Example sentences of "which [vb past] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The steam narrowboats which operated from the Midlands to London could carry only 12 tons but could tow an unpowered ‘ butty ’ boat behind . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He dodged away and took the opportunity to walk rapidly in the opposite direction from the one in which Stair 's lot might be , towards Pall Mall , passing the narrow courts and alleys which led from the brilliantly lit main street . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Hitler was by no means altogether excluded from the angry storm of criticism which arose from the ‘ crucifix action ’ . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 ’ . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 ’ ) . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | That will have a disastrous effect upon the locality equal to that which arose from the threat of the route . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 ) . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |