Example sentences of "[vb pp] from [noun] [prep] an [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1853 , through the good offices of W. E. Gladstone and other Peelites in the ministry of G. H. Gordon , fourth Earl of Aberdeen , he was rescued from penury by an appointment as commissioner of income tax , retiring through ill health some time before his death . |
| 2 | The emphasis in the teaching of economics has moved from macro-economics to an emphasis on micro-economics and in particular decision-taking at the level of the firm . |
| 3 | The Forum has a Council of Management drawn from organisations with an interest in the nuclear industry , such as British Nuclear Fuels Ltd , UKAEA , Shell Nuclear , Whessoe Heavy Engineering , Fairey Engineering , GEC , Tube Investments , Vickers , Sir Robert McAlpine , the Central Electricity Generating Board , the South of Scotland Electricity Board , Kleinwort Benson and the British Insurance Committee . |
| 4 | This concerned the way in which electrons were ejected from metals by an incident beam of light . |
| 5 | Protected from prosecution by an amnesty law of 1978 , the military opposed any such investigation but their claim that they had been fighting a war against left-wing subversion became increasingly untenable with the discovery of mass graves containing the bodies of their political opponents and the disclosure of how they had indulged in corrupt financial practices while in power , including the payment of US$3,000,000 to Pinochet 's son [ see pp. 37528-29 ; 37852-53 ; 37958 ] . |
| 6 | The last thing I expected was to be woken from unconsciousness by an air hostess with the face of an angel , gently patting on my shoulder and telling me that the plane had just landed in Miami . |
| 7 | He drastically lowered the price demanded from Turkey for an end to the War of 1806–12 , and having deprived Sweden of Finland he hastily concluded a treaty with her in 1812 . |
| 8 | If the child has already been removed from home under an emergency protection order it may be construed to refer to the period immediately before the emergency order was sought ( see D ( a Minor ) v Berkshire County Council [ 1987 ] 1 All ER 120 , a case decided under the old law on a similar point of interpretation ) . |
| 9 | He is not a civil servant but is a direct Crown appointee who can only be removed from office by an address from both Houses of Parliament . |
| 10 | Obviously , then , the fact that 200,000 Greek Cypriots ( a third of the population ) were kicked out of their homes by the Turkish invaders , thus becoming refugees in their own country , is not a crime , according to Mr Gustafson ; nor is the fact that 80,000 settlers were imported from Turkey in an attempt to alter the demographic composition of the island ; nor is the fact that 1,619 people are still reported as missing in action almost 17 years after the invasion ; nor is the fact that the Turks are destroying every trace of the 3,000-year-old Greek culture that exists in the occupied territories , a fact that even the Turkish Cypriot press often reports . |
| 11 | He told Darlington Conservative councillors : ‘ We would be controlled from Newcastle by an assembly even more remote than County Hall in Durham . |
| 12 | Meanwhile , Fulham goalkeeper Alan Gough has been charged with technical assault on a referee and banned from football until an FA disciplinary hearing next year . |