Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] from [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With these values the oesophageal and gastric HC0 3 - concentrations ( mmol/litre ) were calculated from the equations : |
| 2 | Symptom scores were calculated from the questionnaires as the increase over the baseline score for autonomic symptoms ( sweating , heart pounding , warmness , anxiety , tingling , and trembling ) , neuroglycopenic symptoms ( inability to concentrate , confusion , drowsiness , tiredness , dizziness , weakness , blurred vision , and irritability ) , and total symptoms ( autonomic plus neuroglycopenic score ) . |
| 3 | The author can recall one development on the West Coast of Scotland , where tiles were stripped from the roofs several times a year , in spite of each time being nailed and clipped . |
| 4 | Works thought to be suspect — including , ludicrously , novels by Ernest Hemingway and the detective writer , Dashiell Hammett — were withdrawn from the libraries and some books were even burned . |
| 5 | Chamberlains with white wands of office rapped out orders and , until the king and the lord cardinal were settled in their respective rooms , the common people were banished from the corridors and the galleries . |
| 6 | The answer lies in part in the social position of the reformers who belonged to the professional rather than the employing middle class : they were social workers , teachers , social scientists , philosophers , clerics , doctors , and psychologists , the majority of whom were distanced from the realities of the labour-market . |
| 7 | Our stronger feelings were reserved for the unscrupulous organisers of this sordid trade in human cargoes who were profiting from the Asians ' misery . |
| 8 | Telegrams of ‘ interest ’ and ‘ support ’ were received from the Archbishops of Canterbury and York respectively , and by the end of the year Mrs Whitehouse and Mrs Buckland were claiming to have over a quarter of a million signatures on the Manifesto . |
| 9 | Reports were received from the Awards Committee and from Division Councils and the future conference programme was reviewed . |
| 10 | In the Christian village of Kahhale , white flags were hanging from the windows . |
| 11 | But now I was up in the air , and what with the clouds , I lost all my orientation Where the clouds parted , I could see the whole tube , land all around me , and it seemed to go up like a tower , so the town and the factory belt and the parks were hanging from the walls over my head , they were all going to crash down on me , and the city on top of them . |
| 12 | Another of her pet projects was Biddick Arts Centre ‘ an old farmhouse so derelict that rats were hanging from the rafters , ’ and the ponds . |
| 13 | Clothes , mostly small garments , were hanging from the rails that had been knocked in the partition . |
| 14 | The Chiefs in both areas — cryptography and intelligence — were distinguished from the Indians because they were fewer , preponderantly male and had better jobs — better because they were more responsible and closer to the brush of real events . |
| 15 | The orthodox clerics were distinguished from the Presbyterians and from those dubbed Puritans not by a differing theology of salvation , but rather by the fact that they did not share the intensified spirituality displayed by the latter two groups , a spirituality which Lake and R. T. Kendall have labelled ‘ experimental ’ predestinarianism . |
| 16 | The kitchen was suddenly full of men from the mountain rescue team of the Guardia Civil , and messages were relayed from the mountaineers who had found the corpse . |
| 17 | Fresh barrels of ale and wine were rolled from the cellars . |
| 18 | The Beirut camps were attacked from the mountains , not by the Israelis , but by anti-PLO forces . |
| 19 | He thought of Emmet 's followers , twenty-one in all , who were hanged from the shafts of upturned carts in the narrow streets of the Liberties . |
| 20 | Dozens of angora goats were rescued from the farms , they too were neglected , with foot ingections so severe one could only walk in it 's knees . |
| 21 | The worst incidents of fighting were reported from the provinces of Siirt and Hakkari , where at least 30 Kurdish guerrillas and nine soldiers , including a garrison commander , were killed in a week of intense fighting at the end of July . |
| 22 | But it is hard to re-create the atmosphere of fanaticism and fear in which it seemed unsurprising that the gramophone records of Paul Robeson were expunged from the catalogues and the novels of Theodore Dreiser and the detective stories of Dashiell Hammett were purged from public libraries . |
| 23 | They stopped the leak from the tanker , the spillage was covered with foam , people affected by the ‘ fumes ’ were taken to hospital and 20 employees were evacuated from the premises . |
| 24 | All these narrow strokes were done from the corners of the pastel sticks . |
| 25 | In a process that gathered momentum in the late nineteenth century , most of the free-standing sculptures were detached from the monuments which once housed them . |
| 26 | And snowflakes were huge beautiful things that were hung from the ceilings on bits of thread . |
| 27 | It is unlikely though that many sailors were saved from the ravages of scurvy before the naval brass hats were convinced , in the 1790s , that the answer lay with the diets devised by Scottish physician James Lind . |
| 28 | The all-seeing wood sandpipers were shouting from the tops of the willow trees in the marsh , vying with dusky or spotted redshanks as to who was sharpest at ‘ people-spotting ’ . |
| 29 | They were built from the materials closest to hand and so have an utterly distinct regional character . |
| 30 | In the old large hospitals it was sometimes difficult to detect the strong mutual , informal relationships which developed amongst patients and provided a good deal of support , and , unfortunately , often little account was taken of these relationships when patients were moved from the hospitals into the community . |