Example sentences of "[Wh det] had [vb pp] from [noun] " in BNC.

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1 He had inherited four major outlets : in New York , Paris , London and Rome , all of which had come through the war intact , all of which were in prime locations , and all of which had suffered from neglect .
2 She loved to move her money around , a process which had suffered from acceleration since the stock market collapse of the autumn of 1987 .
3 Hellenistic culture interfered with the parallel developments of individual cultures which had extended from China to Greece in previous centuries .
4 As she rose , her eyes , which had flicked from side to side , looked him in the face for the first time .
5 My father had been demobilised from his service with HM Minesweepers which had sailed from Chatham dockyard .
6 Draft clause 12 was enacted as section 15 ( which I have reproduced above ) and section 16 of the Act of 1968 and has got rid of some defects and difficulties which had arisen from section 32 of the Act of 1916 and from judicial interpretations of that section .
7 Theodora raised a questioning eyebrow and Julia told Dhani and Theodora about the list of five names on the sheets which had fallen from Canon Wheeler 's copy of Crockford .
8 The main cause for concern was the dominant role of France , which had withdrawn from NATO 's integrated command structure in 1966 and had since taken an independent line in defence matters .
9 Dubcek faced calls from right-wing forces for his resignation as Assembly Chairman in view of his " practical support " for the opposition party Movement for a Democratic Slovakia ( HZDS ) , a group which had split from VPN in March 1991 [ see p. 38106 ] .
10 Leadership in science , which had moved from France to Germany in the late nineteenth century and from Germany to Great Britain early in the twentieth , now went to the United States , where immense resources had been developed during the war and were ready to be applied to more beneficial ends .
11 He was treated by a local doctor before the ambulance , which had travelled from Darlington , arrived .
12 I accepted plate and cup , thanked her , and wondered how on earth , into a conversation which had ranged from hydroponics to knitting to the situation in the smaller countries of the Warsaw Pact to the best breed of wool for spinning tweed to the honey and the siting of the hives — how on earth I could decently introduce my queries about Ewen Mackay .
13 Although , in referring to the possibility that serfdom might " abolish itself from below " , the tsar seemed to be responding to the rural disturbances which had resulted from Nicholas 's militia creations , in all probability he simply lifted the phrase from a Third Department report of 1839 whose purpose , though reformist , had hardly been the complete transformation of government policy .
14 On arrival at Llandrindod we crossed over to the other platform to board the train which had arrived from Swansea — there being only nine minutes between arrival and departure — only to be told that we would have to go back on to the unit we had travelled up on .
15 The major burden would be the cost of dealing with unexploded shells and bombs on former military ranges , many of which had passed from Pentagon control to that of the BLM .
16 He had been thrown violently forwards , the blood which had spurted from nose and mouth splattering the base of his brother 's coffin .
17 Communities which had fled from Rome and other cities established new centres of civilisation on these islands , which provided shelter and asylum from the invader .
18 This effort had obviously failed by early April and the attention of both Labour and Likud switched to the five-member " Liberal " faction which had defected from Likud in late February [ see p. 37303 ] .
19 There was only one thing I was ashamed of in my love for Dana , which had sprung from poetry , and from sources I knew were pure .
20 Golkar , presenting itself as the guarantor of stability and economic growth , was backed by the country 's 4,000,000 civil servants and by the business community , and also polled strongly in rural areas , especially in those regions which had benefited from government development programmes .
21 Last night Hacene Mefti , Algeria 's oil minister , said his country was also unhappy at the outcome , claiming that other members which had benefited from Kuwait 's absence from the quota system for two years should do more to help smaller producers .
22 If Adam had not issued from his hiding-place early in May they would not have been discovered ; but the messages which had come from Llewelyn were grave enough to warrant a risk which by then appeared so slight .
23 But what had slipped from sight was that these women were n't victims , they were survivors .
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