Example sentences of "specimen [was/were] [verb] from the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This specimen was obtained from the Baltic bays . |
| 2 | The specimen was taken from the eastern side of the sandbar just as the tide began to ebb and came the day after Kevin had taken a 2 lb 8 oz flounder from the same spot . |
| 3 | A small intestinal biopsy specimen was taken from the third part of the duodenum , and routinely processed for histological examination . |
| 4 | At endoscopy , an average of two biopsy specimens were taken from the anterior and posterior walls of the first part of the duodenum , and immediately fixed in a solution of 10% formalin/ saline . |
| 5 | After inspection of the upper gastrointestinal tract , two biopsy specimens were taken from the greater curvature of the antrum , 2 cm from the pylorus . |
| 6 | Two adjacent biopsy specimens were taken from the terminal ileum , the ileocaecal valve , and from eight different sites in the colon . |
| 7 | Antral biopsy specimens were taken from the lesser and greater curvature , approximately 2 cm from the pylorus . |
| 8 | Standard duplicate biopsy specimens were taken from the proximal limb , the anterior wall , the posterior wall , and the body of the reservoir . |
| 9 | Mucosal oxyntic biopsy specimens were taken from the same defined area and tissues were processed in the same way as in the present study . |
| 10 | Biopsy specimens were taken from the sigmoid colon ( about 20 cm from the anus ) of 28 patients with ulcerative colitis ( mean age , 35 years ; range , 15–59 years ; 10 men and 18 women ) and 23 controls without ulcerative colitis ( mean age , 52 years ; range , 20–73 years ) who underwent sigmoidoscopy because of suspected non-inflammatory bowel disease . |