Example sentences of "[noun prp] [was/were] [adv] [verb] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unlike Bacon , however , Paracelsus was not writing from the standpoint of a scientific and medical amateur . |
| 2 | The trial resumed on July 22 , when Khmara was again removed from the courtroom for expressing his distrust of the judges . |
| 3 | Twenty minutes later Elisa was fully recovered from the incident although her arm still ached slightly under Dr Silvino 's expert bandaging . |
| 4 | Brother Cadfael was just emerging from the door of the infirmary in mid-morning , after replenishing Brother Edmund 's stores in the medicine cupboard , when they rode in at the gatehouse before his eyes . |
| 5 | Even Scotland was far removed from the necessary 40 per cent margin . |
| 6 | I believe Sir Gerard was not pushed from the parapet . |
| 7 | For the first few centuries of the Christian era , Ireland was largely isolated from the rest of Europe . |
| 8 | The GLC and MCCs were thus weakened from the start and regarded as far too small for some purposes and too large for others . |
| 9 | Thus the remarkable situation developed in which the top-ranking male Kendo and his younger brother Fitz were completely excluded from the meat-eating scrum , and the number-two male Macho was barely tolerated and allowed only a few tiny morsels . |
| 10 | Miller insists he has never been motivated by money , and his days at Love Street were probably numbered from the time St Mirren allowed his then assistant , Drew Jarvie , to leave the club and join Dundee . |
| 11 | The final words were pronounced in ringing tones as they arrived back in the hall , where Officer Hassan and Dieter were just emerging from the salon . |
| 12 | Though the Netherlands and the Dutch East Indies were largely insulated from the full impact of the Great War , the 1920s saw the first stirrings of contemporary nationalism in Indonesia and the young Sukarno responded . |
| 13 | In an unexpected development President Yang Shangkun and his younger half-brother Yang Baibing were both removed from the party 's Central Military Commission ( CMC ) . |
| 14 | Yang Baibing was also removed from the secretariat and from his post as director of the People 's Liberation Army ( PLA ) general political department . |
| 15 | Willie was so exhausted from the day 's labours that he did n't know whether he had dreamt the last remark or not . |
| 16 | Tanay , Mohmand , Mohammad and Karwal were also dismissed from the Supreme Council for the Defence of the Homeland established in February 1989 [ see p. 36449 ] along with Lt.-Gen. |
| 17 | Geoffrey Bayldon was accidentally transported from the 11th century to the 20th as the wizard Catweazle , while vandals in Australia tried to kill Skippy the bush kangaroo at Watarah National Park . |
| 18 | Edgar 's male chauvinism ( though this was a phrase not yet current ) and his expectation that his work was always , would always be of greater importance , than her own — these were aspects of their mutual dissatisfaction , no doubt , although both were , decades later , to concede that Edgar at this time was paying a high psychological price for having renounced his theatrical ambitions ( old Cambridge friends of his already had their names in lights in the West End , while he was a mere house officer ) and that Liz was still suffering from the trauma of confronting her mother with her total , final defection . |
| 19 | By the time domesticated cattle had reached northern Europe , Britain was already isolated from the Continent by the Channel , so that all the British domesticants were imported by boat , and in late Neolithic times ( about 2000 BC ) there were also domesticated cattle in Ireland . |
| 20 | Britain was still recovering from the long hard years of the second World War and the population had long felt the pinch of rationing and having to make do . |
| 21 | The US was still reeling from the embarrassment of the Cuban Missile Crisis and needed to boost morale . |
| 22 | Theo was about to travel from The Hague to Etten , en route for a new post in Paris , and Vincent pressed him to ‘ leave the train ’ on the second leg of his journey and stay with him for a day or two . |
| 23 | On England 's next tour in 1985–6 , Guyana was carefully omitted from the itinerary , and it would be nine years before they returned — only for the Test to be washed out completely . |
| 24 | That was in January 1950 , when Europe was still reeling from the revelations of the Nazi death-camps , opened less than five years before , and the voluminous confirmations of the Nuremberg trials of what war-criminals had done there . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | He smiled , his eyes taking in her shiny hair , silky dress and everything else about her , and , while Leith was still recovering from the ‘ darling ’ , he placed a firm , possessive hand on her elbow and guided her into the room . |
| 27 | Panama was initially excluded from the agreement , which had its origins in the Tuxtla Gutiérrez trade accord signed in January 1991 in the Mexican state of Chiapas [ see p. 37957 ] . |
| 28 | Children employed by such as William Douglas at his cotton mill in Salford were often taken from the workhouse at six or seven years old and worked for long hours , and were sometimes so ill-treated that they committed suicide . |
| 29 | Janet Malcolm slapped her hands over Kevin 's eyes , Mrs de Crespigny asserted a total disbelief , and Lord Whitelaw was gently helped from the platform . |