Example sentences of "the [noun sg] was [verb] from [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That may be so , but the prince was ousted from power by the Lon Nol coup back in 1970 , and made only a brief comeback as a Khmer Rouge figurehead in 1976 . |
| 2 | Later the sickle was made from metal with a saw-edged or serrated blade . |
| 3 | The building was rescued from dereliction earlier this year . |
| 4 | As the story was passed from lip to lip , the level of destruction became greater and greater , as did the area of the land destroyed . |
| 5 | ‘ Funnily enough , we could detect how the readership was developing from book signings : initially it was the children who came ; then mothers , mumbling that their children were at school , and then the fathers saying , ‘ I want to know what my children are reading ’ ; and finally , the parents on their own , no longer needing childish excuses . ’ |
| 6 | Crack of dawn after a long night … made himself coffee and got back to the station as the car was disappearing from view . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The laughter was wiped from fitzAlan 's face instantly . |
| 9 | Already the basket was swinging from side to side in the wind . |
| 10 | GREYHOUND RACING : The sport was reeling from scandal after it was revealed that five dogs in a race had been doped . |
| 11 | The assay was modified from ref. 13 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | As a result of her in fidelity and disloyalty to her country , the child was cursed from birth , rapidly growing to be over six-foot long with a snake 's tail and bat wings , and the head and mane of a black stallion . |
| 14 | But the tracer was weaving from side to side . |
| 15 | While the beam was going from right to left , the target moved forward . |
| 16 | He was initially sentenced to three months in jail ; the period was renewed from time to time until 1672 . |
| 17 | The procedure was adapted from literature ( 22 ) . |
| 18 | The sample was picked from telephone directories which did not cover the poorer segments of the electorate . |
| 19 | The rest was made from veneer . |
| 20 | The inside was hidden from view by shutters and curtains . |
| 21 | The lorry was stolen from SW Transport in Swindon . |
| 22 | Baked in a kiln at the old corn mill , the filling was made from mutton and fowl . |
| 23 | Some pragmatists have suggested that the philosopher was suffering from jaundice . |
| 24 | The spirit was dissuaded from returning to haunt the living by the relatives placing soil on the corpse to fasten it to the ground , putting burning embers outside the door to bar its path and whispering in its ear the plea that it would not return . |
| 25 | According to the teletype , ‘ the handwritten duty sheet indicates only that the luggage was unloaded from Air Malta 180 . |
| 26 | In these complexes , the DNA was protected from restriction enzyme digestion . |
| 27 | Trevor Radway , Chairman of the Forest of Dean Railway Company Limited , said there had been many improvements in recent times , and the railway was going from strength to strength . |
| 28 | They would ask me how the training was going from time to time and this interest spurred me on . |
| 29 | He was reported to have said that the killing was ordered from prison by a Jihad leader Sawfat Abdel Ghani , who had been convicted of involvement in the killing of al-Mahgoub . |
| 30 | However , some rugs are prefixed by the word Kurk ( or Kork ) — as in Kurk Kashan — which indicates that the rug was made from wool taken from the flanks and shoulders — where the fibres are longest — of lambs reared in the winter and clipped in the spring . |