Example sentences of "has [be] [vb pp] [adv prt] from the " in BNC.

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1 BOSNIAN Serbs yesterday turned back a convoy carrying food and medicine to a Muslim town in eastern Bosnia which has been cut off from the outside world for ten months .
2 ( 8 ) For the purpose of this rule : ( a ) pleadings shall be deemed to be closed 14 days after the delivery of a defence in accordance with Ord 9 , r 2 , or , where a counterclaim is served with the defence , 28 days after the delivery of the defence ; but in an action which has been transferred down from the High Court , pleadings are deemed closed 14 days from transfer .
3 A 35.5 cm high Egyptian quartzite bust of Senbef , a court official in the reign of King Psamtik I , has been sent over from the United States for this two-day sale of Antiquities and is estimated to fetch £600–800,000 ( $1.1–1.5m ) .
4 THE extraordinary thing about Laura Ashley is not that it has been dragged back from the financial brink ; it is that it was ever pushed there in the first place .
5 A detachment represents a body of troops that has been split off from the rest of their regiment and armed as small , independent units whose role is to operate within sight of their regiment .
6 In the Dialtext product virtually the entire Macintosh desktop has been blocked off from the user in order to prevent potential disasters like the erasure of disks or files .
7 The camps were spotted by pilots flying supplies to Nagorny Karabakh , which has been sealed off from the rest of Azerbaijan for several months .
8 The upfilling of section sof beach on the south side of the old fly ash block , which was agreed by the Director at the request of ELDC Councillors , has been held back from the Contractor .
9 The hull and the deck mouldings are identical to those of the earlier yacht , except that the transom has been raked back from the tuck to meet an extension of the deck .
10 This softly layered bob has been teased back from the face and dressed with wax
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