Example sentences of "were [adj] [verb] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unknown even to the operators , some of the rods of uranium fuel which were supposed to fall from the back of the reactor into a storage pond had instead tumbled into the channel which led up to the tall chimney . |
| 2 | He continued : [ T ] he ultimate question for the court was this : if the section 146 notice had required the lessee to remedy the breach and the lessors had then allowed a reasonable time to elapse to enable the lessee fully to comply with the relevant covenant , would such compliance , coupled with the payment of any appropriate monetary compensation , have effectively remedied the harm which the lessors had suffered or were likely to suffer from the breach ? |
| 3 | With a fair amount of jiggling , the big end caps were all parted from the con-rods and the crankshaft was lifted from the crankcase . |
| 4 | food , clothing , and covers for their conical pole-tents were all obtained from the kill , and fish and birds were also caught for food . |
| 5 | Certainly the five aldermen accused of collaboration with the rebels were all drawn from the victualling guilds ( 11 , p.212 ) . |
| 6 | It is said that the plaintiffs endeavoured to run the business because of the negligent advice received by them from Mr on the twenty second of October the plaintiffs were unable to withdraw from the contract . |
| 7 | Many employees were engineers who built scientific equipment that they were unable to buy from the West and who became superfluous when the two German economies were combined . |
| 8 | Valuable time was lost , the troops opposed to us were able to recover from the disorganization produced by our first attack , and the enemy was given the opportunity to bring up reinforcements . ’ |
| 9 | The Communists were able to benefit from the war , both in the political Left and in the unions . |
| 10 | Boats were able to sail from the river Humber into the village carrying fish and other commodities . |
| 11 | More popular — because they were cheaper — than the Joshua Marshall type of resurrection monument were those produced from the yard of John and Matthias Christmas . |
| 12 | These consist of elongated U-shaped troughs separated by sharp ridges and were first described from the Taklamakan desert . |
| 13 | The Bolshevik delegates were obliged to withdraw from the Soviet . |
| 14 | The United States , the United Kingdom , and France were obliged to abstain from the vote on Resolution 731 ( 1992 ) because they are parties to this dispute with Libya over allegations surrounding the Lockerbie and UIA bombings that were the very subject matter of this resolution . |
| 15 | It suggested that , despite its choice on May 26 of veteran left-wing dissident leader Kim Dae Jung as its presidential candidate , both party and leader were keen to move from the left to the political centre in a bid to garner sufficient votes to win the presidency . |
| 16 | The belief that the Masai were loyal followed from the belief that the Masai and the British were capable of appreciating each other 's qualities . |
| 17 | In relation to the unmixed foil which the buyers had sold , the Court of Appeal held that the Dutch sellers were entitled to receive from the buyers the proceeds of the sales by the buyers . |
| 18 | According to foreign correspondents in Beijing , China 's " elder statesman " leader Deng Xiaoping , and the disgraced former party leader Zhao Ziyang , were both absent from the platform . |