Example sentences of "which [vb past] from [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For instance , the well-known Farmington Plan , which operated from 1948 to 1972 , was a voluntary agreement between 60 American libraries to acquire at least one copy of each new foreign publication that might reasonably be expected to interest a research worker . |
| 2 | also relied on the reluctance of Viscount Simonds expressed in In re ‘ Wonderland , ’ Cleethorpes [ 1965 ] A.C. 58 , 70–71 , to construe an ambiguity in a statute in a manner which derogated from common law rights . |
| 3 | There is not space to enumerate all his works which arose from such associations , but The Battle of Tewkesbury for voices and instrumental ensemble for the 1971 Tewkesbury Festival and Henry Purcell for counter-tenor , clarino obbligato and strings for Alfred Deller and Stour Music ( 1971 ) , the Jubilate for Charlton Kings Choral Society ( 1979 ) , the Scherzo for piano and orchestra for Douglas Smith and the Cheltenham Sunday Players , the moving Concerto for trumpet and strings in memory of Bernard Brown ( 1976 ) , and the Cantate Domino in memory of John Clough ( 1978 ) are all interesting examples that deserve to be heard again . |
| 4 | In a contest which arose from such proceedings about five years ago a Man was killed . |
| 5 | The most notable inclusions in the list were Lazard Brothers and Hambros , which rose from eleventh to second place and nineteenth to third place respectively . |
| 6 | The vast increase in the number of servants living in households in England and Wales ( which rose from 847,000 in 1851 to 1.3 million in 1881 ; the number of general female servants rose by 33 per cent ) also provided new opportunities for sexual exploitation . |
| 7 | These figures need to be considered within the context of Cheshire as a whole , which rose from 866,556 in 1971 to 926,293 in 1981 . |
| 8 | We should also add some part of the cost of the increased numbers of general and senior managers , which rose from 510 in 1986 to 13200 in 1991 , Between 1987 and 1991 the salary bill for general managers rose from £25.7m to £251.5m . |
| 9 | Within this the commodity composition showed a marked increase in engineering products which rose from 37 per cent in 1955 to 45 per cent in 1970 of total UK exports ; semi-manufactures ( including chemicals , textiles and metals ) fell from 30 per cent to 26 per cent because of the decline in textiles , while other manufactures remained fairly constant around 13 per cent and non-manufactures fell from 25 per cent to 15 per cent . |
| 10 | Wilson Bowden 's strength is its land bank , which rose from 7,900 to 8,750 plots last year . |
| 11 | There was opposition to the existing CET tariff rates which ranged from zero to 45 per cent , with Jamaica proposing new rates ranging between 5 and 20 per cent and the seven-country Organization of Eastern Caribbean States ( OECS ) arguing for rates ranging from zero to 30 per cent . |
| 12 | Special thanks must go to our many suppliers and customers for their most generous gifts and donations which ranged from 3 Nights in Paris for two , to a bottle of whisky . |
| 13 | All the phases of reclamation are still visible today , together with traces of the complex methods of water removal which ranged from wind-driven scoop wheels , through steam engines and diesel pumps to the electric pumps of today . |
| 14 | Especially in polygynous species , the costs of combat are frequently high ( Geist , 1971 ; Clutton-Brock , Albon , Gibson & Guinness , 1979 ) and so , too are the costs of many sexually dimorphic characters associated with combat , such as increased male body size and weapon development ( Clutton-Brock , Guinness & Albon , 1982 ) : in species where males are substantially larger than females , both growing and adult males are often more likely to die than females ( Robinette , Gashwiler , Low & Jones , 1957 ; Grubb , 1974 ; Howe , 1977 ) and in one reindeer population which crashed from 6000 to 42 , only one of the remaining adults was a male ( Klein , 1968 ) . |
| 15 | Intermixed with this division were differences which stemmed from strong commitments to domestic policies of social welfare on the one hand and the belief that Britain should pursue a world role on the other . |
| 16 | She held out her hand with deliberate provocation and , drawing him down on the edge of the bed beside her , she gave a little laugh which came from deep in her throat . |
| 17 | Mr Moynihan blamed his defeat on the ‘ collapse of the Liberal Democrat vote , which came from Labour some years ago and has to some extent returned there ’ . |
| 18 | C. All these factories were using wool , most of which came from other parts of Britain . |
| 19 | Figure 2 , below , shows the proportion of items issued which came from each of these three locations . |
| 20 | We began by exploring her beliefs about relationships with men , which came from two main sources . |
| 21 | While a splendid Gris , the 1912 gouache-pastel-charcoal ‘ Nature morte avec bouteille et cigares ’ ( est. $300,000–400,000 ) inexplicably sold under-estimate for $280,000 ( £155,600 ) the work 's severity may not have endeared it to many people the biggest surprise was the prices paid for the Legers , which came from all points of the artist 's career . |
| 22 | The lorry which came from this warehouse in Bletchley was found in North London later this morning still carrying its load of forty thousand pounds worth of clothes although the doors are damaged . |
| 23 | An interesting architectural style evolved here , generally called Asturian , which came from Visigothic designs but also embodied Carolingian features of construction . |
| 24 | The main feature of this system was the relatively small and , on trend , declining proportion of public revenue which came from direct taxation . |
| 25 | For instance , if the proportion of domestic consumption which came from domestic production rose then this may result from trade suppression , or the existence of dynamic effects producing lower prices in an industry exhibiting comparative advantage within the integrated area . |
| 26 | Both Wallace and Gosden have shown how the interests of existing secondary education were maintained at the Board , ‘ in the national interest ’ , against the demand for multilateral schooling , which came from those most concerned with the education of the majority of eleven-to-fourteen-year-olds in the elementary and technical sections , as they were then called . |
| 27 | Product sales generated £31.1m up from £30.1m in 1991 , some 58% of which came from overseas subsidiaries . |
| 28 | The goal deluge at St James 's Park brought home the need to counter the effects of the new offside law which came into force that summer and which reduced from three to two the number of players required to be between an opposing attacker and goal when the ball was last played . |
| 29 | It called for international agreements to support sustainable development , with payments made by companies which profited from indigenous knowledge of plant properties . |
| 30 | Some re–seeding may be required to the areas previously sown and which suffered from early frosts . |