Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [prep] [noun] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | by no means all priests were dependent on income from the Church . |
| 2 | The courts were dependent on interpreters from the very beginning of British rule . |
| 3 | Dr Kellett , who gave evidence of his post-mortem examination , said most of the injuries were consistent with blows from the flex , either looped or in a straight line . |
| 4 | Investors should expect to shoulder responsibility for any damage or injury arising after privatisation , and demarcation disputes were likely over liabilities from the past , he said . |
| 5 | I 've lived in streets — needless to say , in NW1 — where I and my husband were the only people who were married with children from the same person — and then we got divorced . |
| 6 | No toxoplasma antibodies were detectable in supernatants from the 85 other HIV-1-seropositive patients ( ELISA indices <1 ) or the 17 HIV-1-uninfected subjects with chronic toxoplasmosis . |
| 7 | Huge areas of open land were evident until enclosure from the seventeenth century onwards ; large areas of common , former royal forests and openly grazed rough wood pasture areas disappeared in early nineteenth-century acts . |
| 8 | Ideas of the juxtaposition of the arid and the flowering desert were familiar to Eliot from the time when he had read Mayne Reid . |
| 9 | Results from 27 controls ( C ) , 17 irradiated controls ( U ) , and 19 ulcer group ( L ) mice were available for analysis from the first ( day 7 ) series and 15 C , 14 U , and 15 L animals from the second ( day 3 ) series . |
| 10 | In April last year a community charge tribunal ruled that the 13 wives were entitled to exemption from the tax because they had ‘ a relevant association with a visiting force ’ as defined by the 1952 Visiting Forces Act . |
| 11 | At first , I thought it was just the Luciferi but , on one occasion , I am sure it was due to intervention from the English court . ’ |
| 12 | The system was different in London from the rest of England and Wales , and differed again in Scotland and , of course , in Northern Ireland . |
| 13 | This flood , in a narrow valley , exacerbated , it was thought , by trees blocking the bridges upstream , was different in kind from the inundation of large areas of low-lying land in East Anglia . |
| 14 | In the late Sixties , Kasmin swallowed his pride and set off as a travelling salesman on behalf of the gallery to America , travelling the States with a bagful of transparencies , finding out who was interested in art from the local museums , and visiting people who did n't get to New York . |
| 15 | It was a technique which by its very nature was unsuited for use from the front opposition bench . |
| 16 | Need has been variously defined , but in this study needs were deemed to be unmet if interventions were acceptable to the client and the following applied : ( a ) for activities of daily living a person was dependent on help from the carer and this dependence could be reversed by provision of an aid ; ( b ) for communication disorders there had not been an assessment by a speech therapist ; ( c ) for services ( day care , respite care ) a referral had not been made to the appropriate agency and subsequent referral proved successful ; and ( d ) for benefits the client or carer was unaware of eligibility for benefits , an application had not been made , and subsequent application was successful . |
| 17 | Morocco had no oil and Hassan by contrast was dependent on support from the Saudi and , until rather recently , from the Shah himself . |
| 18 | As a result , metal-working ( which was hardly developed at all in North American native cultures ) was widespread in Siberia from the second millennium BC , and long before the seventeenth century AD all its indigenous peoples either worked iron themselves or used artefacts made of the precious metal when these could be obtained by trade . |
| 19 | The CPNI was involved in NICRA from the start . |
| 20 | He was impressed with Myra from the first moment he saw her : " She was a tremendous talent with a feel and flair which can not be taught . " |
| 21 | Otto Freundlich , whose powerful Cubist ‘ Neuer Mensch ’ was used as the cover illustration for the catalogue of the Nazi show , was resident in Paris from the mid-Twenties . |
| 22 | The air was heavy with incense from the many swinging censers . |
| 23 | ‘ I was jealous of Radcliffe from the start because he was with you the night we met . |
| 24 | No one was available for comment from the Friends yesterday . |
| 25 | No one was available for comment from the Friends yesterday . |
| 26 | The Shah was desperate for advice from the Americans and the British . |
| 27 | The Canadian Rugby Union 's director , John Billingsley , stated that his union 's bid was contingent upon support from the international rugby community . |
| 28 | The word ‘ accident ’ was being interpreted in the context of the Workmen 's Compensation Act , and the result of the decision was that the widow of the deceased workman was entitled to compensation from the employer , because the murder in question arose out of and in the course of the employment . |
| 29 | In this capacity he was entitled to obedience from the subjects whose welfare he served . |