Example sentences of "[conj] [was/were] [verb] from the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An estimated 2,000,000 people either fled or were evacuated from the coastal regions in advance of the hurricane . |
| 2 | Earlier last night , two women 's quarter-finals that were postponed from the rained-out day session were played one lasted three sets and the other three games . |
| 3 | They also worked towards and in alliance with the landed interest in the context of a low-profile , informal , state where there was a shared unease about the pressures for change that were coming from the lower social orders . |
| 4 | However , there is wide scope for creating designs with a botanical feel , and in the picture shown on the facing page , I decided to use the leaves and buds that were picked from the same plant as the main flowers , thus creating a design that was botanically correct . |
| 5 | Grainne stood very still , although she did not close her eyes , for to do so in here , with a creature , a something that was watching from the shadowy corners and grinning and copying her every move , was not to be thought of . |
| 6 | The San Francisco Museum is loaning us their beautiful Dirck Bouts ‘ Madonna and Child ’ that was done from the same cartoon or pattern as ours , the main difference being that theirs has a brocade background and ours is plain . |
| 7 | And though embellished with a couple of right hands which sought but did not destroy , it was the work of a crushing left hook-cum-uppercut that was ripped from the top shelf of Razor 's own weapon room . |
| 8 | Ronni blinked down at the glittering sea that was divided from the craggy landscape by a broad silken ribbon of glittering pale gold sand . |
| 9 | This attitude was by no means confined to educated sceptics ; it was probably even more marked among the urban proletariat , who had largely abandoned churchgoing and were alienated from the established Church , which they identified with a repressive economic and social system . |
| 10 | The museum building itself was removed from Inchicore , Dublin , and was restructured from the old church of St. Jude , where many steam engineers worshipped and provides a most suitable for this unique and special collection . |
| 11 | The first locomotive was built in 1838 , and was extracted from the small workshop by demolishing a wall to let it out ! |
| 12 | I felt I was n't appreciate anymore and was suffering from the normal jealousies that a father has when the child monopolizes the mother 's attention . |
| 13 | Domkat Yah Bali , a Christian who was up till then considered to be the regime 's " number three " , had lost the Defence portfolio and the post of Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff , and was removed from the Armed Forces Ruling Council ( AFRC ) . |
| 14 | Hed gone through a sticky patch but he was a good player , and was signing from the runaway leaders of the division . |
| 15 | Brasher Boots arrived about the same time as the K-SB3 , but were developed from the running shoe . |
| 16 | ‘ The Boys ’ , as they were known , formed their own team rather than play in established youth sides but were dismissed from the local league for fighting and violent play . |
| 17 | The British Workers ' League was founded under Milner 's wing as a front organization that was linked in principle with the coalition as a whole but was run from the Unionist side . |