Example sentences of "which [vb past] from the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The steam narrowboats which operated from the Midlands to London could carry only 12 tons but could tow an unpowered ‘ butty ’ boat behind . |
| 2 | The CSO , which passed from the control of the Cabinet Office to the Treasury earlier this year , prepares the National Accounts and many other economic statistics . |
| 3 | The cheers spread to the people who crammed every street which led from the concourse , but Artai did not turn his head or acknowledge them . |
| 4 | The logical alternative was to promote the " ministerial " principle by strengthening the chain of command which led from the Ministry of Internal Affairs to the provincial governors . |
| 5 | He moved into the little kitchen which led from the sitting-room and soon Nelly could hear the tap running . |
| 6 | As she mounted the ladder which led from the kitchen into what was still called ‘ the lads ’ room' , she smiled at her awkwardness . |
| 7 | They had seen little of the house apart from a gloomy garden and a long corridor which led from the entrance hall to the room in which they had been received . |
| 8 | When they could hold it no longer the Collector shouted the order to retire to the next door : that which led from the drawing-room to the hall and where , several weeks earlier , the Collector had been lurking as he tried to make up his mind to attend the meeting of the Krishnapur Poetry Society . |
| 9 | Erm als other problems which arose from the outline land law was in its deliberate ambiguity er in its deliberate erm tt sort of ambiguity because it left reg it left the law to be interpreted by regional areas which meant that how that erm in some places they totally misinterpreted the law but the Communist Party had to have this flexibility because China was such a vast country and you could n't just impose one policy per se across the country . |
| 10 | In any event , residence of some kind was the hallmark of establishment in so far as establishment involved economic integration in the host member state of a kind that was greater than that which arose from the provision of a cross-border service . |
| 11 | That will have a disastrous effect upon the locality equal to that which arose from the threat of the route . |
| 12 | Large generic social services departments , which arose from the proposals from the Seebohm Committee on Local Authority and Allied Personal Social Services ( 1968 ) were set up at this time . |
| 13 | The problem of incorporation of standard terms and conditions has been dealt with in a series of cases generally known as the " ticket cases " , which arose from the practice of printing terms and conditions on a variety of documents from railway or steamship tickets , to deck chair or swimming pool tickets , which were intended to govern the contract between the proprietor and the person using his services ( see for instance Parker v South Eastern Railway ( 1877 ) 2 CPD 416 , Hood v Anchor Line ( Henderson Brothers ) Ltd [ 1918 ] AC 837 , Chapelton v Barry UDC [ 1940 ] 1 KB 532 and Thornton v Shoe Lane Parking Ltd [ 1971 ] 2 QB 163 ) . |
| 14 | These problems suddenly appeared quite separately from those dietary concerns about fats , fibre , sugar and salt which arose from the COMA report in 1984 , and which have been so widely used in food manufacturers ' advertising claims . |
| 15 | A call of nature interrupted my pleasure and I went out to the necessary house behind the tavern , nothing more than a hole in the ground enclosed by a shabby wooden palisade and a door which bolted from the inside . |
| 16 | In particular , we need to know far more about those numerous families which moved from the countryside but which experienced only a hum-drum life in the towns or at best only a modest prosperity . |
| 17 | We walked down an unsteady plank into the Sudan : a desert plain , dotted with scrub , stretching away to steep hills which rose from the sand like islands from a sea . |
| 18 | Alexei loosed , and the arrow leapt from the bow and embedded itself in the wooden spike which rose from the dome of a house two streets away . |
| 19 | So were the arguments used to justify aristocracy , which ranged from the claim that it was natural ( Aristotle ) to arguments based upon the wisdom of having a specialized governing group in a caste society ( Plato , Confucius and Hindu political thinkers ) . |
| 20 | As Dr Stevenson has put it : " English crowds appear to have killed no one deliberately in the various food disturbances which occurred from the beginning of the eighteenth century to the beginning of the nineteenth . " |
| 21 | Not the precise pattern of plants and trees beyond the human enclave , nor the affectionate grass , nor even the strange and delightful animal life — if it was animal life which peered from the undergrowth at the human installations with delicate curiosity . |
| 22 | Nor did the cheering cease when the runners got down to business and the three-mile race commenced , for at almost every fence Arkle and Mill House produced leaps which drew from the spectators whoops of appreciation . |
| 23 | She hated every minute of the tunnel : the thick , inky darkness , the icy water which dripped from the limestone roof ; the dank , sour smell and the lack of air . |
| 24 | It has particular significance for those churches who over the last decade , aided by the enthusiasm which stemmed from the Archbishop of Canterbury 's report ‘ Faith in the City ’ ( December , 1985 ) and the subsequently established Church Urban Fund , have tried to put their buildings , their membership and above all their local networks at the service of the wider community . |
| 25 | To his pleasant surprise he discovered that he was now able to think with an objective clarity which stemmed from the knowledge that he was now free for the first time in his life to speak his mind without fear or favour . |
| 26 | Historians have indi-cated a ‘ structural weakness ’ in the Angevin Empire which stemmed from the obligations of its rulers to perform homage to the French crown from 1151 onwards for most of their continental dominions . |
| 27 | The social and economic upheavals which stemmed from the war were profound . |
| 28 | Driving very slowly over the narrow bridges spanning the fast flowing streams which stemmed from the River Ouse , he noticed that a massive flock of coots had flown in while he had been away . |
| 29 | He argues that a demand which emanated from the earnings of export staples became itself the driving force behind even greater efforts to balance the increasing import of desired English manufactured goods . |
| 30 | Far more wearing for the community at large was the incessant drumming which emanated from the jail-house . |