Example sentences of "[adj] was [verb] from [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was done from the year of diagnosis until 1 January 1990 or until death . |
| 2 | This was distinguished from a card which merely had written or printed material on it , intended to convey information to the human eye or mind , and not meant to be ancillary to some machine by being specially shaped for that purpose . |
| 3 | This was cut from a piece of linen texture board and then backed with some cream silk . |
| 4 | This was coordinated from the living room of a local doctor . |
| 5 | Samuel , this was taken from an advertisement in one of the magazines , and one sometimes got a little bit of er of exaggeration . |
| 6 | This weak growth is reflected in the CIA panel 's forecast for the industry 's sectors ( see table ) although , Freeman added , this was derived from the CSO 's production figures , which appear to be overestimated . |
| 7 | Deaconess Tilley 's notions of the food proper for entertaining was formed from the needs of large families on small incomes crossed with Church ‘ does ’ of various kinds . |
| 8 | A smell , rich , savoury , and unfamiliar was drifting from the flat . |
| 9 | A car radio was taken from a Renault in The Street , Woodham Ferrers , another was stolen from a Ford Fiesta in New Road , Chelmsford . |
| 10 | So much was expected from The Fellow . |
| 11 | Chubais on April 10 was expelled from the CPSU by his district party committee in Moscow , and it was reported on April 12 that the Byelorussian and Ukrainian Communist Parties had begun expelling Democratic Platform members from their ranks . |
| 12 | The first of these was converted from the abbey to great house in a very short time , a transaction made easier by Browne 's use of the abbot 's lodging as the centre of his new house . |
| 13 | On a third occasion , Alexander II was returning from the front during the Russo-Turkish War and recognized on a station platform an officer who had deserted from the army . |
| 14 | As a Fleming , Charles V was never loved by the Spaniards ; as a Spaniard , his son Philip II was alienated from the Flemings . |
| 15 | A human cDNA clone ( hTEF1-38 ) encoding TEF-1 was isolated from a Hela cell cDNA library ( Stratagene ) by screening with a synthetic oligonucleotide encoding amino acids ( aa ) 110 to 127 ( Figure 1 ) according to the published sequence ( 1 ) . |
| 16 | One was issued from the monastery of Figeac ; its beneficiary was the abbot of Solignac near Limoges . |
| 17 | A body which Iran tended to distrust because of its GCC associations , its Good Offices Committee was unable to make headway and the plan to hold a summit in Kuwait in 1987 was criticized from the outset by Tehran , which ultimately boycotted the occasion . |
| 18 | ( The first was edited from the Vatican . ) |
| 19 | A DAMBUSTERS bouncing bomb tested near Portland , Dorset , in World War Two was recovered from the seabed yesterday . |
| 20 | Figure 4.7 was produced from a screen display on an Acorn BBC microcomputer . |
| 21 | ( The word Dumb was dropped from the title in the 1970s . ) |
| 22 | The following day Maxwell 's sons , Ian and Kevin , resigned from the boards of MGN and MCC after it was revealed that an estimated £350 million was missing from the MGN pension fund and that another £126 million had been used to secure loans to Maxwell private companies . |
| 23 | Last summer , something strange was emerging from a north London darkroom . |
| 24 | The Council of 500 was drawn from the demes in proportion to their population ( see p. 112 ) and it is now known ( for instance ) that in the time of Kleisthenes no more than one-quarter of known Athenians can be attributed to city demes . |
| 25 | It was all very hush-hush — that was emphasized from the beginning . ’ |
| 26 | NEGOTIATIONS are now well in hand with a UK national collection concerning the Handley Page Hampden that was salvaged from the Murmansk area of the USSR and arrived in the UK on September 4 . |
| 27 | More than 2 tonnes of the waste , contaminated with 300 grams of dioxin , that was scraped from the inside of the pot is still being sought by environmentalists who believe that it , too , may land up in the sea . |
| 28 | Somewhere here were the contributions of Duroc 's ancestors : a series of articles co-written by Pierre Henri Duroc and Donatien Alphonse Francois , Marquis de Sade , speculating on the limits of the human mind when confronted with endless pain ; some transcripts from the meetings of Robespierre 's Committee of Public Safety , in which the fates of some of the first families of France were decided on a whim ; a suppressed account of certain discoveries in a pre-human city that came to light in 19th-century French Equatorial Africa before the cyclopean stones mysteriously sank into the soft jungle earth ; Cauchemar et Fils , Maitres des Mondes Perdues , an unpublished novel by M. Jules Verne that was purchased from the author by a Great-Great-Great-Uncle and consigned to obscurity because it described a steam-driven engine to open up a gateway to a world of dreams that bore a remarkable similarity to a device that the Duroc of the time had indeed developed . |
| 29 | The track , the Brigadier explained to them patiently , was all that was left from the days when the mountain villages were inhabited . |
| 30 | Given the wide diversity of views within the Council about the nature of economic cooperation , let alone its political implications , it was not surprising that if anything positive was to come from the idea , it would be little more than a minimalist option . |