Example sentences of "[was/were] made from the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only ten per cent of the items in the Hatfields store were made from the tropical hard wood and only a minute proportion of those goods were made from solid mahogany . |
| 2 | Their bristles were made from the finest hair available , taken from inside the ear of a goat . |
| 3 | The small intestine was then perfused with either PES or an ORS at 0.5 ml/min for one hour to ensure steady state conditions , after which three successive 10 minute collections of effluent were made from the distal cannula . |
| 4 | Telling speeches in support of abolition were made from the Conservative benches by Sir Edward Boyle and Henry Brooke , the former Home Secretary who had become persuaded by the arguments against capital punishment once free of the cares of office . |
| 5 | And in accord with this prediction , when recordings were made from the motor neurons within the abdominal ganglion during habituation , it was found that there was indeed a progressive decline in the firing rate of the cells as habituation occurred . |
| 6 | Daily implied volatility estimates were made from the closing prices of options on index futures . |
| 7 | We also saw that if a printout were made from the unmagnified drawing area , the grid lines would not appear . |
| 8 | Both lustre and blue-on-white wares were made from the mid-thirteenth century to the late fifteenth century at Malaga and a typical example of a wide dish decorated in lustre and blue is shown in Figure 6.1 . |
| 9 | The body was made from the strong cotton bags that the flour came in , she worked some black fur for its hair , and stuffed it with straw or some old hay . |
| 10 | The diagnosis of recurrent ulcers was made from the past history and gastrofibrescopic examination . |
| 11 | Defenders of a traditional cosmology simply could not allow that the earth was made from the same materials as the planets , for the latter were composed of a fifth element not found in the corruptible , sublunar world . |
| 12 | He chose the translation of Tyndale , where this existed , because it was made from the original Greek and Hebrew , unlike that of Coverdale , which was translated from the Roman Vulgate . |
| 13 | The label said it was made from the powdered teeth of deadly snakes , and it was guaranteed to raise welts the size of walnuts on your skin . |