Example sentences of "[noun] were [vb pp] from the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The young Aberdeen side were relegated from the first division of the indoor league , but they are better disciplined outdoors and with such a wealth of talent at their disposal they will take some shifting . |
| 2 | Kilmarnock went down by the only goal of the game at Dumbarton , where several hundred fans were evacuated from the main stand just minutes before the game was due to start . |
| 3 | The recent spate of such thefts ( see The Art Newspaper No. 21 , October 1992 , p.16 ) continued when one marble and sixteen classical terracotta figurines were taken from the Schimatari Museum in Boeotia , central Greece , on the night of 24 December . |
| 4 | Both lists were formed from the Medical Research Council Psycholinguistic Database ( Wilson , 1987 ) by excluding repetitions , rare usages , plurals and derived forms . |
| 5 | Situated in Mayfair , directly across the park from her own house , its clients were drawn from the highest echelons of society . |
| 6 | On April 28 , Hekmatyar 's fighters were ejected from the Interior Ministry , their final stronghold . |
| 7 | The manuscript , originally compiled by Shah Jehan 's fawning court historian Inayat Khan , told the story of the apex of Mughal power , the golden age when most of India , all of Pakistan and great chunks of Afghanistan were ruled from the Red Fort in Delhi . |
| 8 | For the DNA bending assays 143 bp fragments were generated from the circular permutation vectors pICP4Bend and pAd2Bend ( 44 ) by digestion with the appropriate restriction enzymes ( Fig. 5A ) , dephosphorylated with calf intestinal alkaline phosphatase ( 50 ) and purified following agarose gel electrophoresis in 0.7% gels using Geneclean ( Bio 101 , La Jolla , Ca . ) . |
| 9 | Political parties were banned from the armed forces by presidential decree on Aug. 24 , following Yeltsin 's decree to the same effect [ see above ] . |
| 10 | Yesterday a policeman warned Mr Evans that unless the cars were removed from the yellow lines St Paul 's Motors would receive a series of fixed penalty fines . |
| 11 | Temperatures rose to 43° C , the highest since 1958 , compared to an August average of 33° C. Cars were banned from the eight-square-kilometre city centre as windless weather trapped pollutants in the lower atmosphere . |
| 12 | The correlation was significant in the 29 subjects whose birth weights were validated from the obstetric and neonatal charts ( r s =0.43 , p=0.019 ) . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Cut-offs for clinical variables were taken from the predictive models of Farr et al . |
| 15 | This finding provides some support for the logarithmic approximation made in ( 3 ) where higher order terms in a number of variables were dropped from the original specification . |
| 16 | Hospital discharge data were obtained from the Finnish National Agency for Welfare and Health , the causes of deaths from the Finnish State Statistics , and annual alcohol consumption from the Finnish State Alcohol Company . |
| 17 | The data were obtained from the Canadian Hemophilia Registry . |
| 18 | For the analyses of childhood cancers including leukaemias — that is , those diagnosed in children aged 0–14 years — data were obtained from the National Registry of Childhood Tumours at the Childhood Cancer Research Group . |
| 19 | Data were collected from the relevant site departments , transcribed onto coding forms and sent to Dartford for punching onto paper tape . |
| 20 | The data were pooled from the 12 minirhizotrons in each forest . |
| 21 | Data were returned from the first fly-by and from the next two , on 21 September 1974 and 16 March 1975 . |
| 22 | Furthermore , the ranks of that clergy were drawn from the common people themselves . |
| 23 | And in accord with this prediction , when recordings were made from the motor neurons within the abdominal ganglion during habituation , it was found that there was indeed a progressive decline in the firing rate of the cells as habituation occurred . |
| 24 | ‘ We use the NMS library but for the Hungarian exhibition books were sent from the Hungarian Embassy in London and the Cultural Attache lent videos . |
| 25 | If a portfolio were constructed from the above investments with weights of and the return and factor weightings would be as follows : . |
| 26 | A. kollari first appeared in Britain in the 1830s , after galls were brought from the Middle East to Devon , where they were used to make dyes for the woollen cloth industry . |
| 27 | Liu Binyan and Su Xiaokang were expelled from the official Chinese Writers ' Association for their " anti-government activities abroad " . |
| 28 | Under the 1935 Act the hill areas were excluded from the political process . |
| 29 | first , some peripheral areas were excluded from the new Greater London area ( see Map 2. 1 ) ; second , the number of boroughs was reduced to thirty-two ( plus the City of London which received the responsibilities of a borough but retained its own status ) ( see Table 2. 1 ) ; third , education became the responsibility of a new ad hoc body in Inner London and the enlarged boroughs in Outer London . |
| 30 | Under government legislation , Blacks were resettled from the early 1960s to what were designated Bantustans or ‘ homelands ’ according to ethnic groupings . |