Example sentences of "was [adv] [vb pp] from [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , coastal trading may be the only explanation for the peculiar distributions of some species , e.g. Exotheca abyssinica ( Gramineae ) in tropical East Africa and Vietnam and may account for that of Stylosanthes humilis ( ‘ S. sundaica' , Leguminosae ) , which was perhaps taken from Brazil to Malesia by the Portuguese . |
| 2 | The most famous of all the southern constellations was only separated from Centaurus in 1679 . |
| 3 | Stanley was thus distinguished from Gloucester 's other northern satellites , several of whom , including Northumberland , apparently co-operated in his coup . |
| 4 | Stanley was thus distinguished from Gloucester 's other northern satellites , several of whom , including Northumberland , apparently co-operated in his coup . |
| 5 | In August 1991 , the shadow of Communist imperialism was finally lifted from Europe ; in December of that year , the EEC Heads of Government negotiated the Maastricht Treaty . |
| 6 | Winding up the Convention , Bogyoke claimed that they were framing ‘ a new type of democratic government that best suited the Burmese ’ ; it was largely drawn from Yugoslavia . |
| 7 | ‘ They had n't tested the French market at all before opening and so everything was just delivered from Wales , hung up and not thought about . |
| 8 | [ Ascariasis in man : The type species , Ascaris lumbricoides , occurs in man , and at one time it was not differentiated from A. suum , so that the pig was thought to present a zoonotic risk for man . |
| 9 | However , Miller praised the English cauliflower , originally from Cyprus , and commented that in France they rarely had them until near Michaelmas while Holland was generally supplied from England , and Germany had only recently started to cultivate them . |
| 10 | On one occasion a member complained that no news was ever heard from Kigoma , and wondered why . |
| 11 | Although the reorganisation was technically scheduled from January 1982 , the head reports that the period of most tension and unsettlement for most staff was from January 1981 until the middle of the summer vacation following . |
| 12 | It was specially commissioned from Tiffany and Co. of New York and is almost certainly the work of their pre-eminent designer of the period , Paulding Farnham , creator of the gold , crystal and gem-set vase , known as the Adams vase , which is still one of the Metropolitan Museum of New York 's most popular permanent exhibits . |
| 13 | The E version of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle says that he was unjustly driven from Ely and went to Rome to clear himself before the pope of the charges brought against him . |
| 14 | And Hastings ' habit of pipe-smoking was clearly taken from Thomas Hood , who in a poem of 1839 wrote : |
| 15 | He was definately bought from Witon Albion ( non league ) , an Im sure for just 30k |
| 16 | The 1970s saw a brief vogue of denying the referentiality of language , when the jargon of la nouvelle critique was earnestly borrowed from Paris by advanced spirits , and novels for a time were called texts and denied social significance . |
| 17 | This idea was probably transmitted from Iran , where it originated . |
| 18 | In December 1991 , Dr Siraj was again brought before a military tribunal , for reasons which remain unclear , and was later transferred from Kober Prison in Khartoum North , to Shalla Prison in western Sudan . |
| 19 | Mr. Read was one of the young men Baxter sent to Cambridge University , and was later ejected from Whitley in 1662 . |
| 20 | Mr. Read was one of the young men Baxter sent to Cambridge University , and was later ejected from Whitley in 1662 . |
| 21 | And during the famous siege of Masada , which did not end until A.D. 73 , the garrison of the citadel was commanded by a man named Eleazar , who was also descended from Judas of Galilee . |
| 22 | The UN Disaster Relief Organization ( UNDRO ) provided US$1,000,000 in food aid ; assistance was also received from Thailand , the Soviet Union and Vietnam ( $50,000 ) . |
| 23 | On Jan. 16 , 1990 , the Peruvian chargé d'affaires , Luis Sandiga , was given 72 hours to leave the country after making statements which " questioned the legitimacy of the democratic government " of Endara ; the Panamanian ambassador was also recalled from Peru . |
| 24 | Kanja was also expelled from KANU , automatically losing his seat as an MP . |
| 25 | The table stood somewhere in the middle of the room , but was partly screened from Lucy 's approach by a trellised partition topped by some overspilling broad-leafed plant life . |
| 26 | Thus when it was discovered that Jock Houston had a criminal record he was immediately moved from London to Manchester , and replaced in Shoreditch by Charles Wegg Prosser , a law student with an impeccable background . |
| 27 | Whatever the truth of the affair , the consequence was that Pierre Nizan was immediately transferred from Perigueux to Choisy-Baches in the suburbs of Paris , a demotion which signalled a halt to his professional career and a moment of crisis in his personal and family life . |
| 28 | When he least needed a vote of no confidence , Leighton was sensationally dropped from Manchester United 's 1990 Cup Final replay team and punished for a slump in form during a suspect season in front of a United defence that bordered on the arthritic . |
| 29 | A reply was then received from Mr Quarry but the proposed ground rent of £15 a year was considered too high and another effort was made to get from the Baroness von Steiglitz some ground at the corner of what is now Carrickblacker Avenue and in the same field where the existing Tabernacle stood . |
| 30 | It was then announced from Cairo that all countries would be represented at the meeting at the same level . |