Example sentences of "were [vb pp] [prep] [noun] from [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a separate incident Israeli troops patrolling their side of the border near Zarit were attacked by missiles from inside Lebanon . |
| 2 | The results were met with astonishment from both Brazauskas and Landsbergis . |
| 3 | In 1731 the old custom of using Latin for legal records came to an end , but in practice many manorial records were written in English from much earlier times . |
| 4 | Most of the Lake District prints at this time were made by craftsmen from either paintings or drawings or developed from sketchbook studies produced by painters who never actually touched the print themselves . |
| 5 | The bride and groom knelt before the altar , and behind them the benches were packed with nobility from all over Portugal . |
| 6 | Majority shareholders Hamish and George Deans were faced with hostility from more than 50 small shareholders at the meeting at Brockville over their motion to remove the men . |
| 7 | Over a third ( 38% ) of visitors came from in or near Edinburgh , but those from parts of Scotland outside the Edinburgh area ( 19% ) were outnumbered by visitors from elsewhere in the UK ( 27% ) , and were only slightly more numerous than those from overseas ( 16% ) . |