Example sentences of "was [vb pp] from a [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The figure was calculated from a population of 74,014 taken from the electoral register at September 10 last year . |
| 2 | Palatine was formed from a group of small regional breweries in 1960 in response to the contemporary brewery ‘ merger boom ’ . |
| 3 | Using scores derived from the Jarman underprivileged area index for this purpose seems to have face validity — the index was developed from a survey of one in 10 British general practitioners who were asked to weight social factors according to how much they thought they increased workload . |
| 4 | This model was developed from a study of 11 villages in Nottinghamshire , where immigration had created a division between newcomers and locals . |
| 5 | Quite apart from the conceptual fragility of the enterprise , Kane 's work suffers from a problem of method : his evidence for the above assertions was collected from a sample of sportsmen who had already achieved a level of success , in other words the sportsmen he studied had ‘ made it ’ . |
| 6 | This excellent example was collected from a descendant of Ollokot . |
| 7 | RAP30 protein was prepared from a pellet of cell lysate as described before ( 20 ) . |
| 8 | The mill was built from a combination of sandstone and brick and is still in good condition . |
| 9 | Evidence for hyposplenism was sought from an examinatio of the peripheral blood film in each patient . |
| 10 | A man was airlifted from an Isle of Man ferry to hospital after suffering a heart attack . |
| 11 | Adrian 's entry was selected from a short-list of 30 and is an abstract self-portrait . |
| 12 | Julian Davidson , 30 , unmarried , and a consultant in design , printing and advertising , was selected from a short-list of three , which included a former Treasury minister , John Maples , who lost his Lewisham West seat at the last general election . |
| 13 | A typical business letter of some 153 words was selected from a corpus of business documents . |
| 14 | The 12-member Citizen 's Forum on Canada 's Future , which was drawn from a cross-section of the country but which excluded serving politicians , was due to report by July 1991 . |
| 15 | The box was always somewhere on the floor by his bed , and was tied up with a bow , as if it was a precious parcel or a gift intended for a special person ; the bow was tied from a length of scarlet nylon ribbon which Boy had seen in the dustbin outside a florist 's , and had stolen , and taken home and ironed , having sensed at once that its splendid colour made it suitable for the tying up of this very special box . |
| 16 | DNA was isolated from a number of different species , digested with EcoRI , and the fragments separated by electrophoresis . |
| 17 | The political theory of liberalism was derived from a variety of sources : the facts and necessities of the national rising ; the commonplaces of the eighteenth-century natural law school and Montesquieu ; the historically tinged constitutionalism and the generalized feeling for reform that was characteristic of the Godoy epoch ; the more radical brand of constituent reform that found strong press support in 1808 ; the influence and example of France ; the works of Bentham . |
| 18 | This is not surprising , since it was derived from a study of past searches by users of the same library . |
| 19 | A definitive list of words was derived from a number of machine-readable dictionaries . |
| 20 | The deprivation score was derived from a combination of four variables ( car ownership , social class , male unemployment , and overcrowding ) . |
| 21 | This information was derived from an analysis of the claims received by the German occupational accident insurers BGW for occupationally-acquired infectious diseases . |
| 22 | Platelet aggregation in response to adrenaline showed striking changes when studied before and after stabilisation of poorly controlled diabetics ( Peterson et al , 1977 ) in that the lag phase following the addition of adrenaline was prolonged from a mean of 19 to 65 seconds following stabilisation . |
| 23 | A racing bike worth £150 was stolen from a backyard of a house on Bury Road , Newton Aycliffe . |
| 24 | That is , the evident polarisation on the plane of government/organised labour relations was dislocated from a reduction of ‘ class ’ polarisation as regards the political perspectives of an important section of the electorate . |
| 25 | The paper also noted , using the 1978 study as a base , that training at 60 to 90 per cent of maximum heart rate for 20 to 60 minutes was increased from a minimum of 15 minutes , and intensity levels were raised by 15 to 30 per cent . |
| 26 | A gradual growth in owner occupation was already in evidence before 1914 , but a spectacular rise was assisted from a number of different directions . |
| 27 | The latest victim of the IRA 's border sniping , lance corporal Lawrence Dickson , was hit from a distance of just 200 metres , while it is estimated private Paul Turner , killed in Crossmaglen last August , was hit from just 125 metres . |
| 28 | The coinage of the Amphictions at Delphi in the late fourth century BC was struck from a quantity of bullion whose approximate size is known from an inscription . |
| 29 | This was cut from a piece of linen texture board and then backed with some cream silk . |
| 30 | The number of labelled cells in each section was estimated from a count of 2000 exocrine pancreatic acinar cells , the result expressed as a percentage — the labelling index . |