Example sentences of "was [verb] [to-vb] from [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The funds thus obtained , which would be repayable over a five-year period , represented only about 15 per cent of the estimated cost of making good damage to infrastructure [ see p. 38362 ] ; most reconstruction funding was expected to come from oil revenues . |
| 2 | For 1990-91 revenues and grants were forecast to increase by P653,000,000 over the revised 1989-90 budget to total P3,318 million , 63 per cent of which was expected to come from mineral exports . |
| 3 | A conviction ensued where the supervisor had been drinking with the driver who was seen to swerve from side to side ( Crampton v Fish ( 1969 ) , 113 SJ 1003 ) . |
| 4 | She guarded her secret carefully , terrified she was going to suffer from morning sickness , which might give the game away to her mother , but she 'd been lucky . |
| 5 | The carbon deposit was thought to come from car exhaust fumes from a large car park close to the church . |
| 6 | By the end of the 18th century , however , the emphasis was beginning to change from fieldwork to excavation . |
| 7 | The best solution was found to differ from area to area and enterprise to enterprise . |
| 8 | More traumatic still , James Prior , with the greatest reluctance , was forced to move from Employment to the exile of Northern Ireland , even though Mrs Thatcher had to keep him on the Cabinet 's main economic forum , the E Committee . |
| 9 | Lord Haldane was forced to resign from government as a result of coalition , and eminent businessmen such as Sir Ernest Cassel and Sir Edgar Speyer withdrew from public life for the duration of the war . |
| 10 | And they had the time worked out for every policeman the length of time he was allowed to travel from court to home and back again and you added that time to the time you were engaged in court and it was worked out to the minute — worked out officially how long it took the tram . |
| 11 | Faced with seemingly insurmountable technical problems , which could have consumed at least as much cash again without any guarantee of success , the decision was taken to start from scratch with a far less ambitious system to keep London , if not ahead of , at least on par with , its competitors . |
| 12 | Yet beyond this general expectation he did not pressure them too early , at one point he seriously doubted whether Hideki was fitted to benefit from university study . |