Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] [verb] from [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her palms and knees were bleeding from thorns in the sand . |
| 2 | All chordates have a nerve chord running along the back , and all higher chordates were derived from forms with gill slits . |
| 3 | The excavation also produced an unusual number of ox-goads and styli and all this may indicate the use of the establishment as a place where animals were brought from farms on the estate and prepared for market . |
| 4 | In particular , Thompson and Spencer 's list of the features of habituation was derived from studies of short-term examples of the phenomenon ; it may therefore be unreasonable to expect these features to be found also in latent inhibition ( see Lubow , Weiner , and Schnur 1981 ) . |
| 5 | , writes : MANY years ago I was told that Colgate toothpaste was made from pebbles from Chesil Beach , Dorset . |
| 6 | Like most defectors , Lyalin was suffering from delusions of grandeur and it was hard to judge whether he had been reading too much of Pincher 's material or books by Le Queux dating from the turn of the century . |
| 7 | Blood was spouting from cuts on my right hand , and my left foot ached a bit and felt strange — no more . |
| 8 | The data was taken from trials at Silsoe College of tanker and umbilical hose systems between October 1 and March 31 in three years — 1986/7 ( average rainfall ) , 1987/8 ( wet ) and 1988/9 ( dry ) . |
| 9 | Remba went to work and created ‘ Mixografia ’ , a method in which copper printing plates were formed from impressions of diverse materials and textures — charred wood , lead , cement , burlap , found objects . |
| 10 | And Lexandro was hurled from dreams of incandescence into that now sooty cavity . |
| 11 | There has been considerable debate about the origins of the glassware found in Anglo-Saxon cemeteries ; some are Roman survivals , and a proportion was imported from glass-houses in the Rhineland and northern Gaul . |
| 12 | To keep costs to the minimum the pond surrounds of double row bricks and crazy paving were bought as hardcore , the main filter was constructed from a £3 expansion tank and the water mill was constructed from scraps of plywood and painted with left-over household paint . |
| 13 | ‘ Rexroth 's review said that as the band had n't shown up a pick-up band was assembled from members of the audience , who just banged pots and pans and made odd noises . |
| 14 | The man 's body was hanging from swings in the Panton Road playground , Hoole , Chester . |
| 15 | WORRIED mum Pamela Pilbro spent three weeks searching for her 20-year-old son Philip — unaware that his decomposing body was hanging from rafters in the attic . |
| 16 | Radio cassettes were stolen from cars in Larchfield Street , Eastmount Road and Barnes Road , among other places . |
| 17 | For additional strength , mail coats were constructed from patches of four links to one . |
| 18 | Cyclic nucleotides were extracted from homogenates by boiling and sonicating , as previously described , and their values measured by radioassay ( cyclic AMP assay kit , code TRK 432 ; cyclic GMP RIA kit , code TRK 500 , Amersham , Buckinghamshire ) in freeze dried 3500 g supernatants ( 20 minutes at 4°C ) , reconstituted in water . |
| 19 | Tenders were invited from companies of equal opportunities specialists , and TMS Consultants was finally selected to conduct the survey , which was sponsored jointly by the Bar Council and by the Lord Chancellor 's Department . |
| 20 | These and similar articles on women 's and other pages were syndicated from agencies in Britain . |
| 21 | Already officers were returning from enquiries with completed interview-forms and Lucy Lane was going through them as they came in . |
| 22 | Not one single name was forwarded from branches to HQ , and so no action could be taken . |
| 23 | Not one single name was forwarded from branches to HQ , and so no action could be taken . |
| 24 | Supporting evidence was obtained from experiments in which the ability of a depolarizing stimulus to release radiolabelled glutamate was shown to be elevated in potentiated hippocampal tissue . |
| 25 | Deutsche Bank 's agreed bid for Morgan Grenfell has gone unconditional after acceptances were received from holders of 59.5 per cent of its shares . |
| 26 | ‘ The records were being altered , a new accounting system was being introduced and key people were moved from positions of authority . |
| 27 | Some people , he explained , still wrongly believed that bodies were removed from coffins before being cremated and that ashes were eventually taken from a communal pile . |
| 28 | Loans were secured from collections in North America , Europe and the Russian Commonwealth of Independent States , of paintings , sculptures and tapestries dating from the ninth century to the present day . |
| 29 | A 12-hour radio synthesis map of the field of PSR J0437–4715 was made from observations on 13 August 1992 . |
| 30 | Sediment cores were dated using and vegetation and land use were determined from pollen ; and lakewater pH was inferred from remains of diatoms . |