Example sentences of "[vb past] to be [vb pp] from [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can understand that with competitions it is correct for employees of all companies involved to be excluded from entry , but surely there is not a problem in selling Hovis to your employees , or any other product for that matter ? |
| 2 | The natural-entity theory thus legitimated the fact that in the large public company , as we shall see , the shareholders no longer controlled corporate management , so that control as well as management came to be separated from ownership . |
| 3 | The rynd and the spindle soon came to be made from iron to be more durable , and the handle was developed to become a lever for turning the runner stone by animal power . |
| 4 | At the end of the term and the completion of the topic , staff agreed that satisfactory progress seemed to be made from year group to year group in terms of the development of writing skills . |
| 5 | Their dull helmets seemed to be fashioned from iron ; their cloaks were long and red ; some carried shields , huge ovals with prominent bosses and the shape of an eagle painted upon them . |
| 6 | In the richer agricultural regions the dues owed to the Grand Prince , or to lay and ecclesiastical landowners , gradually began to be converted from payment in kind to money rents . |
| 7 | Until silver objects from archaeological sites have been subjected to more systematic metallurgical analysis one can hardly be sure when and where the metal began to be extracted from galena ores . |
| 8 | The rain had darkened his brown hair , and rivulets of water dripped down a face that looked to be carved from teak . |
| 9 | The nun who admitted them appeared to be covered from head to foot apart from her eyes , nose , and mouth , for after she had bolted the gate behind them she tucked her bare hands into her sleeves , then led the way up a gravel path , on either side of which a lawn extended as far as a further high , stone wall , its top also embedded with glass . |
| 10 | Up to 1914 almost 80% of the annual import of grain continued to be discharged from grain vessels by the highly skilled labour force expert in the use of hand tackle with the remaining 20% being mechanically handled for bulk storage in the warehouse . |
| 11 | Kwa languages were an important influence on the Caribbean Creoles at the time of their formation ( and subsequently while slaves continued to be imported from West Africa ) . |
| 12 | The middle son , Nigel , had to be recalled from holiday in Ireland . |
| 13 | A CHILD suffering from a serious heart condition had to be airlifted from North Wales to a specialist cardiac unit yesterday . |
| 14 | In 1545 and again in 1546 England had to be defended from invasion and Boulogne from siege . |
| 15 | To give it a chance of success , some French troops had to be withdrawn from south of the Somme and their lines taken over by Haig 's men , disrupting his own long-planned attack in Flanders . |
| 16 | Indeed , he took his responsibility so seriously that he had to be dissuaded from resignation . |
| 17 | Around 40 homes were flooded by four feet of water , and some residents had to be rescued from first-floor windows . |
| 18 | Barriers on textiles would be eliminated in 10 years but , to be eligible for preferential trade , most garments , under a " country of origin " clause , had to be produced from yarn made inside NAFTA . |
| 19 | These data had to be estimated from census ED information . |
| 20 | In January 1982 he came back to Stockport to speak of his mountaineering experiences ; so many wanted to hear him that the venue had to be changed from School to the Town Hall . |
| 21 | With great reluctance , Bonhoeffer came to the conclusion that Hitler had to be removed from office and he became party to a plot to assassinate the country 's Führer . |
| 22 | Increasingly funds for new developments had to be found from redeployment of services and savings . |
| 23 | Miller stressed the importance of accuracy in illustration ; each plant had to be drawn from nature at its best stage of flowering , with the fruit and seeds to be added later on ripening . |