Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] from [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Saturday afternoons , when the streets were solid with white faces , was a carnival of consumerism as goods were ripped from shelves . |
| 2 | These were developed from qualities defined by Isaiah ( c.11 ) in his prophecy traditionally associated with the Incarnation , and interpreted by the Church Fathers as gifts of the Holy Spirit . |
| 3 | Bowel habits , irritable bowel syndrome symptoms , and whole gut transit time were calculated from records of three defectations . |
| 4 | Several complaints were received from viewers , a spokesman for the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation said . |
| 5 | Many favourable comments were received from teachers and pupils concerning the wide ranging applications and future work opportunities available in Chemistry . |
| 6 | So many letters of protest were received from listeners that it was decided to retain one transmission to Europe , at 1230 UTC each day on 9855kHz in the 31 m band . |
| 7 | Deutsche Bank 's agreed bid for Morgan Grenfell has gone unconditional after acceptances were received from holders of 59.5 per cent of its shares . |
| 8 | Remba went to work and created ‘ Mixografia ’ , a method in which copper printing plates were formed from impressions of diverse materials and textures — charred wood , lead , cement , burlap , found objects . |
| 9 | Six of 11 control specimens were resected from adults ( aged 18–64 ) , whose indications for surgery included polyposis , chronic constipation , and carcinoma ( two specimens were of terminal ileum , the rest colonic ; all were histologically normal ) . |
| 10 | She scanned the houses in the streets , looking at the Christmas trees in gaily lit windows , the decorations that were hanging from ceilings . |
| 11 | The re-contra commanders were returning from talks in Managua with President Violeta Barrios de Chamorro concerning the continued violence between re-contras and re-compas . |
| 12 | Already officers were returning from enquiries with completed interview-forms and Lucy Lane was going through them as they came in . |
| 13 | Turkey has an excuse for its ignorance : the objects , it says , were looted from tombs where they had lain undisturbed for 2,500 years . |
| 14 | These 2 badgers were rescued from baiters who were about to let their dogs kill the animals . |
| 15 | Similarly , although a smaller percentage of cases were reported from places some distance from a court , all regions included such localities . |
| 16 | Some 30,000 vehicles were stolen in Northumbria alone , and more than 770,000 thefts were reported from vehicles . |
| 17 | The two large Jubilee double-deckers 761 and 762 were rebuilt from Balloons 725 and 714 in 1979 and 1982 respectively , completely altering their appearance . |
| 18 | As an additional sophistication in Superman , both camera and projector were slung from rigs that allowed them to be moved too . |
| 19 | Cells were detached from flasks by first washing three times with Ca 2 + - and Mg 2 + -free phosphate buffered saline and then incubating for three minutes at 37°C with the same phosphate buffered saline to which 0.02% ( w/v ) EDTA had been added . |
| 20 | The universities are not formally sub-divided , but informal groupings based on origin and type distinguish between Oxbridge ( Oxford and Cambridge ) , the large federal university of London founded in the early nineteenth century , the larger ‘ civic ’ universities established later in the nineteenth century in provincial cities ( e.g. Manchester , Birmingham , Leeds , Bristol ) , the smaller civics such as Exeter , Hull or Leicester , the ‘ new ’ universities founded ab initio in the 1960s , such as Lancaster , Essex and Sussex , the ‘ ex-CATS ’ such as Aston , Salford and Bradford , which were upgraded from Colleges of Advanced Technology at around the same time , and the Scottish , Welsh and two Northern Irish universities . |
| 21 | The counties with the most charters are Kent , Somerset and Worcestershire , and here large blocks of land were defined from the seventh century onwards , particularly when they were granted from kings to early monasteries . |
| 22 | A special class are Paterson 's bowel nosodes which were prepared from cultures of intestinal bacteria obtained from patients with specific health problems . |
| 23 | Suspensions of mucosal cells were prepared from fragments of mucosa by a pepsin extration technique . |
| 24 | Radioactively labelled duplex DNA molecules were prepared from oligonucleotides CCUP and CCLO or , respectively , from CFUP and CFLO as described under Materials and Methods . |
| 25 | The planting scheme employed 147 varieties of conifer , many of which were grown from cuttings taken from trees lost in 1987 . |
| 26 | Both were built from bricks fired locally in the Newent area . |
| 27 | Well , I went along to Street and this chap was hammering away , and the people were swearing from windows , and I realized the chap was mental . |
| 28 | ‘ The records were being altered , a new accounting system was being introduced and key people were moved from positions of authority . |
| 29 | The owls were living in short grass plains and the pellets were collected from kopjes , which are small hills rising over the plains , or along the cliff edges of Olduvai gorge . |
| 30 | To pay for the roads ‘ tolls ’ were collected from travellers . |