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

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1 All cars of this batch were withdrawn from service with the reorganization of services in the summer of 1927 .
2 Although the commitment to religion was stressed from time to time , often in response to the charge of militarism , the CLB always seemed to emphasize matters of social discipline and conformity .
3 Yes , there is a ski garderie in Verbier ; unfortunately it is in the centre of the village , and since there was no snow in the village the Mini Champion Club was closed from January for the rest of the season .
4 An agent was despatched from London to Jersey to check on the dead activist Varienski 's daughter .
5 In particular , Thompson and Spencer 's list of the features of habituation was derived from studies of short-term examples of the phenomenon ; it may therefore be unreasonable to expect these features to be found also in latent inhibition ( see Lubow , Weiner , and Schnur 1981 ) .
6 In the face of the administration 's intense opposition , it cut $900 million from the amount requested by Bush , allocating $3,500 million for SDI , and also insisting that the emphasis of the programme was altered from research into space-based interceptors ( the " brilliant pebbles " concept ) to ground-based rockets and lasers .
7 , writes : MANY years ago I was told that Colgate toothpaste was made from pebbles from Chesil Beach , Dorset .
8 In Mr. Harper 's case , less than two years ago , his rent was doubled from £12,000 to £24,000 .
9 LIBERALDemocrat candidate Ian Cameron asked the police to intervene after a number of boards promoting his campaign were removed from land in the outlying village of Elwick .
10 Corporate overheads in the first half were cut from $8m to $7.7m , and total operating income rose from $13.3m to £16.2m .
11 In the factory it was different because work was separated from home in a way they had never experienced before .
12 After the leak of the Interfor Report , counsel for the victims , families attempted to take a deposition from Aviv but Shaughnessy moved to quash the subpoena on the grounds that Aviv 's work was protected from discovery by the so-called attorney work-product doctrine .
13 Roger Blyth , chairman of the Swansea selectors who was one of Saturday 's touch judges , said : ‘ I did n't see the incident but it 's quite obvious that the bloke was cut from contact with a boot .
14 At one time a footway was made from Skinnergate to North Bondgate to save people 's shoes .
15 In March new electrical equipment was ordered from B.T-H. for these cars and new trucks were considered , but turned down .
16 Medeghino was exiled from Milan to Lake Como for killing a man , and there he took over a castle on the natural fortress of the Sassoi di Musso near the village of Musso at the northern end of the lake , killing the castle 's governor .
17 The average cost of a Bryant home was cut from £90,000 to £86,000 last year .
18 There has been considerable debate about the origins of the glassware found in Anglo-Saxon cemeteries ; some are Roman survivals , and a proportion was imported from glass-houses in the Rhineland and northern Gaul .
19 To keep costs to the minimum the pond surrounds of double row bricks and crazy paving were bought as hardcore , the main filter was constructed from a £3 expansion tank and the water mill was constructed from scraps of plywood and painted with left-over household paint .
20 To attract more businesses , the maximum fees for company registration were cut from £50,000 to £5,000 and a 10 p.c. rebate on employers ' national insurance contributions was introduced .
21 The leaders of the black Moslem fundamentalist Jamaat al-Moslemeen , Yasin Abu Bakr and Bilal Abdullah , and 114 other members of the group were released from prison on July 1 .
22 Despenser 's heir was released from prison in July 1331 , but had to wait until 1337 before receiving any of his father 's inheritance .
23 Wine was splashed from jug to cup and then often drained in one loud gulp .
24 ‘ Rexroth 's review said that as the band had n't shown up a pick-up band was assembled from members of the audience , who just banged pots and pans and made odd noises .
25 However , he was prevented from standing on Oct. 19 , when the Constitutional Court upheld the Supreme Court 's Oct. 12 ruling that anyone who had been the author or beneficiary of a military coup was debarred from participation in elections under Article 186 of the 1986 Constitution .
26 He was initially sentenced to three months in jail ; the period was renewed from time to time until 1672 .
27 In 1910 the great hall with its spectacular painted oak and chestnut roof and vaulted stone oriel was transplanted from Bishopsgate in the City of London to Chelsea , to save it from demolition .
28 The income level subject to the 1.45 per cent Medicare payroll tax was increased from $51,300 to $125,000 .
29 Furthermore , these figures refer to the period before the top rate of income tax was reduced from 60% to 40% , and the ‘ poll tax ’ was introduced .
30 Between 1979 and 1988 the basic rate of this tax was reduced from 33% to 25% , while the highest rate fell from 80% to 40% .
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