Example sentences of "were [verb] from the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His easel collapsed , his drawings were ripped from the wall . |
| 2 | What had happened was that Stirling 's static line had snagged on the tail section as he exited from the door , and two panels were ripped from the parachute , causing him to descend too rapidly . |
| 3 | The kama , as their shape suggests , were developed from the peasant 's sickle . |
| 4 | Since it was impossible to guarantee that any section of normal roads would be free from other traffic , speeds were calculated from the video on four separate sections of road . |
| 5 | The approximate molecular masses of the bands were calculated from the migration of known standards . |
| 6 | Absorption and secretion rates in the test segment were calculated from the perfusion rate and the changes in polyethylene glycol and electrolyte concentrations . |
| 7 | MORE than 500 passengers and crew were plucked from the sea after a luxury cruise liner sank yesterday . |
| 8 | This was followed by four weeks of treatment with a diuretic ( hydrochlorothiazide 25 mg once daily ) , when those whose diastolic blood pressure fell below 90 mm Hg were withdrawn from the trial . |
| 9 | These patients were withdrawn from the trial and treated with corticosteroids . |
| 10 | All children with confirmed active xerophthalmia or its sequelae ( corneal scars ) were withdrawn from the trial at diagnosis . |
| 11 | Children who were at least 6 months old entered the trials at the first dosing round or at a subsequent round and left at the last dosing round , or when they moved out of the study area , died , or were withdrawn from the trial . |
| 12 | The carriers were withdrawn from the invasion fleet following recovery of their aircraft on August 8 . |
| 13 | Aliquots of 10 µl each were withdrawn from the mixture at various time points and quenched by adding 10 µl ice-cold 20% ( v/v ) aqueous trichloro acetic acid ( TCA ) . |
| 14 | Russian Federation troops deployed in Ingushetia were withdrawn from the border with Chechnia after a protest from Chechnia , which claimed part of the area , and a threat of retaliation by Chechen President Dzhakhar Dudayev . |
| 15 | After Mr Winkler was released last December , the 31 Swiss Red Cross delegates were withdrawn from the country . |
| 16 | Ten horses were withdrawn from the Longchamp race at yesterday 's forfeit stage , including Khalid Abdullah 's Assatis , which means that Pat Eddery is almost certain to ride the owner 's other runner , French Glory . |
| 17 | The elders of the local Muslim community objected : the girls were withdrawn from the playgroup . |
| 18 | Three of the paintings — John Nash 's ‘ The Garden in Winter ’ , Roger Fry 's ‘ Willy Lott 's Cottage at Flatford ’ , and ‘ Harvester , Suffolk ’ by Harry Becker — were withdrawn from the sale after Colchester council agreed to buy them . |
| 19 | Pre-auction press releases announced that Lefty Gardner 's P-38 and a 1929 Ford 5-AT trimotor would be on the block but both aircraft were withdrawn from the sale . |
| 20 | Lefty Gardner 's P-38 Lightning White Lightnin and a 1929 Ford Trimotor , both of which were included in pre-auction publicity were withdrawn from the sale . |
| 21 | Four of the 44 patients were withdrawn from the study . |
| 22 | In addition to the two patients excluded from analysis , another 13 patients were withdrawn from the study ( Table II ) . |
| 23 | Saddam stated that the foreigners would be freed only when US troops were withdrawn from the region , the blockade against Iraq was lifted and Bush gave a written assurance that the USA would not attack Iraq . |
| 24 | The only restriction materials to be included was the level of difficulty and some of the more advanced texts were withdrawn from the database after the first pilot use . |
| 25 | Religious of course were withdrawn from the world . |
| 26 | When the tops became straw-coloured the clumps were eased from the ground and the bulbs were dried off until the skins were yellow and brittle . |
| 27 | Many liturgical festivities were banished from the churchyard as pagan or blasphemous , and most of the mystery plays were suppressed on the grounds that they wrongly mixed ‘ scurrilitie with divinity ’ . |
| 28 | Jack did not like flowers , or rather said he was ‘ bothered ’ by them , and they were banished from the upstairs rooms . |
| 29 | Shortly after her death , terrifying screams were heard from the staircase where she died . |
| 30 | It was simple but very elegant through that carved stone gateway , the courtyard roofed in by vines twining over wires , so that the chairs and tables were shielded from the sun 's extreme heat by the delicate leaves . |