Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] from [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Symptom scores were calculated from the questionnaires as the increase over the baseline score for autonomic symptoms ( sweating , heart pounding , warmness , anxiety , tingling , and trembling ) , neuroglycopenic symptoms ( inability to concentrate , confusion , drowsiness , tiredness , dizziness , weakness , blurred vision , and irritability ) , and total symptoms ( autonomic plus neuroglycopenic score ) . |
2 | The answer lies in part in the social position of the reformers who belonged to the professional rather than the employing middle class : they were social workers , teachers , social scientists , philosophers , clerics , doctors , and psychologists , the majority of whom were distanced from the realities of the labour-market . |
3 | Telegrams of ‘ interest ’ and ‘ support ’ were received from the Archbishops of Canterbury and York respectively , and by the end of the year Mrs Whitehouse and Mrs Buckland were claiming to have over a quarter of a million signatures on the Manifesto . |
4 | He thought of Emmet 's followers , twenty-one in all , who were hanged from the shafts of upturned carts in the narrow streets of the Liberties . |
5 | The worst incidents of fighting were reported from the provinces of Siirt and Hakkari , where at least 30 Kurdish guerrillas and nine soldiers , including a garrison commander , were killed in a week of intense fighting at the end of July . |
6 | All these narrow strokes were done from the corners of the pastel sticks . |
7 | And snowflakes were huge beautiful things that were hung from the ceilings on bits of thread . |
8 | It is unlikely though that many sailors were saved from the ravages of scurvy before the naval brass hats were convinced , in the 1790s , that the answer lay with the diets devised by Scottish physician James Lind . |
9 | In the old large hospitals it was sometimes difficult to detect the strong mutual , informal relationships which developed amongst patients and provided a good deal of support , and , unfortunately , often little account was taken of these relationships when patients were moved from the hospitals into the community . |
10 | Many of these were collected from the farms of relatives and neighbours . |
11 | Five such monuments were commissioned from the brothers between 1628 and 1651 : Constance Whitney ( d.1628 ) in St Giles , Cripplegate ( destroyed during the Second World War ) ; Mary Salter ( d.1631 ) at Iver , Buckinghamshire ; Sara Colville ( d.1631 ) in All Saints ' , Chelsea ; Temperance Brown ( d.1635 ) at Steane , Northamptonshire ; and Mary Calthorpe ( d.1640 ) at East Barsham , Norfolk . |
12 | The party statutes were copied from the statutes of the VKP(b) . |
13 | Their most vocal representatives were drawn from the ranks of the larger practices . |
14 | Our stories were drawn from the fringes of science , the environmental front line and Californian whackiness . |
15 | Reggae was a poor man 's music and its themes were drawn from the ghettoes of Trenchtown , Jamaica . |
16 | In the following year the public were lectured from the courts on the duties of parenthood when , expressing himself ‘ perfectly satisfied that these crimes can be traced to neglect of parents ’ , the Recorder of Bradford struck the familiar harmonies of discontent : ‘ Parents of this time , unfortunately , do not take sufficient care in bringing up their children . |
17 | All things in this world were born from the minds of men and since all men were mad , they were mad creatures , madly running … |
18 | Presumably these sites were protected from the kinds of influence that normally destroy fish remains , such as the activity of scavenging animals that disarticulate the skeletons , or currents . |
19 | Four Minilab Sovereign detectors which were intended for export to Belgium were stolen from the premises of Search Technology on 30 August 1991 . |
20 | Fifteen vehicles were stolen from the streets of Darlington , including Gladstone Street , Bellburn Lane , Salters Avenue and St John 's Crescent . |
21 | The great navies of Lothern were driven from the seas by the Chaos fleets . |
22 | The figure of over 40 per cent seems too high to be merely chance and he suggested that burials were being placed on boundaries , and that hence , because the dates of the burials were known from the types of grave goods , the boundaries must be of sixth- or seventh-century date at the latest . |
23 | The remaining 61 were derived from the concordances of 100 randomly chosen types occurring in the corpus . |
24 | The few-branched forms , which include the Order Graptoloidea or planktonic graptoloids , were derived from the dendroids at the base of the Ordovician and were successful and prolific until the early Devonian . |
25 | The ethnically Japanese burakumin ( lit. ‘ hamlet people ’ ) were descended from the outcastes of the Tokugawa period . |
26 | It is no accident that many of the terms used in critical discourse — ‘ structure ’ , ‘ aspect ’ , ‘ outlook ’ , even ‘ character ’ — are related to domestic architecture ; or that the titles of so many great nineteenth-century novels were taken from the houses at their centre — Mansfield Park , Wuthering Heights , Bleak House , The Mill on the Floss . |
27 | Bacterial swabs were taken from the hands of doctors , nurses , and physiotherapists before and after the clinic ; the hands of patients before and after spirometry ; spirometry mouthpieces ; and the arms of a wooden chair grasped by patients during spirometry . |
28 | Participants with incomplete data were excluded from the analyses including the missing variables . |
29 | Only the very old and infirm were excluded from the activities of the hayfields . |
30 | On the other hand , most of the optimistic comments such as there were came from the heads of two companies involved in housebuilding . |