Example sentences of "[noun] were [verb] from [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Both regression analyses were calculated from data on 448 women because of missing values in one of the exposure or confounding variables . |
| 32 | The United States Virgin Islands were purchased from Denmark in 1917 . |
| 33 | Therefore , in the case of capital expenditure out of reserves , the revenue effect is recorded only when the contributions were made from revenue into the reserve accounts . |
| 34 | Plants were grown from seed in a 38-m long chamber in a ventilated glasshouse . |
| 35 | To attract more businesses , the maximum fees for company registration were cut from £50,000 to £5,000 and a 10 p.c. rebate on employers ' national insurance contributions was introduced . |
| 36 | The voices of churchmen were heard from time to time , perhaps frequently , complaining of the enslavement of Christians , or of the treatment of slaves ; but there was no radical attack on the institution as such . |
| 37 | It was the day for the sale of sheep , and we saw many little lots under the guardianship of shepherds and collie dogs ; eager buyers were going from group to group , judging their respective merits — now taking a hold of a sheep to feel his weight , and noting the quality of his fleece . |
| 38 | Two French UNRWA workers were released from captivity in Beirut at the beginning of the year and I had watched their press conference imagining how I would feel if it were John delivering the speech . |
| 39 | More than 100 foreign aid workers were evacuated from Juba on Jan. 29-30 , benefiting from a brief ceasefire called by the SPLA . |
| 40 | Ian Adamson , one of the keenest Protestant Gaelic speakers , who inherited his interest from a Gaelic-speaking great-grandmother from western Scotland , claims that in the 19th century , when Catholics were turning from Gaelic to English , Protestants helped to keep the language alive . |
| 41 | The leaders of the black Moslem fundamentalist Jamaat al-Moslemeen , Yasin Abu Bakr and Bilal Abdullah , and 114 other members of the group were released from prison on July 1 . |
| 42 | The Azerbaijan Supreme Soviet , meeting in emergency session , on Jan. 22 threatened that unless all troops were withdrawn from Azerbaijan within 48 hours it would call a referendum on Azerbaijan 's session from the Soviet Union . |
| 43 | In military terms the imperial era came to an end when the last British troops were withdrawn from East of Suez in 1972 , but politically it had ended sixteen years earlier at Suez . |
| 44 | Conservative and radical scientific ideas were disseminated from Paris by naturalists and anatomists returning home inspired by what they had heard . |
| 45 | The long shells of the hulls were wiped from view by the heave of the sea , so that the prow platforms and tents of the poop could no longer be seen , and only the pennanted masts told where they were , until they rode into view once more , in a steam of spume from the bite of the oars . |
| 46 | The Crawfords were living from week to week , and soon the Rolls-Royce had to go . |
| 47 | Radio cassettes were stolen from cars in Larchfield Street , Eastmount Road and Barnes Road , among other places . |
| 48 | Both corn and cattle were exported from Britain under the Romans , which shows how successful their way of farming became . |
| 49 | For additional strength , mail coats were constructed from patches of four links to one . |
| 50 | Losses per share were cut from 137.01p to 83.1p , but there is again no dividend and the shares dipped 0.5p to 7p. — PA |
| 51 | Like the captured enemy patrol , Grant and Larsen were dressed from head to foot in dark clothing , only in their case it was less military in style . |
| 52 | A number of reconstructions were made from time to time , especially under Julius Caesar and Augustus . |
| 53 | Shifts of labour were therefore organised , and these tall fortress-like structures were lit from top to bottom at night , and presented something new and dramatic to those who had the leisure to stay outside and contemplate it with detachment . |
| 54 | Policemen of twenty to twenty-five years ' service were harassed from pillar to post in the hunt for improved returns of charges and summonses . |
| 55 | These figures were derived from inspection of Aslib 's Index to Theses . |
| 56 | The waters were layered from October to May while ice was present , with temperatures close to freezing point near the surface but at 1–1.25°C near the bottom in 26 m . |
| 57 | 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 . |
| 58 | In the nineteenth century the Gunton Park was essentially a dairy herd and here the emphasis on a good milk yield at 4 per cent butterfat continued into the 1930s and 1940s , when the rest of the breeders were changing from dairy to dual-purpose types . |
| 59 | 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 . |
| 60 | These and similar articles on women 's and other pages were syndicated from agencies in Britain . |