Example sentences of "it was [verb] from the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The German government , citing cost and changed security needs following the end of the Cold War , confirmed on June 30 that it was to withdraw from the multinational European Fighter Aircraft ( EFA ) project . |
| 2 | Erm , she actually traced back calls on the station log and it was done from the first of October nineteen ninety two to the thirtieth of September nineteen ninety three and during that time we had over five thousand three hundred and thirty calls , of which one thousand one hundred and sixty six originated from , so that is erm twenty point three percent of the calls received at police station and were held on came from , which is quite a lot . |
| 3 | In summary , it was concluded from the initial examination of the FAOR proposals that the development of a global user requirement for the introduction of either computerised indexing and storage systems was not appropriate , or possible , at that time , and it was necessary to take an evolutionary bottom-up approach that recognised not only the limitations and costs of the current market in software and equipment , but also the particular needs of individual functions . |
| 4 | The engine was reputed to have done 99,000 miles by the time it was extracted from the old Herald in 1988 , but Tony is sceptical . |
| 5 | Opposition leader Paruyr Ayrykyan , chair of the National Self-Determination union , called in a television broadcast on April 28 for a new constitution to replace the current one , which he described as invalid because it was inherited from the Armenian Soviet republic . |
| 6 | There is a clue that cuts were made ( though we can not tell how extensive — for , unlike Act 1 , Act 5 was not reprinted in 1693 : it was inherited from the 1692 stockpile ) . |
| 7 | He chose the translation of Tyndale , where this existed , because it was made from the original Greek and Hebrew , unlike that of Coverdale , which was translated from the Roman Vulgate . |
| 8 | The label said it was made from the powdered teeth of deadly snakes , and it was guaranteed to raise welts the size of walnuts on your skin . |
| 9 | Followers of the shotokai style broke away from the parent group of shotokan because they believed that it was deviating from the traditional teachings laid down by Funakoshi . |
| 10 | The perspicacious reader will by now have decided that , if we accept the 1865 suppressed edition as the first , this American printing was the second issue of the first edition , since it was printed from the original setting of type . |
| 11 | The answer is that it was borrowed from the gravitational energy of the universe . |
| 12 | As with a number of shafted weapons , it was used from the eleventh to the seventeenth century . |
| 13 | In truth , it was doomed from the very start . |
| 14 | It was omitted from the only catalogue raisonné of his work I have seen . |
| 15 | SMITH & NEPHEW is to pick up £46.5m from selling the Nivea skin care brand back to Beiersdorf 50 years after it was confiscated from the German company during the Second World War . |
| 16 | On Aug. 6 , the rival Independent National Patriotic Front of Liberia ( INPFL ) , led by Prince Yormie Johnson , announced that it was withdrawing from the interim government , accusing Sawyer of giving senior posts to people from parties " which have failed the Liberian people in the past " . |
| 17 | ‘ It was changed from the original Florizel Street because Agnes the tea lady thought it sounded like disinfectant , ’ said Warren . |
| 18 | Like its Formula Two counterpart it was removed from the international calendar at the end of 1984 . |
| 19 | Although mentioned by Conan Doyle as a quiet village to which one of Sherlock Holmes ' clients retired , and the birthplace of Mrs. Beeton , of cookery fame , Penge owes its development mainly to the re-erection of the Crystal Palace at the top of Anerley Hill , in 1854 , when it was removed from the Great Exhibition of 1851 in Hyde Park . |
| 20 | Roux 's results were published for the first time in 1888 : three years later I tried to repeat this fundamental experiment on another subject and by a somewhat different method , It was known from the cytological researches of the brothers Hertwig and Boveri that the eggs of the common sea urchin are able to stand well all sorts of rough treatment , and that , in particular , when broken into pieces by shaking their fragments , will survive and continue to cleave . |
| 21 | The picture of the universe as a mechanical affair of matter in motion did not originate , but rather was painted afresh , in the seventeenth century ; it was derived from the atomic theory of the ancient Greeks , Democritus and Epicurus . |
| 22 | Whilst Hobbes described the rational structure of such a concentration of power and developed it into a veritable philosophy of power , Locke , taking up the challenge , demanded that the exercise of this power , although it was derived from the ultimate and unified source of all power the people remain divided by virtue of a fundamental decision . |