Example sentences of "was [verb] from [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a good deal of arguing , Fagin managed to reduce the amount Sikes was demanding from five pounds to three pounds . |
| 2 | Exposure to lead was calculated from antenatal and delivery maternal blood samples , and samples from the children at birth , six and 15 months , two years , then annually . |
| 3 | The predicted posterior height for each vertebra was calculated from four adjacent vertebrae , and an algorithm compared the ratios with normal ranges of vertebral heights from T4 to L4 . |
| 4 | The coeficient of variation ( SD ( 100% ) /mean ) was calculated from this variance component model for each variable of the model . |
| 5 | The frequency of peristalsis in the duodenum was calculated from this sequence at 14 contractions per minute . |
| 6 | There were fears that if the date for stabilisation was altered from that promised in a recent government white paper , the privatisation of the electricity industry would be jeopardised . |
| 7 | He pointed out my Marvin as being a prototype he had made in 1964 , and said how the beech neck on my model was later fitted with a trim , and how the position of the 3-way selector switch was altered from vertical to horizontal following a request from Hank himself , knowledge that had hitherto been unknown to me . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The space before him was formed from two segments of the crypt 's arcading — the room had been devised in the nineteenth century for use as an office for the vergers . |
| 11 | This Board was formed from two previous panels — Quantity Surveying and Estate Management — and he was a member or Chairman of the Board for twelve years , as well as being a member of the Committee for Science and Technology by virtue of his Board chairmanship . |
| 12 | I thought she was really very nice and my opinion was formed from that one meeting with her by pure accident . |
| 13 | Soon after Medeva was formed from these two diverse parents , Bernard Taylor joined as chairman . |
| 14 | Like Britain 's ICL , it was formed from several disparate companies offering different types of computer . |
| 15 | The world 's biggest collection of Korean ceramics over 1,000 pieces spanning the tenth to nineteenth centuries was formed from 1951 by the Japanese industrialist Eiichi Ataka . |
| 16 | Throughout the 1970s he was involved in trade union activities in opposition to the communist regime , and as a result was dismissed from several jobs . |
| 17 | Some domestic beet production was diverted from human consumption to cattle feed to make room for Cuban imports ’ ( Bonsal : 1971 , p. 208 ) . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He was banished from last summer 's Olympics after a drugs test showed traces of the banned steroid Methandianone . |
| 20 | The sense of national community is not helped by exhortations to cheer for England in Test Matches and the implication that those who do not are in some sense not good British citizens , and yet this sort of crude and simplistic interpretation of the obligations of citizenship was heard from some politicians in 1990 . |
| 21 | To inhibit uptake or radioiodine by the thyroid , Lugol solution 2–3 mg/kg per day was given from 7 days before until 7 days after treatment . |
| 22 | One of the main things I was taught from this was not to begin a sentence with And . |
| 23 | For the next ten years their father was posted from one naval establishment to another , around most of the strategically retained vestiges of the British Empire , from Hong Kong to Aden , to Gibraltar , to Singapore and finally to Malta , and Alex and Victoria , rejoining the family during holidays , became seasoned travellers . |
| 24 | Hammond was posted from 261 Squadron to the Middle East due to ill health . ) |
| 25 | The cod catch was to be reduced to 98,270 tonnes , from 118,700 in 1989 , and the haddock quota was to fall from 62,500 tonnes to 41,700 . |
| 26 | Another way in which Highlander operates is illustrated by the example of the Appalachian Land Ownership Study , the bulk of which was undertaken from 1978 to 1980 , though it is very important to stress that events which promoted the survey , and events leading from the survey , are still matters of community activity . |
| 27 | After the turn of the leaf the next day when the the the new quarter began , every shop was queued from eight 'o clock in the morning . |
| 28 | Evidence in this report was gathered from 12 groups and individuals some of whom were prepared to have their names and the names of their organisations go on the record . |
| 29 | It is undoubtedly true that in this period when new political lordships and principalities were replacing the Carolingian empire , and Europe was recovering from external attacks , the church was far more an upholder than a hammer of kings and other rulers . |
| 30 | It was also said that money was received from Dutch Shell and Courtaulds . |