Example sentences of "were [vb pp] from [noun] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Samples were drawn from areas of the county : Melton Mowbray , Coalville , Buttersworth and Market Harborough . |
| 2 | In 1670 Wigston contained 161 households , including forty-seven that were exempted from payment of the hearth tax on the grounds of poverty . |
| 3 | Only 16ยท5 per cent of the inhabitants of Pimhill Hundred were exempted from payment of the hearth tax in 1672 , and though many cottagers remained near the poverty line all their lives others prospered a little and moved up the social scale . |
| 4 | Four clutches where we suspected that hosts had ejected cuckoo eggs before we detected them ( as judged by the damage of host eggs ) were excluded from calculations of the number of cuckoo eggs per nest . |
| 5 | It was symptomatic that when the judges were excluded from membership of the area consultative committees in the formative stages by a ruling by Lane , that it was the Circuit or courts administrators from the Lord Chancellor 's Department who were identified as being best placed to act as chairmen , rather than Home Office officials who were unable to draw on any existing regional organization . |
| 6 | The leading members of the Comintern Affiliation Committee , who eventually went to Moscow in 1935 , were suspended from membership of the ILP . |