Example sentences of "which [noun] have [vb pp] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were led down black-and-white-tiled corridors , through a series of presence chambers , all huge and hung with tapestries which Wolsey had brought from abroad . |
| 2 | He regarded Lexandro musingly as a brother might a sister whose honour he must protect — a sentiment which Lexandro had purged from his own soul , though he recognized the symptoms . |
| 3 | The legacy of Descartes comes in for further scrutiny in Joanna Hodge 's paper , which examines the concept of ‘ the subject ’ which philosophy has inherited from Descartes . |
| 4 | Sharpe had taken a royal fortune off the battlefield , and it was that fortune which Jane had stolen from him , and much of which she had already spent on a London house and on silks and on furniture and on jewels and on Lord John 's debts , and on silverware and gold plate and Chinese wallpaper and on lapdogs and satin and on the cabriolet in which Lord John now rode towards the cavalry and battle . |
| 5 | Can the revelation of God in Jesus of which Christians have spoken from the New Testament onwards properly be interpreted simply by saying that Jesus manifests the divine love in the most perfect form attainable on earth ? |
| 6 | Montano reacts to this inversion of the truth with the correct response ( assuming it to be true ) which Iago has elicited from him , namely that Othello ought to be told ; at which point Iago demurs , with the pretence of friendship : From that declaration , after the ensuing brawl , Iago has built himself a platform from which he can now act the perfect friend : As we alone know , to get the truth from what Iago says about Cassio one must simply invert everything he says . |
| 7 | CAP is a piece of hardware which Unisys has adapted from its old 2200 DCP front-end processor for linking up its 2200 Series mainframes to IBM SNA sites , already in use at over 200 sites . |
| 8 | Wisteria frutescens , a climbing shrub known as the Carolina kidney bean tree and Ascryum hypericoides , St Peterswort , were both depicted , also Myrica cerifera , fully described in Catesby 's book , and Fraxinus caroliniana , seeds of which Miller had received from him in 1724 . |
| 9 | Of equal importance , it can be argued , to the Vietminh cause was the half-dozen Colt 45s which Ho had obtained from US sources , together with a signed photograph of the US 14th Airforce Commander , General Chennault . |
| 10 | The years of training in which Marco has learned from his father to be brave and loyal , to be secret and silent , are now to be proved : he is to be the messenger . |
| 11 | At the moment , enjoying a piece of swordfish which Antonietta had bought from that same man , she wondered how she would be able to repay the kindness and generosity of this family . |
| 12 | A fuller reply to negative criticism of postmodernism , however , can be made with the further evidence of a brief survey of ways in which postmodernism has followed from modernism 's second area of innovation — chronology and structure . |
| 13 | Two-thirds of the way up the wall a frieze had been painted , depicting the work of the shipping company which Amotju had inherited from his father . |
| 14 | The sense of destiny which Diana had felt from an early age shaped , albeit unconsciously , her relationships with the opposite sex . |
| 15 | The topography and drainage patterns suggest certain routes by which invaders have penetrated from all directions into the Balkan heartland . |
| 16 | So many exceptions had been made to earlier Navigation Acts by royal licence that it had sometimes looked as if they were intended to raise revenue rather than to direct trade , and in the 1660s there had been a few signs that the legislation which Charles had inherited from the Republic and had then extended might still be treated in the same way . |
| 17 | It was a magical room , carved out of the attic and reached only by a wrought-iron spiral staircase which Paul had rescued from some abandoned church . |
| 18 | Its audience was familiar with the statue which Charlemagne had brought from Italy and set up in the courtyard at Aachen . |
| 19 | Wah ! wa-a-ah ! ’ which Oesterley had quoted from Spencer and Gillen 's account of aborigines dancing around the destroyed home of a dead man . |
| 20 | who stated in his Cabinet-maker and Upholsterer 's Drawing Book ( 1793 ) that the Hepplewhite Guide had ‘ already caught the decline ’ in design standards , a third edition was issued in 1794 containing new or altered plates , in which many curvilinear or shield-back chairs and sofas of 1788 are replaced by neat rectilinear forms in the French style , which Sheraton had derived from Henry Holland [ q.v. ] |
| 21 | English words , or words which English has adopted from other tongues , seem to be forming the basis of an international vocabulary . |
| 22 | He began to unwrap the package which Jotan had taken from the dwarf . |
| 23 | The privilege which Anselm had extracted from the pope in 1103 , despite its inadequacy , was the high watermark in the Canterbury claim to primacy . |