Example sentences of "be [vb pp] from the [noun] ['s] " in BNC.

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1 Tim stood there like a schoolboy waiting to be dismissed from the headmaster 's study .
2 No experienced player will be dismissed from the coach 's thoughts prior to Portugal , either , including Manchester United 's Brian McClair .
3 During initial exchanges , delegates agreed that at least 1 million barrels per day ( bpd ) needed to be lopped from the cartel 's total production of more than 25 million bpd to avoid an oil glut during the second quarter of the year , when demand generally slumps with the onset of warmer weather in the northern hemisphere .
4 Two companies were to be formed from the CEGB 's generating activities .
5 Pupils are empty vessels waiting to be filled from the teacher 's stock of expert knowledge .
6 File-based links can also be developed from the Library 's taxonomic indexes to the plant records system .
7 Variable costs of products [ to the nearest £ ] : Contribution of product Range : It can be seen in the above table that Product A makes a positive contribution of £8,000 and therefore should not be dropped from the company 's produ
8 Clearly , the extent to which the offeror and its financial advisers can satisfy themselves on such matters before the announcement depends on the co-operation which can be expected from the target 's board .
9 Instead steps have been taken to ensure that the classes and their rights can be ascertained from the company 's public documents .
10 It was further stated that such an assessment was ‘ first and foremost ’ a matter for the Council , and that the obligation to abolish restrictions on movements of capital could not be separated from the Council 's assessment of the need to liberalize the category of transactions in question .
11 The Divisional Court of the Queen 's Bench Division , which exercises a supervisory capacity over the inferior courts and sits as a court to which an appeal ‘ by way of case stated ’ may be made from the Magistrates ' Court , is bound by the House of Lords , the Court of Appeal and its own previous decisions .
12 There was , Branson reasoned , more money to be made from the group 's longevity .
13 The policing of CND rallies and the miners ' strike could hardly be said from the Government 's point of view to have failed , and certainly the police did not suffer for want of legal powers .
14 But he was stable enough to be transferred from the town 's general hospital to the specialist Walton centre for neurology and neurosurgery in Liverpool , where he remains on a ventilator .
15 Eggs need to be collected from the woman 's ovary .
16 Carlo is the ninth horse to be saved from the knacker 's yard since Horse Aid , Care and Knowledge was set up .
17 Carlo is the ninth horse to be saved from the knacker 's yard since Clwyd-based Horse Aid , Care and Knowledge was set up .
18 Nor did he introduce himself to Ellen or Thessy , but instead looked warily up into the rigging as though he expected to be ambushed from the foremast 's crosstrees .
19 ‘ In almost all cases the costs of fire damage have to be met from the authority 's own contingency funds . ’
20 Winter corn must not be sown in the same land which produced it , but should be brought from distant parts to ensure a better crop , but lent corn may be sown from the lord 's own seed .
21 Database files can be copied from the user 's main computer system to the GRiDPad — a process which is slow currently , but will get faster — and updated in the field .
22 Current within Croydon was to be supplied from the Corporation 's own power station in Factory Lane off Mitcham Road .
23 Posters for sale could be produced from the Library 's resource of illustrations , and from other sources .
24 That remuneration is part of the budget to be raised from the bureau 's ‘ Sponsor ’ ( as Niskanen named the legislative authority that makes appropriations to the bureaucracy ) .
25 As early as 1488–89 , an Act dealing with the Isle of Wight declared that it had been made desolate by being turned into pasture , and that it could not long be defended from the King 's enemies .
26 The law requires that an adult patient who is mentally and physically capable of exercising a choice must consent if medical treatment of him is to be lawful , although the consent need not be in writing and may sometimes be inferred from the patient 's conduct in the context of the surrounding circumstances .
27 Just like Windsor , volunteers formed a human chain to rescue nearly 200,000 precious items — in this case , books and manuscripts that had to be protected from the firemen 's hoses as well as the flames .
28 Without the crosspiece the considerable force of a horse charge would mean that the weapon might be impossible to reclaim or be pulled from the rider 's control after striking .
29 It is not the same sort of task as that of the natural scientist in search of hidden causes , because the context of action can not be divorced from the actors ' understanding of the context .
30 But the fact that God has given principles and priorities helps us to cut through this veil of emotional haze with certainty that can only be attained from the Master 's plan .
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