Example sentences of "from [pron] [pron] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | Was it because everything that had been precious to him had been torn from him that he had to find someone to blame for his losses , someone to take advantage of , someone from whom he could derive consolation ? |
| 2 | far I drive away from them it could it could be twe |
| 3 | In a statement read to the court , Shooter described his crime as ‘ a cry for help from someone who could no longer handle the pressures of life ’ . |
| 4 | I think everyone felt it was stodgy ; it was not a dynamic springboard from which we could leap into a new era of effective education . |
| 5 | Most of the information available from institutions from which we could sample concerned adult applicants rather than adult enquirers . |
| 6 | They were set up to provide young people with basic , well-ordered accommodation from which they could experience the countryside . |
| 7 | These industrialists welcomed foreign capital , because they felt that it stimulated economic activity in general , from which they could all benefit ( Petras and Cook 1973 ) . |
| 8 | It seemed as if the conservative group were determined to drive the president towards a coup d'état , from which they could benefit — for he was a guarantee of order and stability — but from participation in which they could be legally , if not morally , absolved . |
| 9 | His idea was to set up a self-contained base inland from the coastal plain from which they could raid on an almost nightly basis . |
| 10 | Mayne 's plan was to take his fighting patrols out into the Great Sand Sea and establish a forward base , from which they could sally out and harass the enemy . |
| 11 | Adverse winds carried them not to Kintail , from which they could have got within a few miles of Inverness by water , but to the shores of Loch Alsh , a sea-water inlet separating the Isle of Skye from the south-west tip of Ross and Cromarty . |
| 12 | These were groups of people with a common bond who had joined together to make regular contributions into a pool from which they could borrow at low rates of interest . |
| 13 | It is said that as route 30 was high on the list for trolleybus conversion , the rails on the new bridge were laid in shallow troughs , from which they could easily be removed , when the tram route was abandoned . |
| 14 | So next morning the thousand mosstroopers divided into three sections , two hundred to go with the Regent as decoys , two hundred to hide near Sunlaws ford and the remainder , six hundred , with a score or two of Heiton 's own men , to head for the Kale Water valley where Heiton would place them in position from which they could ambush the pursuit once Murray 's fleeing party was past . |
| 15 | In 1686 they declared war on him in order to establish a separate company state from which they could trade . |
| 16 | Partly because those who served in garrisons had to be ready to serve in the field when required ( for a castle acted as a base where soldiers could remain when not in the field , and from which they could control the countryside around by mounted raids within a radius of , say , a dozen miles ) , partly because of an increasing difficulty in securing active support from the nobility and gentry for the war in France , English armies at the end of the war sometimes included a greater ratio of archers to men-at-arms than ever before , sometimes 7:1 or even 10:1 , rather than the more usual 3:1 under Henry V and the parity of archers to men-at-arms normally found in the second half of the fourteenth century . |
| 17 | The vital role ( which contemporaries fully appreciated ) played by such relatively small ports as Le Crotoy , at the mouth of the river Somme , in the period 1420–50 , together with the fact that the ports of Dieppe and Harfleur were among the first places to be snatched from English control in 1435 ( leaving them with Cherbourg as the only port from which they could maintain regular links with England between 1435 and 1440 , a vital period in the military history of the occupation ) , shows how important the Burgundian connection was to both main protagonists as they struggled to acquire and maintain a measure of control over the sea . |
| 18 | After they had been searching and moving on quietly for some time , they reached a place from which they could see that the field below them broadened out . |
| 19 | Most finds that were simply lost ( small and easily mislaid , such as coins and brooches ) or objects that fell into places from which they could not be retrieved , such as wells , are often complete and may be in very good condition , depending on the materials from which they are made and the conditions in which they have been buried . |
| 20 | The only this group could admit were reforms that benefited its members : the sale of the common lands and the entailed estates of the Church , an operation that they could dominate and from which they could draw profit . |
| 21 | The grounds on which the father relied were , inter alia , that ( 1 ) the justices heard evidence from which they could properly conclude that his costs had been incurred as a result of the actions and omissions of the local authority ; ( 2 ) as there was no machinery for taxation of costs the justices were correct to assess the amount of the costs ; ( 3 ) the father was entitled to his costs incurred in the Family Proceedings court to the extent allowable under the Legal Aid in Family Proceedings ( Remuneration ) Regulations 1991 and the justices were correct to hold that the actions of the local authority justified making the costs order which included the costs of the hearing on 27 and 28 January 1992 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The experience of other countries and movements , particularly European social democracy , provided much from which they could learn ; and the future lay in a cooperative rather than confrontational relationship between the USSR and the wider world from which both sides could benefit . |
| 24 | This was held to be incorrect , but irrelevant ; incorrect , because a mere sense of alarm was insufficient to give rise to a fear of a breach of the peace , and irrelevant because the justices had found ( or there was evidence from which they could have found ) that the constables reasonably believed that the defendant 's own behaviour was likely to constitute a breach of the peace . |
| 25 | On the twelfth floor of the hotel , from which they could just get a view of the distant river , they were delighted with their prosperous-looking aunt . |
| 26 | He wheeled his horse , and roared his own knights round upon their bowmen ; and the loyal among the marksmen set up an answering howl , and fell out as best they could , leaping sidelong into the bushes and up the heathery slope , to stand clear of the slaughter and find a vantage-point again from which they could play their part . |
| 27 | The Brighton Constabulary , whose marksmen had taken up positions from which they could command the Grand Hotel , was stood down after half an hour . |
| 28 | In short , capitalist states were becoming thoroughly entangled in a set of conflicts from which they could not easily extricate themselves . |
| 29 | This would build up a fund from which they could afford to bid for new discoveries at fair market prices . |
| 30 | Predictably , they took the parts from which they could make money . |