Example sentences of "been [verb] from a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For his part , Gould has voiced a degree of scepticism about Europe that has not been heard from a Labour frontbencher for many a long year , and has rescued ‘ devaluation ’ from the party 's dictionary of forbidden words . |
| 2 | The research vessel Scotia has been diverted from a scheduled cruise to collect extra samples in the area — the Fladen Ground , south east of Fair Isle . |
| 3 | The small pipe has been formed from a flat sheet of bronze , the seam incorporates a plain butt joint , and there is a crudely formed inscription : 32TP1 . |
| 4 | It shows that the total cost was to be 11650 and that a Grant of £300 had been received from a private Debt Extinction Fund subscribed by a few individuals to assist poor congregations . |
| 5 | Indeed on the nineteenth of January the Noble Earl Lord told me that of the three hundred and sixty letters which had been received from a wide variety of organisations representing people of totally different political opinions and that following the publication of the White Paper . |
| 6 | Suddenly she was feeling as though she 'd been dropped from a great height . |
| 7 | Police reports alleged that raids on Ershad 's residence after his arrest on Dec. 12 [ see p. 37907 ] had revealed assets in excess of those which could have been expected from a presidential income , as well as large quantities of unlicensed firearms . |
| 8 | Subsequently another volume of poems , several notebooks , and a book of liturgical devotions were discovered ; in 1964 the discovery of a manuscript of Select Meditations was announced ; and in 1982 a large manuscript entitled Commentaries of Heaven , which had been rescued from a burning rubbish tip in south Lancashire about 1967 , was identified as Traherne 's . |
| 9 | Judge Sirica 's doubts were confirmed when McCord admitted in March that the defendants had lied at the trial , that they had received payments of over $200 000 to keep quiet and that this had been done from a high level in the White House . |
| 10 | The celebrity was a monosyllabic professional footballer who had been transferred from a Scottish club to a fashionable one in London . |
| 11 | But her terrifying three-hour ordeal ended when police overpowered Khamton Omvaree , in his thirties — who had just been freed from a 10-year sentence under a royal amnesty . |
| 12 | He ends by dismissing abstract art as leading , by its own logic , back to the blank canvas which once again requires the painter to put something on it : ‘ but with the knowledge that the greatest painting has always been made from a real love of the object ’ . |
| 13 | Secondary wax models may have been made from a durable master model ( Holmqvist 1972 , p. 24 ) . |
| 14 | ( 3 ) When looking at clauses which require compliance with time limits ( eg a time limit for notifying a warranty claim after a defect is discovered in goods supplied under the contract ) the question to ask is whether the time limit has been imposed from a genuine need to protect the other party 's position , or whether it is there to make it difficult , or practically impossible , for the other party to exercise its rights under the clause . |
| 15 | Boxes and boxes of very expensive camera equipment and food supplies had been unloaded from a large helicopter in quiet astonishment by the Norwegian crew before they had abandoned us in a flurry of gravel . |
| 16 | ‘ Piano Song ’ , for instance , includes lines like ‘ My vulnerability rushes up to me ’ and ‘ The deeper I delve into the conciousness of me and you ’ , which sound as though they have been selected from a random computer-search for meaningful phrases in a dictionary of pretension . |
| 17 | He also pointed out that under item 25 Appointment of Auditors , a quotation at a much lower figure had been accepted from a new firm of Auditors . |
| 18 | The base tray is as deep as the corpse is high , the head section having been fashioned from a separate sheet of lead and soldered on to the main body of the shell . |
| 19 | The rioters appear to have been drawn from a broad cross-section of London society : the majority were wage-earners , small craftsmen and tradesmen , although there was an appreciable " white collar " or professional element , and even some gentlemen rioters . |
| 20 | The statement ‘ If rain falls on spruce forests , the rain can become even more acid ’ may have been drawn from a recent paper from the Institute of Terrestrial Ecology that certainly showed that water flowing down the stem was more acid than that caught in the open . |
| 21 | The figures are wildly optimistic , and could only have been extrapolated from a short trial of about 10 operations . |
| 22 | Once such has recently been copied from a well-known initiative in New York whereby the rehabilitation organization guarantees to the employer that an identified job will be done satisfactorily . |
| 23 | A not-so-good euphemism for someone who has tried to do him/herself in by hurling him/herself beneath a moving tube train , or someone who has been jostled from a congested platform on to the track , or some kicky kid indulging in Tube surfing-travelling outside the train and hanging on , and falling off , like John Koporo , age 11 , who in 1987 at Kilburn became the sport 's first victim . |
| 24 | Best , for example , argued that changes had been immense : " In just five years ( the NHS ) has been transformed from a classic example of an administered public sector bureaucracy into one that increasingly is exhibiting the qualities that reflect positive , purposeful management " ( Best 1987 : 4 ) . |
| 25 | In the 12 months since Chanel Plus bought Paris St Germain , the club has been transformed from a financial cripple to a top-of-the-table French First Division outfit where crowds have doubled . |
| 26 | It is a measure of the tension and complexities of our contemporary society that the police have gradually been transformed from a universal corpus of ordinary police officers performing all manner of general duties , including public order maintenance , to one which now in part approaches the quasi-military-order police model of continental Europe and elsewhere . |
| 27 | Since December they have been pouring from a new fissure in Etna , 7,500ft above sea level . |
| 28 | Calculations using this minimum sedimentation rate , and taking an average lamina thickness of 100 micrometres , suggests at least annual deposition of mats , although more than one mat layer may have been deposited from a single mat forming event ( concentrations of up to 4.4m -3 have been reported for Rhizosolenia mats ) . |
| 29 | A year later , in October 1980 , after they had been dislodged from a public vigil in the main square of San Salvador , they occupied the offices of the Ministry of Justice . |
| 30 | However we do n't always acknowledge them in ourselves , perhaps because we have been hurt from a past experience . |