Example sentences of "[noun pl] were [verb] from the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition to changes in existing trades , such as engineering and boot and shoe manufacture , new trades were developing from the 1880s : sewing-machines , cycles , and motor and electrical manufacture . |
| 2 | The , we did er our baths were dating from the nineteen fourteen period and they were getting rather old the , the , the boiler was n't too good and we were afraid that it might burst at some time . |
| 3 | Windsurfers , walkers and fishermen were banned from the 123 billion litre Rutland Water reservoir , which serves 700,000 people around Northampton , Milton Keynes , Peterborough and Daventry . |
| 4 | 24 films were selected from the 60 originally used , these showed three exemplars from each of eight junctions . |
| 5 | Benefits for people with disabilities were excluded from the 1988 social security reforms until the OPCS had concluded its disability surveys . |
| 6 | Large tanks permitted the Sprinters to run longer ( up to 1,000 miles ) between the need to refuel , and maintenance visits to home depots were reduced from the two or three times weekly of older DMUs to fortnightly . |
| 7 | Policies were issued from the 1720s by both Royal Exchange Assurance and the London Assurance — the only two survivors of the South Sea Bubble — but these were few in number , rarely issued for more than a year at a time and based on uniform rather than on age-related premiums . |
| 8 | Coal tar linings were banned from the 1970s onwards after advice from WRC but , said a TWA spokesman , someone would now have to foot the bill for replacing the old linings ‘ and it looks like the ratepayer ’ . |
| 9 | Similar results were expected from the three polychrome wood statuettes from the twelfth dynasty ( 1938–1759 BC ) of a clothed lady , nude concubine and robed portrait of the scribe Seneb , but only the lady sold , for $430,000 ( est. $200,000–300,000 ) to an American collector . |