Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] from [noun] [noun] of " in BNC.

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1 Over 1500 teeth were examined from pellet samples of adult birds from South Africa , Kenya and England , and none were found to be either digested or broken .
2 Os and Re were separated from acid digestions of samples ( 2–4g ) of whole-rock powder using distillation and anion exchange respectively .
3 Old drains systems were constructed from 2ft lengths of glazed clay pipe .
4 Trees at Woodhall Terrace A letter was received from M. Walsh of the Urban Forestry Unit offering to plant a genus such as birch or hornbeam .
5 Trees at Woodhall Terrace A letter was received from M. Walsh of the Urban Forestry Unit offering to plant a genus such as birch or hornbeam .
6 A letter was received from Mrs. Hogan of Brighton asking if she could take over a sixteen-year-old blind boy , Arthur B. Her own son had died the previous year at the same age , and she said that she would ‘ do her best to make the lad happy , and find him light work in Brighton ’ .
7 Infectious ecotropic Bcl-2/PURO virus was prepared from culture supernatants of E cells , transfected with the Bcl-2/PURO vector and this was used to infect Rat-1/c-Myc-ER cells .
8 A sample of older people was derived from age/sex registers of five general practices in Kent .
9 Ethical approval to scrutinise hospital records was obtained from ethics committees of all health boards in Scotland and from the privacy committee of the Scottish Home and Health Department .
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