Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] from [noun] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cells were detached from flasks by first washing three times with Ca 2 + - and Mg 2 + -free phosphate buffered saline and then incubating for three minutes at 37°C with the same phosphate buffered saline to which 0.02% ( w/v ) EDTA had been added . |
| 2 | Conservative and radical scientific ideas were disseminated from Paris by naturalists and anatomists returning home inspired by what they had heard . |
| 3 | His two children , aged 18 months and seven months , were sleeping eight feet from the explosion , but were saved from injury by the bomb-proofing and reinforced glass that all VIPs in the province get in their homes . |
| 4 | Children were collected from home by special bus and places were available on demand . |
| 5 | The long shells of the hulls were wiped from view by the heave of the sea , so that the prow platforms and tents of the poop could no longer be seen , and only the pennanted masts told where they were , until they rode into view once more , in a steam of spume from the bite of the oars . |
| 6 | This concerned the way in which electrons were ejected from metals by an incident beam of light . |
| 7 | Cyclic nucleotides were extracted from homogenates by boiling and sonicating , as previously described , and their values measured by radioassay ( cyclic AMP assay kit , code TRK 432 ; cyclic GMP RIA kit , code TRK 500 , Amersham , Buckinghamshire ) in freeze dried 3500 g supernatants ( 20 minutes at 4°C ) , reconstituted in water . |
| 8 | Based on papers submitted for review in camera , Judge Platt felt the government might have a valid claim that the subpoenaed documents were protected from discovery by the state secrets privilege , but counsel for the government seemed unwilling to accept the suggestion . |
| 9 | They were protected from enemies by their isolation and the land they cultivated was boundlessly fertile . |
| 10 | Ancient church treasures of gold , silver , ivory and rock crystal ; enamelled , filigreed , and bejewelled , which were stolen from Quedlinburg by a US army lieutenant in 1945 , have been returned to Germany , and the whole contents of the treasury some fifty works has just gone on display in the Kunstgewerbemuseum until 30 May 1993 . |
| 11 | But though their name lives on in the region of Tuscany , the Etruscans actually survived for only a short period ; they were expelled from Rome by the Latins and then defeated at the battle of Aricia in 506BC . |
| 12 | Ten giant squirrels were imported from Indonesia by a British zoo , the animals were stuffed into narrow plastic tubes no bigger than their bodies and stacked in a wooden crate . |
| 13 | And some of the people who had motives were excluded from suspicion by lack of opportunity . |
| 14 | The seeds of these two sorts were sent from Peru by Mr. Joseph de Jussieu to the Royal garden at Paris , part of which was sent me by his brother Bernard de Jussieu of the Royal Academy of Science ’ |
| 15 | In April 1945 , while the division was stationed near Graz under the command of the SS Gen Freytag , it was joined from Berlin by Gen Pavel Shandruk , President of the German-sponsored Ukrainian National Committee and Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian National Army ( of which the 1st Ukrainian Division was the most important component ) . |
| 16 | Named after the lion , Singapore was plucked from obscurity by the British , who were keen to develop the city-state as a trading port . |
| 17 | Opren was withdrawn from sale by the company , Dista Products , last August following the deaths of more than 50 old people who had taken the drug . |
| 18 | The Chief Constable of Brighton was dismissed from office by the Brighton Watch Committee without an adequate hearing . |
| 19 | Mr Brooke said Sinn Fein , the political wing of the IRA , was debarred from participation by its support for violence . |
| 20 | Since 1945 , when it was annexed from Germany by the Soviet Union , it has been Kaliningrad . |
| 21 | The new Health Secretary is married to fellow MP Peter Bottomley , who was sacked from office by Mrs Thatcher . |
| 22 | The inside was hidden from view by shutters and curtains . |
| 23 | Abel managed to make £730 , which helped to develop a sports shop beside the Oval , though this later failed and he was rescued from penury by a public appeal launched by the Daily Mail after the First World War . |
| 24 | In 1853 , through the good offices of W. E. Gladstone and other Peelites in the ministry of G. H. Gordon , fourth Earl of Aberdeen , he was rescued from penury by an appointment as commissioner of income tax , retiring through ill health some time before his death . |
| 25 | I was separated from Susan by a flood of flailing humanity . |
| 26 | The pirate radio station was anchored off Walton on the Naze for several years until it was prevented from broadcasting by the Government . |
| 27 | This is the line of the original branch — the rest of the line from Bo'ness to Kinneil was built from scratch by the Bo'ness & Kinneil Railway . |
| 28 | Haig was saved from dismissal by defenders on the Unionist side , but Robertson 's removal caused a small stir , and Unionists voted in force to save Lloyd George 's face in the Maurice debate . |
| 29 | Oxleas Wood was saved from development by public subscription in the 1920s . |
| 30 | The style of the place was very much mid-seventies , a long open-plan corridor of painted brick which was saved from cheapness by the rich texture of the veneered doors and woodwork of the offices down its length . |