Example sentences of "was [verb] [prep] [noun pl] from [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said : ‘ Inspectors sent to investigate the premises then found it was infested with cockroaches from infant to adult stage , alive and dead , on work surfaces , in the waste bins , around the cooker and behind two storage freezers . ’ |
| 2 | Cirencester , Gloucestershire-based start-up , Beaver Valley Systems Ltd , has signed to market Precision Visuals International 's PV Wave visual analysis software : BVS , an X-Windows specialist was formed by refugees from Meiko and DEC . |
| 3 | Assistance was given by brigades from Stony Stratford and Newport Pagnell . |
| 4 | Most recently of all , the industry was shaken by signals from Whitehall last year that the size and shape of the armed forces might be transformed . |
| 5 | Meanwhile , intense lobbying was reported of deputies from Estonia , Georgia and other strongly nationalist-minded republics who were threatening to boycott the vote on the grounds that strengthening centralized executive authority ran counter to recent official proposals for restructuring the Soviet Union into a looser confederation of sovereign republics . |
| 6 | Moreover , Venetian sculpture at this period was dominated by craftsmen from Lombardy , and a number of Lombard painters are known to have produced works for Venetian clients , among them Andrea Solario , Marco d'Oggiono , Francesco Napoletano and Giovanni Agostino da Lodi , whose panel of ‘ Christ washing the Apostles ’ feet ’ from the Accademia , painted in 1500 , has just been restored . |
| 7 | The final of the Carlsberg Tens was won by Aliens from Japan , who accounted for White Hart Marauders 24-12 . |
| 8 | Recordings were stored on digital audio tape and visually analysed by an observer blinded to the side or clinical diagnosis ( the recording was interspersed with recordings from control patients ) . |
| 9 | The official parade was cut back to just under an hour and it was preceded by speeches from workers and politicians . |
| 10 | While I was in New South Wales , for example , each workshop was attended by members from Canberra ( ACT ) about four hours drive away . |
| 11 | The meeting was attended by ministers from CEI member countries Austria , Croatia , Czechoslovakia , Hungary , Italy , Poland and Slovenia , and by observers from Bulgaria , Byelarus , Romania and Ukraine . |
| 12 | The meeting was attended by delegates from Belgium , France , Holland , Italy , Sweden and the United Kingdom , and followed a meeting between the Group 's acting chairman , David Morgan , and its Belgian Field Officer , Rik de Gruyter , with the relevant officer at the European Commission 's DG IIXXX , the Directorate Generale responsible for tourism . |
| 13 | , writes : MANY years ago I was told that Colgate toothpaste was made from pebbles from Chesil Beach , Dorset . |
| 14 | On the altar with Mgr Steele and parish priest Mgr Philip Holroyd were representatives of the different congregations , and a procession of gifts symbolising unity was made by children from St. Austin 's school . |
| 15 | The field was swarming with sightseers from Glasgow , and the sweating guards from RAF Abbotsinch were having little luck preventing the looting of souvenir items from the scattered wreckage . |
| 16 | The Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission , now headed by that great Canadian , Mr Hector Charlesworth , was beset with complaints from Quebec about English being spoken on national network stations in their province , while listeners in the prairies , maritimes and west coast regions cursed the CRBC when the French-Canadian announcers said ‘ Ici Radio Canada … ’ and went on to announce the programme in French . |
| 17 | It was used for industries from match making to house construction , from pit props to railway sleepers . |
| 18 | Er in B R days , a lot of the er traffic between Nottingham and Lincoln and Derby , er was hauled by locomotives from Lincoln depot , and when the erm Region took that over , they closed the or the er shed down and used erm er Lincoln region locomotives . |
| 19 | Berle also was not impressed with Swinton , who always pleaded that he was bound by instructions from London : ‘ Swinton is ill-prepared … he also tends to be arrogant and inflexible . ' |
| 20 | Throughout the period of the Royal Tournament the Association stand , sponsored by British Telecom , was staffed by members from branches in the South Eastern Area , to whom Central Council extends its grateful thanks . |
| 21 | As the game entered the closing stages , both sides had good chances to score ; the first fell to Steve Jenkins who was evaded by inches from Mickey Wiggins ' cross , whilst up the other end , Warner had to be on his toes when he held a point blank header from John Parry . |
| 22 | The comments I made about the narrowness of Nicolson Street at the Community Centre was based on observations from Highways to the effect that it would not be possible to fit in a northbound bus lane unless there were only a single southbound lane and no bus stop . |
| 23 | Although this questionnaire was based upon insights from case studies of self-evaluation in Solihull secondary schools , it was of course inevitable that some Solihull teachers might not consider that it asked what were , for them , the most pertinent questions . |
| 24 | McKeown 's attack on the " medical model " of health was shared by critics from radical , feminist and Marxist perspectives . |
| 25 | The widespread feeling that the cancellation amounted to a humiliation for Japan was underlined by reports from Russia 's ITAR-Tass news agency on Sept. 13 , which stated that Yeltsin would visit South Korea on Nov. 12-13 and would make a trip to China in mid-December . |
| 26 | An example is the Moreton Bay chestnut , native to the state , which was found by researchers from Kew and Harvard to produce an alkaloid important in AIDS research . |
| 27 | Officials in Brussels claimed Mr MacSharry 's scope for bargaining was undermined by warnings from M Delors that he would not sanction a deal which penalised Europe 's farmers . |
| 28 | The guard of honour was provided by colleagues from Hygiene London East and London West armed with decorated toilet brushes and sink plungers . |
| 29 | Inappropriate expression of A and B antigens was observed in specimens from PSC patients compared with normal liver biopsy specimens and tissues from other disease groups . |
| 30 | He was followed by presenters from LASMO , including Bob Bland Paul Murray , John Henriksen and Joe Darby . |