Example sentences of "[noun pl] were [verb] from the [det] " in BNC.

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1 Four trees were constructed from the same word lists , and candidate strings from a test sentence checked against them .
2 The study now reported began with the author recognising from an examination of the name ‘ Forsey ’ that although the second syllable had obviously developed from the Anglo-Saxon haeg ( with the noun prefix ge ) and the Middle English hei/hey , meaning enclosure , it seemed unlikely that the first syllables fors and furs were descended from the same root word , and the fact that Dr Reaney had cited widely separated counties for their ( rather late ) emergence was a further slight pointer .
3 The same advantage can be taken of star clusters like the Pleiades and the Hyades : their component stars were born from the same gas clouds and must therefore be at the same distance from us .
4 Mother 's address as recorded in the delivery register was used to assign births to 5 km bands round the nuclear establishments in the study area , and controls were chosen from the same 5 km band as their associated case .
5 Under these arrangements , about 60 reporters were selected from the several hundred covering the conflict to form " news pools " , which would share dispatches and radio and video tapes from the war zone with all their colleagues .
6 Mucosal oxyntic biopsy specimens were taken from the same defined area and tissues were processed in the same way as in the present study .
7 In some cases several samples were taken from the same object , but from different layers or areas .
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