Example sentences of "was [num ord] [verb] from [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bovine TB bacterium was first isolated from a badger in June 1971 , some 20 years after farmers in Cornwall had been ridiculed for suggesting that badgers were involved in the spread of TB to cattle . |
| 2 | The Midlands leader of the pit deputies union NACODS was first to emerge from the review meeting at Edwinstowe Ray Hilton summed up the mood of the mining unions . |
| 3 | The animal was first identified from a skull found last year by a joint expedition of the Vietnamese government and the World Wide Fund for Nature ( WWF ) in the Vu Quang reserve on the border with Laos . |
| 4 | When the grey squirrel was first introduced from the United States a century ago , it was viewed as a welcome newcomer . |
| 5 | And he enjoyed picnics ; in the Guide he recounts how one day during a drive up Little Langdale and home by Dungeon Ghyll , ‘ the cloth was laid on the green grass , for that was the table : the cold collation was next produced from the carts , and the writer , though he has been one of many , has seldom witnessed more cheerful gipsyings . |