Example sentences of "[was/were] obtained from the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Hospital discharge data were obtained from the Finnish National Agency for Welfare and Health , the causes of deaths from the Finnish State Statistics , and annual alcohol consumption from the Finnish State Alcohol Company .
2 They were obtained from the age-sex register of a large general practice in London , and those who responded ( 77% ) were similar to the national average in height , weight , and smoking habits .
3 The data were obtained from the Canadian Hemophilia Registry .
4 The subclones R342A4-B14 , R342A4-B15 and R342A4-C3 were obtained from the human chromosome 10-only hybrid R342A4 ( 23 ) following spontaneous deletion or BUdR-induced mutagenesis ( 24 ) .
5 For 1969–83 registrations at age 15–24 were obtained from the Northern Region Cancer Registry and ( for 1969–73 in what is now South Cumbria ) the North Western Regional Cancer Registry ; in general , no further effort was made to ascertain cases .
6 For the analyses of childhood cancers including leukaemias — that is , those diagnosed in children aged 0–14 years — data were obtained from the National Registry of Childhood Tumours at the Childhood Cancer Research Group .
7 HeLa and C1300 cells ( 13 ) were obtained from the American Type Culture Collection and were grown in α-MEM supplemented with 10% foetal calf serum .
8 Many of the floral designs for this china , whether taken from prints or fresh exotic blooms , were obtained from the nearby Physic Garden and Philip Miller must have been in touch with the factory .
9 Biopsies were obtained from the gastric body , antrum , and duodenum for the following procedures : routine histology , H pylori culture ( antral only ) , urease test ( antral only ) , and peptic activity determination .
10 The imprimatur was obtained from the Papal censor and the book was published in 1632 .
11 The number of deaths from pancreatitis was obtained from the annual statistics of causes of death in Finland .
12 New non-specialist periodicals were to be in Arabic unless permission for the use of a foreign language was obtained from the government-appointed Higher National Council for Information and Communication [ see p. 37218 for adoption in July 1989 of information code creating this Council ] .
13 Characteristically , the curare was obtained from the one source where the material obtained might be properly characterized , the laboratory of Henry Dale .
14 Despite all his careful preliminary research , Bjornsson discovered that if he calculated a formula from one half of his data he obtained a completely different equation from that which was obtained from the other half .
15 This specimen was obtained from the Baltic bays .
16 The scale was obtained from the longitudinal records of naturalistic speech of 128 normal children between 15 months and 5 years .
17 A yield of around 5×10 6 cells/g tissue was obtained from the 5.10 g of gall bladder mucosa used .
18 Bovine gall bladder was obtained from the local abattoir and transferred on ice to the Laboratory within 20 minutes of slaughter .
19 Approval was obtained from the local Ethical Committee in each centre .
20 This is the culmination of a unique 18 months engineering programme which achieved its objective on 23rd December when Consent to Start-up was obtained from the Nuclear Installations Inspectorate ( NII ) .
21 The data about the number of audit firm partners ( defined under the audit regulations as ‘ responsible individuals ' ) was obtained from the computerised public audit register as at November 1992 and from the institutes ' lists of members .
22 The normal slowdown is represented by The parameters of this normal pre-glitch behaviour were obtained from a best fit for rotation rate and its first derivative , made over the preceding 400 days ; the value of the second derivative was obtained from the full data set from 1969 to 1992 .
23 ( Temperature chart information was obtained from the Overseas Enquiries desk of the met Office Advisory Service , March 1989 . )
24 The human colinic adenocarcinoma cell line HT-29 was obtained from the American Type Culture Collection ( ATCC , USA ) .
25 Approval for the study was obtained from the Ethical Review Board of Concord Hospital .
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