Example sentences of "it [was/were] [adv] [verb] from [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Blaming its current economic difficulties on the absence of multilateral aid ( frozen since the coup ) , the government announced on Aug. 26 that it was temporarily withdrawing from the Andean Pact , the five-country trade bloc whose other members were Bolivia , Colombia , Ecuador and Venezuela . |
| 2 | Of the Scottish Daily News , the study finds that it was inadequately financed from the outset ; was poorly equipped ; so applied the principle of workers ' control as to make ‘ executive decision taking impossible if not farcical ’ ; and produced an unacceptable product . |
| 3 | It was firmly established from the time of Gregory VII that the pope had the exclusive power to issue new law in case of necessity ( Dictatus Pape c.7 ) — to put forward new decrees and remedies against new excesses and to dispense from or mitigate the law in some cases . |
| 4 | If the pressure was on McSharry from the accountants concerned about ever increasing costs , it was also coming from the environmentalists who were objecting to taxpayers funding intensive farming which they believed was damaging the environment . |
| 5 | So I got out the car and I went over and I , turned it down , as it were turning down I saw it was n't pouring just out the tap , it was also pouring from the |
| 6 | I mean it was just lifted from the scripture and and put into a prayer or whatever . |
| 7 | Sometimes described as a pig or a horse , it was doubtless derived from the ancient custom of sacrificing an animal when a church was being built and burying the carcass in the foundations , in turn being a memory of pagan rituals . |
| 8 | It was already known from the APU results that the use of terms such as " area " and " perimeter " , especially the former , made questions harder than when explanatory phrases were substituted . |
| 9 | It was reportedly built from the ground up using a concept called Modifiability-by-Design to bend to the way businesses are actually run rather than forcing the user to adapt to the software . |
| 10 | Once the engine was exposed on both sides , hawsers were placed around it and it was then lifted from the hole . |
| 11 | It was recently converted from a passenger plane to cargo use . |
| 12 | The Chipmunk is also of interest , its previous identity suggesting it was recently acquired from the MoD but not so — it is an ex Army Air Corps example that was sold many years ago after storage at Kemble and has been kept as a spares source at the gliding site at Currock Hill , Northumberland , for at least fifteen years . |
| 13 | He regretted that many major Scottish companies shifted their headquarters to London , and took quiet pride that Scottish & Newcastle attracted high-flying executives from England — and that it was still run from an office almost in the shadow of Holyroodhouse . |
| 14 | In S 987 , a writ from 1035 , Cnut declares that he will not permit wrong to be done to Canterbury no matter who may be reeve ( presumably of Kent ) — a clear indication that it was still suffering from the attentions of his men . |
| 15 | On a cold and very windy afternoon at Athletic Park it was far removed from a smiling task for Danaher to sit on the benches and watch his men concede an avalanche of tries , 11 in all , the greatest concession to any Irish opposition in 118 years of international participation . |
| 16 | Underplayed , affectionate , tenderly middle-aged … it was far removed from the cringes of Lake District love-making . |
| 17 | The word cottage conjured up in his mind the Smiths ' dwelling ; but a few minutes later , when he saw what she had called a cottage , he realised it was far removed from the Smiths ' dwelling as Screehaugh had been , in that it was a substantially built house . |
| 18 | Action was being undertaken , but it was far removed from the radical surgery that seemed to be needed . |
| 19 | ‘ It was apparently doomed from the start , ’ Clare explained sadly , over the baked beans . |
| 20 | Until recently it was only known from an early black and white photograph . |
| 21 | Dedicated to printing anti-semitic material and to disseminating the Protocols and other variants of the conspiracy theory of history , it was formally separated from the parent society in 1932 , and continued as a publishing and distribution business for extreme right-wing groups until the 1970s , producing eighty-five editions of the Protocols as well as becoming the main outlet for circulating American conspiracy theory works and racist material . |