Example sentences of "which [verb] from the [adj] " 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 | Carnlough , which translated from the Gaelic means ‘ Cairn of the Lake ’ , lies at the foot of Glencloy , one of the Nine Glens of Antrim , overlooking the Sea of Moyle . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | It is at this point that the second contradiction — between working class and bourgeoisie — which differs from the first in expressing an opposition of interests rather than an incompatibility of structures , assumes great importance . |
| 6 | Using the wider kin group as the basis for organizing social and economic life may not be characteristic of contemporary Britain , but some of the groups who have migrated to this country since the Second World War have brought with them , and retained , a pattern of kin relationships which differs from the white British norm and which in some cases includes a preference for cousin marriage . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ’ . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ’ ) . |
| 13 | Before examining the study 's findings in some depth , it is interesting to report on some of the results which arose from the preliminary postal survey . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | As a result they were unable to perceive the direction in which a genuine rehabilitation of price theory must be developed and proceeded instead to construct models which suffer from the very defects that invalidate the perfectly competitive model . |
| 16 | They are normally sown ‘ on the ridge ’ as soon as the ground is ready in early May , and hoed and singled at the two-to three-leaf stage whilst it is still easy to separate the entwined stems which grow from the multiple seeds . |
| 17 | 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 ’ . |
| 18 | As with teaching and journalism , so with literature : he developed his small talent to the full , writing short stories , poems , and plays in Irish and English , which ranged from the mawkish to the genuinely moving . |
| 19 | He had explored areas which ranged from the untidy and uncared for to the downright squalid . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | This led to Jeff 's development of a personal tapping style , one which deviates from the two-handed norm … |
| 22 | The system must be able to recover from input which deviates from the stored representations . |
| 23 | The need to provide suitable jobs for an ever-growing number of even qualified job-seekers , much less the unqualified ones described by writers such as Kocu Bey , is likewise almost certainly responsible for the considerable elaboration of the grades of medreses which occurred from the late sixteenth century onwards . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Agatha stepped closer , covering her head with her hood against the drops of rain which dripped from the overhanging branches of the oak tree . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | And if some of these assumptions were harsh in their operation they were tempered by a humanitarianism which stemmed from the same eighteenth-century roots . |
| 28 | The Kabbalists developed a similar mythical conception of the inner life of God in their depiction of the world of the Sephirot , the divine spheres which emanated from the unknowable God and enabled him to be known by man : these emanations provided man with the means of ascending to the deity . |
| 29 | Another possible technique is rounding , which starts from the optimal solution to the LP obtained by dropping the integer requirement on the variables . |
| 30 | 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 . |