Example sentences of "been [vb pp] from [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | ( This effect could have been calculated from the marginals of figure 13.5 , and can be called a marginal relationship . ) |
2 | Large , brightly coloured and apparently celebratory , they have been developed from the découpages of Matisse , but are , on closer inspection , altogether less tasteful , with their short , smutty messages lifted from the scribble of a toilet door . |
3 | He explained that the item had been omitted from the minutes as the result of an error and he subsequently circulated an addendum in the form of a brief note of the discussion . |
4 | In so far as the interview is a critique of Thatcherism — and that is not as far as might have been supposed from the headlines in yesterday 's papers — it is misplaced . |
5 | We may be pardoned for reproducing a part of the opinion of The American Annals of the Deaf of this quarter on the subject : " The retention of the word " Dumb " — which in America has been dropped from the titles of the Convention of Instructors , The National Association , and several State Associations of the Deaf , and many schools , as well as from the United States Census — is probably due to a vote to that effect by the conference held in London last January ; but as our British friends who constitute the Association seem to favour American precedents , we trust that on further consideration they will follow our example in this respect alone , and omit the objectionable word from their title " . |
6 | The variables of DP are free because the constraints of TRP are equalities and reflects the fact that the i = 1 equation of ( 8.1 ) has been dropped from the constraints of TRP . |
7 | It had rained heavily during the night — a sudden downpour which had filled the gutters and drains which supplied the city 's water catchment system — so that when dawn broke it could be seen that many of the drapes and festoons over archways and down the faces of stands and platforms had been torn from the frames by the weight of the water which had soaked them . |
8 | By the outbreak of the war the State had reorganised the railways into four companies where there had been 130 before ; nationally owned corporations had been created in broadcasting and air passenger transport ; a national grid for electricity supply had been created and a national supply industry organised ; agriculture had been rescued from the doldrums by regulation of its prices and quota systems ; while encouragement had been given to sometimes savage reductions of capacity in shipbuilding , textiles and mining . |
9 | Callinicos ' Marxism has been repelled from the ramparts of pluralism for being … well , Marxist . |
10 | It was as if a great burden had been lifted from the shoulders of the people . |
11 | After noting that , in Owen 's expectation , passive resistance — that is , the ‘ sacred holiday month ’ or , in modern parlance , a general strike — would bring his new order of society painlessly into being , they next regret the persistence of the idea that Trade Unions , as Associations of Producers , should recover control of the instruments of production , an idea which they call ‘ Joint Stock Individualism ’ and which , they note , has scarcely been eradicated from the minds of the idealists of the trade union movement . |
12 | It had originally been built from the proceeds of the sale of indulgences and originally had on it a chapel to St. Anne . |
13 | By autumn 1986 responsibility for criminal prosecutions will have been transferred from the police to a new Crown Prosecution Service staffed by lawyers under the control of the Director of Public Prosecutions . |
14 | No documentation relating to the changes has been produced , and no guidance on their potential effects appears to have been sought from the designers of the system . |
15 | The terms ‘ pre-service ’ and ‘ in-service ’ have been commonly used ; they are , in fact , misnomers , for a substantial proportion of entrants to ‘ pre-service ’ training have always been drawn from the ranks of those untrained teachers who perform such an important and unrecognised job in African primary schools . |
16 | Gonzalez , who had been ejected from the premises after an argument involving a former girlfriend , was alleged to have deliberately caused the fire by igniting gasoline within the club . |
17 | as if the office , its panelled walls and rich dark furnishings had been preserved from the rigours of time . |
18 | All the teeth that have been extracted from the pellets of these two species have been digested , and so the proportion is probably close to 100 per cent . |
19 | Those poor children in the Cairngorms had just been recovered from the clutches of what can only be described as moronic supervisors . |
20 | Women pledged not to use feathers for decoration , and when the Society for the Protection of Birds was first founded in Britain , men were excluded — just as women had been excluded from the ranks of many scientific societies . |
21 | He had been excluded from the interviews with Hess on the German 's insistence , but said Hamilton had confirmed that the Horn nonsense had been immediately dropped . |
22 | They felt that through joining the movement they had been liberated from the ills of modern society and that they were at last free to make the world a better place and themselves better people . |
23 | A couple who run a private nursing home have been barred from the premises after allegations that they stole from residents . |
24 | It decided to take no part on the footing that sufficient documents for prosecution purposes had already been obtained from the defendants by the Crown Prosecuting Service . |
25 | The judge ruled that the whole operation including the obtaining of fingerprints on the receipts had to be considered as a whole , and , since the evidence at the shop had admittedly been obtained from the appellants by a trick after the offences charged had been committed , he had a discretion at common law to exclude the challenged evidence if its admission would prejudice a fair trial . |
26 | In the present case the judge decided that , since the evidence from Stardust Jewellers had admittedly been obtained from the appellants by a trick and after the offences charged had been committed , he had a discretion to exclude the evidence if its admission would prejudice a fair trial . |
27 | Mr Punch , for example , had already invented the spiked steel collar and the other improbable trappings of his anti-garotting campaign ; and even the solemn judgements of The Times ( 10 November 1856 ) had been tempted from the paths of seriousness : |
28 | Deflections consistent with EADs have in fact been recorded from the hearts of patients with idiopathic LQTS and their amplitude was increased by adrenaline administration . |
29 | North Africa had been reconquered from the Vandals in the 530s , but was never to become securely integrated into the Byzantine empire . |
30 | But even diaries of terror , such as have been published from the records of survivors or victims of totalitarian regimes , were rarely written simply for the author to look back on in years to come — for European Jews there was rarely much hope of any future . |