Example sentences of "was [vb pp] from [noun] on [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a 10-month battle , self-proclaimed white supremacist Byron de la Beckwith , 70 , was extradited from Tennessee on Oct. 4 to face a third trial in Mississippi for the killing in 1963 of Medgar Evers , at the time the state 's leading black activist [ see p. 19771 ] . |
| 2 | YOUR correspondent ‘ Puzzled ’ ( Writeback , August 19 ) complains that an elderly lady of her acquaintance was discharged from hospital on Friday , August 13 , by ‘ taxi ’ , shared with three other disabled senior citizens . |
| 3 | A senior Iraqi diplomat charged with spying on Iraqi refugees , including Kurds , was expelled from Sweden on Nov. 12 . |
| 4 | A delegation of Canadian MPs was expelled from China on Jan. 7 for " engaging in activities incompatible with their status " . |
| 5 | A correspondent for the Independent , Robert Fisk , was expelled from Turkey on May 2 after describing ( in a report published on April 30 ) looting of relief supplies by Turkish troops at the Yesilova camp for Iraqi Kurdish refugees in Hakkari province . |
| 6 | Mr Mandela was brought from prison on Robben Island to join his colleagues , and the trial began on 9 October . |
| 7 | The first secretary of the Azerbaijan CP committee in the Nakhichevan ASSR , Gaidar Isayev , was removed from office on Jan. 3 , ostensibly on " health grounds " but apparently as a consequence of the border incidents . |
| 8 | President Najibullah was removed from power on April 15 , after elements of the ruling Hezb-e Watan , with some military support , carried out what was effectively a low-key coup . |
| 9 | This report was filed from Tokyo on Tuesday by James Mates : |
| 10 | This report from Andrew Simmonds was sent from Dublin on Thursday : |
| 11 | Marian Munteanu , 28 , the president of the League of Students , who had been badly beaten and arrested on June 14 during the crackdown against anti-communist demonstrators in Bucharest 's University Square [ see pp. 37544-45 ] , was released from detention on Aug. 2 . |
| 12 | Bembenek was released from jail on December 9 after serving 10 years for the murder of Christine Schultz . |
| 13 | Azem Vlasi , the former leader of the League of Communists in Kosovo , was released from custody on April 24 , together with 13 other persons , after being acquitted on charges of instigating counter-revolutionary demonstrations in the province . |
| 14 | Lafontaine made a quick recovery and was released from hospital on May 2 . |
| 15 | Schäuble was released from hospital on Oct. 31 after two operations to remove a bullet lodged near his spine . |
| 16 | He was released from prison on Feb. 9 , 1990 , and held a seventh meeting with Arafat on March 9 . |
| 17 | Mario Chanes de Armas , 65 , who took part in the 1953 assault on the Moncada Barracks and was one of the original rebels who had landed in the Granma in 1956 to launch the revolution , was released from prison on July 16 , after serving 30 years for allegedly plotting to assassinate Castro . |
| 18 | Veteran peace campaigner Abie Nathan was released from prison on March 30 after serving six months of an 18-month sentence for meeting Yassir Arafat , chair of the Palestine Liberation Organization . |
| 19 | A British businessman , Roger Cooper , 55 , was released from prison on April 1 and returned to London on April 2 . |
| 20 | Gen. Hartono Resko Dharsono , Indonesia 's most prominent dissident , was released from prison on Sept. 16 . |
| 21 | Following an appeal made by Major during his visit , the Hong Kong businessman Luo Haixing was released from prison on Sept. 9 " on bail for medical treatment outside the country " . |
| 22 | Jimmy Stevens , the leader of a secessionist rebellion in Vanuatu in 1980 [ see pp. 30642-44 ] , was released from prison on Aug. 19 after serving 11 years of a 14@1/2-year sentence for treason . |
| 23 | Bankrupt Australian entrepreneur Alan Bond was released from prison on Aug. 27 after the Western Australian Court of Criminal Appeal quashed a fraud conviction against him . |
| 24 | Nicu Ceausescu , the son of the late dictator Nicolae Ceausescu , was released from prison on Nov. 24 on health grounds ; he was said to be suffering from cirrhosis of the liver . |