Example sentences of "was [adv] [vb pp] from [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Half nude , she held onto a big , round glass ball which was slowly lowered from the flies and poised above the stalls . |
| 2 | There was no shrub and palm cover bound by creepers as there had been in the rain forest so that the track was little protected from the squalls that struck up the mountainside , screeching like banshees , as they bowed the slender treetrunks almost to the ground . |
| 3 | The wallpaper was long gone from the walls , and here and there in places were rust-coloured stains that looked like blood . |
| 4 | Prior to erm Uruguay round negotiations , agriculture was always excluded from the negotiations right , whereas manufactured goods have been in there from the start , and as a result we 've seen a reduction in tariffs right , on manufactured goods that 's not to say that erm , protectionism on manufactured goods has fallen , it has in certain cases but not in all cases . |
| 5 | Duelling , one index of the survival of the values of barbarism , had been forbidden in the British Army since 1844 , but the Russian officer corps was specially exempted from the laws prohibiting it . |
| 6 | The contempt , or criticism , was probably hidden from the others , but Maria was acutely aware of it , and incensed . |
| 7 | The poor man was also banished from the grounds of the house to take up his station either at the gate or beyond it . |
| 8 | Given that the term was originally coined from the words ‘ smoke ’ and ‘ fog ’ , it is really a misnomer for photochemical air pollution episodes . |
| 9 | He was recently banned from the directors ' room at Newcastle and has also been shifted from his seat in the directors box to the back of the stand . |