Example sentences of "they [was/were] [verb] from [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Otherwise the tt building will have deemed to not comply to B one of the building regulations which I do n't want to go into too much detail but basically what it is that with effect from nineteen ninety one the smoke alarm smoke detector bill came into er operation and it was brought in into the nineteen ninety two building regulations when they were amended from the nineteen eighty five regulations that states now any new build homes shall have and be fitted with a mains operated , with battery backup , smoke detection system . |
| 2 | They were joined from the upper chest to the pelvis and had two arms and one leg each . |
| 3 | They were obtained from the age-sex register of a large general practice in London , and those who responded ( 77% ) were similar to the national average in height , weight , and smoking habits . |
| 4 | They were to depart from the Western Gate . |
| 5 | A close comparison of all the details of the heads reveals no differences , and shows that they were struck from the same die . |
| 6 | Before their arrival at Heathrow , their passports and tickets were confiscated ; when the British Airways plane landed , they were separated from the other passengers , put into a van and driven around for several hours before being forced back on the plane and sent out of the UK . |
| 7 | The day-to-day operation of power stations remained under the control of the six National Grid Control Centres , which ( now they were freed from the financial provisions which had governed their relationship to the independent undertakings ) were able to run them in a more efficient merit order , reducing the cost of generation . |
| 8 | They were selected from the medical records of two general practices ( details of sample selection are described in Appendix I ) . |
| 9 | The four opposition parties announced on Nov. 13 that they were withdrawing from the parliamentary elections set for Dec. 8 in protest at the failure of their demand for a new voters ' register . |
| 10 | It was a time of great British expansion and it is thought that , in the guise of ships ' cats , they were scattered from the British Isles all over the globe in a comparatively short space of time . |
| 11 | They were retreating from the French attack , but they were not running . |
| 12 | However , in this case , it would not be necessary to determine that all the quanta came from the same direction : it would be enough to observe that they all arrived within a very short time interval to be reasonably confident that they were coming from the same burst . |
| 13 | They were chosen from the same drawer but were not a pair ! |
| 14 | Wounded FMLN guerrillas in San Salvador board a plane , believed to be bound for Chile , after they were evacuated from the Mexican Embassy , which they occupied to demand safe passage |
| 15 | They were drawn from a deeper and darker place than this whiskery , milky , dungy communion with the cattle . |
| 16 | In many repects the bishops of the Merovingian kingdom were like secular magnates , and for the most part they were drawn from the same class . |
| 17 | They were borrowed from a nearby hotel when it was revealed that the castle did not have enough . |
| 18 | They were placed in mental handicap hospitals because they were suffering from a temporary mental illness , or because of ‘ moral incompetence ’ and never released . |