Example sentences of "which [verb] from a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Today 's Melody Maker concentrates on pop 's more adventurous independent fringes , while RM remains a likeable dog 's dinner , differing from the others in its A4 format , its glossy colour pages , and content which veers from a left-field feature style to consumer-guides for club DJs . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Finally there 's the ultra slim Ibanez FGM 100 Frank Gambale Signature model , which turns from a lightweight jazz/fusion guitar into a heavyweight rock monster at the tweak of a pot . |
| 5 | " The old , old fashion " and " the older fashion yet " are the culmination of a chain of verbal echoes which begin , in Chapter 8 , with the mention of Paul 's having " a strange , old-fashioned , thoughtful way " , and which develop from a whimsical sign of his premature aging to a portent of his premature death . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Again , the composer spoke of the Romanian voice in her music which came from a Jungian kind of collective unconsciousness . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | All , though much preoccupied with perception , are silent on the paradox in perceiving which results from a chicken-egg situation , namely , that we can only perceive what we attend to , and we can only attend to what we perceive . |
| 13 | Global ventricular dilatation , which results from a progressive increase in myocyte length with sarcomere recruitment and resulting hypertrophy of the non-infarcted myocardium , continues for a long time . |
| 14 | The point here is that we do not have an applicable criterion of a correct verdict other than the one which results from a fair trial ( Rawls , 1972 , pp. 83–9 ) . |
| 15 | The contracts which range from a new honey processing plant for Nestl in Manchester and a factory development for Bradford Soap Works in Chesterare spread throughout the North West , Midlands and Yorkshire . |
| 16 | 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 " . |
| 17 | You will see many rare plants in the Botanic Gardens at Ventnor , which benefits from a near-Mediterranean climate . |
| 18 | But by ten o'clock the mist had gone , burned off by the sun which shone from a clear blue sky . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | There is one selective co-educational secondary school at Worcester College and a large all-age school at Exhall Grange , Warwickshire , both of which draw from a national catchment . |
| 21 | They have failed because of the tyranny which stems from a narrow curriculum rather than because the curriculum has been too broad or too diffuse . |
| 22 | The failure of the DUP to endorse the illegality of working-class loyalists , which stems from a general reluctance to break the law and an evaluation of the present situation which argues that such extreme acts are not yet justified , should have made it unpopular with working-class loyalists and to an extent it has . |
| 23 | Tell the children we have a poor refugee dog which suffers from a terrible fear and displeases me because he is dirty and snores at night . |
| 24 | He suggested that these formed an ‘ Indo-European ’ language family which sprang from a common source — the original word was probably something like septem . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | In like manner , the concepts studied in a Catholic context , will be ones which emerge from a Catholic understanding of religious and moral education . |
| 29 | Schmidt 's study differs from those discussed so far in that it does not quantify network structure at all , but uses the concept to account for differences between speakers which emerge from a quantitative analysis of linguistic data . |
| 30 | Schmidt reports two particularly interesting findings which emerge from a quantitative analysis of this mixed-code peer-group norm . |