Example sentences of "was [vb pp] from [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After dividends of £31 million [ 1991 61 million ] , £416 million was withdrawn from reserves [ 1991 £65 million ] . |
| 2 | Following the installation of a suspended ceiling of plasterboard and plaster skim coat below these joists , a headroom of 2.6m ( 8–1/2ft ) could be achieved in the new upper storey , the floor of which was formed from boards nailed to 50 x 150mm ( 2 x 6in ) joists at 400mm ( 16in ) centres . |
| 3 | Many Scots words are of French origin , which is bonnie , and an elite guard of the French Monarchy was formed from Scots who journeyed to France as mercenaries . |
| 4 | The scaffolding , explains Miss Edwards in her book , was improvised from spars and oars . |
| 5 | It should also be credited with the fact that within a few years very little more was heard from politicians about the importance of the much-vaunted ‘ British independent nuclear deterrent ’ against which CND had originally campaigned . |
| 6 | A further $89,500,000 was received from banks which opted to extend new loans . |
| 7 | Together with the Normande , the cattle of Brittany helped to create breeds as geographically distant as the Canadian and the colour-pointed Mauritius White , both of which are descended from stock of the old types : the Canadian was developed from cattle which accompanied French settlers in the seventeenth century and the Mauritius White in the eighteenth century . |
| 8 | It 's high time VAT was dropped from purchases with obvious environmental merit . |
| 9 | To this a further £1425 was added from charities . |
| 10 | M5/114.15.2 was purified from supernatants using a protein G column ( Pierce Chemical ) and modified with NHS-LC-biotin ( Pierce ) . |
| 11 | For the antibody affinity chromatography , PMc 6E7 monoclonal antibody was purified from ascites fluid and coupled to CNBr-activated Sepharose 2B beads . |
| 12 | The putative temperature-sensitive endonuclease was purified from bacteria carrying this plasmid and the ability to cleave and methylate plasmid DNA was investigated . |
| 13 | In the weeks leading up to the elections , there had been numerous scenes of near-anarchy as food was looted from factories and warehouses and robbers held up cars on country roads . |
| 14 | Subservience was expected from children , and sometimes the autocratic power of the father was enforced by law . |
| 15 | The rigidity of what was expected from children in terms of compliance to religious and moral ideologies could have no more perfect expression than in the two small late 18th century carved wooden figures of the Blue Coat Schoolboy and Schoolgirl which until recently were to be found in All Saints Church , Maidstone . |
| 16 | On the same day Richard Gough was transferred from Spurs to Rangers for £1.5 million . |
| 17 | In 1988–90 the annual accounts showed a deficit of £4 million which was met from reserves . |
| 18 | Some 1950 million years ago , sufficient uranium was precipitated from solutions in the rocks at Oklo to reach critical mass . |
| 19 | Monitoring was done from offices at 4–9 St Dunstans Hill , in the City of London , and the upper floors of the Empress State Building in Earls ' Court . |
| 20 | , writes : MANY years ago I was told that Colgate toothpaste was made from pebbles from Chesil Beach , Dorset . |
| 21 | The whole thing was made from bits of scrap . ’ |
| 22 | One final raid was made from plans conceived under the old management , 100 men from 9 Commando attempting to capture a gun battery near Houlgate . |
| 23 | For example , if the seaming of stocking was not done at home by the wife , in 1811 a deduction of around 1s ( 5p ) was made from earnings of 13s ( 65p ) . |
| 24 | A 12-hour radio synthesis map of the field of PSR J0437–4715 was made from observations on 13 August 1992 . |
| 25 | The Van Railway , like the BCR , was built from plans drawn by Robert and Benjamin Piercy , who were both born in Trefeglwys , where one of the stations was built . |
| 26 | In 1767 the import and movement of grain was freed from restrictions ; while the craft guilds were suppressed in 1770 and a great survey of landownership begun in 1781 . |
| 27 | Informed consent was sought from parents , who were given an information sheet . |
| 28 | Unlike most previous field trials where crops have been grown using tissue cultures , this particular crop , of the variety " Desirée " , was grown from tubers , which is how potatoes are normally cultivated . |
| 29 | The food was magnificent , because it was supplied from members ’ country estates ; the service was marvellous , because the staff were so well treated . ’ |
| 30 | The sample was drawn from carers providing substantial amounts of help to a disabled adult living in the same household , excluding spouse carers and caring arising from a son or daughter born disabled . |