Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] from [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bowel habits , irritable bowel syndrome symptoms , and whole gut transit time were calculated from records of three defectations . |
| 2 | Both regression analyses were calculated from data on 448 women because of missing values in one of the exposure or confounding variables . |
| 3 | Short courses , for teachers already in post , were arranged from time to time , though they assumed nothing like the significance that in-service provision was to have later . |
| 4 | One week several AEs were sacked from DPR for their inability to convey the concept of financial futures . |
| 5 | All cars of this batch were withdrawn from service with the reorganization of services in the summer of 1927 . |
| 6 | Tanks were withdrawn from Tirana on Feb. 25 and the city was reported to be calm , but army patrols remained , and sporadic gunfire was reported each night until the end of the month . |
| 7 | Most recently , in July 1991 , two fine Balthasar Denner heads of ‘ Old Women ’ were withdrawn from sale in London when it was learned that they had been looted from the Dresden Museum . |
| 8 | The Azerbaijan Supreme Soviet , meeting in emergency session , on Jan. 22 threatened that unless all troops were withdrawn from Azerbaijan within 48 hours it would call a referendum on Azerbaijan 's session from the Soviet Union . |
| 9 | In military terms the imperial era came to an end when the last British troops were withdrawn from East of Suez in 1972 , but politically it had ended sixteen years earlier at Suez . |
| 10 | Key Mafia figures arrested independently of the operation in September were Giuseppe Madonia , the Sicilian Mafia 's second in command , on Sept. 6 ; Pasquale , Paolo and Gaspare Cuntrera , powerful Sicilian Mafia " bankers " and drug traffickers who were extradited from Venezuela on Sept.11 after years of delays ; Carmine Alfieri , the Camorra chief described as Italy 's major gangster , on Sept. 11 ; and Domenico Libri , the supposed head of the Calabrian Mafia or N'Drangheta , in Marseille on Sept.16 . |
| 11 | The 38 captured guerrillas were extradited from Laos in January 1990 . |
| 12 | Hortense and her sons also went into exile , for all the Bonapartes were banished from France in perpetuity , by a decree of Louis XVIII , and as a result of the hostility of the major European States Hortense had great difficulty in finding some corner of Europe where she could set up home . |
| 13 | The voices of churchmen were heard from time to time , perhaps frequently , complaining of the enslavement of Christians , or of the treatment of slaves ; but there was no radical attack on the institution as such . |
| 14 | Long drives were undertaken from town to town , even country to country . |
| 15 | The likes of Naomi Campbell and Linda Evangelista were clad from head to toe in leather , rubber , latex and PVC . |
| 16 | The waters were layered from October to May while ice was present , with temperatures close to freezing point near the surface but at 1–1.25°C near the bottom in 26 m . |
| 17 | Deutsche Bank 's agreed bid for Morgan Grenfell has gone unconditional after acceptances were received from holders of 59.5 per cent of its shares . |
| 18 | Apologies ; for absence were received from Mrs. V. Hawkins . |
| 19 | Apologies ; for absence were received from Mrs. V. Hawkins . |
| 20 | Remba went to work and created ‘ Mixografia ’ , a method in which copper printing plates were formed from impressions of diverse materials and textures — charred wood , lead , cement , burlap , found objects . |
| 21 | First , the Athenians who were dismissed from Ithome for ‘ subversive tendencies ’ were not the Athenians who were at that moment overturning the Areopagus but precisely Kimon and ‘ his ’ hoplites ( but we have no right to assume that he chose them personally ; four thousand are a lot of people to know by name ) . |
| 22 | Inspectors , some of them Englishmen , were dismissed from time to time for accepting bribes or for other dubious practices . |
| 23 | Except in Catalonia , the lower ranges of the legal profession were despised — in the Basque Provinces lawyers were debarred from participation in the local assemblies . |
| 24 | The ‘ Vyborg Manifesto ’ elicited little response and those who took part were debarred from election to the next Duma . |
| 25 | The release of prisoners of war by Iraq was officially described as completed when a total of 45 prisoners-of-war had been handed over to the International Committee of the Red Cross ( 10 on March 4 , comprising six US personnel , three British and one Italian , and 35 on March 5 , comprising 15 US , nine British , nine Saudis , an Italian and a Kuwaiti , who were flown from Baghdad to Riyadh on March 6 ) . |
| 26 | ‘ Jock ’ Norwell , Jim Pickering , Harry Ayre and ‘ Drac ’ Bowerman were flown from Luqa to Egypt in a Wellington piloted by newly-promoted and decorated Plt.Off . |
| 27 | During a time of harsh military discipline , when drum-head courts , public floggings and hangings were carried out to ‘ encourage the rest ’ , the 93rd were excused from attendance at show-piece parades ; because not a single member of their regiment was ever punished . |
| 28 | Under the Conservatives the top rates were slashed from 83pc to 40pc which handed top earning executives some mighty large salary increases without them even having to ask . |
| 29 | In some parts of the country , ploughs , decorated with coloured ribbons , were carried from house to house and then a mumming play was performed . |
| 30 | More than 100 foreign aid workers were evacuated from Juba on Jan. 29-30 , benefiting from a brief ceasefire called by the SPLA . |