Example sentences of "been [verb] from a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Cowan said Lady Kennedy 's promiscuous behaviour was ‘ not unusual for her ’ and she had once been sacked from a job for ‘ obscene behaviour ’ . |
| 2 | A Bloke 's been sacked from a job for having a tattoo of Betty Boop. so it says . |
| 3 | These have mostly been calculated from the speed and force needed to embed swords in wooden hulled ships and boats ; a speed of 57.6 miles per hour ( 92.7 kilometres per hour ) has been calculated from a penetration of 22 inches . |
| 4 | An offer should only be announced once an irrevocable commitment to provide the necessary funds has been received from a person upon whom reliance can reasonably be placed at that time ( see Panel Notice 1991/4 of 1 May 1991 in relation to Luirc Corp and Merlin International Properties Ltd ) . |
| 5 | Hilda Lodge , in her new capacity of Chairman , welcomed everyone and said that apologies had been received from a number of teachers which had resulted in a smaller than usual attendance . |
| 6 | A new board has been installed from a list of candidates selected by an independent panel . |
| 7 | Such " coral bleaching " has been reported from a range of tropical locations in the past two years [ see EDs passim ] . |
| 8 | The problem has been approached from a number of different fields of research , and a large number of different theories have been proposed . |
| 9 | Co-occurrence data has been used by the present project ; the data having been collected from a number of corpora rather than LDOCE . |
| 10 | A spokesman for the organising committee has confirmed to Sunday Life that a serious approach has been made from a entrepreneur in St Helier . |
| 11 | It was said to have been made from a nail of the True Cross with ornamentation of gold enamel and jewels . |
| 12 | In 1155 Barbarossa was crowned with the famous Iron Crown of Lombardy , said to have been made from a nail of the True Cross . |
| 13 | Much of the remaining capital has been secured from a group of what AAC describes as ‘ high net worth ’ Saudi Arabian businessmen . |
| 14 | The various Lives had been written from a variety of standpoints , but he observed that the best of them had been inspired with hate — hate , not of Jesus , but of the ‘ Christ of dogma ’ . |
| 15 | They had been selected from a pile of ‘ sets ’ which the Second Son had gleaned from the finest merchants in Abu Dhabi and brought to the Sheikha . |
| 16 | Erm , er , the funding for that project which I understand has a total cost in excess of a hundred and sixty thousand pounds , has been met from a variety of sources , er , primarily local , but with a contribution from the County Council through the Leisure Services Committee , and also through the Resources Management sub-committee , and in a , indirect sense , in that the , the , the land transferred to the County Council from the District Council for a particular sum , when the project did n't go ahead , the land went back to the District , and had appreciated in value in the intervening time . |
| 17 | English Nature , the government 's wildlife adviser , expects to recommend at least 20 sites for SPA protection in 1993/94. * Slapton Ley , a coastal freshwater lake in south Devon , has been upgraded from a site of special scientific interest to a national nature reserve . |
| 18 | Confirmatory techniques exist to assess how likely a difference of proportions of a given magnitude is to arise in sample data when it has been drawn from a population in which no such difference exists . |
| 19 | The embryo has been transformed from a sphere into a torus ; from a bun into a doughnut . |
| 20 | The cake had been bought from a shop in Kensington , Liverpool , the city 's magistrates court was told . |
| 21 | The POU domain proteins are a family of structurally related transacting factors which have been isolated from a variety of organisms ( 1 , 2 ) . |
| 22 | POU domain genes have been isolated from a variety of organisms and show diverse patterns of expression ( 9-15 ) . |
| 23 | Exemptions have been raised from a base of £10,000 to £45,000 . |
| 24 | On the other hand Galadriel has been expelled from a kind of Heaven , the Deathless land of Valinor , and has been forbidden to return . |
| 25 | JEWELLERY and crystal glass , together valued at £2,500 , have been stolen from a property at Beechwood Road , Alton . |
| 26 | A Leyland skip loader worth £20,000 has been stolen from a compound on the Faverdale Industrial Estate , Darlington . |
| 27 | A Kew high pressure car wash machine worth £500 has been stolen from a compound in Chesnut Street , Darlington . |
| 28 | A red £10,000 Chieftain mini excavator with 12G printed on the side has been stolen from a compound in Haughton Road , Darlington . |
| 29 | A red £10,000 Chieftain mini excavator with 12G printed on the side has been stolen from a compound in Haughton Road , Darlington . |
| 30 | Two stone urns worth £500 have been stolen from a house in Coniscliffe Road , Darlington . |