Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] from [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Great dinosaurs were excavated from the American west while it was still ‘ wild ’ — early fossil-hunters had to contend with hostile Indians and sometimes came to blows over possession of the richest sites .
2 These weapons were developed from the long-barrelled hunting weapons used in Hochland , and their long barrels make them very accurate .
3 However , centres will be able to continue to offer any programmes which were developed from the 1992
4 Brasher Boots arrived about the same time as the K-SB3 , but were developed from the running shoe .
5 Another 266 anal cancers were calculated from the representative samples .
6 Gall bladder volumes were calculated from the measured parameters with the software of the ultrasound unit , assuming that the shape of the gall bladder approximated a solid with elliptical sections , the excentricity depending on that at the level of the greatest transverse section .
7 Absolute quantities of tissue type plasminogen activator antigen in the samples were calculated from an eight point standard curve of tissue type plasminogen activator ( Biopool , Sweden , 0–4 ng/ ml ) .
8 Four members and candidate members were sacked from the ruling politburo , elected only on Wednesday .
9 Soon the remaining six B-Class buses were withdrawn from the SoutherN fleet and were replaced by more ex-L.G.O.C .
10 In what was described by The Times of April 20 as " the worst crisis in relations between the two NATO allies " , 15 Turkish diplomats were withdrawn from the Turkish embassy in Bonn , West Germany , and eight West German diplomats were expelled from Ankara .
11 To take an extreme example , if all the additional income received were withdrawn from the circular flow of income , the multiplier would be equal to l and the final rise in income would be just equal to the initial rise in spending and no more .
12 Before long England were benefitting from the first of a string of catches dropped by both sides , and their total of 263 was over a hundred more than it would have been had Boycott , Woolmer and Botham not had a second chance .
13 Cries of anguish were heard from the medical instructor , who was beginning to despair after seeing his practice resuscitation doll murdered by an overenthusiastic driver attempting to learn the principles of expired air resuscitation .
14 His swollen upper lip felt enormous and stiff , as though he were recovering from a dental injection .
15 On three occasions , 1976 , 1980 and 1984 , data were gathered from a random sample of young people who left school in those years .
16 At the wedding a host of best wishes were received from the other side of the world where many relatives called Jones still remembered young Carol who had gone off to Australia as a child and was now all grown up and about to get wed .
17 Local doctors were present in force , as were a county councillor and Alderman Sean O'Leary from Cork Corporation , and apologies for non-attendance were received from the two local TD 's .
18 Second , once the remaining documents were received from the confirming bank , they were checked against the credit , and upon verifying compliance , including consistency with the CKR , reimbursement to the confirming bank was authorized .
19 Two replies were received from the Labour Party
20 Greetings were received from the Venerable Archdeacon J Shearer MA BD , Rector of Seagoe and now Dean of Belfast , and the Reverend W M Craig BA BD , Minister of First Portadown Presbyterian Church , later Dr Craig and Moderator of the General Assembly .
21 During the year joint venture contributions were received from the Scottish Development Agency towards the International Research and Information Service ( IRIS ) ; the Scottish Education Department towards the Engineering Co-ordination Programme ; the Industry Department for Scotland towards the Enterprise and Education Initiative and the Enterprise Co-ordination Programme ( MESP ) ; the Highlands and Islands Development Board toward the Student Placement Scheme and the Enterprise and Education Initiative .
22 During the year , joint venture contributions were received from the Scottish Office Industry Department towards the Enterprise and Education Initiative and the Enterprise Co-ordination Programme ( MESP ) ; and from Highlands and Islands Enterprise towards the Student Placement Scheme .
23 When overtures were received from the Czech resistance movement Vlasov was persuaded to allow his men to aid the anti-communist uprising in Prague on 7 May 1945 , in the vain hope of ingratiating themselves with the allies , and of winning sanctuary from an independent Czech government .
24 Otherwise the tt building will have deemed to not comply to B one of the building regulations which I do n't want to go into too much detail but basically what it is that with effect from nineteen ninety one the smoke alarm smoke detector bill came into er operation and it was brought in into the nineteen ninety two building regulations when they were amended from the nineteen eighty five regulations that states now any new build homes shall have and be fitted with a mains operated , with battery backup , smoke detection system .
25 He replies : ’ we were formed from the old Liberal Prty and the SDP .
26 Both lists were formed from the Medical Research Council Psycholinguistic Database ( Wilson , 1987 ) by excluding repetitions , rare usages , plurals and derived forms .
27 It was not until 1972 that the idea of star and planet systems forming from other stellar material came into vogue , when Wilbur Brown of Wyoming University said that such systems were formed from the ejected shells of supernovae .
28 They were joined from the upper chest to the pelvis and had two arms and one leg each .
29 Four ministers implicated in the scandal were dismissed from the provincial Cabinet , including Housing Minister Chaviva Hosek .
30 ‘ The Boys ’ , as they were known , formed their own team rather than play in established youth sides but were dismissed from the local league for fighting and violent play .
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