Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] from [noun pl] of " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The universities are not formally sub-divided , but informal groupings based on origin and type distinguish between Oxbridge ( Oxford and Cambridge ) , the large federal university of London founded in the early nineteenth century , the larger ‘ civic ’ universities established later in the nineteenth century in provincial cities ( e.g. Manchester , Birmingham , Leeds , Bristol ) , the smaller civics such as Exeter , Hull or Leicester , the ‘ new ’ universities founded ab initio in the 1960s , such as Lancaster , Essex and Sussex , the ‘ ex-CATS ’ such as Aston , Salford and Bradford , which were upgraded from Colleges of Advanced Technology at around the same time , and the Scottish , Welsh and two Northern Irish universities . |
| 5 | A special class are Paterson 's bowel nosodes which were prepared from cultures of intestinal bacteria obtained from patients with specific health problems . |
| 6 | Suspensions of mucosal cells were prepared from fragments of mucosa by a pepsin extration technique . |
| 7 | ‘ The records were being altered , a new accounting system was being introduced and key people were moved from positions of authority . |
| 8 | His skin was burnt nearly black by the sun and his clothes were made from pieces of a ship 's sail . |
| 9 | All of his opéras , starting with Bellerophon in 1679 , were published in full score by Ballard in the years of their performance ; the music for the ballets , on the other hand , survives only in manuscripts that were copied from sources of unestablished provenance 20 or more years after the works were composed . |
| 10 | Samples were drawn from areas of the county : Melton Mowbray , Coalville , Buttersworth and Market Harborough . |
| 11 | Tenders were invited from companies of equal opportunities specialists , and TMS Consultants was finally selected to conduct the survey , which was sponsored jointly by the Bar Council and by the Lord Chancellor 's Department . |
| 12 | Whereas natural science works with a basic or datum language of physical behaviour , which , if adopted for social science , would mean that action-descriptions were inferred from descriptions of behaviour , Weber offers the social sciences a datum language of actions . |
| 13 | He showed her how to weld the ideas she read into structures that were sculpted from beads of meaning . |
| 14 | A total of 161 seats were contested , of which 125 were directly elected and 36 were appointed from lists of so-called " at large " candidates in proportion to total votes in the district elections . |
| 15 | The images in Figure 1 were taken from sections of a movie loop with a total of 912 frames , the stills have been selected to illustrate the phases of the migrating motor complex . |
| 16 | Four clutches where we suspected that hosts had ejected cuckoo eggs before we detected them ( as judged by the damage of host eggs ) were excluded from calculations of the number of cuckoo eggs per nest . |
| 17 | For additional strength , mail coats were constructed from patches of four links to one . |
| 18 | The whole thing was made from bits of scrap . ’ |
| 19 | For example , if the seaming of stocking was not done at home by the wife , in 1811 a deduction of around 1s ( 5p ) was made from earnings of 13s ( 65p ) . |
| 20 | DNA for polymerase chain reaction ( PCR ) was extracted from sections of fresh tissue immediately adjacent to those used for immunohistochemistry . |
| 21 | In particular , Thompson and Spencer 's list of the features of habituation was derived from studies of short-term examples of the phenomenon ; it may therefore be unreasonable to expect these features to be found also in latent inhibition ( see Lubow , Weiner , and Schnur 1981 ) . |
| 22 | A few years ago a minute fossil only about 2 mm long was recovered from limestones of Ordovician age , and christened Janospira . |
| 23 | Sediment cores were dated using and vegetation and land use were determined from pollen ; and lakewater pH was inferred from remains of diatoms . |
| 24 | Still others claim he was adapted from tales of the Norse god ODIN , and his fleet-footed mount Sleipnir . |
| 25 | And Lexandro was hurled from dreams of incandescence into that now sooty cavity . |
| 26 | In the current analysis , mean per capita GNP was determined from totals of GNP and population for 10° latitudinal intervals , assuming even distribution of 1991 national data ( compiled from OECD , World Bank and national sources ) across the latitudinal range individually occupied by 200 countries and territories . |
| 27 | To keep costs to the minimum the pond surrounds of double row bricks and crazy paving were bought as hardcore , the main filter was constructed from a £3 expansion tank and the water mill was constructed from scraps of plywood and painted with left-over household paint . |
| 28 | ‘ Rexroth 's review said that as the band had n't shown up a pick-up band was assembled from members of the audience , who just banged pots and pans and made odd noises . |
| 29 | The chairman was chosen from members of the panel , other than the SCOTVEC officer and SED assessor , by SCOTVEC or the college , whichever body organised the event . |