Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [verb] [noun] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The local case studies were developed using data from the Register of Sasines and other documentary sources , together with semi-structured interviews with consumers and producers of private sector housing . |
| 2 | After 10 minutes of infusion , the manometric catheter was removed , two sips of tap water were given to clear acid from the oesophagus , and 22 hours of pH monitoring were started . |
| 3 | At Cardiff , Newport and Swansea the docks were built to export coal from the valleys and metal sheets from the tinplate and zinc works . |
| 4 | New regulations were imposed banning vehicles from the road two days per week , on a rotation basis , with the ban extending to weekends for some vehicles . |
| 5 | In practice , this overloaded the system and various methods were used to prune paths from the search tree . |
| 6 | It looked as though it had been woven like the baskets which were used to collect tea from the old plantations . |
| 7 | House Martins nest in many villages and some larger towns and in 1971 three pairs were found nesting 1.2km. from the site of a gas works that had closed a few months previously . |
| 8 | Of the total of 179 , 14 dream reports were judged to contain elements from the films , although there was no difference in the frequency of incorporation of scenes from the two films . |
| 9 | Under the new legislation , leaders of state enterprise unions were forced to seek approval from the Interior Ministry to register their organizations as " associations " . |
| 10 | When a girl was caught stealing sugar from the kitchen she wept buckets at the telling off she received . |
| 11 | There are many other relics of the past evident around the house and gardens , including a quaint turret on the terrace : it contains a bell which was rung to call parties from the gardens and riverside at meal times . |
| 12 | The cross town route one of seven schemes in the county under threat was expected to attract £2m from the EC towards the £8m needed for the first stage of the road , between McMullen Road and Darlington 's southern bypass . |
| 13 | Dalan 's party , which held its first meeting on March 15 , was expected to attract defectors from the liberal wing of the ANAP . |
| 14 | Durán , projecting the image of elder statesman , was expected to attract votes from the left in the run-off election . |
| 15 | THE RSPCA was called in to investigate when George the kid goat was seen watching TV from the comfort of his armchair . |
| 16 | The new company was named CFS Aeroengines from the surnames of its directors , . |
| 17 | Wilcoxon 's signed-rank test was used to compare results from the alcohol group with control subjects . |
| 18 | The system — developed jointly by BP , Statoil and Baker Hughes Inteq ( formerly Exlog ) — was used to log core from the Statoil-operated Norne Field discovery well in block 6608/10–3 . |
| 19 | Among her other political activities , she sympathised with the Boers and visited St. Helena when it was used to house prisoners from the South African War . |
| 20 | Pupils would no doubt be intrigued to learn how the milk-can was used to fetch milk from the farm , or filled up from a churn on the milkman 's cart . |
| 21 | He alleged the ‘ deliberate distortion ’ was employed to deflect attention from the Dublin Government 's ‘ ambivalent attitude to terrorism ’ . |
| 22 | However , it seemed that each sex could have learnt something from the other on this occasion ; by the end of the day , the beautifully laid-out nursery , ready to provide the young arrivals with constructive play activities , was reduced to utter chaos from the tidal force of juvenile anarchy . |
| 23 | Opposition to the king 's favourite was so soon mobilized that by May 1308 Edward was compelled to banish Gaveston from the realm . |
| 24 | ‘ For instance , the man who , up to a short time ago , was chosen to select films from the West for showing in Slovakia , and to attend festivals like Cannes and Venice , was a butcher by trade . |