Example sentences of "[noun] was [verb] from [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the commitment to religion was stressed from time to time , often in response to the charge of militarism , the CLB always seemed to emphasize matters of social discipline and conformity . |
| 2 | J. G. C. Anderson was recruited in 1937 and T. R. M. Lawrie was transferred from England in 1939 . |
| 3 | Yes , there is a ski garderie in Verbier ; unfortunately it is in the centre of the village , and since there was no snow in the village the Mini Champion Club was closed from January for the rest of the season . |
| 4 | An agent was despatched from London to Jersey to check on the dead activist Varienski 's daughter . |
| 5 | In particular , Thompson and Spencer 's list of the features of habituation was derived from studies of short-term examples of the phenomenon ; it may therefore be unreasonable to expect these features to be found also in latent inhibition ( see Lubow , Weiner , and Schnur 1981 ) . |
| 6 | Best-selling local author : Crafty Ideas From Nature by Myrna Daitz and Shirley Williams ( Exley , £3.99 ) CHILDREN 'S CHOICE This alphabetical list of Britain 's best-selling children 's authors was compiled from sales at school book clubs : |
| 7 | Sterling and the French franc remained weak , despite a raising of interest rates in France , and a major outflow of funds was observed from Finland into Germany , following Finland 's announcement of a 12.3 per cent devaluation of the markka in mid-November [ see p. 38587 ] . |
| 8 | Mr Mandela was brought from prison on Robben Island to join his colleagues , and the trial began on 9 October . |
| 9 | In the face of the administration 's intense opposition , it cut $900 million from the amount requested by Bush , allocating $3,500 million for SDI , and also insisting that the emphasis of the programme was altered from research into space-based interceptors ( the " brilliant pebbles " concept ) to ground-based rockets and lasers . |
| 10 | , writes : MANY years ago I was told that Colgate toothpaste was made from pebbles from Chesil Beach , Dorset . |
| 11 | In Mr. Harper 's case , less than two years ago , his rent was doubled from £12,000 to £24,000 . |
| 12 | Like most defectors , Lyalin was suffering from delusions of grandeur and it was hard to judge whether he had been reading too much of Pincher 's material or books by Le Queux dating from the turn of the century . |
| 13 | In April 1327 Edward was moved from Renilworth to Berkeley Castle . |
| 14 | Blood was spouting from cuts on my right hand , and my left foot ached a bit and felt strange — no more . |
| 15 | The data was taken from trials at Silsoe College of tanker and umbilical hose systems between October 1 and March 31 in three years — 1986/7 ( average rainfall ) , 1987/8 ( wet ) and 1988/9 ( dry ) . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | On May 26 Zeyal Sarhadi was extradited from Switzerland to France , following a ruling by Switzerland 's Federal Tribunal . |
| 18 | A TEENAGER who claims he was horse whipped and treated like a slave by his foster parents was expelled from school for disruptive behaviour , Mold Crown Court heard . |
| 19 | In the factory it was different because work was separated from home in a way they had never experienced before . |
| 20 | After the leak of the Interfor Report , counsel for the victims , families attempted to take a deposition from Aviv but Shaughnessy moved to quash the subpoena on the grounds that Aviv 's work was protected from discovery by the so-called attorney work-product doctrine . |
| 21 | Roger Blyth , chairman of the Swansea selectors who was one of Saturday 's touch judges , said : ‘ I did n't see the incident but it 's quite obvious that the bloke was cut from contact with a boot . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Reynolds was banned from athletics for two years after testing positive for steroids . |
| 24 | At one time a footway was made from Skinnergate to North Bondgate to save people 's shoes . |
| 25 | 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 " . |
| 26 | In March new electrical equipment was ordered from B.T-H. for these cars and new trucks were considered , but turned down . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | And Lexandro was hurled from dreams of incandescence into that now sooty cavity . |
| 29 | Medeghino was exiled from Milan to Lake Como for killing a man , and there he took over a castle on the natural fortress of the Sassoi di Musso near the village of Musso at the northern end of the lake , killing the castle 's governor . |
| 30 | Already the basket was swinging from side to side in the wind . |