Example sentences of "[noun pl] 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 | The visitors were covered from head to foot in over-ripe whale bits . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Between 1975-85 , 82 sea eagles were imported from Norway to be reintroduced into Scotland . |
| 19 | The MIR 8 helicopters were hired from Aeroflot with Aeroflot pilots . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | And some of the people who had motives were excluded from suspicion by lack of opportunity . |
| 24 | Both regression analyses were calculated from data on 448 women because of missing values in one of the exposure or confounding variables . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Plants were grown from seed in a 38-m long chamber in a ventilated glasshouse . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | It was the day for the sale of sheep , and we saw many little lots under the guardianship of shepherds and collie dogs ; eager buyers were going from group to group , judging their respective merits — now taking a hold of a sheep to feel his weight , and noting the quality of his fleece . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | More than 100 foreign aid workers were evacuated from Juba on Jan. 29-30 , benefiting from a brief ceasefire called by the SPLA . |