Example sentences of "[noun pl] was [verb] from a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A typical business letter of some 153 words was selected from a corpus of business documents . |
| 2 | A definitive list of words was derived from a number of machine-readable dictionaries . |
| 3 | One sample of bones was obtained from a collection of pine marten scats ( Table 2.5 ) . |
| 4 | For the second survey a sample of 1.7 million volumes was taken from a number of areas of the Library which were considered to be representative of the book collections as a whole . |
| 5 | This case was successful from a conservation viewpoint , although a considerable investment of time and resources was required from a consortium of interests , which had to take financial risks . |
| 6 | That is , the evident polarisation on the plane of government/organised labour relations was dislocated from a reduction of ‘ class ’ polarisation as regards the political perspectives of an important section of the electorate . |
| 7 | Cigarettes stolen : A £500 carton of cigarettes was stolen from a supermarket at Loftus Market Place . |
| 8 | If we assume that some investors within each group were " not interested " in an activity made more profitable by the construction of a canal but only in dividends or , after 1790 , in speculative profit , and that this was almost wholly true of women investors , substantially so of the clergy and of the majority of those from the professions , then it is clear that overall at least a quarter of investment in canals was drawn from a net cast unprecedentedly widely . |
| 9 | The paper also noted , using the 1978 study as a base , that training at 60 to 90 per cent of maximum heart rate for 20 to 60 minutes was increased from a minimum of 15 minutes , and intensity levels were raised by 15 to 30 per cent . |
| 10 | Off-shoulder A SHOULDER bag containing £400 cash , cheque book and cheque cards was stolen from a house in Bath Road , Wrexham . |
| 11 | Quite apart from the conceptual fragility of the enterprise , Kane 's work suffers from a problem of method : his evidence for the above assertions was collected from a sample of sportsmen who had already achieved a level of success , in other words the sportsmen he studied had ‘ made it ’ . |