Example sentences of "[noun sg] which [verb] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | The answer lay in seeing such defeats as signs of God 's temporary displeasure with a people , not with their cause , a displeasure which resulted from their sinfulness which was now being punished . |
| 2 | But the proposition that it was not lawful for the Secretary of State to adopt a tariff which differed from that of the judges was in my opinion wrong . |
| 3 | In a contest which arose from such proceedings about five years ago a Man was killed . |
| 4 | The declining historical significance of nationalism is today concealed not only by the visible spread of ethnic/linguistic agitations , but also by the semantic illusion which derives from the fact that all states are today officially ‘ nations ’ , though many of them patently have nothing in common with what the term ‘ nation-state ’ is commonly held to mean ; that therefore all movements seeking to win independence think of themselves as establishing nations even when they are patently not doing so ; and that centralisation and state bureaucracy will , if they possibly can , put on the fashionable national costume . |
| 5 | Prevailing winds from the north-east ( the Trade Winds ) very occasionally bring a leste , a hot , dry wind which blows from the desert areas of North Africa . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The main feature of this system was the relatively small and , on trend , declining proportion of public revenue which came from direct taxation . |
| 8 | A fairly long search produced the account book for the club which existed from 1886 until 1920 ( with a break during the war years ) . |
| 9 | MENSA , the organisation for people with very high IQs , started an investment club which bought from one sharedealer an American OTC stock Biotech Capital Corporation . |
| 10 | A creature appeared , a lion , red and huge , bounding up the narrow winding streets of Edinburgh , splashing through rivers of blood which poured from the castle . |
| 11 | ‘ Bitch , ’ he hissed , trying to staunch the blood which flowed from his left nostril . |
| 12 | Now we are asked to consider this proposition in the face of local opposition which ranges from sullen resentment to armed threat — said local opposition being only some 25 supersonic minutes away for that bogeyman of the south Atlantic airways , the Super Etendard jet fighter . |
| 13 | ‘ ONLY A few small seas and rather larger mountain ranges stand in the way of the completion of a Euro-megalopolis which spreads from Glasgow to Milan ’ , according to Terence Bendixson , a transport researcher . |
| 14 | Fitzormonde was probably a brave man but Athelstan could almost taste the stench of fear which emanated from him . |
| 15 | Enlightenment comes through spiritual perception which results from the work of the Holy Spirit in the individual 's life ( 1 Cor. |
| 16 | I am quite unable to accept that Parliament in adopting somewhat more prolix language was intending to achieve a result which differed from that recommended by the committee . |
| 17 | The whereabouts of the treasury in the adjacent Franciscan monastery which dates from 1737 is now unknown . |
| 18 | I think the a I think the thing is is that I , we ca n't mentally get into realize how to use his body weight which comes from using your feet and getting and the l and your legs and so forth . |
| 19 | But from the nature of the reply which came from his private office , it was clear that he wanted a personal talk . |
| 20 | BASF says the recorders should use its chromium dioxide tape which suffers from less background hiss . |
| 21 | The savings calculated in the EC study which result from open access in Europe are based on improbable assumptions . |
| 22 | the discontinuity which results from the interval between meetings and constant changes in the membership of the relevant study-group or working-party . |
| 23 | Its only concern has been to ensure that he really does so act , by the general rule which excludes from evidence any confession which is not proved to have been voluntary . |
| 24 | It made £818,000 before tax in 1992 on turnover which rose from £12.3 million to £13 million . |
| 25 | The report points out that 70 million people live in the banana-shaped industrial complex which stretches from Britain to Italy . |
| 26 | 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 ’ . |
| 27 | According to the labour supply function , changes in the employment of labour which flow from prior changes in aggregate demand will not call forth changes in money wages when the initial state is one of less than full employment . |
| 28 | They ‘ pryed into the recesses ’ of the brook which flowed from the waterfall , then followed a lonely road next to the Glen through a woodland of beeches , oaks , and holly , where sheep from the Quantocks and fallow deer moved in the evening light . |
| 29 | In effect the proposal for future review which emerged from the 1983–84 visits anticipated what the Polytechnic achieved through accreditation by the Council from 1 April 1988 . |
| 30 | Below , a serpent of flame wreathed the ground : a burning river of light which wound from behind a dark knoll and spilled , slow as honey , towards the blind gates of Famagusta . |