Example sentences of "were [vb pp] from [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bowel habits , irritable bowel syndrome symptoms , and whole gut transit time were calculated from records of three defectations . |
| 2 | In military terms the imperial era came to an end when the last British troops were withdrawn from East of Suez in 1972 , but politically it had ended sixteen years earlier at Suez . |
| 3 | Deutsche Bank 's agreed bid for Morgan Grenfell has gone unconditional after acceptances were received from holders of 59.5 per cent of its shares . |
| 4 | Remba went to work and created ‘ Mixografia ’ , a method in which copper printing plates were formed from impressions of diverse materials and textures — charred wood , lead , cement , burlap , found objects . |
| 5 | The universities are not formally sub-divided , but informal groupings based on origin and type distinguish between Oxbridge ( Oxford and Cambridge ) , the large federal university of London founded in the early nineteenth century , the larger ‘ civic ’ universities established later in the nineteenth century in provincial cities ( e.g. Manchester , Birmingham , Leeds , Bristol ) , the smaller civics such as Exeter , Hull or Leicester , the ‘ new ’ universities founded ab initio in the 1960s , such as Lancaster , Essex and Sussex , the ‘ ex-CATS ’ such as Aston , Salford and Bradford , which were upgraded from Colleges of Advanced Technology at around the same time , and the Scottish , Welsh and two Northern Irish universities . |
| 6 | A special class are Paterson 's bowel nosodes which were prepared from cultures of intestinal bacteria obtained from patients with specific health problems . |
| 7 | Suspensions of mucosal cells were prepared from fragments of mucosa by a pepsin extration technique . |
| 8 | ‘ The records were being altered , a new accounting system was being introduced and key people were moved from positions of authority . |
| 9 | His skin was burnt nearly black by the sun and his clothes were made from pieces of a ship 's sail . |
| 10 | All of his opéras , starting with Bellerophon in 1679 , were published in full score by Ballard in the years of their performance ; the music for the ballets , on the other hand , survives only in manuscripts that were copied from sources of unestablished provenance 20 or more years after the works were composed . |
| 11 | Samples were drawn from areas of the county : Melton Mowbray , Coalville , Buttersworth and Market Harborough . |
| 12 | Tenders were invited from companies of equal opportunities specialists , and TMS Consultants was finally selected to conduct the survey , which was sponsored jointly by the Bar Council and by the Lord Chancellor 's Department . |
| 13 | Whereas natural science works with a basic or datum language of physical behaviour , which , if adopted for social science , would mean that action-descriptions were inferred from descriptions of behaviour , Weber offers the social sciences a datum language of actions . |
| 14 | In 1670 Wigston contained 161 households , including forty-seven that were exempted from payment of the hearth tax on the grounds of poverty . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | These figures were derived from inspection of Aslib 's Index to Theses . |
| 17 | He showed her how to weld the ideas she read into structures that were sculpted from beads of meaning . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Four clutches where we suspected that hosts had ejected cuckoo eggs before we detected them ( as judged by the damage of host eggs ) were excluded from calculations of the number of cuckoo eggs per nest . |
| 21 | It was symptomatic that when the judges were excluded from membership of the area consultative committees in the formative stages by a ruling by Lane , that it was the Circuit or courts administrators from the Lord Chancellor 's Department who were identified as being best placed to act as chairmen , rather than Home Office officials who were unable to draw on any existing regional organization . |
| 22 | For additional strength , mail coats were constructed from patches of four links to one . |
| 23 | Monoclonal anti-pre-S1 and anti-pre-S2 , which were produced by cell line T0606 and 5520 , respectively , were obtained from Institute of Immunology , Tokyo , Japan . |
| 24 | The data were obtained from Department of Education and Science statistics for education in the United Kingdom ( 1984 ) that included data on the distribution of full-time teachers in maintained secondary schools at the time of my study as shown in Table 6.1 . |
| 25 | Every one of those surveyed had a class , though some were released from part of their teaching duties to undertake other activities . |
| 26 | The leading members of the Comintern Affiliation Committee , who eventually went to Moscow in 1935 , were suspended from membership of the ILP . |