Example sentences of "that [vb past] from the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ‘ council movement ’ was especially vigorous , and was widely debated among socialists in the years immediately preceding and following the First World War ( Renner , 1921 ; Pribicevic , 1959 ) ; and more recently it again aroused growing interest as a result of the experience of workers ' self-management in Yugoslavia , some tentative steps in that direction in other East European countries during the 1970s , and the formulation of ideas about ‘ participatory democracy ’ that arose from the new social movements of the late 1960s . |
| 2 | If some of the germ lines that led from the primaeval soup had not been , to a first approximation , immortal then extant organisms would not exist . |
| 3 | He drove the corkscrew forward , burying it in the man 's right eye , shoving down hard on it , twisting it in the socket , ignoring the spouting vitreous liquid that erupted from the riven orb . |
| 4 | The entire cast were excited about the dress rehearsal of The Count of Luxembourg , even the blasé old orchestra catching some of the anticipatory delight that stemmed from the new production . |
| 5 | It is to Alan Rough 's eternal credit that he developed a sense of humour which carried him through experiences that ranged from the sublime to the ridiculous . |
| 6 | One group that disappeared was the fusulinids , complex protozoa that ranged from the microscopic to two or three inches in size . |
| 7 | Only the rear pillar changed , having an external cover that lifted from the rear window surface to create a big air intake in order to ventilate the engine compartment , made extremely hot by the addition of the turbo . |
| 8 | The howl of dissent that came from the entire room staggered me . |
| 9 | Suddenly the stillness was broken by a distressful wail that came from the other side of the square . |
| 10 | They were both so angry that they did not immediately see the movement that came from the old female 's shelter in the cage between them . |
| 11 | I suppose the ones that came from the old factory , you know were kept on and that |
| 12 | The only illumination was the oblong of light that spilled from the open doorway of the TARDIS . |
| 13 | Sweetman crowed with laughter , but too soon , for , just as it seemed as though Ellen 's gesture had indeed collapsed into an ignominious anti-climax , the extinguisher first coughed , then spat a vicious deluge of white muck that fanned from the flared nozzle to splatter spectacularly against Sweetman 's chest . |
| 14 | A senior security service officer had been machine-gunned a week earlier in Fayoum town ( about 100 km from Cairo ) as local tensions that dated from the previous year had flared up . |
| 15 | It floated in the dull light of the hut , a wall that hung from the wooden rafters to the boards of the flooring . |
| 16 | In other words , the stress forces of the Earth , in particular stresses brought about by severe changes in climate , and the changing chemical nature of the surface , may have contributed to the great expansion , and occasional contraction , of species within narrow phyla that evolved from the recognizable solid life in the oceans ( oceanic life started , probably , in the Algonkian period , somewhere between 670 million and 600 million years ago ) . |
| 17 | The cocktail of metals that resulted from the high acidity ‘ fitted the textbook on metal poisoning , ’ said Ward . |
| 18 | Other forces were at work too , including new attitudes to urban redevelopment after the Ronan Point collapse in 1974 , and the general slowdown in local-authority building that resulted from the growing awareness of the disasters of tower-block living . |
| 19 | The CAB responded to a special need that resulted from the British Nationality Act in 1981 . |
| 20 | For their part , trade unions showed little or no interest in the new community-based movements that emerged from the late 1960s , and saw little to interest them in the educational work that developed around community struggles . |
| 21 | When we consider the more general conclusions that emerged from the other interactionists ' concern with ‘ the labellers ’ , the divergence becomes even more apparent . |
| 22 | But Napoleon III 's Second Empire changed all this , decisively and enthusiastically embracing railway-building so that by 1870 11,000 miles had been built by a partnership between the State and the six great companies that emerged from the initial burst of railway fever . |
| 23 | He began to walk , treading a careful path through the marshy ground , following a rising vein of rock that jutted from the sodden turf , until he came beneath the shadow of the Wall . |
| 24 | Developments in Afghanistan assumed a greater significance for Western governments than they would otherwise have had because of the place they appeared to occupy in an ‘ Arc of Crisis ’ that extended from the Middle East to South-Eastern Asia . |