Example sentences of "[noun] was [verb] from [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | My interest in China was increased from time to time by my acquaintance with a Cantonese who operated a shoe repair shop on the High Street . |
| 32 | Named after the lion , Singapore was plucked from obscurity by the British , who were keen to develop the city-state as a trading port . |
| 33 | Postgraduate education was excluded from eligibility for LEA discretionary grants ( it had been eligible under the 1962 Education Act ) . |
| 34 | The minute his attention was removed to the next , Kennedy was appraised from head to foot . |
| 35 | The inside was hidden from view by shutters and curtains . |
| 36 | Li Changchun was shifted from Liaoning to Henan , replacing Cheng Weigao who went to Hebei . |
| 37 | After the brief administration of Sosuke Uno , Kaifu was plucked from obscurity in order to act as caretaker Prime Minister until such time as the Recruit scandal had receded . |
| 38 | In order to prevent the seasons getting out of phase , a thirteenth month was inserted from time to time , but there was no regular system for the intercalation of this additional month until the fifth century BC , when seven of these months began to be inserted at fixed intervals in a cycle of nineteen years . |
| 39 | ( FCA ) of , who had been found to be in breach of Bye-law 76(a) and liable to disciplinary action under Bye-law 76(a) ( i ) in that he at Grimsby between 6 March 1989 and 15 July 1991 whilst Financial Director of a limited company misappropriated monies totalling an amount in excess of £90,000 was excluded from membership of the Institute and ordered to pay £350 by way of costs |
| 40 | Whether ground was distinguished from sky in any other way than by being outlined against it the evidence so far cited does not tell us , but probably some trees and flowers were shown on it , and it may have had something in the nature of shading . |
| 41 | It was the first occasion on which the country had voted since Gen. Manuel Noriega was removed from power by US forces in December 1989 and replaced by President Guillermo Endara Gallimany [ see pp. 37112-13 ] . |
| 42 | On July 4 Gandhi promoted a number of junior ministers ( see pp. 36027-28 for previous portfolios ) ; D. L. Baitha was promoted to Minister of State for Defence Production replacing Chintamani Panigraphi who had been appointed Governor of Manipur a few days earlier [ see above ] ; Mahavir Prasad became Minister of State for Mines ; P. Namgyal became Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs and Chemicals and Petrochemicals ; Sumati Oraon became Minister of State for Environment and Forests ; Radhakrishna Malaviya became Minister of State for Labour and Parliamentary Affairs ; Saroj Khaparde was shifted from Minister of State for Health to Textiles ; Giridhar Gomango was given independent charge of the Communications Ministry ( following the death of the Communications Minister in May — see p. 36657 ) ; and Rafiq Alam became Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare ( independent charge ) , a post which had been vacant since the January appointment of Moti Lal Vora as Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh . |
| 43 | At two Mina was passed from father to husband . |
| 44 | Professionally , Crawford 's career was going from strength to strength , and his association with film director Richard Lester continued with A Funny Thing Happened On the Way To the Forum . |
| 45 | Ace was running from boulder to boulder along the summit of the ridge , stopping wherever she found good cover , just long enough to hurl one of her primitive looking grenades , or fire her blaster , or launch some kind of tiny projectile that Defries could n't see clearly . |
| 46 | This detection limit was determined from analysis of aluminium standards made from solutions of aluminium nitrate in poly ( ethyl methacrylate ) resin . |
| 47 | As an optional extra you could specify an unfeathering device which moved the blades towards the normal pitch range when the propeller lever was moved from feather to fully fine . |
| 48 | His determination to impress Joan , to win her , made him even more tongue-tied ; his usual conversational gambit was to shift from foot to foot and laugh a great deal . |
| 49 | On April 28 Palestinian academic and PLO supporter Sari Nusseibeh was released from prison after three months of " administrative detention " for allegedly carrying out spying activities for Iraq [ see p. 37976 ] . |
| 50 | 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 . |
| 51 | Mr Crangle was grinning from ear to ear . |
| 52 | Mr Crangle was rushing from place to place checking the details of his plan . |
| 53 | Ferniehirst was removed from office on English insistence , and gradually calm was restored . |
| 54 | 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 . |
| 55 | Schäuble was released from hospital on Oct. 31 after two operations to remove a bullet lodged near his spine . |
| 56 | The spirit was dissuaded from returning to haunt the living by the relatives placing soil on the corpse to fasten it to the ground , putting burning embers outside the door to bar its path and whispering in its ear the plea that it would not return . |
| 57 | IRISH featherweight Paul Griffin was banned from boxing for a year last night after being accused of trying to assault officials at the Olympics . |
| 58 | IRISH featherweight Paul Griffin was banned from boxing for a year last night after being accused of trying to assault officials at the Olympics . |
| 59 | On April 27 Banda announced another Cabinet dissolution ; in the new Cabinet announced on May 2 , Mwakikunga was moved from Health to Community Services , in an exchange of portfolios with Katola Phiri , and Bwanali was dropped from the Cabinet , with his portfolio of Local Government taken by Minister of Forestry and Natural Resources Stanford Demba . |
| 60 | The city developed chiefly after 1040 , when the residence of the kings was transferred from Gniezno to Cracow , and stone buildings began to replace the wooden ones . |