Example sentences of "[vb pp] from [noun sg] [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 | 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 ] . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |