Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] [verb] from [noun] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | The excavation also produced an unusual number of ox-goads and styli and all this may indicate the use of the establishment as a place where animals were brought from farms on the estate and prepared for market . |
| 2 | Mr Mandela was brought from prison on Robben Island to join his colleagues , and the trial began on 9 October . |
| 3 | Blood was spouting from cuts on my right hand , and my left foot ached a bit and felt strange — no more . |
| 4 | Both regression analyses were calculated from data on 448 women because of missing values in one of the exposure or confounding variables . |
| 5 | Bankrupt Australian entrepreneur Alan Bond was released from prison on Aug. 27 after the Western Australian Court of Criminal Appeal quashed a fraud conviction against him . |
| 6 | Following an appeal made by Major during his visit , the Hong Kong businessman Luo Haixing was released from prison on Sept. 9 " on bail for medical treatment outside the country " . |
| 7 | More than 100 foreign aid workers were evacuated from Juba on Jan. 29-30 , benefiting from a brief ceasefire called by the SPLA . |
| 8 | The leaders of the black Moslem fundamentalist Jamaat al-Moslemeen , Yasin Abu Bakr and Bilal Abdullah , and 114 other members of the group were released from prison on July 1 . |
| 9 | A 12-hour radio synthesis map of the field of PSR J0437–4715 was made from observations on 13 August 1992 . |
| 10 | Traditional ideas about the primitive vertebrate tail were derived from studies on pteraspid heterostracans . |
| 11 | Three members of the Roman Catholic clergy belonging to the pro-Vatican underground church were released from prison on Jan. 28 , according to Reuters news agency . |
| 12 | Veteran peace campaigner Abie Nathan was released from prison on March 30 after serving six months of an 18-month sentence for meeting Yassir Arafat , chair of the Palestine Liberation Organization . |
| 13 | Ferniehirst was removed from office on English insistence , and gradually calm was restored . |
| 14 | This tended to increase the influence of parliament ; and in 1858 , for the first time in British history , a government was driven from office on a foreign policy question . |
| 15 | Schäuble was released from hospital on Oct. 31 after two operations to remove a bullet lodged near his spine . |
| 16 | By the time fire crews arrived on the scene , flames were shooting from vents on the roof of the building and a huge pall of smoke was billowing out of it . |
| 17 | However , this model was derived from experiments on linear DNA . |
| 18 | The Victorian porch was transported from England on a car roof , bringing unexpected excitement to prosaic motorway travel |
| 19 | This report was filed from Tokyo on Tuesday by James Mates : |
| 20 | Bembenek was released from jail on December 9 after serving 10 years for the murder of Christine Schultz . |
| 21 | The inscriptions were copied from texts on papyri and certainly date back to the New Kingdom but are probably based on much earlier writings , perhaps as early as the Third Dynasty . |
| 22 | A former Cabinet minister , Edward Rurangaranga , and five others were released from prison on Jan. 23 after the state dropped murder charges against them for lack of evidence . |
| 23 | YOUR correspondent ‘ Puzzled ’ ( Writeback , August 19 ) complains that an elderly lady of her acquaintance was discharged from hospital on Friday , August 13 , by ‘ taxi ’ , shared with three other disabled senior citizens . |
| 24 | This report from Andrew Simmonds was sent from Dublin on Thursday : |
| 25 | President Najibullah was removed from power on April 15 , after elements of the ruling Hezb-e Watan , with some military support , carried out what was effectively a low-key coup . |
| 26 | Tanks were withdrawn from Tirana on Feb. 25 and the city was reported to be calm , but army patrols remained , and sporadic gunfire was reported each night until the end of the month . |
| 27 | Its financing was switched from levies on member states to the Community 's own resources , and it was set two broad objectives : firstly , to facilitate the employment adjustment resulting from Community policies , and secondly , to help overcome the structural problems experienced by certain regions or target groups , i.e. migrant workers , young job-seekers , women and the handicapped . |
| 28 | A delegation of Canadian MPs was expelled from China on Jan. 7 for " engaging in activities incompatible with their status " . |