Example sentences of "that was [verb] from [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was all very hush-hush — that was emphasized from the beginning . ’ |
| 2 | NEGOTIATIONS are now well in hand with a UK national collection concerning the Handley Page Hampden that was salvaged from the Murmansk area of the USSR and arrived in the UK on September 4 . |
| 3 | More than 2 tonnes of the waste , contaminated with 300 grams of dioxin , that was scraped from the inside of the pot is still being sought by environmentalists who believe that it , too , may land up in the sea . |
| 4 | Somewhere here were the contributions of Duroc 's ancestors : a series of articles co-written by Pierre Henri Duroc and Donatien Alphonse Francois , Marquis de Sade , speculating on the limits of the human mind when confronted with endless pain ; some transcripts from the meetings of Robespierre 's Committee of Public Safety , in which the fates of some of the first families of France were decided on a whim ; a suppressed account of certain discoveries in a pre-human city that came to light in 19th-century French Equatorial Africa before the cyclopean stones mysteriously sank into the soft jungle earth ; Cauchemar et Fils , Maitres des Mondes Perdues , an unpublished novel by M. Jules Verne that was purchased from the author by a Great-Great-Great-Uncle and consigned to obscurity because it described a steam-driven engine to open up a gateway to a world of dreams that bore a remarkable similarity to a device that the Duroc of the time had indeed developed . |
| 5 | The track , the Brigadier explained to them patiently , was all that was left from the days when the mountain villages were inhabited . |