Example sentences of "[noun] 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | Radio cassettes were stolen from cars in Larchfield Street , Eastmount Road and Barnes Road , among other places . |
| 6 | For additional strength , mail coats were constructed from patches of four links to one . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | These and similar articles on women 's and other pages were syndicated from agencies in Britain . |
| 10 | Already officers were returning from enquiries with completed interview-forms and Lucy Lane was going through them as they came in . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ The records were being altered , a new accounting system was being introduced and key people were moved from positions of authority . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Traditional ideas about the primitive vertebrate tail were derived from studies on pteraspid heterostracans . |
| 16 | The re-contra commanders were returning from talks in Managua with President Violeta Barrios de Chamorro concerning the continued violence between re-contras and re-compas . |
| 17 | By the time fire crews arrived on the scene , flames were shooting from vents on the roof of the building and a huge pall of smoke was billowing out of it . |
| 18 | Biopsy specimens of normal colon were obtained from patients without any evidence of colonic neoplasia . |
| 19 | Amateurs all , this also meant that the Springboks were chosen from dorps in the Boland and the Border as well as from the cities of the Transvaal and Northern Transvaal . |
| 20 | This concerned the way in which electrons were ejected from metals by an incident beam of light . |
| 21 | The inscriptions were copied from texts on papyri and certainly date back to the New Kingdom but are probably based on much earlier writings , perhaps as early as the Third Dynasty . |
| 22 | His skin was burnt nearly black by the sun and his clothes were made from pieces of a ship 's sail . |
| 23 | POLICE have issued a warning after lethal drugs were stolen from premises in Red House , Sunderland . |
| 24 | Others were taken from yards in Kitchener Street and Wales Street and garages in Woodland Road , Cleveland Terrace , Meadowfield Road and Ravensdale Road . |
| 25 | Colonoscopic biopsies were obtained from patients with active or inactive ulcerative colitis or Crohn 's disease , diagnosed by classical clinical , radiological , endoscopic , and histological criteria . |
| 26 | Bowel habits , irritable bowel syndrome symptoms , and whole gut transit time were calculated from records of three defectations . |
| 27 | Fewer than expected samples were obtained from patients with successful H pylori eradication as the eradication rate with triple treatment in the DU trial was low at an overall 50% . |
| 28 | Samples were drawn from areas of the county : Melton Mowbray , Coalville , Buttersworth and Market Harborough . |
| 29 | Whereas natural science works with a basic or datum language of physical behaviour , which , if adopted for social science , would mean that action-descriptions were inferred from descriptions of behaviour , Weber offers the social sciences a datum language of actions . |
| 30 | The ruling , by six votes to three , included circumstances where seizures were made from countries with which the US had an extradition treaty . |