Example sentences of "was [verb] from the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Whole gut transit time was calculated from the following equation : Whole gut transit time ( h ) =103–1.23 ( DF ) -4.69 ( SFS ) +0.638 ( IDTI ) where DF is stated defecation frequency , SFS is stool form score , and IDTI is the mean interdefecatory time interval in hours from the bowel record form .
2 Peter Jay , who was plucked from the economic editorship of The Times by his father-in-law , Labour Prime Minister James Callaghan , to be made ambassador to Washington , recalls the feelings clearly :
3 He was recalled from the international wilderness last March to play against Czechoslovakia .
4 In July 1988 he received a letter from Lord Vestey saying his name was withdrawn from the rotating list of those qualified to act as chairman .
5 An essential first step was to create a bedroom and this was formed from the larger part of the former WC block .
6 Since he believed the embryo was formed from the menstrual blood by the male dynamic in the semen it was clear to him that preformation must be excluded .
7 The harshest criticism came from the party ideologist , Mr Stoyan Mihailov , who was dismissed from the central committee last year following disagreements with Mr Zhivkov .
8 And last Wednesday 's planned North Wales Coast Express was diverted from the coastal mainline to the Settle and Carlisle .
9 Hundreds of people looked on and cheered as a metal cast of the hammer and sickle emblem was ripped from the outside wall of the Supreme Council building .
10 And though embellished with a couple of right hands which sought but did not destroy , it was the work of a crushing left hook-cum-uppercut that was ripped from the top shelf of Razor 's own weapon room .
11 This was distanced from the earlier stress on Old Testament religious morality by its rationalism ; as in the story 's metaphor of electricity , wondrous yet calculable , which demonstrated the inexorable consequences of wrong-doing-disease , death and social degeneracy .
12 A loud whisper was heard from the brown-haired choirboy , ‘ Does that mean no school ? ’
13 At last a weary voice was heard from the elderly statesman ranks of the trade union bosses .
14 Daak was hanging from the rear platform , legs dangling , but he had embedded the teeth of the chainsword in one of the armour-plated side panels .
15 That he let her go , and that she was free of him so easily was a great relief , but she was shaken from the unwanted experience , and as he swiftly went on his way she turned round — but only to collide with someone else .
16 No reply was received from the Conservative Party .
17 With Dewey 's permission , UDC was developed from the fifth edition of DC .
18 The Old Town was developed from the 11th century , originally within defensive walls , around the rock on whose peak is situated the famed Edinburgh Castle .
19 It was omitted from the only catalogue raisonné of his work I have seen .
20 Kapil Dev was omitted from the following Test as a disciplinary measure , but returned to the side immediately afterwards and has been ever-present ever since .
21 A reference for these observations was included in our original but , again , was omitted from the published report .
22 Remuneration was claimed from the appropriate area legal aid committee .
23 Communicants were allowed to kneel to receive the bread and wine , and the 1552 Black Rubric , which had declared that kneeling in no way implied a real presence , was deleted from the 1559 Prayer Book .
24 Civic Forum wants just the ‘ Czechoslovak Republic ’ to be enshrined in the new Constitution ; the promise ‘ to serve the cause of socialism ’ was deleted from the presidential oath on Thursday of this week .
25 She was rescued from the burning building by a neighbour .
26 Irwin 's first big political initiative as viceroy was to extract from the British government permission to make a formal declaration that dominion status was the goal of British policy for India .
27 One of the west Oxfordshire Tory rebels , who was resigned from the Tory group last February , has returned to the fold .
28 In the former one , a household was required to share meals as well as a living space , but the ‘ common cooking pot ’ concept was dropped from the 1981 Census .
29 Another £100,000 was targeted from the National Union of Students , which as a federation of local student unions and associations is barred by law from spending or investing any of its constituent members ' money .
30 CRP protein was purified from the overproducing strain BS646 by the method of Ghosaini et al.
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