Example sentences of "[was/were] from [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was in a generally low-waged county ; in 1794 in Durham their earnings were from £4 to £6 . |
| 2 | Many of our clients were from sections of society which had few previous dealings or contacts with the police . |
| 3 | The estimates of infective dose were from studies in guineapigs , and this model might have been misleading since the lethal dose may be as small as 2400 organisms and as large as 100,000 , although about 130 organisms can cause an infection . |
| 4 | Both were from Witney in Oxfordshire . |
| 5 | As shown in table II , seronegative children who had received IPV were 2 to 14 times more likely to seroconvert than those who had received OPV ; seroconversion rates in the IPV group were from 67% to 100% , compared with only 5% to 53% in the OPV group ( p < 0.001 ) . |
| 6 | Increases in the OPV recipients were from 83% to 85% ( 2% ) for type 1 , from 91% to 94% for type 2 ( 3% ) , and no change ( 75% ) for type 3 . |
| 7 | One other noticeable feature was that nearly 30% of participants were from institutions outside the United Kingdom , with Australia , Austria , Brazil , Canada , Denmark , Eire , Greece , Hong Kong , India , Italy , Netherlands , Norway , Slovenia , South Africa and the U.S.A. all represented . |
| 8 | The fifth general trustee , Chairman Franklin Murphy , withdrew from the search to avoid a conflict of interest , since at least two likely candidates were from institutions of which he was , or is , a trustee . |
| 9 | The route has also changed , for the first walks were from Bradford to York , the winner of the first race taking 7 hours , 7 minutes and 50 seconds to cover the thirty-nine and a half miles . |
| 10 | MPs did have the opportunity for dalliance , away as they were from home for the best part of the week — and for more than half the year . |
| 11 | Some of these gains were from replication of standard designs , though these were reckoned to be small , presumably because the large number of separate manufacturers and divisions involved in the work greatly reduced the potential cost reduction through learning effects . |
| 12 | Inside fares by 1800 were from 4d to 6d ( 1.5p to 2.5p ) a mile . |
| 13 | They were from members of the public drawing his attention to the fact that he had made — to put it politely — a political miscalculation . |
| 14 | Out of the 35% in favour , 33% and 11% respectively were from solicitors in medium-sized and larger practices . |
| 15 | Hereditary wardenships , for example , were from time to time inherited by priests : in 1207 William of Wrotham , Archdeacon of Taunton , received from King John seisin of the lands he held in chief in Somerset , and the wardenship of the forests of Somerset and Exmoor in Devon . |
| 16 | Other wardens were from time to time granted leave by Henry III to postpone their accounts at the Exchequer , and he remitted the debts of others . |
| 17 | Some landowners were from time to time able to obtain , by favour or by purchase , a royal grant of the right to hunt the lesser beasts of the forest , such as fox , wild cat and hare , but rarely the deer ; the general prohibition remained . |
| 18 | Presentments for breaches of these purlieu laws were from time to time made at the Essex swanimotes in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries . |
| 19 | Not handsome , but nice-looking in a way I had usually rather deprecated , if not despised : not the lean and craggy looks that I had always admired , but a blunt-featured face with a wide mouth , dark eyes tilted slightly down at the outer corners , and an untidy thatch of brown hair of which a couple of locks fell over a broad forehead , and were from time to time irritably brushed back . |
| 20 | Although there were from time to time reports of " crossed aphasia " , in which the lesion is on the same side as the preferred hand ( Bramwell , 1899 ) , these were initially regarded as no more than occasional exceptions of the " contralateral rule " . |
| 21 | Two recent cases were from malrotation of the pouch and another from mesenteric vein thrombosis complicating pelvic sepsis . |
| 22 | However , the less important constructional blocks with carved decoration were from quarries in the Dokimeion-Iasos region of Turkey . |
| 23 | In fact , several of the warnings were from colleagues at the centre who had withdrawn their association from the centre early last year . |
| 24 | The OPV recipients ' increases were from 76% to 85% ( 9% ) for type 1 , from 91% to 95% ( 4% ) for type 2 , and from 57% to 65% ( 8% ) for type 3 . |
| 25 | Indeed , objects used for inspiration by the artists in the nineteenth-century Paris studios were from parts of West Africa which had been making such images for European consumption for centuries ( Donne 1978 ) . |
| 26 | Sixteen of these were from patients with sarcoidosis who underwent biopsy of the lung ( nine patients ) , lymph node ( six patients ) , or skin ( one patient ) . |
| 27 | Of those responding , 34 were from offices with fewer than three partners , of whom eight were sole practitioners with no other staff ; 31 respondents were from offices with fewer than 10 staff . |
| 28 | Of those responding , 34 were from offices with fewer than three partners , of whom eight were sole practitioners with no other staff ; 31 respondents were from offices with fewer than 10 staff . |
| 29 | This indicates that , excluding Wales , 76 per cent of ‘ new ’ petitions in 1814 were from places in the Midlands and East Anglia southwards . |
| 30 | The flight was from Paris to London , but because there was a strike in London affecting BEA 's Paris to London service a large number of British nationals were transferred to the Turkish DC-10 flight . |