Example sentences of "was [verb] from [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The frequency of peristalsis in the duodenum was calculated from this sequence at 14 contractions per minute . |
| 2 | The coeficient of variation ( SD ( 100% ) /mean ) was calculated from this variance component model for each variable of the model . |
| 3 | The new movement worked vigorously to redefine the domain of sexuality-developing concepts of identity and sexual difference , even a vocabulary of satisfaction and pleasure , which was differentiated from social purity . |
| 4 | They found that no dye was formed from pure aniline ; that magenta was usually a mixture of two dyestuffs ( 1 and 2 ) ; and that the products formed could be controlled by the proportions of the component amines . |
| 5 | Some domestic beet production was diverted from human consumption to cattle feed to make room for Cuban imports ’ ( Bonsal : 1971 , p. 208 ) . |
| 6 | Fortunately , he was diverted from any inquiry into the sexual morals of the camp by a report that boys were playing football on the Sabbath . |
| 7 | He was banished from last summer 's Olympics after a drugs test showed traces of the banned steroid Methandianone . |
| 8 | Hammond was posted from 261 Squadron to the Middle East due to ill health . ) |
| 9 | It was also said that money was received from Dutch Shell and Courtaulds . |
| 10 | A dealer was sacked from one firm because he had leaked disloyal comments to the Press , and the tape was played back to him as evidence . |
| 11 | But I was not ready for the sheer , throat-tightening beauty of virtually the entirety of this CD , which contains all eleven of Jenkins 's six-part Fantasias ( a twelfth may be spurious , and was omitted from this recording ) as well as the other works for six-part viol consort , the two Pavans and two In Nomines . |
| 12 | Extra revenue was to come from higher telephone and unemployment insurance charges , but the cost of unification was still expected to increase the public-sector deficit above the DM140,000 million ( approximately US$94 , 580 million ) projected in December 1990 [ see p. 37904 ; for end-January rise in Federal Bank discount rate see p. 37978 ] . |
| 13 | He was rescued from breathtaking rent rises by Cornelissen , from where he continues to supply artists and calligraphers . |
| 14 | Ostensibly defending the sanctity of the Sabbath against the joyful musical interruptions of the Salvationists , it was reported from one area that rioting Skeletonites were dressed in ‘ coloured rags and tinsel , masks , helmets , and other pantomime clothing ’ , and in several localities police chiefs found it necessary to ban Salvation Army processions for fear of riots . |
| 15 | The " veil " was lifted from British domination and a protectorate proclaimed with the coming of the First World War in 1914 . |
| 16 | Sergeant Charles Trumper was discharged from active service on 20 February 1919 , one of the early ones : the missing toe had at last counted for something . |
| 17 | A report was dropped from further analysis if the study did not include concurrent controls or contained no original data or if the report did not address mortality , respiratory disease , or diarrhoea . |
| 18 | The final dividend , payable on July 1 , was slashed from last year 's 1.5p to 0.9p . |
| 19 | In the autumn of 1659 , when he was even appointed ( very briefly as it turned out ) to be a treasury commissioner , he was also elected an alderman of the City ; early the next year he was excused from this dignity owing to lack of means . |
| 20 | A mitogen of M r 31,000 ( 31K ) named glial growth factor ( GGF ) was purified from bovine pituitary . |
| 21 | Genomic DNA was purified from whole blood , digested with EcoRI ( Toyobo , Tokyo , Japan ) according to the manufacture 's instructions , and subjected to electrophoretic separation in agarose gels . |
| 22 | They thought it was dying from old age , but I did n't think so , though , to tell the truth , I was n't quite sure what was wrong with it . |
| 23 | At an earlier stage in my career I was transferred from one division of ICI to a new one . |
| 24 | I was transferred from one office to another before being shown into an office whose occupant was asleep in an armchair by the window . |
| 25 | Marriage remained very much an institution whereby property was transferred from one family to another — just as Aquitaine was transferred first to the Capetians and then to the Angevins . |
| 26 | In December nineteen eighty seven she was transferred from intensive care to a main ward , but it was not until February nineteen eighty eight that she fully emerged from coma . |
| 27 | At the end of the incubation , supernatant was collected from each well and the radioactivity was measured with a γ-counter . |
| 28 | This increased the demand for protectionism and throughout the postwar years British industry was sheltered from foreign competition by higher tariffs , import quotas and exchange controls . |
| 29 | A single tracheal preparation ( 2.27mm 2 ) and a single caecal preparation ( 20mm 2 ) was prepared from each animal . |
| 30 | Oxyhaemoglobin was prepared from bovine haemoglobin ( 75% methaemoglobin , Sigma Chemicals Ltd ) and its purity was assessed spectrophotometrically according to the method described by Martin et al . |