Example sentences of "been [vb pp] from [pos pn] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | ICI 's chairmen have traditionally been picked from its cadre of executive directors ( now nine ) . |
| 2 | This is the season of weddings : fortunately for hatters , florists and vicars , and for the enjoyment and happiness of us all , they have been rescued from their decade of unpopularity . |
| 3 | Experiments in which young salmon have been transferred from their stream of birth , to be released in another stream , have been used as evidence that salmon imprint on the smell of their river during a sensitive period just before they migrate downstream . |
| 4 | Moving round the Piazza , the Loggia dei Lanzi has been freed from its casing of scaffolding , the L600 million of government funding having proved sufficient to finish the job . |
| 5 | Doug Jones had at this time , been split from his mates of the Wolverton Company and was on a working party with a group of Queen Victoria Rifles men , detailed to drain some marshes in Poland . |
| 6 | The pun on Spinoza was too good for Coleridge to resist , and the remarkable nose he attributed to Walsh may well have been borrowed from his memories of the innkeeper at the Castle of Comfort , on the road from Stowey to Holford : his nose , which was locally famous , was said to be as big as a fist and ‘ well warted ’ . |
| 7 | The current Metropolitan authorities feel that many of the benefits which have been achieved from their policies of transport integration will be lost . |
| 8 | A preliminary session was held on Dec. 4 , 1989 , of the judicial inquiry into the case of the " Guildford Four " , who had been convicted in 1975 of carrying out the Guildford and Woolwich public house bombings [ see pp. 26870 ; 27739 ] , and in October 1989 had been released from their sentences of life imprisonment [ see p. 36983 ] . |
| 9 | I am glad to confirm that these lessons have been learnt from our consideration of the Gulf conflict . |