Example sentences of "[pron] [noun pl] were [verb] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Persons in close contact with them at work or at their houses were drawn from the majority population for ‘ security reasons ’ . |
| 2 | One immediate advantage of this arrangement was the ability to control the point in time at which datafiles were extracted from the database . |
| 3 | Situated in Mayfair , directly across the park from her own house , its clients were drawn from the highest echelons of society . |
| 4 | I remember watching the television report showing him standing over a map in the local Party headquarters , sweeping his hand across it presumably indicating which areas were to disappear from the face of the earth . |
| 5 | Part of the celebration of the feast consisted of a learned discussion in which passages were read from the Koran on which the assembled scholars gave . |
| 6 | Where such projects did produce their ‘ fair return ’ ( a minimum of 5 per cent ) , their tenants were drawn from the relatively prosperous upper working class of artisans , and not from the truly indigent for whom they were intended . |
| 7 | Its members were drawn from the North and South ( including oil exporters ) . |
| 8 | Even before 1905 a large minority and probably even a majority of their members were drawn from the lower classes . |
| 9 | Reggae was a poor man 's music and its themes were drawn from the ghettoes of Trenchtown , Jamaica . |
| 10 | Its priests were drawn from the ruling houses of the tribes , many of whose sons became Druids , and sometimes even the kings themselves , as in the case of Diviacus , the friend of Caesar . |
| 11 | These precedents encouraged lawyers to talk of the immemorial law of the Salian Franks under which women were excluded from the succession . |
| 12 | Their bristles were made from the finest hair available , taken from inside the ear of a goat . |
| 13 | THE SHERIFF hearing evidence at an inquiry into the deaths last September of two schoolboys whose bodies were recovered from the Bellrock Quarry on St Nicholas Golf Course at Prestwick , said yesterday that their parents were blameless . |
| 14 | Another band encircled him from the left , two massive arms had him from behind , his feet were lifted from the ground . |
| 15 | Armagnac 's brother , the archbishop of Auch , had acknowledged that his temporalities were held from the crown of France , and Capetian lawyers tried to argue that the lordships of Armagnac and Fézensac were fiefs of the archbishopric and therefore subject to the superior lordship of the French crown . |
| 16 | None the less , his results were censored from the trial analysis at the point of his last ‘ on treatment ’ oral cholecystectography/ ultrasonagraphy . |
| 17 | His easel collapsed , his drawings were ripped from the wall . |
| 18 | The , we did er our baths were dating from the nineteen fourteen period and they were getting rather old the , the , the boiler was n't too good and we were afraid that it might burst at some time . |
| 19 | Our stories were drawn from the fringes of science , the environmental front line and Californian whackiness . |
| 20 | Of course it was nice to know that some of our things were made from the wool from our own sheep . |
| 21 | We stripped and sat on metal stools ; we were told to take everything out of our pockets and wait until our names were called from the room next door . |