Example sentences of "[noun pl] [was/were] [verb] from [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Kadet sympathizers were swept from office in the zemstvo elections of 1906 , and even the more moderate Octobrist party , dedicated to cautious co-operation with the government on the basis of the Fundamental Laws , found growing difficulty in resisting the rightward shift of rank-and-file noblemen . |
2 | ‘ Oh , the Essex lads are out in force , no problem , but I 'm sure the hooligans who did the post offices were working from south of the river . |
3 | Regular Army units were despatched from Turkmenia to help restore order . |
4 | Her palms and knees were bleeding from thorns in the sand . |
5 | Between 1940 and 1944 some 76,000 Jews were deported from France to death camps ; 2,600 survived . |
6 | SIR — In early 1991 , about 15,000 Jews were airlifted from Ethiopia to Israel . |
7 | Even innocent parties were excluded from court until 1887 . |
8 | All chordates have a nerve chord running along the back , and all higher chordates were derived from forms with gill slits . |
9 | The seeds of these two sorts were sent from Peru by Mr. Joseph de Jussieu to the Royal garden at Paris , part of which was sent me by his brother Bernard de Jussieu of the Royal Academy of Science ’ |
10 | Two crates containing 1,000 Garter snakes were shipped from Miami to London . |
11 | TWO lorry drivers were stung from head to foot by thousands of angry bees yesterday . |
12 | Even so their contribution to the mechanisms whereby the new images were translated from theory to practice needs to be recognized . |
13 | The excavation also produced an unusual number of ox-goads and styli and all this may indicate the use of the establishment as a place where animals were brought from farms on the estate and prepared for market . |
14 | Ten giant squirrels were imported from Indonesia by a British zoo , the animals were stuffed into narrow plastic tubes no bigger than their bodies and stacked in a wooden crate . |
15 | Best-selling local author : Crafty Ideas From Nature by Myrna Daitz and Shirley Williams ( Exley , £3.99 ) CHILDREN 'S CHOICE This alphabetical list of Britain 's best-selling children 's authors was compiled from sales at school book clubs : |
16 | Sterling and the French franc remained weak , despite a raising of interest rates in France , and a major outflow of funds was observed from Finland into Germany , following Finland 's announcement of a 12.3 per cent devaluation of the markka in mid-November [ see p. 38587 ] . |
17 | The visitors were covered from head to foot in over-ripe whale bits . |
18 | Stalin 's argument was part of a broader one that he derived from Lenin : the right of national self-determination was valid only where countries were passing from feudalism to capitalism . |
19 | Prisoners-of-war , wandering free men , peasants and natives were mobilized from time to time into detachments of foreign servicemen ( Litva ) or cossacks , and there were service gentry from European Russia stationed in the region for periods of several years . |
20 | Between 1975-85 , 82 sea eagles were imported from Norway to be reintroduced into Scotland . |
21 | The MIR 8 helicopters were hired from Aeroflot with Aeroflot pilots . |
22 | For the same reason , there was no obstruction of the highway — the miners were getting from home to colliery far more quickly than normal , thanks to the chauffeur and the VIP escort . |
23 | Remba went to work and created ‘ Mixografia ’ , a method in which copper printing plates were formed from impressions of diverse materials and textures — charred wood , lead , cement , burlap , found objects . |
24 | It was symptomatic that when the judges were excluded from membership of the area consultative committees in the formative stages by a ruling by Lane , that it was the Circuit or courts administrators from the Lord Chancellor 's Department who were identified as being best placed to act as chairmen , rather than Home Office officials who were unable to draw on any existing regional organization . |
25 | And some of the people who had motives were excluded from suspicion by lack of opportunity . |
26 | Both regression analyses were calculated from data on 448 women because of missing values in one of the exposure or confounding variables . |
27 | A TEENAGER who claims he was horse whipped and treated like a slave by his foster parents was expelled from school for disruptive behaviour , Mold Crown Court heard . |
28 | Therefore , in the case of capital expenditure out of reserves , the revenue effect is recorded only when the contributions were made from revenue into the reserve accounts . |
29 | Plants were grown from seed in a 38-m long chamber in a ventilated glasshouse . |
30 | The voices of churchmen were heard from time to time , perhaps frequently , complaining of the enslavement of Christians , or of the treatment of slaves ; but there was no radical attack on the institution as such . |