Example sentences of "[Wh det] [adv] [vb past] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Early television sets , when you turned them off , used to leave a blob of light in the middle of the screen , which slowly diminished from the size of a florin to an expiring speck . |
| 2 | The materials which eventually evolved from this study include a questionnaire devised by the group and which has subsequently been used as a basis for further in-service training sessions in their schools . |
| 3 | The three-day clash grossed £5 million which mostly came from acres of private hospitality tents . |
| 4 | Among them was a young officer who was riding a mule ( which stubbornly stopped from time to time ) and roaring with laughter . |
| 5 | Over the next hundred years a motley collection of military servicemen ( voennosluzhilie lyudi , fur-hunters , merchants , government officials , Orthodox clergymen , fugitive serfs , entrepreneurs and tradesmen ( promyshlenniki ) , convicts , religious dissidents , foreign prisoners-of-war ( generically known as Litva , ‘ Lithuanians ’ ) , cossacks , artisans , adventurers and vagrants ( gulyashchie lyudi ) steadily overwhelmed the indigenous Siberian native population and established a strongly defended network of wooden fortresses , outposts and stockaded population points , several of which swiftly grew from small military and administrative settlements into substantial , bustling frontier towns , a process described in more detail by David Collins in Chapter 2 of this book . |
| 6 | The reports , which apparently originated from Western diplomats in North Korea , were widely circulated by Japanese and South Korean news agencies but totally repudiated by the North Korean authorities . |
| 7 | She could not have brought herself to do as some did , step in and squash her body against the bodies of those who formed the dense wad of people which already bulged from the open doors . |
| 8 | In such ways , Hitler set the vicious tone for discrimination and persecution , providing the touchstone and legitimation for initiatives which largely came from others at various levels of the Party , the State bureaucracy , and not least the SS-SD-Gestapo complex , where the ‘ Jewish Question ’ had a key functional role . |
| 9 | Four criminal sessions , each of which usually lasted from one to three weeks , were held annually at Colombo , and at least two sessions were held each year at Kandy and Galle . |
| 10 | She experienced a sense of detachment before cutting herself , and the act seemed to relieve feelings of anxiety and tension which usually arose from problems in her relationship with her boyfriend . |
| 11 | The FA , which usually refrained from comment on its Cup finals , was led to express its ‘ great regret ’ at the behaviour during the game , and hoped that ‘ there will not be any similar conduct in any future Final tie ’ . |
| 12 | In March 1848 Europe witnessed a surge of revolutionary activity which quickly spread from France to Italy and Vienna and , of course , Pest . |
| 13 | A pre-filter of simple gravel ( we have tested a prototype GSM — not the new model — which still suffered from the age old problem of clogging , which also afflicts simple foam pre-filters ) . |
| 14 | Despite his good intentions , and despite the more rational management principles and institutions introduced by Speranskii , the actual administration of Siberia , the manner of its economic exploitation , the low levels of popular enlightenment , the permanently suppurating sore of the exile system , the treatment of the native population — which still ranged from the paternalistic to the spasmodically genocidal — and the survival of traditional ‘ imperialist ’ attitudes in St Petersburg , meant that in practice the old core-periphery , metropolis-frontier relationships still remained in force , and Siberia continued to be treated and governed in a manner which reflected its original quasi-colonial status . |
| 15 | Again , that matter was debated in Committee as the Minister said , after remaining entitlements had been secured , using the surpluses which still remained from TOPS , if any surpluses are left in addition , |
| 16 | The skull has recently been identified as the fossilized cranium of a white woman , at least 1,500 years old , which probably came from the burial ground on Pilsden Pen . |
| 17 | The weapon , a kitchen knife which probably came from Miller 's End , had been found when the police dragged the pond . |
| 18 | The cobras have marine relatives in the sea snakes , which probably evolved from Australian ancestors . |
| 19 | Industrial output fell by over 11 per cent in the course of the 1979 — 83 Parliament , a performance worse than in other western states which also suffered from the recession . |
| 20 | Sri Lanka , for whose tea exports Iraq was the second largest customer and which also suffered from the impact on its expatriate nationals and the loss of their earnings , sought international compensation for its reluctant imposition of sanctions . |
| 21 | Personal lines , which also benefited from rate increases , showed some overall deterioration during the quarter . |
| 22 | Mr Garvey 's car , a Volvo estate , which also vanished from the family home at the same time as Mr Garvey , was found this afternoon at Great Yarmouth , parked in a side street . |
| 23 | Together with some dinosaurs , perhaps , and with birds , which also emerged from a different reptilian stock at this time , they developed the capacity for regulating their own body temperature . |
| 24 | Maronite collaboration with the French — and the support for a Maronite state which later came from Israel — contaminated the community in the eyes of its opponents . |
| 25 | One fact in the situation , which later emerged from the gossip of Baldwin , Anselm 's man of business , was that on his way to the meeting at Gloucester , Rufus had visited Wilton . |
| 26 | FOLLOWING the success of the Midland Railway Centre two excursion trains to London for Christmas Shopping which both departed from Butterley Station , the Trust is now discussing the possibility of operating a number of other trips during the summer months with Regional Railways for 1993 . |
| 27 | And in the cities , the strikes and demonstrations of the winter of 1920–21 reached a crescendo with the Kronstadt uprising which openly demanded from Lenin and his party a return to the free soviets of 1917 . |
| 28 | On the ceiling is a Baroque fresco , The Judgement of Solomon which originally came from the Burgrave 's House . |
| 29 | A new 15 foot tufting machine is also being installed for this purpose , replacing one which originally came from the Glenvale factory in Paisley . |
| 30 | In contrast to this complex and long-established system , which originally derived from the tribal period in early Celtic and Germanic Europe , we find that certain cities and merchants were freed of feudal ties . |