Example sentences of "were [verb] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had as much right to be there as I , and I was in no position to judge what benefits they were deriving from their experiences , beyond a developed attraction towards pyromania . |
| 2 | Great dinosaurs were excavated from the American west while it was still ‘ wild ’ — early fossil-hunters had to contend with hostile Indians and sometimes came to blows over possession of the richest sites . |
| 3 | What had happened was that Stirling 's static line had snagged on the tail section as he exited from the door , and two panels were ripped from the parachute , causing him to descend too rapidly . |
| 4 | Saturday afternoons , when the streets were solid with white faces , was a carnival of consumerism as goods were ripped from shelves . |
| 5 | His easel collapsed , his drawings were ripped from the wall . |
| 6 | The mathematical techniques for doing this were invented fairly recently , and , unlike most of those we have so far mentioned , were developed from scratch to solve a particular archaeological problem . |
| 7 | As the antihistamines were developed from early attempts to find adrenaline blockers , this was not entirely surprising . |
| 8 | But the breed 's origins are uncertain and the theories are numerous — that they are almost directly descended from the wild aurochs , for example ( the claim of many a breed ! ) or are at least of Bos primigenius stock like the Podolians of the steppes , or are descended from large , long-horned continental cattle imported several centuries ago ( some say by the Romans ) , or were imported 3,000–4,000 years ago , or came from Ireland where they were an ancient indigenous type , or were developed from Dutch and old English breeds before the eighteenth century , or must have Norse origins because of their coat colour and pattern . |
| 9 | The pictures were developed from a film found in a camera belonging to Elizabeth Over , 30 , murdered on a lonely beach at Sodwana Bay , in Zululand . |
| 10 | Brasher Boots arrived about the same time as the K-SB3 , but were developed from the running shoe . |
| 11 | These weapons were developed from the long-barrelled hunting weapons used in Hochland , and their long barrels make them very accurate . |
| 12 | The physic gardens of the monasteries were mostly formal , with rectangular or square beds , but the gardens attached to private homes were developed from these simple plans into intricate designs of curved beds edged with dwarf hedges of box , southernwood or lavender . |
| 13 | The kama , as their shape suggests , were developed from the peasant 's sickle . |
| 14 | However , centres will be able to continue to offer any programmes which were developed from the 1992 |
| 15 | These were developed from qualities defined by Isaiah ( c.11 ) in his prophecy traditionally associated with the Incarnation , and interpreted by the Church Fathers as gifts of the Holy Spirit . |
| 16 | The approximate molecular masses of the bands were calculated from the migration of known standards . |
| 17 | Symptom scores were calculated from the questionnaires as the increase over the baseline score for autonomic symptoms ( sweating , heart pounding , warmness , anxiety , tingling , and trembling ) , neuroglycopenic symptoms ( inability to concentrate , confusion , drowsiness , tiredness , dizziness , weakness , blurred vision , and irritability ) , and total symptoms ( autonomic plus neuroglycopenic score ) . |
| 18 | The Mantel-Haenszel estimate of the overall odds ratio and its variance were calculated from a set of studies by the Robins-Breslow-Greenland method . |
| 19 | Another 266 anal cancers were calculated from the representative samples . |
| 20 | Both regression analyses were calculated from data on 448 women because of missing values in one of the exposure or confounding variables . |
| 21 | For each patient the mean value and coefficient of variation for both the albumin concentration and the albumin:creatinine ratio were calculated from all the urine samples provided . |
| 22 | Since it was impossible to guarantee that any section of normal roads would be free from other traffic , speeds were calculated from the video on four separate sections of road . |
| 23 | Absolute quantities of tissue type plasminogen activator antigen in the samples were calculated from an eight point standard curve of tissue type plasminogen activator ( Biopool , Sweden , 0–4 ng/ ml ) . |
| 24 | Absorption and secretion rates in the test segment were calculated from the perfusion rate and the changes in polyethylene glycol and electrolyte concentrations . |
| 25 | Gall bladder volumes were calculated from the measured parameters with the software of the ultrasound unit , assuming that the shape of the gall bladder approximated a solid with elliptical sections , the excentricity depending on that at the level of the greatest transverse section . |
| 26 | Mean values were calculated from at least three ields on each slide . |
| 27 | The liquid emptying half life and percentage retentions at 60 minutes were calculated from these fits . |
| 28 | Rectal CSA values in women showed a tendency of being slightly higher than male values at all pressure steps with a significant difference at 3 and 5 cm H 2 O. Biomechanical parameters were calculated from rectal CSA pressure relations . |
| 29 | Confidence intervals for the ratio of observed to expected numbers of patients with previous peptic ulcer were calculated from published tables for Poisson distributions . |
| 30 | With these values the oesophageal and gastric HC0 3 - concentrations ( mmol/litre ) were calculated from the equations : |