Example sentences of "which [verb] from the [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 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ’ . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ’ ) . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ’ . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | This led to Jeff 's development of a personal tapping style , one which deviates from the two-handed norm … |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Another possible technique is rounding , which starts from the optimal solution to the LP obtained by dropping the integer requirement on the variables . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The Chedworth crosses were all cut on the stones which came from the octagonal basin of the nymphaeum . |
| 21 | Called ‘ porter ’ after the Covent Garden market porters who drank it , it was characterised by its distinct , dark colour , which came from the roasted barley it contained . |
| 22 | Independent of this physical cause there exists always one more or less contrary evil to the cure of maladies in any Hospital whatever which results from the great number of sick assembled in one place , the bodies of which occasion emanations which alters more or less the wholesomeness of the air , but this cause may in some manner be done away with by the great cleanliness of the Stables and fumigations that might be performed from time to time … |
| 23 | The payments are made pursuant to a perceived obligation to pay which results from the combined presumption of constitutional validity of duly enacted legislation and the holding out of such validity by the legislature . |
| 24 | The payments are made pursuant to a perceived obligation to pay which results from the combined presumption of constitutional validity of duly enacted legislation and the holding out of such validity by the legislature . |
| 25 | The end result is an impression of the surface of the fabric , now disintegrated , maintained in the form of a metal compound which results from the chemical composition of the adjacent object . |
| 26 | The purpose of this chapter is to describe some of the available techniques and the ways of utilizing the preparations obtained by them in a variety of applications which range from the simple determination of chromosome counts to the in situ hybridization of gene probes to banded chromosomes . |
| 27 | They are united into a longitudinal chain by a pair of connectives which issue from the posterior border of the suboesophageal ganglion . |
| 28 | There was a small cutter parked at the jetty , and a sign taped to the Eberhardt window said that for $15 each she would take us right up to the foot of the Balmaceda and Serrano glaciers which spilled from the southern tip of that immense high-altitude sheet of white that was the Patagonian ice-cap . |
| 29 | The network of Training Enterprise Councils ( TEC ) has been set up to allow strategies for dealing with vocational training , employment needs , new enterprise and economic development to be handled at a local level by a single local body , which benefits from the practical experience and local knowledge of the employers and others who serve on its board . |
| 30 | The second defines a procedure which clears from the current cursor position to the end of line on an 80 column screen . |