Example sentences of "[noun] have [been] relieved of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Komarek said on April 9 that Reichel had been relieved of his posts because he wanted to concentrate on election work for the Czechoslovakian People 's Party , of which he was a member . |
| 2 | Thus , despite the movement towards a welfare state it is obvious that in the details of people 's lives , in the new housing estates and tower blocks , people have been relieved of the worst of their miseries , encouraged to think rich and live poor , to become in effect the permanent prisoners of someone else 's conception of their happiness . |
| 3 | Baghdad radio reported on May 15 , 1989 , that Hashim Hissan had been relieved of his post as Minister of State due to illness and to " the inability to carry out his duties " . |
| 4 | Lucas had been relieved of belt , tie , shoelaces , and everything in his pockets , and now he sat in the far corner on the mattress with his knees drawn up and his arms clasped around them , as if to present the smallest possible outer surface to the world . |
| 5 | The public had been most incensed at the relative simplicity with which the Royal Mail company had been relieved of their entrusted money . |
| 6 | The family had been relieved of the embarrassment of a huge , unmanageable Georgian house by a convenient fire in the twenties . |