Example sentences of "which [adv] [verb] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Early television sets , when you turned them off , used to leave a blob of light in the middle of the screen , which slowly diminished from the size of a florin to an expiring speck . |
| 2 | It was like being in an elevator which suddenly drops from the top of a twenty storey building to the basement . |
| 3 | She could not have brought herself to do as some did , step in and squash her body against the bodies of those who formed the dense wad of people which already bulged from the open doors . |
| 4 | One might speculate that HCO 3 - secretion is mainly initiated by certain agents such as toxins from the luminal side , whereas hormones or prostaglandins , which normally act from the basolateral membrane of enterocytes , do not significantly affect HCO 3 - transport in man in vivo . |
| 5 | A pre-filter of simple gravel ( we have tested a prototype GSM — not the new model — which still suffered from the age old problem of clogging , which also afflicts simple foam pre-filters ) . |
| 6 | Despite his good intentions , and despite the more rational management principles and institutions introduced by Speranskii , the actual administration of Siberia , the manner of its economic exploitation , the low levels of popular enlightenment , the permanently suppurating sore of the exile system , the treatment of the native population — which still ranged from the paternalistic to the spasmodically genocidal — and the survival of traditional ‘ imperialist ’ attitudes in St Petersburg , meant that in practice the old core-periphery , metropolis-frontier relationships still remained in force , and Siberia continued to be treated and governed in a manner which reflected its original quasi-colonial status . |
| 7 | The skull has recently been identified as the fossilized cranium of a white woman , at least 1,500 years old , which probably came from the burial ground on Pilsden Pen . |
| 8 | The excavations in the early part of this century have made this a difficult building to interpret , but it is clear from the published plan that alterations had been made to the original structure , which probably dates from the third century . |
| 9 | Inside are stomata ( the few outside are small and probably permanently closed ) , which probably gain from the ants and decaying material , reduce transpiration loss and also improve the oxygen and moisture regimes for the ants . |
| 10 | Another tradition has it that the knockers are afraid of the sign of the cross , an idea which probably stems from the legend which says that knockers are the GHOSTS of the Jews who took part in the crucifixion of Jesus and were punished by being sent to work in the mines . |
| 11 | In a consideration of religious drama which clearly descends from the theorizing about anthropology and literature in ‘ The Beating of a Drum ’ , and from the 1923 conviction that ‘ the stage — not only in its remote origins , but always — is a ritual , ’ he writes in favour of a closer union between ritual and metropolitan drama , seeing an essentially religious craving as latent in all serious patrons of drama , as opposed to cinema audiences seeking mere distraction . |
| 12 | Industrial output fell by over 11 per cent in the course of the 1979 — 83 Parliament , a performance worse than in other western states which also suffered from the recession . |
| 13 | Sri Lanka , for whose tea exports Iraq was the second largest customer and which also suffered from the impact on its expatriate nationals and the loss of their earnings , sought international compensation for its reluctant imposition of sanctions . |
| 14 | The high-pressure ices have specific crystal patterns which differ with the pressure used to form them , and which also differ from the patterns of ice formed at normal atmospheric pressure . |
| 15 | Mr Garvey 's car , a Volvo estate , which also vanished from the family home at the same time as Mr Garvey , was found this afternoon at Great Yarmouth , parked in a side street . |
| 16 | ‘ My aeroplane , which also comes from the States , only does eight miles to the gallon . ’ |
| 17 | We recognise , of course , the general reluctance of those invited to assist in the investigation of police complaints to be drawn into proceedings beyond those which strictly flow from the complaint itself . |
| 18 | One fact in the situation , which later emerged from the gossip of Baldwin , Anselm 's man of business , was that on his way to the meeting at Gloucester , Rufus had visited Wilton . |
| 19 | On the ceiling is a Baroque fresco , The Judgement of Solomon which originally came from the Burgrave 's House . |
| 20 | A new 15 foot tufting machine is also being installed for this purpose , replacing one which originally came from the Glenvale factory in Paisley . |
| 21 | In contrast to this complex and long-established system , which originally derived from the tribal period in early Celtic and Germanic Europe , we find that certain cities and merchants were freed of feudal ties . |
| 22 | A single-volume history has recently been courageously and skilfully attempted by Hugh Honour and John Fleming , which inevitably suffers from the problem of compression . |
| 23 | Further evidence of rebuilding is inside , as the rear wall is of the timber framed brick infilled variety , clearly much older than the remainder of the mill , which mainly dates from the 19th century . |
| 24 | Breeze and Gay went to meet her at Clyst St George station , and hardly recognized the ultra-smart figure which languidly emerged from the train , as the boon companion of not so long ago . |
| 25 | Gradually the business declined , but the mid-1980s saw a dramatic change of use when it was substantially renovated and converted into a restaurant , care being taken to retain the two undershot water wheels and much of the machinery , some of which reputedly dates from the late 18th century . |
| 26 | Almost all successful and substantial talents spend years in reassessment , reorganization and the bewilderment of impending failure before fate deals a sideways measure of success which invariably comes from the direction of least expectation . |
| 27 | Leather corals ( Sarcophytons ) are easy to grow soft corals which regularly bud from the base to produce ‘ Y ’ shaped colonies . |
| 28 | Other peoples which virtually disappeared from the map as a result of Russian colonialism were the Itelmens of Kamchatka and , eventually , their southern neighbours the Ainu . |
| 29 | The kind of criticism that is appropriate in the performing arts is quite different from that in technology , which again differs from the nature of criticism in philosophy . |
| 30 | It will also avoid situations where , on final repudiation , a Writ is served which markedly deviates from the facts and grounds of fault upon which the original investigation is based — thus leaving your solicitors , in essence , to investigate ‘ from scratch ’ . |