Example sentences of "from which [vb past] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Laurel and Hardy set piece was the ordinary situation from which sprang a coiling spiral of disaster . |
| 2 | The long façades of these redbrick buildings were adorned with Mughal arches ; the interiors were provided with airy loggias and wide verandas , from which sprang a whole succession of open towers adorned with lattice-work and capped by domes of varying sizes . |
| 3 | She was one of the founders of the British Federation of University Women , from which grew the International Federation . |
| 4 | There was a lipless mouth , their were deep eye sockets from which gleamed the small evil , old eyes of the necromancer . |
| 5 | Fortunately Sybil came bustling back , distracting her , armed with clean linen , warm water and a pot from which wafted an ominous odour . |
| 6 | He had his legs crossed , and he was smoking an old pipe , from which came a vile smell and great plumes of smoke as he puffed at it . |
| 7 | It began life , probably in the Severan period , resembling a winged-corridor villa , which had been terraced into the slope which runs down to the river ; it contained several heated rooms in the west wing and a water tank , possibly fed by local collection , in the front courtyard Later additions and alterations greatly improved and enlarged the building ; an ornamental fountain behind the house , from which came the famous Corbridge lion , was now linked to the aqueduct . |
| 8 | From the mid-1970s the Committee and its officers were engaged in a process of sponsoring debate and planning , including through such conferences as one on school experience and the assessment of practical teaching , held in York in October 1976 — a pioneer conference from which emerged a CNAA-funded research project which reported three years later . |
| 9 | Mrs Robinson was banished below decks and confined to the kitchens from which emerged a steady issue of victuals from forenoon to midnight . |
| 10 | At the same time , the rise of this new class , and the transition from feudalism to capitalism which it accomplished in Western Europe , were made possible by other transformations and political or cultural conflicts ; by the establishment of centralized , effectively administered nation states , and by the religious struggles from which emerged the Protestant sects and the diffusion of the Protestant ethic , which at the very least contributed to the self-confidence and determination of the bourgeoisie , promoted a climate of opinion favourable to its activities , and perhaps hastened its triumph . |