Example sentences of "[noun] [be] [verb] from [noun prp] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sadly , Arthur Hellyer is also no longer with us , he died last week at the age of 90 ; two of his titles are to appear from Hamlyn in March : The Hellyer Pocket Guide ( £4.99 ) and The Hellyer Gardening Encyclopedia ( £14.99 , 0 600 57645 0 ) . |
| 2 | Hortense and her sons also went into exile , for all the Bonapartes were banished from France in perpetuity , by a decree of Louis XVIII , and as a result of the hostility of the major European States Hortense had great difficulty in finding some corner of Europe where she could set up home . |
| 3 | J. G. C. Anderson was recruited in 1937 and T. R. M. Lawrie was transferred from England in 1939 . |
| 4 | When Barbarossa was driven from Rome in 1167 many of the cities of the Po valley joined together in the Lombard League under the aegis of Milan ; and they built a new fortress town over against imperial Turin , guarding the approach to Lombardy from the west , which they called Alessandria after the emperor 's great rival , Pope Alexander III . |
| 5 | Athens was expelled from Boiotia in 446 , and the Boiotian League was perhaps reorganized now ; in a valuable description the Oxyrhynchus Historian ( chapter xvi ) gives the system essentially as it was in the 440s , though for instance he takes account of Plataia 's destruction in 427 , after which Thebes took her votes . |
| 6 | The United States Virgin Islands were purchased from Denmark in 1917 . |
| 7 | In 1910 the great hall with its spectacular painted oak and chestnut roof and vaulted stone oriel was transplanted from Bishopsgate in the City of London to Chelsea , to save it from demolition . |
| 8 | In April last year , the first of the yachts was launched from DML in Devonport Dockyard in Plymouth . |
| 9 | The 48ft 6in Solent class lifeboat Hugh William Viscount Gough was launched from Dunbar in the same search for the missing divers as the Eyemouth lifeboat on 6 October 1990 ( see previous page ) , and the efforts of her Coxswain during the service won him the Thanks of the Institution inscribed on Vellum . |
| 10 | In Lebanon , where the Palestinian war against Israel was focused once the PLO 's guerrilla movement was evicted from Jordan in 1970 , they were squirrelled away beneath floors or carpets , sometimes stored in rusting biscuit tins , broken suitcases and ancient trunks , often the very containers in which the refugees carried their most valuable belongings from Palestine in 1948 . |
| 11 | The distribution of scats and bones from the marking area of this species is shown from Meswa in western Kenya . |
| 12 | Hong Kong island was ceded to the United Kingdom under the Treaty of Nanking in 1842 ; the Kowloon Peninsula was acquired by the convention of Peking ( Beijing ) in 1860 ; the New Territories were leased from China in 1898 for a period of 99 years . |
| 13 | Hong Kong island was ceded to the United Kingdom under the Treaty of Nanking in 1842 ; the Kowloon Peninsula was acquired by the convention of Peking in 1860 ; the New Territories were leased from China in 1898 for a period of 99 years . |
| 14 | Then the children were evacuated from London in fear of air raids and that made life difficult for many Sunday schools , since the London children wanted to show the local children how tough they were . |
| 15 | Despite the ceasefire Croatian forces were still fighting to capture JNA garrisons in Croatia ( the important garrison of Bjelovar near Zagreb fell to Croatian forces on Oct. 1 after a 12-hour battle ) ; military hardware was sent from Serbia in response . |
| 16 | The bus was travelling from Tbilisi in Georgia to Agdam , a town just outside the disputed Nagorny Karabakh region . |
| 17 | Customs officials have discovered that the onions were driven from Valencia in Spain to Dover and from there to Gateshead , before being driven south , first to Birmingham , then Evesham and discovery . |
| 18 | The parts were ordered from Sweden in Spring 1987 . |
| 19 | Obviously , then , the fact that 200,000 Greek Cypriots ( a third of the population ) were kicked out of their homes by the Turkish invaders , thus becoming refugees in their own country , is not a crime , according to Mr Gustafson ; nor is the fact that 80,000 settlers were imported from Turkey in an attempt to alter the demographic composition of the island ; nor is the fact that 1,619 people are still reported as missing in action almost 17 years after the invasion ; nor is the fact that the Turks are destroying every trace of the 3,000-year-old Greek culture that exists in the occupied territories , a fact that even the Turkish Cypriot press often reports . |
| 20 | The 38 captured guerrillas were extradited from Laos in January 1990 . |
| 21 | Certainly Pound was writing from Taormina in December 1924 , and writing to Joyce from Syracuse on 21 January 1925 ( Pound/Joyce ed . |