Example sentences of "which [verb] [pron] from the " in BNC.

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1 As a very young child he witnessed scenes which equalled anything from the imagination of Rider Haggard .
2 Carrying a heavy basket and bundle , Tess was walking towards the hills which divided her from the Vale , her place of birth .
3 The top is quickly reached from the grassy nick which separates it from the nearby Roaches .
4 The label draws attention to three important developments which distinguish it from the early Romanov State .
5 A real state consists of a naive state and a sequence of naive operations which produces it from the naive start state .
6 As though she had seen something which disturbed her from the window of the apartment .
7 For a sensational week he published a news-sheet which libelled everyone from the governor 's wife to the assistant chaplain , including both together .
8 If he was thus eligible for that title , there must have been something which qualified him — something which distinguished him from the numerous other leaders , both military and political , who at the time were themselves becoming thorns in the Roman side .
9 Women lawyers are challenging the chauvinism which bans them from the higher echelons , reports Fiona Sutherland Omitted from the useful introductions to clients , business lunches , meetings and golfing sessions , women solicitors fail to acquire the vital ‘ client base . ’
10 Having got this far , he allowed himself another minute or so before confronting the thousand-day journey which separated him from the bathroom .
11 For a few decades , too , the English also used hobelars with success along the borders which separated them from the enemy in France , and in particular at the siege of Calais in 1346–7 , where they had some 600 or so to help them keep the French at a distance .
12 In Germany even the most ‘ respectable ’ workers were pressed into the ranks of the proletariat by the distance which separated them from the bourgeoisie , and the strength of intermediate classes .
13 And the gap which separated them from the bourgeois world was wide — and unbridgeable .
14 The black construct before her split , spun into a thin loop , fleshed into a globe , flipped inside out to reveal a hovering pink mass , which detached itself from the main bulk and drifted some distance away .
15 'T WAS that , mama reckoned , which preserved me from the pestilence ! ’
16 By various tricks which save us from the full load of naive combinatorics , one can show that the student 's original result ( 61 with red eyes , 23 with white ) gives Mendel 's explanation a backing of nearly 100% ; so the professor was right .
17 Earth Dwellers have now begun to grasp that they are tattering the ozone layer , which protects them from the harmful rays of their sun ( star 4135 in our heavens ) .
18 Indeed , the divisions within the class are as striking as the features which separate it from the middle class .
19 More than 3,000 people joined Government programmes and 504,056 receive help under a series of schemes which exclude them from the unemployment count .
20 There is little dialectic , then : on the one hand , there are ‘ those who live , in a more or less besieged manner , in a close commonality which divorces itself from the values of the prevailing culture ’ ( ibid : 163 ) ; on the other , those who are ‘ alienated from the possibilities of an immediate life of the unselfconscious body ’ ( ibid : 157 ) .
21 The literary text may negotiate with its containment ( as Shakespeare 's do ) , but its contemporary subversive force has been compromised by the political dominance of state power which excludes it from the centre and places it on the margins of socially sanctioned institutions .
22 He had clipped up his shirtsleeves with steel bracelets above the elbow and was swathed in a coarse apron which had once been white and which covered him from the knot of his tie to his ankles .
23 In some ways I feel her peculiar dilemma parallels my own for she described her stance as one which distanced her from the classical anthropological mode , creating a ‘ memorable adventure ’ , which she claims , ‘ has marked me for life ’ ( ibid. 22 ) .
24 Gray made more than 600 Football League appearances in his playing career and shared in Darlington 's double championship triumph which took them from the GM Vauxhall Conference to the Third Division in successive seasons .
25 She was sent out on an adventure which took her from the Annunciation to pentecost , and the questions and uncertainties built up .
26 Kim Hyon Hui , 27 , a convicted North Korean saboteur , received a presidential pardon on April 12 which exempted her from the death penalty .
27 He 's the chairman of the slump-hit Pearson Group , which owns everything from the Financial Times to Madame Tussauds waxworks .
28 During the years between 1813 and 1830 Serbia , under Miloš , had experienced a social , cultural and economic transformation which brought it from the medieval obscurity of a declining oriental despotism to the threshold of modern European statehood .
29 Of course he belongs to the class which dedicates itself from the beginning , single-mindedly to literature , but yet not in the way we would think of .
30 a considerable collection of under-utilised data , possibly with some characteristics which differentiate them from the main archive collections ; and ,
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