Example sentences of "[adv] been [verb] [adv prt] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Partly because the machinery of repression has been so all-embracing for so long , stifling any messages of opposition before they reached a platform , and partly because Romania has for so long been cut off from the mainstream of European thinking and political change , constructive ideas have been hard to come by . |
| 2 | Last year an inquest was told how a milkman became suspicious when he noticed milk had not been taken in from the doorstep of the house . |
| 3 | True also that property questions had already been separated off from the main business , to be handled by the British Rail Property Board ( also on a regional basis , but with somewhat different geographical areas from those used by the operating regions ) . |
| 4 | When Professor Aldini applied galvanism to the face of a felon who had just been cut down from the gallows , |
| 5 | Command of the main army was entrusted for the moment to a veteran Huguenot general , Sir John [ later first Earl of ] Ligonier , aged 65 , who had also been called back from the Continent , though it was understood he would become subordinate to Cumberland as soon as the latter was ready to take over . |
| 6 | Work has also been contracted in from the French firm Matra SA and the US company Rockwell International Inc as well as from Digital Equipment Corp . |
| 7 | But if the daily figures had n't yet been brought over from the Ritz and Strand , he would stop off there too . |