Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] from a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | In their prospective study of 400 working-class women with children in North London , Brown and his colleagues ( 1987 ) found a threefold increased risk of depression to follow severe events which arose from a long-standing social difficulty compared to women experiencing the same kind of event but without such a prior history . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Again , the composer spoke of the Romanian voice in her music which came from a Jungian kind of collective unconsciousness . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | There was a happy burble of voices which came from a few children discussing some design they were doing . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | So I know when , when the ne the negotiations were originally going on was with Lyons ' coffee , for one of their coffees which came from a particular known estate not for the whole range of Lyons ' coffees . |
| 10 | The instructions with this recipe which came from an old horseman 's notebook were : Set this mixture by the wind ; that is , the horseman was advised to stand in the wind so that as soon as the colt or horse scented him he would advance towards him . |
| 11 | One of the most popular motifs at the time the shop opened was of swans and lions , which came from an old , heraldic design ; another was a Persian print showing a fantastical dog in a jungle of giant thistles . |
| 12 | The Pan-Africanist Congress , which withdrew from a preparatory meeting in November [ ibid. ] , refused to attend CODESA , denouncing it as a government " instrument of manipulation " . |
| 13 | But by ten o'clock the mist had gone , burned off by the sun which shone from a clear blue sky . |
| 14 | These restrictions , which dated from a congressional amendment to the US 1974 Trade Reform Act , effectively precluded most-favoured-nation ( MFN ) trading status for the Soviet Union unless it agreed to relax restrictions on Jewish emigration . |
| 15 | He suggested that these formed an ‘ Indo-European ’ language family which sprang from a common source — the original word was probably something like septem . |
| 16 | A notable feature of the Maya calendar was the era known as the ‘ Long Count ’ , a day-count which began from a conventional starting-point believed to be 10 August 3113 BC according to our calendar . |
| 17 | Sales in 1992 increased to IR£76.3 million , despite a generally hostile economic environment At constant exchange rates , sales increased by 9 per cent which benefited from a full year 's contribution from the new Marquis brand . |
| 18 | This area of pumiceous tuffs is only a small part of a much larger blanket of Pliocene ignimbrites covering more than 20 000 square kilometres , which originated from a catastrophic eruptive phase in the central sections of what is now the Kenya rift . |
| 19 | If an SSR responds to an SPR which originated from an external client , then it is the responsibility of the LIFESPAN user who submitted the SPR in LIFESPAN to arrange for a copy of the SSR to be sent to the client . |
| 20 | If an SSR responds to an SPR which originated from an external client , then it is the responsibility of the user who submitted the SPR in LIFESPAN to arrange for a copy of the SSR to be sent to the client . |
| 21 | They helped to popularize , particularly in the first generation New Towns , a brick-and-tile vernacular architecture which evolved from a Scandinavian style , eminently suitable for standard components and standard layouts set by cost targets . |
| 22 | Among ‘ tow-away ’ thefts reported during the past week were a Cubuto digger and trailer worth £5,000 which went from a Welsh Water compound in Abergele Road , Rhuddlan , and an Ivor Williams trailer belonging to Clwyd County Council which was unhitched from a van in Maesmawr Road , Llangollen . |
| 23 | He was expelled from QUB after a conviction which resulted from a too-well-celebrated student society dinner . |
| 24 | These are the recognition of the interim government by some other states and international bodies , and the fact that the interim government was set up by the Djibouti Agreement which resulted from an international conference attended by many international states and bodies . |
| 25 | These are two of the messages which emerged from a small-scale survey of individuals who made enquiries about courses but who did not appear to follow up earlier expressions of interest . |
| 26 | This montage involved a combination of movement which progressed from a short solo performance to interweaving by the sextet . |
| 27 | The death of Dr Julius Grant brings to an end a life of determination and distinction , which progressed from a deserved reputation in paper chemistry to an international career in forensic science . |