Example sentences of "had been [vb pp] from the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At least , one may take this assumption from the terms which the French emissary Paul Mus , after an arduous journey , presented to Ho in May 1947 and which required what amounted to a conditional surrender ; and in any case now that the Communist Party had been ousted from the French government there was no longer the same effective demand in France for a negotiated settlement . |
| 2 | Most of the coconut palms had been cleared from the twenty-acre site , and the dense vegetation had been cut back to deepen the crescent-shaped beach where the six low-level Mediterranean accommodation blocks were to be built , each housing twenty rooms , varying in size and design but all with huge covered terraces overhanging the beach with uninterrupted sea views . |
| 3 | Cricket had been separated from the real world , taken away from daily life . ’ |
| 4 | By the 14th century there was a mill in the vicinity , then called Slaughter Mill , and by the 18th century , this had been separated from the manorial estate . |
| 5 | Eight observers had been withdrawn from the western town of Dembi-Dolo , reportedly due to the threatening behaviour of OLF fighters . |
| 6 | But more often the allocation of billets reflected social relations and deferential attitudes in rural society , as when , according to one MP , at Inverary in Scotland 150 women and children were housed in a cold hall , with bedding of dirty mattresses and sacks of straw ‘ with a broad arrow on them , that had been obtained from the local jail ’ , while near by the Duke of Argyll 's castle was left uninhabited . |
| 7 | The flow of supplies to Iraqi troops in Kuwait , he said , had been cut from the 20,000 tons per day needed to support them to only 2,000 tons . |
| 8 | Glass-fibre quilt insulation was laid between them and , following the application of roofing felt , new timber roofing battens were fixed to accept the sound slates which had been salvaged from the original construction . |
| 9 | Most of the latter ( except Stopes 's five clinics ) affiliated with the Family Planning Association which had been formed from the National Birth Control Association in 1939 . |
| 10 | The regular freighter from Denmark had docked and along the quayside barges were moored , filled with coconuts and spices which had been transshipped from the large Oriental freighters at the Royal group of docks downriver . |
| 11 | Hut 6 dealt with the recording of intercepts of German army and air force Enigma , and the decoding of them after the key of the day had been determined from the brilliant deductions of the code-breakers . |
| 12 | He said interesting and constructive submissions on franchising had been received from the private sector and these were being examined closely . |
| 13 | In the case of Algeria and Israel it strongly advised the EC Commission to delay disbursement of funds until firm guarantees on respect for human rights had been received from the respective governments . |
| 14 | Correspondence had been received from the green machine and the secretary was asked to write for more information because we were n't convinced with exactly what they were doing . |
| 15 | Nigel Mansell had been disqualified from the Portuguese Grand Prix and his hopes of the championship dashed . |
| 16 | I refer to your invoice dated 16/4/91 informing me that £10.58 had been debited from the above account for ‘ Audit Certificate Fee ’ . |
| 17 | By the late 1980s such excesses had been banished from the best classrooms ; the teachers in my Group all acknowledged the need for a sensible balance in the class-room between the formal and the informal . |
| 18 | All of a sudden they realised they had been tricked from the very beginning . |
| 19 | He had been moved from the Royal Alexandria Hospital , Paisley , to the private Alexandra Nursing Home almost a year earlier having suffered brain damage after a stabbing incident . |
| 20 | Most of the production capacity had been inherited from the nationalized Iraq Petroleum Company ( IPC ) group of companies . |
| 21 | Such developments gradually overcame the popular fear of water in general and of the ocean and drowning in particular which had been inherited from the Middle Ages . |
| 22 | Two post reference numbers had been inherited from the manual system , neither of which proved suitable for reference to individual records on the data base . |
| 23 | I heard on the television yesterday that thirty-five people had been sacked from the interior ministry so that may be an encouraging sign . |
| 24 | Maguire had been acquitted by a Dublin court in February 1990 and Harte had been extradited from the Irish Republic to Northern Ireland in 1988 . |
| 25 | They particularly resented Bush 's breaking his no-new-taxes pledge of the previous year , which alienated many blue-collar voters who had been disengaged from the Democratic party by President Ronald Reagan " s tax cuts . |
| 26 | Here altars would be set up within the charnel and the priest would sing the mass in the company of a silent and skeletal congregation — or bits of them , depending on how much had been retrieved from the disturbed graves . |
| 27 | The worst moment of all , he thought , had been at a quarter to nine that morning , when he had been roused from the bottom depths of heavy , dream-tangled sleep by the door bell , and when , having stumbled across the room , still not knowing where he was or what was happening , he had found Mrs. Mounce at the door , asking if she could do any shopping for them . |
| 28 | Lessons had been learned from the first round of these activities , especially about accountability and communication between the governing body and parents . |
| 29 | According to the Indian Ocean Newsletter of Aug. 31 , supporters of Farah Aydid had been excluded from the 32-member Hawiye-dominated Cabinet which had been confirmed in August . |
| 30 | How would sectarian bitterness have been eroded if the workers had been excluded from the Labour movement ? |