Example sentences of "was extract from the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Irwin 's first big political initiative as viceroy was to extract from the British government permission to make a formal declaration that dominion status was the goal of British policy for India . |
| 2 | The first locomotive was built in 1838 , and was extracted from the small workshop by demolishing a wall to let it out ! |
| 3 | Information concerning a further 1,300 such organisations was extracted from the 1992 edition . |
| 4 | Along the cliffs are quarries where alum was extracted from the seventeenth century until the late nineteenth century . |
| 5 | The engine was reputed to have done 99,000 miles by the time it was extracted from the old Herald in 1988 , but Tony is sceptical . |