Example sentences of "was [verb] from the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Whole gut transit time was calculated from the following equation : Whole gut transit time ( h ) =103–1.23 ( DF ) -4.69 ( SFS ) +0.638 ( IDTI ) where DF is stated defecation frequency , SFS is stool form score , and IDTI is the mean interdefecatory time interval in hours from the bowel record form .
2 Following McNicol ( 1972 ) a nonparametric overall measure of recognition sensitivity for individual films was calculated from the collapsed data , this measure , P(A) , corresponds to the area beneath the ROC curve plotted for a film , aggregating the data from all subjects .
3 This input was calculated from the increased specific activity of carbon found in the soil after the bomb tests .
4 The coefficient of fat absorption ( CFA ) was calculated from the daily dietary fat intake and the daily stool fat output and expressed as a percentage of the daily fat intake .
5 The values from at least two chromatograms were used to obtain a mean ; the percentage individual bile acid present was calculated from the micromolar concentrations .
6 Peter Jay , who was plucked from the economic editorship of The Times by his father-in-law , Labour Prime Minister James Callaghan , to be made ambassador to Washington , recalls the feelings clearly :
7 He was recalled from the international wilderness last March to play against Czechoslovakia .
8 In July 1988 he received a letter from Lord Vestey saying his name was withdrawn from the rotating list of those qualified to act as chairman .
9 In the meantime , Stirling was back in action at Kabrit , preparing to bring up B Squadron , which was formed from the new recruits who had finished a somewhat abbreviated training course .
10 An essential first step was to create a bedroom and this was formed from the larger part of the former WC block .
11 Since he believed the embryo was formed from the menstrual blood by the male dynamic in the semen it was clear to him that preformation must be excluded .
12 One seat was won by the Fren Melanesien Party ( a splinter group established when the UMP was formed from the old New Hebrides Federal Party in 1982 ) , and the remaining two by independents .
13 Nunzia peeled herself an orange , paring the skin close to the flesh so the padded white endodermis was stripped from the juicy red-flecked flesh , and yet not so close that the fruit spurted juice .
14 Although a series of Shinto ceremonies was held at the palace , much of the religious content was stripped from the state-funded Sokui-no-rei , or Enthronement Ceremony .
15 The mucosa was stripped from the underlying muscular layer and fat by blunt dissection .
16 The harshest criticism came from the party ideologist , Mr Stoyan Mihailov , who was dismissed from the central committee last year following disagreements with Mr Zhivkov .
17 And last Wednesday 's planned North Wales Coast Express was diverted from the coastal mainline to the Settle and Carlisle .
18 Hundreds of people looked on and cheered as a metal cast of the hammer and sickle emblem was ripped from the outside wall of the Supreme Council building .
19 And though embellished with a couple of right hands which sought but did not destroy , it was the work of a crushing left hook-cum-uppercut that was ripped from the top shelf of Razor 's own weapon room .
20 This was distanced from the earlier stress on Old Testament religious morality by its rationalism ; as in the story 's metaphor of electricity , wondrous yet calculable , which demonstrated the inexorable consequences of wrong-doing-disease , death and social degeneracy .
21 A loud whisper was heard from the brown-haired choirboy , ‘ Does that mean no school ? ’
22 At last a weary voice was heard from the elderly statesman ranks of the trade union bosses .
23 A bitter weeping was heard from the two reeds that remained , and the king 's son thought , " I caused the death of that poor girl ; I broke off the flower and planted it in the garden of death . "
24 Daak was hanging from the rear platform , legs dangling , but he had embedded the teeth of the chainsword in one of the armour-plated side panels .
25 That he let her go , and that she was free of him so easily was a great relief , but she was shaken from the unwanted experience , and as he swiftly went on his way she turned round — but only to collide with someone else .
26 Charles E. ( Buddy ) Roemer , the Governor of Louisiana , announced on March 11 that he was defecting from the Democratic to the Republican Party .
27 A further grant was received from the National Manuscripts Conservation Trust for the conservation of important 18th , 19th and 20th century papers in the Manuscripts and Archives Collection .
28 No reply was received from the Conservative Party .
29 With Dewey 's permission , UDC was developed from the fifth edition of DC .
30 The Old Town was developed from the 11th century , originally within defensive walls , around the rock on whose peak is situated the famed Edinburgh Castle .
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