Example sentences of "been [vb pp] from [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cognitive behaviour is not reducible to simple sequences of contingencies of reinforcement but instead reflects goal-seeking activities , hypothesis making and many other features which had hitherto been dismissed from consideration within the Anglo-American tradition in psychology . |
| 2 | The excess has been altered from 2% of the building value of 1% where accidental damage cover is included to a fixed sum of £1,000 each and every claim . |
| 3 | Estonia , Latvia and Lithuania had been conquered from Sweden in the eighteenth century and incorporated as ‘ Baltic provinces ’ into the Russian Empire in the early nineteenth century , although a German landowning and commercial class retained substantial influence . |
| 4 | Brian Harris , director of the Institute 's Professional Conduct Department , confirmed that complaints had been received from clients of the firm , but refused to comment further . |
| 5 | Analysis of the radioactivity within the seaweed indicates that it had been discharged from Sellafield within the past 12 months or so . |
| 6 | As might be expected , the permeability of these breccias is very good and high flow rates of up to 10,000 b/d have been reported from wells in the Argyll field ( Pennington 1975 ) . |
| 7 | The Church in Abyssinia had been rescued from extinction with the help of the Portuguese : without their intervention the Abyssinians might well have been absorbed into the adjacent Muslim world . |
| 8 | Iraqi government sources claimed on July 16 that 1,200 Arab citizens had been deported from Kuwait over the previous 24 hours [ see pp. 38118 ; 38166 ; 38309 ] . |
| 9 | Copies seem to have been made from casts of the original , with the help of a pointing machine which allowed certain basic measurements to be reproduced mechanically . |
| 10 | This is believed to be the first time that such a report has been made from Scotland through the Scottish Office to Europe under the EC nitrates directive and Mr Buchan , vice chairman of the River Board said there were far reaching implications . |
| 11 | This assumption is based on the figure of 53 Roman miles , quoted on the Middleton milestone as having been measured from Carlisle as the caput viae , and backed by the name of the civitas given on both the Brougham milestone and the tombstone of Flavius Martius from Old Penrith ( see below p. 58 ) . |
| 12 | Filming began in March 1990 , since when a total of 175,301 frames have been produced from items in the Library 's collections . |
| 13 | Hephaestus was crippled and ugly , having had the temerity to interfere in a quarrel between his tempestuous parents , and been flung from Olympus to the Island of Lemnos below for his pains . |
| 14 | By the time HMS Beagle reached her final port , Charles Darwin had been elevated from obscurity to the status of reputed naturalist . |
| 15 | How these effects have been unravelled from measurements of the arrival times of the pulsar pulses is recounted in Section 8.6 . |
| 16 | Bosch , who had moderated his left-wing image to present himself as the defender of the small and medium businessman in the face of state bureaucracy and corruption , still retained the appeal of the reformer who had been ousted from office by the military in 1963 and by the invasion of US troops in 1965 . |
| 17 | Garbo , Garland , Gardner , Garson and Gable were there — and that was just the Gs — but the old grey Mayer was n't what he used to be , and he had been ousted from MGM by the time Nicholson arrived as a messenger boy . |
| 18 | The ruling royal family have been embezzling oil revenues and have been ousted from power by the Safran Peoples ' Liberation Party . |
| 19 | proposals have been invited from consultants for the Speed Enforcement Planning Project |
| 20 | In all , some £24 billion had been raised from sales by the end of 1988 . |
| 21 | This in turn made it possible to consider changes in language behaviour which occurred during childhood as products of the same mechanisms which had been documented in respect of other kinds of behaviour ; verbal behaviour was to be understood in terms of the same learning principles which had been derived from studies of the behaviour of rats , pigeons and monkeys . |
| 22 | In Anglo-Saxon times portions of the Bible had been translated from Latin into the vernacular . |
| 23 | ‘ One must accept ’ , Morton said carefully , ‘ that it would be unlikely the body had been brought from south of the river , because of the danger of being caught on a bridge . |
| 24 | There is a cross in the churchyard which is said to have been brought from Kilham at the time of the plague which decimated that village . |
| 25 | ( The shipping fares from Southampton to Singapore , which catered to a higher class of trade , had merely been reduced from £110 in the 1850s to £68 in the 1880s . |
| 26 | Soglo emerged victorious in the second round of voting on March 24 , the first time in mainland Africa that a head of state had been removed from power through the ballot box . |
| 27 | Elected FRS on 19 November 1772 , Jackson contributed a paper to the Philosophical Transactions for 1773 , stressing that over forty tons of isinglass had been processed from fish in the Great Lakes resembling those imported expensively from Russia . |
| 28 | Several prominent firms engaged in genetic manipulation for the agricultural and food industries have been excluded from participation in the venture . |
| 29 | Ninety-four of these theses had not been borrowed from BLDSC in the two-year period ( 66% ) . |
| 30 | If German experience is anything to go by , initial public wariness will be replaced by warm approval , as residents come to appreciate the manifest advantages of living in a residential area that has been reclaimed from domination by the car . |