Example sentences of "[Wh det] [verb] from [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The First is that period which recedes from the very beginning of life on earth and reaches far back into the unknowable depths of the timeless universe . |
| 2 | Val had said ) which operated from the British Museum , to which Ash 's wife , Ellen , had given many of the manuscripts of his poems , when he died . |
| 3 | That a regular unit was in use , which differs from the Continental value , reflects a centralised authority and even , perhaps , that the bearers of the balances were official representatives of the court , which would point to the destiny of the gold ; the possibility that the gold coins found in Sutton Hoo mound 1 were a royal weight standard has been suggested ( Spratling 1980 ) . |
| 4 | The paintings were evidently of no great value , but such as they were , they were genuine : a seventeenth-century Venus in oils in the drawing-room , some eighteenth-century engravings along the carpeted passage which led from the front door past the day rooms to the bedroom at the end . |
| 5 | Mercifully darkness obscured the dripping , gale-lashed countryside as we bumped our way down the unsurfaced track which led from the main road to Number Five , our new home . |
| 6 | Today 's Melody Maker concentrates on pop 's more adventurous independent fringes , while RM remains a likeable dog 's dinner , differing from the others in its A4 format , its glossy colour pages , and content which veers from a left-field feature style to consumer-guides for club DJs . |
| 7 | In spite of her apparent self-confidence , in spite of her twenty-five years , in spite of having had the best that money could buy since she was a little girl , there was an ingenuousness about Harriet which sprung from a yearning need to prove herself — to her father , to her contemporaries , to the whole wide world . |
| 8 | At the ‘ top end ’ the peculiarly British mutual accommodation and interpenetration of the bourgeoisie and aristocracy has licensed an extension of the term ‘ middle class ’ until there is only a vestigial ‘ upper class ’ against which to draw a contrast , while at the same time there have been successive waves of new recruits which have enlarged the base of the ‘ class ’ : the new groups of professionals , managers and technical experts which expanded from the latter half of the nineteenth century onward with the development of capitalist industry and trade ; the more recent expansion of salaried employment in education , research , health , social welfare , administration and planning . |
| 9 | The dilemma which arose from the modern sculptor , was summed up by Marion Spielmann in British Sculptors and Sculptors of Today ( 1901 ) ‘ The present aim is to give life without actual realism — a suggestion of reality shrouded in poetry and grace … our artists understand that if the figures are to be more like the human form the statues must be unconscious of their absence of drapery as though they were symbols — which indeed they are ’ . |
| 10 | Speaking in the local Bemba dialect , Texas tells the story of Zambia 's worst civil unrest in post-independence history — the 1986 food riots which arose from the burning desire of Zambia 's poorest people to survive . |
| 11 | SCOTVEC and centres have been engaged in an extensive development plan , the aim of which is to explore the issues which arose from the Consultative Paper of February 1987 ( ‘ SCOTVEC Higher Education Provision ’ ) and which were detailed in the Policy Paper ( ‘ Advanced Courses Development Programme : A Policy Paper — March 1988 ’ ) . |
| 12 | Attempts to simplify this , particularly in the vogue for a massive Romanesque style in the 1880s , foundered on the sheer scope of station-building continent-wide , and the range of experimentation which arose from the repeated station renewal of railway companies whose exaggerated energy and corporate conceit were to endanger their own survival . |
| 13 | Finally there 's the ultra slim Ibanez FGM 100 Frank Gambale Signature model , which turns from a lightweight jazz/fusion guitar into a heavyweight rock monster at the tweak of a pot . |
| 14 | Soviet and Far East European Studies , which suffer from an acute shortage of reliable information , lie at the more impenetrable end of the social sciences . |
| 15 | " The old , old fashion " and " the older fashion yet " are the culmination of a chain of verbal echoes which begin , in Chapter 8 , with the mention of Paul 's having " a strange , old-fashioned , thoughtful way " , and which develop from a whimsical sign of his premature aging to a portent of his premature death . |
| 16 | It was interesting to note that in each of his previous six lives , which ranged from the fifteenth century to the late 1890s , Martin had been given the opportunity to be a ‘ teacher ’ . |
| 17 | If an accident happens as a result of driving which deviates from the proper standard , then that may well be a case of negligence even if the driver had never thought of the risk in that particular case , because the driver is presumed to know the Highway Code . |
| 18 | This led to Jeff 's development of a personal tapping style , one which deviates from the two-handed norm … |
| 19 | His shop was in the merchants ' quarter of the city — a maze of buildings which had been divided and sub-divided , so great was the demand for space , which lay within the strictly enforced boundaries of the streets which radiated from the Golden Yurt like the spokes of a wheel . |
| 20 | Alexander 's campaigns resulted in a blending of the purer Greek form of art and architecture with the ideas on construction , function and ornament which stemmed from a Greek Empire greatly extended towards , and influenced from , the east . |
| 21 | But it is worth drawing attention to two particular difficulties which stemmed from the disturbed condition of the city of Belfast , but are likely to occur rather generally in run-down industrial cities . |
| 22 | Another possible technique is rounding , which starts from the optimal solution to the LP obtained by dropping the integer requirement on the variables . |
| 23 | A development which starts from the humane desire to prevent severe handicap could lead to demands by parents for genetic interventions to produce traits which are thought to be culturally desirable , such as maleness and fair skin . |
| 24 | In one south German fish farm , only a few of 300 000 young carp survived an outbreak of the ringworm Bothriocephalus acheilognathi , which spread from the Far East . |
| 25 | The room was high , wide and lit with a soft yellow light which came from no particular source that Rincewind could identify . |
| 26 | However , I am not hopeful that her example will force the institution to reassess its attitude to the critical account , for even the fears of someone like Stead , which came from a central location of police power at the Staff College at Bramshill , seem to have largely fallen on stony ground . |
| 27 | Again , the composer spoke of the Romanian voice in her music which came from a Jungian kind of collective unconsciousness . |
| 28 | Soon Babushka fell into a deep sleep only to be woken by a beautiful golden light which came from a far corner of the stable . |
| 29 | In Catnic Components Ltd. v Hill & Smith Ltd. [ 1982 ] , the plaintiff obtained a patent for a load bearing lintel , the main strength of which came from a vertical metal rear face . |
| 30 | Now I have a figure in front of me which came from the International Air Transport Association who say that in January something in the order of sixteen flights were cancelled , and airlines lost more than five hundred million pounds in revenue , of which three hundred million was lost by European airlines . |