Example sentences of "were [verb] from a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His swollen upper lip felt enormous and stiff , as though he were recovering from a dental injection . |
| 2 | On three occasions , 1976 , 1980 and 1984 , data were gathered from a random sample of young people who left school in those years . |
| 3 | The Tomlins family were returning from a week-long holiday in England and Wales . |
| 4 | He and his wife were returning from a short break in Venice ( ’ no problems with public transport or with the plane ’ ) and arrived at King 's Cross station . |
| 5 | The decision to head for Etive had been a late one , after we were repelled from a planned attack on Ardgour 's Garbh Bheinn by a combination of midges and a deer stalking manager . |
| 6 | It is likely that if five other tokens were considered from a different section of text gathered in a comparable social context the score would turn out to be very different say 80 per cent . |
| 7 | And there was widespread concern when two outstanding Cairngorms experts , Dr Adam Watson and W Drennan Watson , were omitted from a working party on the future of the Cairngorms . |
| 8 | Undergraduates on Christmas vacation were the biggest group of helpers , but their colleagues were attracted from a wide catchment of background and experience . |
| 9 | About 400 people were evacuated from a Royal Air Force base at Stanmore , north London , on June 21 after a patrol discovered a bomb , which later exploded . |
| 10 | Three experimental diets were prepared from a standard formula plus pure oleic , linoleic , or eicosapentaenoic acid ( 2% by weight ) . |
| 11 | The experimental diets were prepared from a standard formula that included the following semisynthetic components ( wt/wt ) : 20% casein , 1% methionine , 32% corn starch , 15% sucrose , 5% methyl-cellulose , 12% fat emulsion ( Calogen , Scientific Hospital Supplies , Liverpool , UK ; consisting of 50% water , 11% linoleic acid , 28% oleic acid , and 9% saturated fatty acids ) , 3% balanced salt mixture , 0.1% α-tocopherol ( Roig Farma , Barcelona , Spain ) , and a 10% supplement including vitamins , inerals , and dextrin ( Seravit , Scientific Hospital Supplies ) . |
| 12 | To this end , three experimental diets were prepared from a standard rodent diet supplemented with pure oleic , linoleic , or eicosapentaenoic acid . |
| 13 | For this purpose , three special diets were prepared from a standard diet that was supplemented with oleic or linoleic acid or eicosapentaenoic acid . |
| 14 | It was only through my presence of mind that we were saved from a frightful scandal . ’ |
| 15 | Data were collected from a single crystal on beam line X-31 at the EMBL outstation at Hamburg using the image plate scanner and were processed using MOSFLM ( Imperial College , London ) and the CCP4 program suite ( Daresbury , UK ) . |
| 16 | Although these cases were selected from a large number in which interferon alfa was given , they suggest that the drug can dangerously aggravate liver disease and that caution is needed in treating cirrhotic patients . |
| 17 | Patients were selected from a computerised database of 222 patients with chronic ulcerative colitis attending Leigh Infirmary . |
| 18 | The bosses were made from a single billet of soft iron ( Härke and Salter 1984 ) and fixed to the face of the shield by means of 4 to 5 rivets whose flat round heads are occasionally tinned . |
| 19 | The cubes were made from a single piece of metal . |
| 20 | Vaccines were transported from a central distribution point to 53 general practices and six health clinics in the former Central Birmingham Health District . |
| 21 | A Fire Service spokesman said : ‘ We were told from a reliable source the youths were still likely to be in the building so we conducted a thorough search . |
| 22 | There was a constant flow of MPs to see them , and I began to realise that these were drawn from a wide cross-section of the Party . |
| 23 | He had a gift for friendship , and a wide range of acquaintances , but his close friends were few and in his later years were drawn from a small circle who shared his interest in the lives and books of medieval scholars . |
| 24 | Funds to help Pauline Sparks become a teacher were raised from a sponsored walk undertaken by Hila Hyam . |
| 25 | For this experiment , small mammal bones were extracted from a tawny owl assemblage from Cornwall , England . |
| 26 | In contrast , the RM1 system uses a 4,000 word lexicon and a bi-gram grammar , whose probabilities were extracted from a large corpus of general business and government documents . |
| 27 | It seemed as if it were coming from a long distance and he waited for a moment , and the moment went into a full minute , and then slowly he opened the door . |
| 28 | Two tapestries valued at £125,000 were stolen from a National Trust property , Packwood House , on 2 August 1991 . |
| 29 | Videos worth around forty thousand pounds were seized from a mobile home rental business and a number of vehicles . |
| 30 | We happen to lie in the line of sight so far as Algol is concerned ( or nearly so ) ; if we were observing from a different vantage point there would be no eclipses , and Algol would shine steadily . |