Example sentences of "[noun prp] [was/were] [verb] from [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The manuscript , originally compiled by Shah Jehan 's fawning court historian Inayat Khan , told the story of the apex of Mughal power , the golden age when most of India , all of Pakistan and great chunks of Afghanistan were ruled from the Red Fort in Delhi . |
| 2 | The therapist did not think that the overdose had been associated with serious suicidal intent , nor that David was suffering from a psychiatric illness . |
| 3 | The ordeal began when Mr Arafat was returning from the Sudanese capital , Khartoum , to his headquarters in Tunis . |
| 4 | Ellen was grinning from the other couch , but I was in no mood to humour her amusement . |
| 5 | The first Conservative to utter this call was not , as A. J. P. Taylor has said , Churchill , but Lord Hailsham ; Attorney-General and Lord Chancellor in Baldwin 's 1924–9 Conservative government , Hailsham was excluded from the National Government as unacceptable to National Labour , on account of his role in piloting the 1927 Trades Disputes Act through Parliament , and ( along with Leo Amery ) to the Samuelite Liberals , on account of his support for tariffs . |
| 6 | Liu Binyan and Su Xiaokang were expelled from the official Chinese Writers ' Association for their " anti-government activities abroad " . |
| 7 | Before long England were benefitting from the first of a string of catches dropped by both sides , and their total of 263 was over a hundred more than it would have been had Boycott , Woolmer and Botham not had a second chance . |
| 8 | On News at Ten Alan was cut from the wrecked coach , then he wore a blanket and said , ‘ One hell of a crash , that 's all , ’ and then he sat in bed in pyjamas . |
| 9 | FALLEN tycoon Alan Bond was freed from a 2 1/2-year jail sentence yesterday to await a retrial on dishonesty charges . |
| 10 | With Dewey 's permission , UDC was developed from the fifth edition of DC . |
| 11 | Bogdan Ursu was plucked from a grim Romanian orphanage by an aid organisation and brought to Middlesbrough . |
| 12 | Ms Oruene told the two-day hearing in Edinburgh last month that only one practising advocate in Scotland was drawn from the ethnic minorities . |
| 13 | Given that Northern Ireland was excluded from the recently-enacted Prison Security Act , the conditions in Northern Ireland 's prisons have largely escaped the Parliamentary scrutiny that conditions in prisons elsewhere in the UK have received . |
| 14 | Kapil Dev was omitted from the following Test as a disciplinary measure , but returned to the side immediately afterwards and has been ever-present ever since . |
| 15 | ( 1 ) In 1977 Arandaspis was described from the Lower Ordovician of Australia and in 1986 a very similar form , Sacambambaspis , was described from the Upper Ordovician of Bolivia ( Fig. 1 h ) . |
| 16 | After farmer Desmond Drayton granted use of his fields adjoining the original site , it returned in '86 with a hurriedly assembled bill featuring The Mission , Killing Joke , FM , Saxon , New Model Army , It Bites and Hawkwind , only to confirm that Reading was suffering from a massive non-identity crisis . |
| 17 | Venables was lifted from a precarious 30-degree ice slope , by an Indian army helicopter pilot flying perilously close to his aircraft 's maximum altitude limit . |
| 18 | Liverpool were distracted from the main business of the evening scoring two goals and the tie was gone . |
| 19 | In 1986 some leading Militant supporters from Liverpool were expelled from the Labour Party after bitter arguments on the NEC . |
| 20 | As I pointed out above , as the newcomers settled into established communities here and there and one or two at a time , many social relations between incomers and Shetlanders were created from the simple neighbourly needs for advice and help with house repairs and so on . |
| 21 | Hours later Paige was roused from a deep sleep by a hand on her shoulder . |
| 22 | Shlomo Green , Jewish refugee from the Nazis , on learning that his home in Israel was taken from a Palestinian family in 1948 . |
| 23 | ALLITT was suffering from a rare personality disorder known as Munchausen 's Syndrome by Proxy . |
| 24 | It was three o'clock the following morning when Tilly Mulliver was woken from a shallow sleep . |
| 25 | She bustled out , and five minutes later Auguste was sipping from a willow-pattern cup with Edith 's and Egbert 's eyes on him . |
| 26 | Hampstead was transformed from a small , eighteenth-century satellite town separated from the metropolis by steeply-sloping open fields into a high-class residential suburb very different from Camberwell . |
| 27 | We know an older nave existed by the wall Paintings over the chancel arch , these paintings uncovered by Mrs Baker A.R.C.A. were dated from the 12th century . |
| 28 | Alice Perrers was removed from the royal household , and Neville was dismissed from the king 's council , though he was not imprisoned . |
| 29 | Daak was hanging from the rear platform , legs dangling , but he had embedded the teeth of the chainsword in one of the armour-plated side panels . |
| 30 | During 1990 Nepal was transformed from an absolute monarchy into a multiparty democracy . |