Example sentences of "was [vb pp] from [pos pn] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | France was in enough trouble already with her Vietminh opponents : to the point where her second most senior General , de Lattre de Tassigny , wartime commander of the French First Army , was detached from his command of French and other allied forces in Europe and arrived in Vietnam in December 1950 to assume the dual function of High Commissioner and Commander-in-Chief with the immediate responsibility of saving Hanoi . |
| 2 | To compare seroconversion for HIV between drug users and homosexual men an additional control group of seroconverters for HIV-1 was selected from our cohort of homosexual men in Amsterdam , which has been extensively described . |
| 3 | Their specific programme was derived from their conception of the causes of crime . |
| 4 | His name was derived from his habit of wearing a blue hood of coarsely woven cloth which masked his face . |
| 5 | Then he was gone from my field of vision , down behind the sports car . |
| 6 | It 's my guess that the statuette was then replaced , and was obscured from his line of vision by the banner this morning . ’ |