Example sentences of "[noun pl] were [verb] from the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kilmarnock went down by the only goal of the game at Dumbarton , where several hundred fans were evacuated from the main stand just minutes before the game was due to start . |
| 2 | The recent spate of such thefts ( see The Art Newspaper No. 21 , October 1992 , p.16 ) continued when one marble and sixteen classical terracotta figurines were taken from the Schimatari Museum in Boeotia , central Greece , on the night of 24 December . |
| 3 | Both lists were formed from the Medical Research Council Psycholinguistic Database ( Wilson , 1987 ) by excluding repetitions , rare usages , plurals and derived forms . |
| 4 | On April 28 , Hekmatyar 's fighters were ejected from the Interior Ministry , their final stronghold . |
| 5 | For the DNA bending assays 143 bp fragments were generated from the circular permutation vectors pICP4Bend and pAd2Bend ( 44 ) by digestion with the appropriate restriction enzymes ( Fig. 5A ) , dephosphorylated with calf intestinal alkaline phosphatase ( 50 ) and purified following agarose gel electrophoresis in 0.7% gels using Geneclean ( Bio 101 , La Jolla , Ca . ) . |
| 6 | Political parties were banned from the armed forces by presidential decree on Aug. 24 , following Yeltsin 's decree to the same effect [ see above ] . |
| 7 | Yesterday a policeman warned Mr Evans that unless the cars were removed from the yellow lines St Paul 's Motors would receive a series of fixed penalty fines . |
| 8 | Temperatures rose to 43° C , the highest since 1958 , compared to an August average of 33° C. Cars were banned from the eight-square-kilometre city centre as windless weather trapped pollutants in the lower atmosphere . |
| 9 | The correlation was significant in the 29 subjects whose birth weights were validated from the obstetric and neonatal charts ( r s =0.43 , p=0.019 ) . |
| 10 | Great dinosaurs were excavated from the American west while it was still ‘ wild ’ — early fossil-hunters had to contend with hostile Indians and sometimes came to blows over possession of the richest sites . |
| 11 | Cut-offs for clinical variables were taken from the predictive models of Farr et al . |
| 12 | This finding provides some support for the logarithmic approximation made in ( 3 ) where higher order terms in a number of variables were dropped from the original specification . |
| 13 | Furthermore , the ranks of that clergy were drawn from the common people themselves . |
| 14 | The laughter and voices were coming from the closed rooms at the end of the corridor that Ruth had christened the west wing . |
| 15 | And in accord with this prediction , when recordings were made from the motor neurons within the abdominal ganglion during habituation , it was found that there was indeed a progressive decline in the firing rate of the cells as habituation occurred . |
| 16 | ‘ We use the NMS library but for the Hungarian exhibition books were sent from the Hungarian Embassy in London and the Cultural Attache lent videos . |
| 17 | A. kollari first appeared in Britain in the 1830s , after galls were brought from the Middle East to Devon , where they were used to make dyes for the woollen cloth industry . |
| 18 | Under the 1935 Act the hill areas were excluded from the political process . |
| 19 | first , some peripheral areas were excluded from the new Greater London area ( see Map 2. 1 ) ; second , the number of boroughs was reduced to thirty-two ( plus the City of London which received the responsibilities of a borough but retained its own status ) ( see Table 2. 1 ) ; third , education became the responsibility of a new ad hoc body in Inner London and the enlarged boroughs in Outer London . |
| 20 | Under government legislation , Blacks were resettled from the early 1960s to what were designated Bantustans or ‘ homelands ’ according to ethnic groupings . |
| 21 | Another 266 anal cancers were calculated from the representative samples . |
| 22 | Historical data on claims for night visits were derived from the manual payment ledgers of the family health services authority for each quarter for the 10 years beginning October 1982 . |
| 23 | A couple of bare-breasted girls in sarongs were returning from the communal laundry , the washing balanced on their heads , their breasts moving gently as they sauntered by , giggling at some private joke . |
| 24 | During the year joint venture contributions were received from the Scottish Development Agency towards the International Research and Information Service ( IRIS ) ; the Scottish Education Department towards the Engineering Co-ordination Programme ; the Industry Department for Scotland towards the Enterprise and Education Initiative and the Enterprise Co-ordination Programme ( MESP ) ; the Highlands and Islands Development Board toward the Student Placement Scheme and the Enterprise and Education Initiative . |
| 25 | During the year , joint venture contributions were received from the Scottish Office Industry Department towards the Enterprise and Education Initiative and the Enterprise Co-ordination Programme ( MESP ) ; and from Highlands and Islands Enterprise towards the Student Placement Scheme . |
| 26 | ( Contributions were taken from the medieval players , and fines collected for poor workmanship and the infringement of guild rules went towards financing the plays , and the more prosperous the guild the more elaborate their pageant . ) |
| 27 | Red Cross workers were banned from the military hospital where the wounded were being treated until interrogations were completed ; on Nov. 24 they were permitted to speak to the 89 wounded , but a request for private interviews with 47 other detainees was refused . |
| 28 | The sleeping compartments were entered from the central saloons , which were reached by corridors outside the bedrooms . |
| 29 | In 1701 by the Act of Settlement Catholics were debarred from the English succession , and Sophia and her heirs were named heirs to William III and Anne . |
| 30 | Subcloned cDNA inserts were amplified with either the M13 primers or with T3 and T7. cDNA clones were isolated from the original BL-29 library by hybridizing 7C11 and 6G11 to plaque lifts as previously described . |