Example sentences of "be [vb pp] from [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Do US president Bill Clinton and British prime minister John Major have more in common than would have been guessed from their brief meeting earlier this month ? |
2 | Men are taught from their earliest days to value autonomy , the right to do what they want to do , when they want to do it . |
3 | This is sometimes described in terms of social engineering , and the resources that law brings as machinery are distinguished from its social goals . |
4 | We therefore envisage a ‘ Stage 2 ’ when the Social Charter will be widened and deepened : widened to include groups — particularly pensioners — who are omitted from its present provisions ; deepened in terms of the protection which it offers those included . |
5 | One hundred and thirteen had been born at term and the others at a median gestational age of 32 weeks ( range 24–36 ) ; none of the latter had been discharged from their neonatal unit on additional inspired oxygen . |
6 | The River Naver is one of the finest salmon streams in Scotland and each year hundreds of salmon are caught from its peat-stained waters . |
7 | The consequence is that we can not just suppose that the text has been wrenched from its interdictal context and left unchanged , except for the addition of per omnia . |
8 | An association between the ACE/ID polymorphism and blood pressure might have been expected from its anticipated effect on vascular tone and architecture . |
9 | ‘ In my translation of the ‘ Nightingale ’ fairy tale , the word ‘ Chinaman ’ has been deleted from my original text , which read : ‘ I suppose you know that in China the emperor 's a Chinaman … |
10 | An elderly woman has been rescued from her burning house by decorators working nearby . |
11 | Technologies are separated from their underlying class ; for example , Chemistry 540 but Chemical technology 660 . |
12 | It was a very sound brick structure and had been built about 1868 but it had the notorious reputation of being called ‘ Lover 's Leap ’ , no doubt due to the fact that several suicide attempts had been made from its high parapet , most of them fatal . |
13 | The Meskhetians , another of the ‘ punished peoples ’ , had been moved from their traditional homelands near the Turkish-Soviet border in 1944 , ostensibly in order to protect them against the possibility of a German advance . |
14 | Even the spring reverb unit has been moved from its traditional combo location , at the bottom of the cabinet , to a new site underneath the main chassis . |
15 | Further evidence comes from a milestone found in 1785 in the ditch near the northwest gate , though it had probably been moved from its original location . |
16 | The medieval section has been moved from its original site . |
17 | The Italian Classic , due to have been played next month , has been moved from its original slot and is in danger of not been played at all . |
18 | Where products are transferred from their original containers to more convenient packs those packs should be marked with the contents and be readily identifiable as cleaning material containers . |
19 | A man of ever-changing whims , and now I see you 're freed from your fearful collar , Midnight , you 'd do better to sign on . |
20 | As though the skin had been peeled from her aching nerve-ends , leaving them raw and unbearably sensitive . |
21 | Quite differently from the shepherd chasing nymphs convention of Marlowe 's poem , in ‘ The Garden ’ the colours of ‘ red ’ and ‘ white ’ are toppled from their usual pedestal by the green of plants and nature ’ . |
22 | In an isolation experiment , animals are isolated from their normal environment at birth ; they have no opportunity of normal learning . |
23 | It naturally shares much with its literary cousin , Hebrew poetry , on which Leonard had been raised from his earliest days . |
24 | The remarks which follow are extracted from our subsequent conversation : |
25 | This is perhaps more evident in the case of longer courses where teachers are displaced from their pedagogic habitat for considerable periods of time , but it exists also in shorter courses . |
26 | The elephants have been driven from their normal habitat by the construction of a dam and some have taken to plundering farmers ' maize crops . |
27 | At ground level we are protected from their full force by the intervening umbrella of air but , nonetheless , some of these particles manage to penetrate . |
28 | Many of the costs are hidden in the time of teachers who are distracted from their primary task by the managerial and administrative requirements of examinations . |
29 | Moreover , people in personal crisis are not very effective at making their needs felt in socially acceptable ways ; they do not organize themselves into consumer pressure groups to demand a better deal , not at least until they are recovered from their own crisis . |
30 | The panels , in three sizes , are moulded from our special plasterboard , and can be enhanced by almost any type of painted finish . |