Example sentences of "[det] was [verb] from [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was separated from the other digits , giving their owners the ability to grasp and manipulate objects . |
| 2 | This was made from a tethered barrage-balloon , with a jumping-cage suspended below it . |
| 3 | This was distanced from the earlier stress on Old Testament religious morality by its rationalism ; as in the story 's metaphor of electricity , wondrous yet calculable , which demonstrated the inexorable consequences of wrong-doing-disease , death and social degeneracy . |
| 4 | This was done from the year of diagnosis until 1 January 1990 or until death . |
| 5 | This was distinguished from a card which merely had written or printed material on it , intended to convey information to the human eye or mind , and not meant to be ancillary to some machine by being specially shaped for that purpose . |
| 6 | This was cut from a piece of linen texture board and then backed with some cream silk . |
| 7 | An essential first step was to create a bedroom and this was formed from the larger part of the former WC block . |
| 8 | This was coordinated from the living room of a local doctor . |
| 9 | Samuel , this was taken from an advertisement in one of the magazines , and one sometimes got a little bit of er of exaggeration . |
| 10 | This was to come from a temporary one-year 7.5 per cent income and corporation tax surcharge from July 1 , 1991 , a 25 pfennig tax increase per litre of ordinary grade petrol ( plus similar increases in taxes on diesel , heating oil and gas ) and tax increases on tobacco and insurance premiums . |
| 11 | This weak growth is reflected in the CIA panel 's forecast for the industry 's sectors ( see table ) although , Freeman added , this was derived from the CSO 's production figures , which appear to be overestimated . |
| 12 | The thunder with which this was greeted from the senior judiciary — every one a former barrister — forced the Lord Chancellor to produce his fudge : separate systems of accreditation with four senior judges given a veto over solicitors ' rights . |
| 13 | A car radio was taken from a Renault in The Street , Woodham Ferrers , another was stolen from a Ford Fiesta in New Road , Chelmsford . |
| 14 | Two walked from the building , another was taken from a damaged building near by , and the fourth was found on top of the rubble underneath a bed . |
| 15 | So much was expected from The Fellow . |
| 16 | The first of these was converted from the abbey to great house in a very short time , a transaction made easier by Browne 's use of the abbot 's lodging as the centre of his new house . |
| 17 | It was all very hush-hush — that was emphasized from the beginning . ’ |
| 18 | NEGOTIATIONS are now well in hand with a UK national collection concerning the Handley Page Hampden that was salvaged from the Murmansk area of the USSR and arrived in the UK on September 4 . |
| 19 | More than 2 tonnes of the waste , contaminated with 300 grams of dioxin , that was scraped from the inside of the pot is still being sought by environmentalists who believe that it , too , may land up in the sea . |
| 20 | The " New Greece " that was to emerge from the heroic social project had been postponed until a future date . |
| 21 | Somewhere here were the contributions of Duroc 's ancestors : a series of articles co-written by Pierre Henri Duroc and Donatien Alphonse Francois , Marquis de Sade , speculating on the limits of the human mind when confronted with endless pain ; some transcripts from the meetings of Robespierre 's Committee of Public Safety , in which the fates of some of the first families of France were decided on a whim ; a suppressed account of certain discoveries in a pre-human city that came to light in 19th-century French Equatorial Africa before the cyclopean stones mysteriously sank into the soft jungle earth ; Cauchemar et Fils , Maitres des Mondes Perdues , an unpublished novel by M. Jules Verne that was purchased from the author by a Great-Great-Great-Uncle and consigned to obscurity because it described a steam-driven engine to open up a gateway to a world of dreams that bore a remarkable similarity to a device that the Duroc of the time had indeed developed . |
| 22 | The track , the Brigadier explained to them patiently , was all that was left from the days when the mountain villages were inhabited . |