Example sentences of "[was/were] release from [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The council of nine ceased to be active , Latimer and Lyons were released from imprisonment and Alice Perrers was reinstated at court .
2 Bernard Strydom and Robert McBride were released from life terms under a deal to restart political talks .
3 The bulk of the Prussian peasants were released from service in the years 1811–50 .
4 Col. Thaabe Letsie and Col. Aloysius Kethang Mosoeunyane , who had been arrested on Feb. 19 , 1990 , and expelled from the Military Council and dismissed from the Army , were released from detention in Maseru in early March .
5 Every one of those surveyed had a class , though some were released from part of their teaching duties to undertake other activities .
6 Two French UNRWA workers were released from captivity in Beirut at the beginning of the year and I had watched their press conference imagining how I would feel if it were John delivering the speech .
7 An ex-director and an employee of D M de Bruijn , the suppliers of lead-contaminated cow feed , were released from custody in Holland yesterday after a witness withdrew testimony .
8 The soldiers were released from hospital after treatment .
9 Around 40 people convicted of political crimes in connection with acts of defiance during the campaign to impose Slavic names on ethnic Turks were released from prison in accordance with an amnesty bill passed by the National Assembly on Jan. 15 .
10 On May 10 and June 6 , groups of 211 and 97 detainees respectively were released from prison [ see p. 37186 for release of 573 detainees in January ] .
11 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 .
12 On Aug. 19 the first of 23,108 prisoners were released from prison as a result of a presidential pardon issued on Peasants ' Day , July 7 .
13 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 .
14 Some 3,000 protestors were released from prison that day and the curfew was lifted .
15 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 .
16 The fact is that nothing was done about the matter , and the goats were released from farm isolation by the ministry with subsequent disastrous results for me and for others .
17 Before electroporation that targeting construct was released from plasmid sequences by digestion with Eco RI .
18 Marian Munteanu , 28 , the president of the League of Students , who had been badly beaten and arrested on June 14 during the crackdown against anti-communist demonstrators in Bucharest 's University Square [ see pp. 37544-45 ] , was released from detention on Aug. 2 .
19 He appealed against the verdict , and on July 16 was released from detention pending his appeal .
20 James was released from captivity but not from his nobles ' displeasure , incited largely by the scheming Red Douglas family .
21 If he fasted , he was released from jail ; if he attempted civil disobedience , he was back in again .
22 Bembenek was released from jail on December 9 after serving 10 years for the murder of Christine Schultz .
23 Tan Malaka was released from jail .
24 Dharsono was released from jail exactly a month after President Suharto had spoken of the need " to promote human rights " during his National Day speech .
25 Andrew Hayton was released from jail after serving just half his three month jail term .
26 He was released from confinement in January 1763 , and in that very year published , with other poems , A Song to David , his masterpiece .
27 Its leader in Zaïre , Etienne Tshisekedi Wa Mulumba , was released from house arrest on April 25 .
28 Azem Vlasi , the former leader of the League of Communists in Kosovo , was released from custody on April 24 , together with 13 other persons , after being acquitted on charges of instigating counter-revolutionary demonstrations in the province .
29 On Sept. 27 Ceausescu was released from custody for 90 days to undergo medical treatment for chronic cirrhosis of the liver ( a condition reportedly complicated by a stab wound he had received from one of the revolutionary mob moments after his Dec. 22 television appearance ) .
30 On the day after Rafeedie 's decision Alvarez was released from custody and allowed to return to Guadalajara .
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