Example sentences of "were [vb pp] from [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | All cars of this batch were withdrawn from service with the reorganization of services in the summer of 1927 . |
| 2 | Except in Catalonia , the lower ranges of the legal profession were despised — in the Basque Provinces lawyers were debarred from participation in the local assemblies . |
| 3 | The ‘ Vyborg Manifesto ’ elicited little response and those who took part were debarred from election to the next Duma . |
| 4 | His two children , aged 18 months and seven months , were sleeping eight feet from the explosion , but were saved from injury by the bomb-proofing and reinforced glass that all VIPs in the province get in their homes . |
| 5 | The first such coins were made from electrum from the rivers that flowed down from the Troilus Mountains , but advantage was soon taken of the different status in the traditional value system of the gold and silver components to separate them and use them for different denominations . |
| 6 | Therefore , in the case of capital expenditure out of reserves , the revenue effect is recorded only when the contributions were made from revenue into the reserve accounts . |
| 7 | The long shells of the hulls were wiped from view by the heave of the sea , so that the prow platforms and tents of the poop could no longer be seen , and only the pennanted masts told where they were , until they rode into view once more , in a steam of spume from the bite of the oars . |
| 8 | Both corn and cattle were exported from Britain under the Romans , which shows how successful their way of farming became . |
| 9 | Samples were drawn from areas of the county : Melton Mowbray , Coalville , Buttersworth and Market Harborough . |
| 10 | The Mass of Thanksgiving was celebrated by Father McCarten with Father Austin Roddy and Father Gerard Corcoran , ( who were ordained from Ushaw in the same year ) together with priests from the Lancaster Diocese . |
| 11 | However , after the reformists were ousted from power during the mid-1989 " turmoil " , the Commission lost much of its authority . |
| 12 | The excavation also produced an unusual number of ox-goads and styli and all this may indicate the use of the establishment as a place where animals were brought from farms on the estate and prepared for market . |
| 13 | Based on papers submitted for review in camera , Judge Platt felt the government might have a valid claim that the subpoenaed documents were protected from discovery by the state secrets privilege , but counsel for the government seemed unwilling to accept the suggestion . |
| 14 | One advantage to the S.M.E.T. of becoming a member of the UndergrounD Group , was that their tram routes were protected from competition from the ‘ GeneraL ’ buses of the L.G.O.C. ( Thomas Tilling had a working agreement with the GeneraL ) . |
| 15 | Ten Canadian river otters were shipped from Canada to the UK , due to unsuitable crates only two survived . |
| 16 | But though their name lives on in the region of Tuscany , the Etruscans actually survived for only a short period ; they were expelled from Rome by the Latins and then defeated at the battle of Aricia in 506BC . |
| 17 | In 1670 Wigston contained 161 households , including forty-seven that were exempted from payment of the hearth tax on the grounds of poverty . |
| 18 | Only 16·5 per cent of the inhabitants of Pimhill Hundred were exempted from payment of the hearth tax in 1672 , and though many cottagers remained near the poverty line all their lives others prospered a little and moved up the social scale . |
| 19 | Kadet sympathizers were swept from office in the zemstvo elections of 1906 , and even the more moderate Octobrist party , dedicated to cautious co-operation with the government on the basis of the Fundamental Laws , found growing difficulty in resisting the rightward shift of rank-and-file noblemen . |
| 20 | It is uncertain whether these small shorthorns were simply the result of a gradual diminution in size of the earlier British cattle , possibly from a combination of selection and lack of nutrition , or were imported from Europe in the Bronze Age . |
| 21 | Of the 330 patients , 144 were excluded from analysis for the following reasons : asthma present , but referred for endoscopy because of gastrointestinal symptoms ( 56 ) ; chronic obstructive airways disease present rather than asthma ( 18 ) ; no asthma present ( 58 ) ; and declined offer to have endoscopy ( 12 ) . |
| 22 | Four clutches where we suspected that hosts had ejected cuckoo eggs before we detected them ( as judged by the damage of host eggs ) were excluded from calculations of the number of cuckoo eggs per nest . |
| 23 | It was symptomatic that when the judges were excluded from membership of the area consultative committees in the formative stages by a ruling by Lane , that it was the Circuit or courts administrators from the Lord Chancellor 's Department who were identified as being best placed to act as chairmen , rather than Home Office officials who were unable to draw on any existing regional organization . |
| 24 | LIBERALDemocrat candidate Ian Cameron asked the police to intervene after a number of boards promoting his campaign were removed from land in the outlying village of Elwick . |
| 25 | Yanto and Molly followed them with their eyes until they were lost from view among the trees . |
| 26 | ‘ No , they were sent from Turin via the agent in the village here . |
| 27 | The bulk of the Prussian peasants were released from service in the years 1811–50 . |
| 28 | The original interview notes were subsequently found to be missing and the two officers were suspended from duty pending the outcome of the investigation . |
| 29 | The leading members of the Comintern Affiliation Committee , who eventually went to Moscow in 1935 , were suspended from membership of the ILP . |
| 30 | Amateurs all , this also meant that the Springboks were chosen from dorps in the Boland and the Border as well as from the cities of the Transvaal and Northern Transvaal . |