Example sentences of "been [adv] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hamdi Ali Abdel-Wahab al-Banbi , hitherto chairman of the Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation ( EGPC ) , took over as Petroleum and Mineral Resources Minister from the long-serving Abdul Hadi Mohammed Qandil , whose dismissal had been widely predicted following criticism from foreign companies that he paid too little attention to exploration and production . |
| 2 | A practical system of colour photography had been eagerly searched for right from the beginning . |
| 3 | A practical system of colour photography had been eagerly searched for right from the beginning . |
| 4 | But would n't cricket have been better served by frankness from the outset and an early investigation of suspicions concerning Pakistan ? |
| 5 | ‘ Since neither the Canadian or the British governments are in a position to produce the element ‘ 49 ’ ( code name for plutonium ) or ‘ 25 ’ ( code name for uranium-235 ) our interchange has been correspondingly restricted by order from the top . ’ |
| 6 | The ban on party politics at local government level had been partially lifted with effect from May 21 , and was completely lifted on June 3 . |