Example sentences of "were release from [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The council of nine ceased to be active , Latimer and Lyons were released from imprisonment and Alice Perrers was reinstated at court .
2 Bernard Strydom and Robert McBride were released from life terms under a deal to restart political talks .
3 The bulk of the Prussian peasants were released from service in the years 1811–50 .
4 Col. Thaabe Letsie and Col. Aloysius Kethang Mosoeunyane , who had been arrested on Feb. 19 , 1990 , and expelled from the Military Council and dismissed from the Army , were released from detention in Maseru in early March .
5 Every one of those surveyed had a class , though some were released from part of their teaching duties to undertake other activities .
6 Two French UNRWA workers were released from captivity in Beirut at the beginning of the year and I had watched their press conference imagining how I would feel if it were John delivering the speech .
7 An ex-director and an employee of D M de Bruijn , the suppliers of lead-contaminated cow feed , were released from custody in Holland yesterday after a witness withdrew testimony .
8 The soldiers were released from hospital after treatment .
9 Around 40 people convicted of political crimes in connection with acts of defiance during the campaign to impose Slavic names on ethnic Turks were released from prison in accordance with an amnesty bill passed by the National Assembly on Jan. 15 .
10 On May 10 and June 6 , groups of 211 and 97 detainees respectively were released from prison [ see p. 37186 for release of 573 detainees in January ] .
11 A former Cabinet minister , Edward Rurangaranga , and five others were released from prison on Jan. 23 after the state dropped murder charges against them for lack of evidence .
12 On Aug. 19 the first of 23,108 prisoners were released from prison as a result of a presidential pardon issued on Peasants ' Day , July 7 .
13 Three members of the Roman Catholic clergy belonging to the pro-Vatican underground church were released from prison on Jan. 28 , according to Reuters news agency .
14 Some 3,000 protestors were released from prison that day and the curfew was lifted .
15 The leaders of the black Moslem fundamentalist Jamaat al-Moslemeen , Yasin Abu Bakr and Bilal Abdullah , and 114 other members of the group were released from prison on July 1 .
16 The fact is that nothing was done about the matter , and the goats were released from farm isolation by the ministry with subsequent disastrous results for me and for others .
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