Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] from a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pictures were developed from a film found in a camera belonging to Elizabeth Over , 30 , murdered on a lonely beach at Sodwana Bay , in Zululand . |
| 2 | The Mantel-Haenszel estimate of the overall odds ratio and its variance were calculated from a set of studies by the Robins-Breslow-Greenland method . |
| 3 | A short report in the Financial Times for 19/20 December 1992 states that women who were sacked from a mushroom farm after refusing new contracts that they alleged had made cuts in their pay , had been given permission by the Court of Appeal on 18 December 1992 to carry out a leaflet campaign to persuade shoppers not to buy the farm 's produce . |
| 4 | Believing Gorbachev 's policies were deviating from a number of fundamental Marxist principles , a group of members formed the Marxist Platform of the CPSU shortly before the selection of delegates to the 28th Congress of the CPSU . |
| 5 | His swollen upper lip felt enormous and stiff , as though he were recovering from a dental injection . |
| 6 | On three occasions , 1976 , 1980 and 1984 , data were gathered from a random sample of young people who left school in those years . |
| 7 | During the pilot phase of the Advanced Courses Development Programme suggestions were received from a number of individuals and organisations that consideration should be given to the introduction of a new type of group award within SCOTVEC 's portfolio of advanced courses . |
| 8 | Sixty five patients with rheumatoid arthritis ( n= 57 ) or osteoarthritis ( n=7 ) and taking NSAIDs for a period of greater than three months ( mean 4.5 ( SD 3.1 ) years ) were recruted from a rheumatology clinic to undergo a screening upper gastrointestinal endoscopy before entry into a therapeutic trial that had been approved by the hospital ethics committee . |
| 9 | The defence against him was supervised by the Archbishop of York , and three holy banners of St Peter of York , St John of Beverley and St Wilfrid of Ripon were flown from a standard in a cart , giving the subsequent engagement near Northallerton the name of ‘ Battle of the Standard ’ . |
| 10 | One drawback of the Masters for married men , who want to see the last putt in , is that it requires them to creep to bed as if they were returning from a night club . |
| 11 | The ships they could see on the right side of the aircraft were returning from a rehearsal for the service of remembrance that was held on the ocean every year . |
| 12 | The 63 students and teachers from Weston-super-Mare College , Avon , were returning from a day trip when the coach skidded and crashed . |
| 13 | The Tomlins family were returning from a week-long holiday in England and Wales . |
| 14 | From the stack of suitcases strapped on the overhead rack and the fact that they were driving away from the coast I guessed they were returning from a holiday . |
| 15 | The youths attempted to defend themselves by claiming that the girls , who were returning from a pop concert , had consented . |
| 16 | The other time Artemis saw him was one day when she and Nanny were returning from a walk by the lake . |
| 17 | It was reported on March 21 that a transport plane , in which members of Senegal 's contingent in the anti-Iraq coalition were returning from a visit to Mecca , crashed in Saudi Arabia killing 92 people . |
| 18 | They were returning from a day 's repair and construction work at an army base in Omagh . |
| 19 | He and his wife were returning from a short break in Venice ( ’ no problems with public transport or with the plane ’ ) and arrived at King 's Cross station . |
| 20 | The row began after father and baby were evicted from a council bed and breakfast — on the grounds Steve made himself homeless in the first place . |
| 21 | Just after Christmas gipsies were evicted from a triangle of land opposite the verge in question between the A120 and Mary Lane North . |
| 22 | You were evicted from a country were n't you ? |
| 23 | ( First Edition ) SEVENTY people were rescued from a gas drilling rig in the North Sea yesterday after a leak on a platform near by . |
| 24 | THREE people were rescued from a yacht which got into difficulties in heavy seas off Bardsey Island over the weekend . |
| 25 | TWO men were rescued from a pothole after being trapped underground for more than ten hours last night . |
| 26 | The decision to head for Etive had been a late one , after we were repelled from a planned attack on Ardgour 's Garbh Bheinn by a combination of midges and a deer stalking manager . |
| 27 | In all , 1,678 people were interviewed from a cross-section of the taxpaying population including both the self-employed and employees . |
| 28 | It is likely that if five other tokens were considered from a different section of text gathered in a comparable social context the score would turn out to be very different say 80 per cent . |
| 29 | And there was widespread concern when two outstanding Cairngorms experts , Dr Adam Watson and W Drennan Watson , were omitted from a working party on the future of the Cairngorms . |
| 30 | Undergraduates on Christmas vacation were the biggest group of helpers , but their colleagues were attracted from a wide catchment of background and experience . |