Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [adv] from [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A lot of psychological theories were developed initially from studies of wholly male samples : theories of achievement motivation , moral development , and social categorization , for instance ( McClelland et al . |
| 2 | SIX OF the long-term political prisoners whose release the government announced this week , including Walter Sisulu , the former ANC secretary , were flown up from Cape Town to Johannesburg under guard yesterday morning and transferred to Diepkloof prison in Soweto , according to the South African Press Association . |
| 3 | Urgent medical supplies were flown out from Lyneham yesterday , but for many victims the only hope of a full recovery requires the full faclities which only countries like Britain can provide . |
| 4 | Dairyman Crick 's sleeves were rolled up from Monday to Saturday , and the milkers milked in the fields for coolness . |
| 5 | The ordeal ended when they were picked up from Great Barrier Island , 123 days after they had set out from New Zealand . |
| 6 | Well if I could just read read that , a well planned strategy for hou for land , for hous , sorry a well planned strategy for land for housing which ensures that housing is available in the areas where jobs are being being created can make a valuable contri contribution to national prosperity and economic growth , so I say I do n't think we would have that erm valuable contribution if the new settlement were located away from Greater York . |
| 7 | Sometimes there were short races between the Bletchley and Newport workmen 's trains as both were booked away from Wolverton at the same time . |
| 8 | On June 17-22 , 20,000 dependents of US service personnel based at Clark and Subic were evacuated to the United States , leaving behind 15,000 US military personnel ; on June 21 , 4,500 US airmen were evacuated overseas from Subic Bay . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , they were able to continue the art classes ( to Leonard 's chagrin , a Saturday morning event ) alongside needlework and other crafts , which were exhibited locally from time to time . |
| 10 | Despite our unsavoury choice of shipmates , our arrival was cause for celebration , and on the very first afternoon we were whisked away from Sinar Surya to stay in the comfort of the sultan 's guesthouse , which was far more impressive than anything we had seen in Makassar . |
| 11 | SWIMMERS were turned away from Colchester Leisure World because a film crew under the direction of Alan Bleasdale had taken over the fitness pool . |
| 12 | There was confusion , however , over the position of the two central banks , Gosbank and Vneshekonombank ( Bank for foreign economic relations ) , whose responsibilities were transferred back from RSFSR to central control on Aug. 29 , and whose chairmen , respectively Viktor Gerashchenko and Yuri Moskovsky were reinstated , according to the Financial Times of Aug. 30 , partly as a result of pressure from European banks . |
| 13 | We were moved here from Peenemünde . |
| 14 | Because models were moved frequently from rock to rock throughout an immense colony , we believe no individual 's response was scored more than once . |
| 15 | The single parameter that we manipulated was whether the landmarks and feeders occupied fixed locations across trials ( group fixed ) or were moved randomly from trial to trial ( group varied ) . |
| 16 | Pakistani irregulars invaded Kashmir — then an independent kingdom ruled by a Hindu king — in October 1948 after which its ruler acceded to India and troops were moved in from New Delhi to check the invasion . |
| 17 | The operations management data are largely those given by companies in their annual report and accounts , with the difference that they were collected directly from company executives and not as published for the benefit of shareholders . |
| 18 | Faeces were collected quantitatively from days 11 to 14 . |
| 19 | In the other two authorities the schools were selected randomly from school lists . |
| 20 | All the outfits on the catwalk were made up from clothes donated to its charity shops . |
| 21 | However during the 1909 Air Display at Squires Gate and again for the steeplechase meetings at the racecourse there , Corporation trams were operated through from Talbot Square , at a fare of 4d . |
| 22 | They were closed down from time to time and checked the day prior to our morning operation . |
| 23 | The councillors were drawn heavily from people who had served on the previous local authorities : and most of the public remained ignorant and apathetic towards local government ( Rhodes 1972:420 — 1 ) . |
| 24 | His cabinet was conventional and " safe " ; but his White House staff were drawn mainly from Georgia — probably his first mistake . |
| 25 | Elections for a regional assembly in Kurdistan , intended to strengthen the cohesion of the eight-party Kurdistan Front , were postponed twice from April 3 to April 30 and then to May 17 . |
| 26 | Moreover , the system of land tenure , wherein the land belongs to the indigenous Fijians and can only be leased to Indo-Fijians ( the descendants of indentured cane workers who were drafted in from India in the early colonial period ) militates against conservation measures because it ensures the political dominance of the former ; and the encouragement of production ensures that such land is seen to be in use , an artefact to maintain internal stability . |
| 27 | A child , named Lewis after his father , was born to Goram and his wife 18 months ago , and added another stabilising dimension to the life of a player now consumed by the need to make the most of the gifts that were handed down from father to son . |
| 28 | It was in fact , a closed shop , and those working practices and skills were handed down from mother to daughter . |
| 29 | The mice were injected daily from day 0 until the experiment was finished . |
| 30 | A flax processing mill was built in the 19th century and some workers were brought over from Ireland . |