Example sentences of "was [verb] from [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a good deal of arguing , Fagin managed to reduce the amount Sikes was demanding from five pounds to three pounds . |
| 2 | The space before him was formed from two segments of the crypt 's arcading — the room had been devised in the nineteenth century for use as an office for the vergers . |
| 3 | Throughout the 1970s he was involved in trade union activities in opposition to the communist regime , and as a result was dismissed from several jobs . |
| 4 | The sense of national community is not helped by exhortations to cheer for England in Test Matches and the implication that those who do not are in some sense not good British citizens , and yet this sort of crude and simplistic interpretation of the obligations of citizenship was heard from some politicians in 1990 . |
| 5 | To inhibit uptake or radioiodine by the thyroid , Lugol solution 2–3 mg/kg per day was given from 7 days before until 7 days after treatment . |
| 6 | The cod catch was to be reduced to 98,270 tonnes , from 118,700 in 1989 , and the haddock quota was to fall from 62,500 tonnes to 41,700 . |
| 7 | Evidence in this report was gathered from 12 groups and individuals some of whom were prepared to have their names and the names of their organisations go on the record . |
| 8 | It is undoubtedly true that in this period when new political lordships and principalities were replacing the Carolingian empire , and Europe was recovering from external attacks , the church was far more an upholder than a hammer of kings and other rulers . |
| 9 | A total of 12,500 entries was received from 19 countries in all categories of the competition , which was judged by a panel of people picked from all areas of US life . |
| 10 | The capital was distinguished from provincial cities and towns on three counts : it was at least five times the size of any other , almost ten times as rich , and possessed a vastly more complex social and occupational structure . |
| 11 | The strained conformation is illustrated in Fig. 1 b , together with a section of the electron density map for which the tripeptide His15-Ala16-Arg17 was omitted from all calculations . |
| 12 | Ascitic fluid was aspirated from 10 patients ( nine men , one woman ; age range 37–62 years ) with alcohol induced ascites and 10 patients ( four men , six women ; age range 31–85 years ) with sytologically confirmed malignant ascites ( six ovarian ; one oesophageal ; two stomach , and one colonic carcinoma ) . |
| 13 | When I was finally called one wintry Monday by the neighbours , she looked quite dreadful ; her faced was bruised from several falls the previous night , she was struggling for her breath , her legs and thighs were painful and very swollen . |
| 14 | Not too often that a company goes back to a previous vendor after switching , but Hydro Mississauga Ltd of the eponymous Ontario town , is returning to the Hewlett-Packard Co HP 3000 with Mitchell Humphrey & Co financials , after three years of using an IBM Corp 4381 : the change is being made in an effort to save $2m in operating costs and gain performance improvements , dumping the 4381 for an HP 3000 Series 957 running HP MPE/iX ; it says the power of the new machine has enabled it to reduce its operations shifts from three to two and to cut overnight batch processing from 11 to four hours , and one table-loading job was shortened from 14 hours to 20 minutes — and on-line response time is ‘ significantly improved ’ ; it switched from an HP 3000 Series 70 that lacked the capacity needed in 1989 , moving to the 4381 with Dun & Bradstreet Corp software . |
| 15 | This was approached from two angles : first , what was known as the ‘ battle for the fourth grade ’ , an acknowledgement that substantial numbers of children either did not go to school or did not stay long enough to consolidate literacy . |
| 16 | It has already been suggested that comment in C under 1020 , 1023 and 1030 was added from other sources , and E's entry on Archbishop Wulfstan 's death in 1023 could have come from an Easter Table entry , although the additions made by D and E to 1022 , and by D alone to 1023 , seem too extensive to be from such a source . |
| 17 | CREB was purified from equal amounts of nuclear protein from UF9 and DF9 cells by sequence-specific DNA-affinity chromatography . |
| 18 | The art was looted from conquered cities in Etruria , to the north of Rome , and from the Greek communities of southern Italy . |
| 19 | Mr Major — who hoped that David Mellor 's resignation would overshadow the debate — was attacked from all sides . |
| 20 | The Halifax says that about 20% of the money deposited in Tessas was new money — the remaining 80% was transferred from other accounts already held with the society . |
| 21 | Marcelino Nguema Ongueme was transferred from Foreign Affairs to become Minister of State and Secretary-general to the Presidency , and was replaced in his previous post by newcomer Santiago Eneme Ovono as Minister-Delegate . |
| 22 | Abu Hassan Omar was transferred from Foreign Affairs to Internal Trade and Domestic Affairs , filling the vacancy arising from the promotion of Sulaiman Daud to take charge of the Education Ministry . |
| 23 | A nasopharyngeal swab and blood sample for virological testing were collected from all symptomatic subjects , and a blood sample was collected from convalescent subjects four to six weeks later . |
| 24 | A small part of these sales taxes is raised from industries other than wholesale and retail trade , but in 1985 74 per cent was collected from retail organizations and nearly 13 per cent from wholesale organizations . |
| 25 | This was collected from surrounding manors and exported direct from the port , checked carefully for weight by inspectors called tronagers . |
| 26 | But although his mind was detached from day-to-day events it brooded a good deal on longer-term considerations . |
| 27 | Information about children under 5 years old living in the study area who had leukaemia or non-Hodgkin 's lymphoma diagnosed between 1972 and 1989 was ascertained from multiple sources . |
| 28 | For Northern blotting total RNA was prepared from cytoplasmic extracts and analysed according to standard procedures . |
| 29 | For expression analyses , transgenic lines were established and total RNA was prepared from various tissues , including brain kidney , liver , lung , spleen , thymus and testis or ovaries ( 41 ) and subjected to S1 nuclease protection assay . |
| 30 | Total RNA was prepared from various tissues of two month old offspring from transgenic mice lines 6 , 13 , 1 and 14 , as well as an aged-matched non-transgenic ( N-Tg ) mouse . |