Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [vb pp] from [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On May 3 the remains of Enver Hoxha and 12 other " former leaders of the Party of Labour " ( the PLA — the former ruling party , later renamed the Socialist Party of Albania — SPA ) were discreetly transferred from the Martyrs ' Cemetery in Tirana to a public cemetery in the suburbs of the city . |
| 2 | The industrial revolution of the eighteenth century brought England into the ranks of major European powers , and although the English were somewhat detached from the affairs of the continent , and more concerned with imperial expansion overseas , the events of the French Revolution and the wars with Napoleonic France forced them to play an ever increasing role in Europe . |
| 3 | But the means by which the Futurists were expressing themselves at this point were largely borrowed from the Cubists , and occasionally in some less well-informed criticism , the two terms became synonymous . |
| 4 | To permit absolute fidelity to the fragmentisation process , texture and surface colour were largely excluded from the paintings . |
| 5 | Local authorities were totally excluded from the activities of the UDCs and some of the government finance which might otherwise have gone to the local authorities was diverted to UDCs . |
| 6 | I enclose the final version of the papers put before the Committee — which were slightly amended from the versions you say . |
| 7 | Views on the tests were also sought from the teachers and their pupils in these second phase schools when the tests were administered . |
| 8 | Protests were also heard from the leaderships in the Baltic republics , Georgia and Armenia , all of them making it clear that they would not co-operate with the army in organizing joint patrols , while the Moldavian Supreme Soviet on Jan. 31 passed a resolution saying that the presidential decree had no legal force on its territory . |
| 9 | Much of the clothing of the forest peoples of western Siberia was made of cloth woven from nettle or linen fibre , but garments were also made from the skins of deer , fish or birds . |
| 10 | The entrepreneurs who organised the cloth trade and marketed its products were sharply differentiated from the operatives employed at the various manufacturing processes . |
| 11 | The linen area was unheated , and though they were well protected from the ravages of the wind she was aware of her damp clothing chilling her skin , the rough chattering of her teeth . |
| 12 | Determined to honour the family tradition of social responsibility , she forgot her various ailments , put aside her various unfinished manuscripts , and took on the onerous commitment of managing one of the most important zinc factories in the United Kingdom at a time when women were virtually excluded from the boardrooms of business and commerce . |
| 13 | Criterion statements were then developed from the results of the testing . |
| 14 | The famous English institutions of learning , the universities and colleges of Oxford and Cambridge and the colleges at Eton and Winchester were specifically exempted from the provisions of the Act , as they had been from earlier legislation . |
| 15 | Was not a sense of religious destiny derived from sources that were essentially insulated from the effects of interchanging sun and earth ? |
| 16 | Half nude , she held onto a big , round glass ball which was slowly lowered from the flies and poised above the stalls . |
| 17 | There was no shrub and palm cover bound by creepers as there had been in the rain forest so that the track was little protected from the squalls that struck up the mountainside , screeching like banshees , as they bowed the slender treetrunks almost to the ground . |
| 18 | The wallpaper was long gone from the walls , and here and there in places were rust-coloured stains that looked like blood . |
| 19 | Prior to erm Uruguay round negotiations , agriculture was always excluded from the negotiations right , whereas manufactured goods have been in there from the start , and as a result we 've seen a reduction in tariffs right , on manufactured goods that 's not to say that erm , protectionism on manufactured goods has fallen , it has in certain cases but not in all cases . |
| 20 | Duelling , one index of the survival of the values of barbarism , had been forbidden in the British Army since 1844 , but the Russian officer corps was specially exempted from the laws prohibiting it . |
| 21 | The contempt , or criticism , was probably hidden from the others , but Maria was acutely aware of it , and incensed . |
| 22 | The poor man was also banished from the grounds of the house to take up his station either at the gate or beyond it . |
| 23 | Given that the term was originally coined from the words ‘ smoke ’ and ‘ fog ’ , it is really a misnomer for photochemical air pollution episodes . |
| 24 | He was recently banned from the directors ' room at Newcastle and has also been shifted from his seat in the directors box to the back of the stand . |