Example sentences of "had been [verb] from [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The wet plaster smell and the white dust on the cobbles underfoot indicated that rubble had been cleared from the yard only a short time before . |
| 2 | The rats had been cleared from the lab when the Leutnant returned with a message for Dr Karnstein . |
| 3 | Dinner had been cleared from the dining room , which looked self-conscious and redundant , as dining rooms do when not in use . |
| 4 | Then in run number six , taken towards the end of January , the ratio hit 3.5 ; a very dramatic outburst of neutrons had been detected from the cell . |
| 5 | By the end of 1990 , £15,000 had been raised from the sale of the prints for the Appeal with more to come when the project is finished . |
| 6 | By the end of 1990 £50,000 had been raised from the sales of the book and donated to the ‘ Reach for the Sky ’ Appeal . |
| 7 | There had been a struggle , buttons had been ripped from the waistcoat , which was open , and a silver pocket watch dangled from its silver chain . |
| 8 | ‘ Wires had been ripped from the wall and deliberately attached to metal furniture in the barricades , ’ he said . |
| 9 | Broken glass and china lay everywhere , littered across the torn remains of the carpet which had been ripped from the stairs . |
| 10 | Once both cylinder banks had been separated from the crankcase , the 12 pistons were drawn from the liners and boiled to free off the rings and gudgeon pins prior to their removal . |
| 11 | There was a rough railway that had been built from the plant to an almost worked-out pit . |
| 12 | The various Lives had been written from a variety of standpoints , but he observed that the best of them had been inspired with hate — hate , not of Jesus , but of the ‘ Christ of dogma ’ . |
| 13 | Gradually , and despite the readiness with which the ranks of the baseej had been filled from the towns and villages , a sense of war-weariness was apparent in Iran ; in 1984 there were even newspaper reports of a loss of the will to fight in the ranks . |
| 14 | Robyn took a sip and wished she had been listening from the beginning . |
| 15 | He had been listening from the doorway ; now he marched into the room and glared at Mr Evans , his eyes hot with anger . |
| 16 | The news agency Interfax reported on Sept. 18 that all KGB officers had been withdrawn from the personnel directorate of the Foreign Ministry as a step to withdrawing KGB personnel from the Foreign Ministry 's central apparatus . |
| 17 | Troops had been withdrawn from the west , but not because the likelihood of attack in that quarter had diminished . |
| 18 | By this point the wealth of the local clothiers had in fact been reduced by more than half , though taxation , while extracting huge sums from the community at large , had taken little more than £1,100 , far less than had been withdrawn from the industry by the Springs . |
| 19 | ‘ It was some of the WIN files that had been withdrawn from the Registry — the dossiers cross-referenced from Mills ’ personnel file . ’ |
| 20 | If this went on much longer , the real Robert Wilson might emerge — that awful , jelly-like creature that he had been hiding from the world for the last twenty-four years . |
| 21 | He challenged the validity of a search warrant which had been obtained from a sheriff , alleging that statements by inquiry officers about a flickering light being seen at a bedroom window were a blatant and malicious fabrication . |
| 22 | The information given to the development officers at this stage was the client 's name , main address , temporary address ( if any ) , date of birth , date of referral to the psychiatric service , date of domiciliary visit by the psychiatrist , diagnosis , score on the researcher 's organic brain syndrome scale , and whether consent for inclusion in the project had been obtained from the client , his or her next of kin , and his or her general practitioner ( or hospital doctor if temporarily in hospital ) . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | This may well have been due to the satisfaction he had been deriving from the composition of East Coker , though he made no mention to me of the new poem . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Mr Punch , for example , had already invented the spiked steel collar and the other improbable trappings of his anti-garotting campaign ; and even the solemn judgements of The Times ( 10 November 1856 ) had been tempted from the paths of seriousness : |
| 27 | Science and technology must surely have progressed in a different way if these principles had been embraced from the start . |
| 28 | He had appointed the Tower Commission , he said , specifically to find out whether money had been generated from the arms sales beyond the ‘ twelve million two ’ , and , if so , who had done it ; but no one had come back with an answer . |
| 29 | He wore his best suit which had been redeemed from the pawnbrokers and was freshly cleaned and pressed . |
| 30 | The final story had been cut from a newspaper gossip column in 1973 . |