Example sentences of "was [vb pp] from [noun] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher called the execution " an act of barbarism " , and the British ambassador was recalled from Iraq for consultations ; planned ministerial and trade visits were cancelled and Iraqi students attending Ministry of Defence training courses in the UK were sent home . |
| 2 | However , he was prevented from standing on Oct. 19 , when the Constitutional Court upheld the Supreme Court 's Oct. 12 ruling that anyone who had been the author or beneficiary of a military coup was debarred from participation in elections under Article 186 of the 1986 Constitution . |
| 3 | The Davidson Room was stacked from ceiling with Things Past and Present . |
| 4 | The inside was hidden from view by shutters and curtains . |
| 5 | The rigidity of what was expected from children in terms of compliance to religious and moral ideologies could have no more perfect expression than in the two small late 18th century carved wooden figures of the Blue Coat Schoolboy and Schoolgirl which until recently were to be found in All Saints Church , Maidstone . |
| 6 | On the same day Richard Gough was transferred from Spurs to Rangers for £1.5 million . |
| 7 | Haig was saved from dismissal by defenders on the Unionist side , but Robertson 's removal caused a small stir , and Unionists voted in force to save Lloyd George 's face in the Maurice debate . |
| 8 | The irony of excessive expenses incurred for Karl Marx 's daughter was n't lost on Rosenberg , but Aveling called his accusations ridiculous , and he was defended from England by Engels who brushed off Aveling 's embezzlements as the pranks of a boyish ‘ noodle ’ . |
| 9 | The operation , a gallant failure , was mounted from Skitten by troops in two Horsa gliders towed by Halifaxes . |
| 10 | The concept of ‘ bargaining politics ’ was derived from examination of accounts of local politics in the United States . |
| 11 | Sediment cores were dated using and vegetation and land use were determined from pollen ; and lakewater pH was inferred from remains of diatoms . |
| 12 | In a previous report on a de novo expression of ICAM-1 by mucosal mononuclear phagocytes in inflammatory bowel disease , the percentage of mononuclear phagocytes was increased from 7% in controls to 70% in ulcerative colitis and to 45% in Crohn 's disease . |
| 13 | But even where it was extended from churches to houses , a spiritual asceticism seems to be its distinguishing characteristic . |