Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [verb] from a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Understandably , he decided there and then to write off the two weekly instalments he was due to collect from a customer there , and never to lend again in that place . |
| 2 | Who was this coming from a doorway ? |
| 3 | The reason why this rebellion was successful was in large measure due to the allegiance which the King was able to command from a people who were already bound together by a common language , system of law and form of government . |
| 4 | The bovine TB bacterium was first isolated from a badger in June 1971 , some 20 years after farmers in Cornwall had been ridiculed for suggesting that badgers were involved in the spread of TB to cattle . |
| 5 | The animal was first identified from a skull found last year by a joint expedition of the Vietnamese government and the World Wide Fund for Nature ( WWF ) in the Vu Quang reserve on the border with Laos . |