’ |
| 23 | But county hall staff say there are practical problems which prevent them from laying speed monitoring cables . |
| 24 | it is difficult to measure precisely the influence of factors by isolating them in experiments and , even if we could , there may be ethical problems which prevent us from doing so |
| 25 | The eggs of other shrimps , by contrast , are not waterproof , but possess thick spongy coverings which protect them from bright sunlight and abrasion . |
| 26 | In this case it is clearer , because of the greater number of possibilities , that the substitutes for table which normalise the sentence ( lit , buffet , journal , balcon , etc. ) have no common semantic properties which distinguish them from items ( such as chaise , bibliothèque , revue , assiette ) which do not remove the oddness : |
| 27 | But it was the tower 's potential usefulness to the French army in the rapidly advancing field of radio communications which saved it from almost certain demolition when its lease expired in 1909 . |
| 28 | Indeed , the divisions within the class are as striking as the features which separate it from the middle class . |
| 29 | But although Darwinian natural selection seems plainly to deny primacy either to egoism or to altruism , it is interesting to notice that nearly everyone has preconceptions which hinder him from coming fully to terms with the evidence . |
| 30 | As we have seen , the power vested in the state is justified by a system of democratic government ; and the assurance that the state 's power is subject to constraints which prevent it from being used arbitrarily is found in the adherence to the ideal of the Rule of Law . |