Example sentences of "had been [verb] from the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A letter sent to shareholders by the club 's legal adviser , Gordon Marshall , makes it clear that during the action a number of concessions had been obtained from the Deans family . |
| 2 | Published eventually in five volumes on fossil mammalia , mammalia , birds , fish , and reptiles , respectively , the Zoology , openly claimed for science some of the many new species that had been named from the Beagle 's collection . |
| 3 | A cheque for £400 had been received from the Radcliffe Trustees , Mr Park had collected £389 of the £521 from ratepayers , but on 18 December 1896 , it was reported that a further debit of £21 6s 6d had been received from the Locomotive Department , increasing the total to £2,935 10s 7d , and none of the ratepayers who owed the uncollected £132 were property owners , so there was little or no hope of collecting it ; that was written off . |
| 4 | In thanking Sir Thomas Kennedy for his address , the Chairman of Conference announced that the cheque for £50,000 had been received from the RAF Benevolent Fund . |
| 5 | Since Pike 's behaviour at the last seance , he had been banished from the Quigley presence . |
| 6 | Like Rey and others , he had been dismissed from the Paris Conservatoire in 1802 after various disagreements . |
| 7 | Shildon , he explained , had been dismissed from the Detroit paper towards the end of a long and exhaustive investigation which , if the results had been published , could have had serious repercussions for MacQuillan 's political associates . |
| 8 | Ingraham , a former protegé of Pindling , had been dismissed from the PLP and the Cabinet in 1984 because he had recommended the dismissal of officials who were publicly linked to drugs trafficking [ see pp. 33401-02 ] . |
| 9 | A report on ( Hekmatyar 's ) Radio Message of Freedom on Sept. 24 said that former President Najibullah had been moved from the UN offices in Kabul ( where he fled at the outset of the fall of his regime ) to Mazar-i-Sharif " where he now lives under the intimidation and torture of leaders of the unholy coalition of the north " . |
| 10 | He had been retired from the Wallingford Maltings since 1987 . |
| 11 | A short note from a spy in Paris : Eudo Tailler 's head had been fished from the Seine where it had been thrown in a sack . |
| 12 | As soon as it had been fired from the Simonova the pod would have started to broadcast a signal and , since the crew of the survey ship could not fail to be aware that a pod had been discharged , and that it was occupied , he supposed that his descent had been tracked and that someone at least knew where he was to be found . |
| 13 | The Tatars had been deported from the Crimea to Central Asia under Stalin . |
| 14 | The gun had been taken from the RUC officer in Dundonald in 1988 . |
| 15 | All 261 US Peace Corps volunteers had been evacuated from the Philippines in June after one of their number , Timothy Swanson , was kidnapped by the NPA on the island of Negros on June 13 . |
| 16 | It had been hijacked from the Glen Road area and was later found abandoned in the same area . |
| 17 | An explanation had been demanded from the Transkei government before Pretoria proceeded with the next stages of its plan to neutralise APLA . |
| 18 | On June 24 a group of seven reformers — including Damanaki , who had resisted Papariga 's decision to withdraw from the Alliance — had been suspended from the KKE 's central committee . |
| 19 | He said investigations showed Mr Still was the holder of a provisional licence , there was no test certificate or insurance and the vehicle had been stolen from the Sunderland area . |
| 20 | The car had been stolen from the Weston Favell shopping centre in Northampton . |
| 21 | When we wrote the editorial it was true that most , but not all , of the evidence of opportunism had been reported from the United States . |
| 22 | Most recently , in July 1991 , two fine Balthasar Denner heads of ‘ Old Women ’ were withdrawn from sale in London when it was learned that they had been looted from the Dresden Museum . |
| 23 | The third import was Heatherglen Danni , who was sired by Chesara Dark Boris ( who had been imported from the UK into Australia ) out of Heatherglen Ina . |
| 24 | The fourth import , Heatherglen Lucette , was sired by Korobeit Hud , out of Chesara Dark Wishful , who had been imported from the UK . |
| 25 | But what is equally incredible is that the inhabitants of Seascale had been suffering from the Windscale piles for several years before the fire . |
| 26 | No group claimed responsibility , but PLO officials said that Zayd had come to Tunis in October 1989 among a group of defectors from the Revolutionary Council of Fatah led by Sabri al-Banna ( Abu Nidal ) , who had been expelled from the PLO in 1974 . |
| 27 | Martin Lee , a leading member of Hong Kong 's " liberal lobby " who had been expelled from the BLDC in October 1989 [ see p. 36974 ] , condemned the draft and accused the UK government of conducting a " policy of appeasement " . |
| 28 | Voice of Vietnam radio announced on March 12 that Bui Tin had been expelled from the CPV and dismissed from his post as deputy editor-in-chief of the party daily Nhan Dan . |
| 29 | The body of Paul Gray had been removed from the Dean 's compost heap . |
| 30 | Prior to the Ministry 's ultimatum , Bennett had been removed from the Atlantic Ferry and was replaced , oddly enough , by the Air Chief-Marshal who had resisted the actual formation of the Atlantic Ferry as " suicidal " . |