Example sentences of "were [vb pp] from [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Short courses , for teachers already in post , were arranged from time to time , though they assumed nothing like the significance that in-service provision was to have later .
2 The voices of churchmen were heard from time to time , perhaps frequently , complaining of the enslavement of Christians , or of the treatment of slaves ; but there was no radical attack on the institution as such .
3 Long drives were undertaken from town to town , even country to country .
4 The likes of Naomi Campbell and Linda Evangelista were clad from head to toe in leather , rubber , latex and PVC .
5 Inspectors , some of them Englishmen , were dismissed from time to time for accepting bribes or for other dubious practices .
6 During a time of harsh military discipline , when drum-head courts , public floggings and hangings were carried out to ‘ encourage the rest ’ , the 93rd were excused from attendance at show-piece parades ; because not a single member of their regiment was ever punished .
7 In some parts of the country , ploughs , decorated with coloured ribbons , were carried from house to house and then a mumming play was performed .
8 Police released a list of survivors : Henry Wyllie , 20 , Helen Lawrie , 48 , and Paula Gaunt , 28 , were discharged from hospital after treatment ; Dawn Howbridge , 19 , and Martin Baptie , 19 , were said to be satisfactory in hospital .
9 The remaining 119 ( 84% ) patients were discharged from hospital after treatment .
10 Of the original cohort of 33 , six of 14 patients with moderate hepatic dysfunction were discharged from hospital after transplantation , and four remained alive and well at long term follow up ( three also had moderate renal dysfunction ) .
11 Of the six patients who underwent intra-aortic balloon counterpulsation and were discharged from hospital after transplantation two are alive , the four others having died at 10 weeks , 31 , 42 , and 61 months .
12 The princes were seen from time to time when , with a strong guard , they rode through the streets of the City .
13 Heavy reclamation walls were built from time to time as the docks were extended seawards and today , the dock estate lies entirely on land reclaimed from the foreshore .
14 A number of reconstructions were made from time to time , especially under Julius Caesar and Augustus .
15 ‘ All normal programmes were cancelled and brief announcements were made from time to time , interspersed with solemn music , ’ recalls Jean Williams , of Noel 's Court , Catterick Village .
16 In this area , however , during the Quaternary they were invaded from time to time by thick wedges of debris flows .
17 At the Second Son 's ‘ engagement party ’ , the gifts were handed from mother to mother with complete joy and satisfaction .
18 Policemen of twenty to twenty-five years ' service were harassed from pillar to post in the hunt for improved returns of charges and summonses .
19 Every feeling of humanity reverted from it and it would scarce be believed , in that age and kingdom of philanthropy , that such cruelties were exercised from man to man even for the mean , the paltry sum of eighteen pence .
20 Shifts of labour were therefore organised , and these tall fortress-like structures were lit from top to bottom at night , and presented something new and dramatic to those who had the leisure to stay outside and contemplate it with detachment .
21 The MIR 8 helicopters were hired from Aeroflot with Aeroflot pilots .
22 Even so their contribution to the mechanisms whereby the new images were translated from theory to practice needs to be recognized .
23 Plagues were experienced from time to time , particularly where people were crowded together in places like London , which suffered the Great Plague in 1665 , followed by the Great Fire in 1666 , which the Roman Catholics on the Continent declared was a punishment for the beheading of King Charles I. In the event , the Great Fire enabled King Charles II , who took control in September 1666 , to arrange the clearance of the fire devastated area and to rebuild the City of London with Christopher Wren in charge of the plan , so that the mass of narrow streets were replaced , to a great extent , by wider , straighter roads , with some magnificent building , including St. Paul 's Cathedral .
24 TWO lorry drivers were stung from head to foot by thousands of angry bees yesterday .
25 Both wore silver chaplets and were clothed from head to toe in robes of gold .
26 For example , Hungary , Poland and Romania were inserted into the upper-middle-income group , where their apparent per capita income scores would locate them in any case , whereas Angola , Cuba and North Korea were transplanted from lower-middle-income to nonreporting nonmembers .
27 Regular Army units were despatched from Turkmenia to help restore order .
28 And some of the people who had motives were excluded from suspicion by lack of opportunity .
29 Following the Restoration he was considered sufficiently dangerous and obnoxious to be listed as one of the twenty non-regicides whose property was to be forfeit and who were excluded from office in perpetuity .
30 Manuscripts of his treatise The Ladder of Perfection were passed from monastery to monastery and were soon found as far afield as southern France .
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