Example sentences of "saved from [noun sg] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The brick and stone-built cone is sixty feet high , and was saved from demolition in 1962 by excavations which showed its importance as an industrial monument , this area of Yorkshire once having had a thriving glass industry . |
| 2 | For three hundred years , until around 1934 , Faversham was a major centre of gunpowder manufacture , and one of the former factories , Chart Mills , was saved from demolition in recent years by the Faversham Society , when the area in which it stands was being cleared for a new housing estate . |
| 3 | Oxleas Wood was saved from development by public subscription in the 1920s . |
| 4 | Griffin O'Neal , 27 , was only saved from jail after 24-year-old Lynn Oddo , the woman he beat up , pleaded with the court for mercy . |
| 5 | After a meeting with him Clwyd North West Tory MP Rod Richards declared : ‘ The Point of Ayr colliery can be saved from closure by British Coal . ’ |