Example sentences of "it was [verb] from the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In front of the building was a large paved double courtyard , which was level , despite the steep gradient of the hill ; it was separated from the pavement by a high , elaborate , wrought iron fence , the gate of which stood fortunately open . |
| 2 | After the photographic plate was exposed , it was separated from the screen , developed as normal into a negative , then turned into a positive black and white transparency . |
| 3 | After the photographic plate was exposed , it was separated from the screen , developed as normal into a negative , then turned into a positive black and white transparency . |
| 4 | The Polish Telecommunications Co , previously the Polish Post , Telegraph and Telecommunications Company until it was separated from the Post last January , looks like being one of the first to run IBM 's mainframe version of AIX on its E9000 Series mainframe . |
| 5 | It was accepted from the outset of the study that it would be unrealistic to expect changes to be made overnight , and that a gradual evolution to the desired state would be necessary . |
| 6 | It was formed from the Association des démocrates ( Democrats ' Association ) , Soisson 's France unie ( United France ) and the Performance et partage ( Performance and sharing ) parties . |
| 7 | I frightened the cat and down dropped the little bird ; it was bleeding from the beak and did not move except its legs in a spasm of pain . |
| 8 | It was decided from the outset to present the archaeological results of the project at Cosmeston to the public in the most imaginative way possible . |
| 9 | It was planned from the beginning that follow-up action would be taken by the participants wherever possible , so in the summer of 1980 Highlander hosted a workshop on land reform to which study participants and others from the region were invited . |
| 10 | Somehow she managed to keep her self-control , opened it at the right page and began reading it slowly , as though she had never seen it before , although she knew every word by heart — because it was written from the heart . |
| 11 | It is in such conditions that we should look for an explanation of the outcrop in the 1860s of sensational popular fiction , replete with desertion , adultery , bigamy and sudden death ; much of it was written from the woman 's point of view by women writers , such as Mary Braddon , Rhoda Broughton and Mrs Henry Wood . |
| 12 | It remained there in its watery grave for 44 years , until it was raised from the Loch and brought to Brooklands in 1985 . |
| 13 | But he only said , ‘ It was raised from the rock by the first High Kings , and it is filled with rather strange enchantments . |
| 14 | ‘ It was said from the outset that revenue funding would come from the local authorities , ’ he said . |
| 15 | It was saved from the flood by being cut into blocks and moved piece by piece to higher ground . |
| 16 | It was not warm , but it was sheltered from the wind outside , and the stillness and randomness of the tools and litter gave it an almost religious significance , made it seem as if it was waiting . |
| 17 | As this went on , the point of view without extension that was myself and The Fat Controller accompanied the product-of-the future as it was unloaded from the truck and heaped in a stall of warped boards . |
| 18 | Around 1382 it was bought from the Lord of the Manor and made an endowment of the Trinity Chapel in the impressive Parish Church of Cirencester . |
| 19 | It displays a method of building which was so logical and so satisfactory that it was used from the end of the fourteenth century until well into the eighteenth . |
| 20 | ‘ It seems that it was taken from the car park next to her office but abandoned almost immediately . |
| 21 | This was the most advanced industrial building of its time : it was designed from the start to be powered by steam ( with engines supplied by Samuel 's partners in the enterprise , Matthew Boulton and James Watt , qq.v. ) , and was one of the first to incorporate a brick raft foundation . |
| 22 | It was growing from the twin roots of controlled food prices and food subsidies . |
| 23 | Sydney had some way to go before it was released from the burden of compulsive immigration , and before it could present to the world a face that was uniquely its own . |
| 24 | It was not , of course , private — simply a patch of sand directly beneath four Winds , where the rocks jutted out on either side so that it was screened from the rest of the bay and , at high tide , sometimes cut off from it . |
| 25 | Now painted in North Staffordshire Indiana livery it was rescued from the scrap merchants torch on the closure of Sierra Leone Railway and returned back to England together with four of the West African coaches in 1975 . |
| 26 | Standards were high , as it was appreciated from the outset that it was not enough for such workers " to have a heart as big as a football and to be able to fingerspell and sign . " |
| 27 | On June 23 , amid accusations of government complicity in violence against its supporters , the African National Congress ( ANC ) announced that it was withdrawing from the Convention for a Democratic South Africa ( CODESA ) , the main forum for constitutional negotiations . |
| 28 | The OLF announced on June 23 that it was withdrawing from the Council of Representatives ; elected in July 1991 the 87-member Council contained 12 members of the OLF and 16 were from four other Oromo organizations [ see p. 38322 ; for December 1991 agreement on autonomous regions see pp. 38564 ; 38660 ] . |
| 29 | Nevertheless Krebs AG announced on March 10 that it was withdrawing from the project at the request of the Swiss government . |
| 30 | Connelly was about to push the door when it was opened from the inside and he found a third man there . |