Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] from [noun] on [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tanks were withdrawn from Tirana on Feb. 25 and the city was reported to be calm , but army patrols remained , and sporadic gunfire was reported each night until the end of the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 . |
| 2 | More than 100 foreign aid workers were evacuated from Juba on Jan. 29-30 , benefiting from a brief ceasefire called by the SPLA . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Various emergency regulations were relaxed for the week prior to the poll to allow campaigning to proceed , but were reintroduced from midnight on May 11-12 . |
| 5 | A bomb exploded on March 30 at the Addis Ababa Hilton hotel near the apartment of the new Israeli ambassador ( who had presented his credentials on March 23 ) , and two Libyan diplomats , reportedly held responsible , were expelled from Ethiopia on March 31 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | After a 10-month battle , self-proclaimed white supremacist Byron de la Beckwith , 70 , was extradited from Tennessee on Oct. 4 to face a third trial in Mississippi for the killing in 1963 of Medgar Evers , at the time the state 's leading black activist [ see p. 19771 ] . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | She was reading aloud , a man holding a boom mike was registering her voice ; she was declaiming from Soul on Ice : |
| 12 | The imposition of an additional levy on alien exporters in 1303 had led to English merchants playing a major part in handling wool shipments later in the century , but it was Edward III 's war taxation for his French campaigns , much of which was derived from levies on wool exports , which did most to promote the development of cloth manufacture in England , by creating a tariff barrier which raised the costs of the raw material to the foreign manufacturers . |
| 13 | A senior Iraqi diplomat charged with spying on Iraqi refugees , including Kurds , was expelled from Sweden on Nov. 12 . |
| 14 | A delegation of Canadian MPs was expelled from China on Jan. 7 for " engaging in activities incompatible with their status " . |
| 15 | A correspondent for the Independent , Robert Fisk , was expelled from Turkey on May 2 after describing ( in a report published on April 30 ) looting of relief supplies by Turkish troops at the Yesilova camp for Iraqi Kurdish refugees in Hakkari province . |
| 16 | Mr Mandela was brought from prison on Robben Island to join his colleagues , and the trial began on 9 October . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The first secretary of the Azerbaijan CP committee in the Nakhichevan ASSR , Gaidar Isayev , was removed from office on Jan. 3 , ostensibly on " health grounds " but apparently as a consequence of the border incidents . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | This report was filed from Tokyo on Tuesday by James Mates : |
| 21 | This report from Andrew Simmonds was sent from Dublin on Thursday : |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Bembenek was released from jail on December 9 after serving 10 years for the murder of Christine Schultz . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Lafontaine made a quick recovery and was released from hospital on May 2 . |
| 26 | Schäuble was released from hospital on Oct. 31 after two operations to remove a bullet lodged near his spine . |
| 27 | He was released from prison on Feb. 9 , 1990 , and held a seventh meeting with Arafat on March 9 . |
| 28 | Mario Chanes de Armas , 65 , who took part in the 1953 assault on the Moncada Barracks and was one of the original rebels who had landed in the Granma in 1956 to launch the revolution , was released from prison on July 16 , after serving 30 years for allegedly plotting to assassinate Castro . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | A British businessman , Roger Cooper , 55 , was released from prison on April 1 and returned to London on April 2 . |