Example sentences of "[adj] [was/were] [vb pp] from [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of these were old portraits that Boy had bought in a street market early on a Sunday morning , wing collars and moustaches printed in sepia ; some were cut from pornographic magazines or bodybuilding magazines ( in colour ) ; some were cut from newspapers ( these in black and white ) . |
| 2 | Some were descended from refugees who had fled before the advancing Turks in the fifteenth century ; others had forebears who were led out by the Patriarch Arsenije of Peć in a mass migration of an estimated 100,000 Serbs in 1691 . |
| 3 | Every one of those surveyed had a class , though some were released from part of their teaching duties to undertake other activities . |
| 4 | This was done from affection or duty or in the certain knowledge that those who helped would someday need similar help themselves — as a form of insurance . |
| 5 | This was reiterated from time to time by showing them pages from the field notes and extracts from the data . |
| 6 | The following were obtained from Sigma Chemicals Ltd and where necessary dissolved in distilled water immediately before use : acetylcholine , superoxide dismutase , N G -monomethy-L-arginine , N G -monomethy-D-arginine , methylene blue , tetrodotoxin , and hypaque 1017 and 1119 . |
| 7 | After the end of World War Two the Japanese were expelled from Indo-China , and the French returned to their former colony . |
| 8 | Too much was expected from Carl . |
| 9 | Meanwhile , in light of the increasing loads on the major route between Jersey and Guernsey , especially at peak times during the summer , a Shorts 360 was acquired from Maersk , gaining the registration G- OAAS . |
| 10 | v. Lindley , C carried on business hiring out barges to B. These were collected from C and returned to B 's watermen . |
| 11 | These were developed from qualities defined by Isaiah ( c.11 ) in his prophecy traditionally associated with the Incarnation , and interpreted by the Church Fathers as gifts of the Holy Spirit . |
| 12 | The last three were taken from forms on which subjects recorded three consecutive defecations , this being done satisfactorily by 77% of the subjects . |
| 13 | Under the WA , young workers under 21 were removed from Wages Council protection . |
| 14 | Isaac avoided execution by promising the king a 10,000 mark fine , and in 1213 was transferred from Bristol to the Tower of London . |
| 15 | Twenty-five years ago , the line built by George Stephenson in 1836 was saved from closure and took on a new lease of life as the North Yorkshire Moors Railway . |
| 16 | The division on the Determination of Needs Bill debate in February 1941 was reprinted from Hansard , citing all 173 who had voted for the continuance of means calculations together with the ‘ sincere few ’ ( nineteen ) who had been carpeted for defying the Labour whip . |
| 17 | During a time of harsh military discipline , when drum-head courts , public floggings and hangings were carried out to ‘ encourage the rest ’ , the 93rd were excused from attendance at show-piece parades ; because not a single member of their regiment was ever punished . |
| 18 | As a result the aircraft proved a failure and following a spectacular crash at the Paris air show in 1964 was withdrawn from service altogether . |
| 19 | A few years ago a minute fossil only about 2 mm long was recovered from limestones of Ordovician age , and christened Janospira . |
| 20 | A total of 161 seats were contested , of which 125 were directly elected and 36 were appointed from lists of so-called " at large " candidates in proportion to total votes in the district elections . |
| 21 | In addition , for a short time bus route 64 was extended from West Croydon to the Robin Hood and to Elmers End Garage , but there proved not to be a demand for this service and it was soon cut back again . |
| 22 | The Feroxcube core and former were purchased from Electromail , code 228–270 and the DT2534 bobbins from Maplin HX10L . |
| 23 | The images in Figure 1 were taken from sections of a movie loop with a total of 912 frames , the stills have been selected to illustrate the phases of the migrating motor complex . |
| 24 | He appealed against the verdict , and on July 16 was released from detention pending his appeal . |
| 25 | My big break on the cutters came in 1968 when the new Valiant , sister ship to the Vigilant was delivered from Richard Dunstons at Thorne , in the Humber , and Phil Andrews asked me to sail with him as No. 1 . |
| 26 | and one boy chose to write about plumbing and do you know , he found that there was nothing written down about plumbing in the early nineteen seventies there were one or two plumbing text books , they were very expensive and you could only get them through The Institute of Plumbers plumbing is something that until about nineteen seventy five was passed from father to son or uncle to nephew it was a sort of secret craft you know , you can |
| 27 | The founding of the White Lions dates back to the time of the bitter civil war with the Dark Elves when Caledor the First was recalled from hunting in Chrace to become the new Phoenix King . |
| 28 | Last summer , the crew 's appetites for racing were whetted by smaller one-design racing when 16 Sigma 33s were chartered from Britannia Sailing in Southampton . |
| 29 | The C-terminal pentadecapeptide of human progastrin ie preprogastrin 87-101 was obtained from UCB Products ( YGWMDFGRRSAEDEN , in the single letter notation ) ; the C-terminal decapeptide of progastrin with Tyr in the first position — that is , ( Tyr ) preprogastrin 92–101 ( YGRRSAEDEN ) , was obtained from Multiple Peptide Systems ( San Diego , CA , USA ) ; Gly-extended C-terminal octapeptide fragment of G17 ie preprogastrin 86–93 ( AYGWMDFG ) , was a gift from Dr J Walsh . |
| 30 | Only 16·5 per cent of the inhabitants of Pimhill Hundred were exempted from payment of the hearth tax in 1672 , and though many cottagers remained near the poverty line all their lives others prospered a little and moved up the social scale . |