Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [noun] from the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Darwin had heard reports from the native Gouchos in Patagonia of a very rare ostrich-like bird , which they called ‘ Avestruz Petise ’ . |
| 2 | At the outbreak of war , the casual wards had been closed by order of the Ministry of Health , and the master reported to the committee that on August 31st 1939 , he had received instructions from the medical officer of health to evacuate , 116 patients and children to other institutions within the county to accommodate the patients evacuated from London hospitals . |
| 3 | The Bolivian Workers ' Centre ( COB ) , the main union confederation , contacted the Spanish news agency EFE on March 9 to report that it had received communiqués from the Bolivarián Military Movement ( MMB ) , a dissident grouping within the military , which claimed that " discontented " elements within the army were willing to follow the example of fellow officers in Venezuela [ for Venezuela coup attempt see pp. 38759-60 ] to stem corruption in the government and the higher echelons of the armed forces . |
| 4 | By the middle of 1967 Syria and Egypt had received arms from the Soviet Union well beyond the extent of their losses in 1967 . |
| 5 | The Channel 7 man claimed he had received clearance from the German Wirtschaftspruferkammer allowing member firms to advertise their services outside Germany ( it is forbidden in Germany ) but that unfortunately he did not have a copy with him . |
| 6 | BRAC was obviously encouraged by the grades given by the programme monitors to the mothers who had received training from the Oral Replacement Workers . |
| 7 | Mr Gilbert said the department had received guidance from the Scottish Office , and had access to guidelines used by other local authorities . |
| 8 | As at 24 March 1993 , the Company had received notifications from the following institutions of interests equal to or in excess of three per cent of the issued ordinary share capital of the Company held for themselves and/or their clients : |
| 9 | The townsmen had secured support from the rural hinterland , and a young knight in the invading force was clubbed to the ground by an English rustic . |
| 10 | Others had curved spines from the heavy stones they carried . |
| 11 | As he set off for the airport Lewis remembered that he had told Adam from the first that only trouble could come from a person of his youth and inexperience inheriting a big house and land of the dimensions of Wyvis Hall . |
| 12 | It would have been better , Lissa thought unhappily , if she had avoided Lynx from the very beginning . |
| 13 | The lengthened car bodies had reduced tyre-life from the normal 100,000 miles to 60,000 miles . |
| 14 | Accusations that one group had stolen ideas from the other were soon flying ; Jones showed notebooks of his investigations going back to 1986 and cited a paper written in 1985 ; for their part Fleischmann and Pons insisted that their effort had begun in 1985 , all of which added to the perception that the fusion claims were important and the patents worth fighting for . |
| 15 | Ten weeks later , the ambulance team that had driven Elinor from the Nice hospital carried her into the château and up to her bedroom . |
| 16 | By the end of August , the majority of republics had declared independence from the Soviet Union . |
| 17 | Moldova had declared independence from the Soviet Union in August 1991 [ see p. 38373 ] . |
| 18 | It also enabled them to show that the same processes had governed history from the earliest time and that a science of history was therefore possible . |
| 19 | When the Civil War broke out in England in the 1640s , it could be taken calmly enough in most of the American colonies because the colonists had no particular desire for changes ; in Maryland the Protestants did want changes , and by 1655 they had taken power from the Catholic minority , though the new government was never completely in control of the situation and Catholics maintained a more satisfactory position than they could have in any other territory under English rule at the time . |
| 20 | Mother Francis had nurtured them behind the scenes , just as she had taken cuttings from the various bushes and plants in the convent garden and made a garden around the stony waste ground , the ugly edge of the cliff where Jack Malone had ended his life . |
| 21 | They also revealed that Lisa was fond of visiting the countryside and coast , and asked property owners to check outbuildings in case she had taken refuge from the bad weather . |
| 22 | What happened next is uncertain , but at some point — either after they had completed their own private count , or after the first vote — the Zuwaya protested to the commission that they were outnumbered by four votes ( 1261 to 1257 ) because the Magharba had infiltrated voters from the outlying districts of Bishr and Marada . |
| 23 | The west German state airline Lufthansa had reportedly presented various purchase plans but had faced opposition from the Federal Cartel Office . |