Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] from [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mean values were calculated from at least three ields on each slide . |
| 2 | Providing opportunities and encouragement for employees at all levels to develop their full potential is one of GBW 's key priorities ; it is particularly pleasing therefore that all of the key positions generated by the reorganisation were filled from within the Group . |
| 3 | Thirteen men were missing and search parties were organised from amongst the trapped men and sent out to look for them . |
| 4 | Clones of white clover were sampled from within patches in the field dominated by each of four common grasses , Lolium perenne , Holcus lanatus , Agrostis tenuis and Cynosurus cristatus . |
| 5 | I tried to get up but my legs were pulled from under me and I was kicked by my opponent . |
| 6 | After Cambrian times , most of the sediments were derived from within the Welsh Basin . |
| 7 | Henry Percy , Guy Brian , Henry Scrope and Richard Stafford represented the barons and bannerets , while the Bishops of London , Norwich , Carlisle and St Davids were appointed from amongst the prelates . |
| 8 | If his successor at British Coal were appointed from within the corporation he considers that it would be impertinent to tell him how the job should be done . |
| 9 | These values were taken from to the criteria proposed by Iascone et al . |
| 10 | There was a degree of continuity in the sense that specific advances in understanding were achieved from within a magical framework . |
| 11 | They were both thinking about it when they were hailed from across the street . |
| 12 | And when a ratepayer challenged a local authority 's conduct of its policy to sell council houses and invoked his statutory right to complain to the District Auditor , he was debarred from at the same time pursuing the alternative remedy of applying to the courts for judicial review . |
| 13 | So far natural selection had kept the group small enough to be manageable ; usually it was filled from among those who came to her monthly entertainments . |
| 14 | On July 22 the search for survivors in Baguio city was abandoned by foreign rescue teams , but local volunteers continued the search and , as late as July 30 , a man was rescued from beneath the ruins of a hotel . |
| 15 | This was collected from beneath a tree in the fringing woodland of Lake Baringo in Kenya while the owl itself sat tight in the tree above . |
| 16 | First she said there was no room in the car , but when Mr Sylvester said he would use the minibus her excuse was jerked from under her feet . |
| 17 | A new Company was organized from among merchants who had tried to trade with India on their own account , and from employees of the old Company who disliked Child 's leadership . |
| 18 | This too was orchestrated from on high . |
| 19 | Last night his hourly wage , about £8 in loose change was nicked from under his nose by scavenging ragamuffins . |
| 20 | ‘ My mother , ’ said Bernard , suddenly , talkative at last , ‘ is a mean-spirited , disgusting bitch ; a big fat mammy , and to think that I was born from between her legs makes me want to vomit . |
| 21 | The Gothic style of architecture in England was employed from about 1170–1560 ; a long period , possibly longer than that in any other country . |
| 22 | ‘ Our pedestal was kicked from under our feet today . |
| 23 | The next the rug was pulled from under my feet . ’ |
| 24 | Since he was pulled from under a pile of 40 bodies over three years ago he has been in a coma , unlikely ever to recover . |
| 25 | At that time it was not realised that the investigating team were already in possession of the evidence necessary to determine the cause of the accident and it was entirely fortuitous that the body that was removed from under the pathologist 's nose was not one containing vital evidence . |
| 26 | The mill was worked from at least 1889 to 1897 by William Wilson , but by 1914 Mrs Mary Wilson was the miller . |
| 27 | It was created from within the region . |
| 28 | When we got there one o one of the other boys was was already there with him and he was covered from about his waist down with coal and er we uncovered him and gave him as comfortable as we could get him until we got the stretchers and everything mobilize him and get him out . |
| 29 | In elections for the chair of the Supreme Soviet ( standing parliament elected from the Congress ) , Ruslan Khasbulatov , the acting chair , was elected from among five candidates on Oct. 28 by 559 votes to 381 , the election having been postponed from July [ see p. 38349 ] . |
| 30 | The way in which the goals and targets were developed in Australia also differs noticeably from the English experience , where the whole process was controlled from within the Department of Health . |