Example sentences of "been [verb] from [v-ing] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He ought to have been stopped from buying the paper in the first place , ’ he said . |
| 2 | No news had been received from regarding the membership application from . |
| 3 | A student who has been debarred from taking an examination or whose studies have been discontinued by decision of the Senate may ask for his case to be reviewed . |
| 4 | The Anglian Water Authority , which said it had been constrained from discussing the problems because it might affect the price of shares during privatisation , refused last night to attend a meeting of local people worried about the problem . |
| 5 | It was further revealed that after their arrest the Clarkes had been prevented from seeing a lawyer for two days . |
| 6 | Under the clampdown all Palestinians , including 50,000 day workers employed in Israel , had been prevented from leaving the Strip for 14 days , the longest quarantine period since the 40-day closure of the Israeli-occupied territories during the Gulf war in early 1991 . |
| 7 | On June 25 they had been prevented from visiting a site at Abu Gharaib , near Baghdad , and on June 27 the UN Security Council ordered Iraq to disclose the whereabouts of nuclear bomb-making equipment after viewing US reconnaissance photographs which suggested that nuclear-related material had been removed from the research site of Tuwaitha to Abu Gharaib . |
| 8 | Peres later told reporters that the Cabinet had been prevented from making a decision on the peace process and that this had " stopped the peace process itself " . |
| 9 | He notes the erroneous conclusions which have been drawn from comparing the functioning of the Kenyan Industrial Court with apparently functionally similar wage-regulating institutions in New Zealand and Australia , in the absence of any consideration of the vast differences in the nature and basis of trade union power as between African countries and industrialised economies . |
| 10 | Mrs. Hamblin would have been precluded from denying the trader 's authority to sell the car . |
| 11 | By increasing the bureaucratic hurdles , some wives would have been deterred from pursuing the matter . |
| 12 | Teesside Development Corporation , which has planning powers over the site , said it had considered doing something with the site but had been deterred from making a bid because of site access problems . |
| 13 | Hayling had been excluded from becoming a Founder first because of his job policing the project for the GLC grant , and then because he was working for the company . |
| 14 | This omnivorous man has been kept from sampling every policy dish on the table only because he has chosen two , deficit-reduction and health-care reform , whose size has slowed him down . |
| 15 | A couple who run a private nursing home have been barred from entering the premises while police investigate allegations that they stole from elderly residents . |
| 16 | Waldheim , who had been barred from entering the USA [ see p. 35528 ] and shunned by European governments , had announced in June 1991 that he would not stand for a second term [ see p. 38298 ] . |
| 17 | Certain Western journalists had been barred from covering the elections . |
| 18 | All oil and chemical tankers calling at French and Italian ports have been banned from using the strait , and the International Maritime Organization has been asked to impose a ban on all tankers using the waterway . |
| 19 | Waldheim , a former UN Secretary-General , had been banned from entering the United States , and during his term as President had only paid visits to various Islamic countries ( including Iraq and Iran — see pp. 37759 ; 38309 ) and to the Vatican . |