Example sentences of "[been] [verb] from [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some 90,000 have been dismissed from their jobs for political reasons and thousands have been imprisoned for long sentences . |
| 2 | Like all British officials of the Egyptian Government I had been dismissed from my university post eighteen months before , and I was glad that the British Council was able to offer me a small post in Athens , instead of piece work in Cairo . |
| 3 | Workers say that at least one employee has been dismissed from his job without compensation because of illness caused by pollution from the smelter which also processes arsenic , cadmium and lead — well known to have adverse effects . |
| 4 | President Özal 's brother Korkut Özal , himself a prominent pro-Islamist , had publicly criticized Semra Özal 's move into politics , while the President 's cousin , Husnu Dogan , had been dismissed from his post as Minister of Defence in February , reportedly after voicing similar criticisms [ see p. 38022 ] . |
| 5 | In August Wojtowicz had been dismissed from his post and five people , including senior officials of state banks , had been arrested ; following the Art-B scandal the Sejm approved laws to tighten the central bank 's powers of supervision . |
| 6 | ( On Sept. 7 , at the end of a two-day debate for which the UK House of Commons had been recalled from its summer recess , the UK government had won a vote of confidence over its handling of the Gulf crisis , by 437 votes to 35 . ) |
| 7 | 1 on the ground , having been flown from their barracks in Omagh some twenty miles away . |
| 8 | Imagination was in short supply , and the poverty of yesterday had been banished from their memories , the happy-go-luckiness along with the hardships . |
| 9 | The odds on returning at all were fairly poor by the sound of it ; for , according to Ibu , of the ninety prahus which had left Bira the previous year , five had still not returned , and no word had been heard from their crews . |
| 10 | Kali and Hades had been plucked from their midst as though by a giant hand and flung several feet away , almost cut in half by the point-blank blast of sawn-off twelve-bores . |
| 11 | My father had been demobilised from his service with HM Minesweepers which had sailed from Chatham dockyard . |
| 12 | In the ten years since the author spent some time making films about the rich animal life of Sri Lanka for the ‘ Survival ’ series of documentaries , that pendant has , alas , been ripped from its setting . |
| 13 | His shirt had been ripped from his body and there were deep cuts across his back and under his arms . |
| 14 | Although dealers have been sacked from their firms for hard selling to the aged or infirm , it is usually only when complaints are made . |
| 15 | A woman with leukaemia says she 's been sacked from her job as a secretary because of her illness . |
| 16 | As we shook hands I felt some embarrassment ; he had been sacked from his post in the English Literature and Language Department of the University of East Anglia the previous year . |
| 17 | He told me that he had recently been sacked from his job as a long-distance lorry driver for refusing to drive a defective and dangerous vehicle . |
| 18 | A Hungarian minister , popular with environmentalists , has been sacked from his job at the Environmental Protection Ministry . |
| 19 | Do US president Bill Clinton and British prime minister John Major have more in common than would have been guessed from their brief meeting earlier this month ? |
| 20 | Whatever the original miracles were , there can be little doubt that the accounts , as recorded in the Gospel , have been developed from their first historical setting . |
| 21 | They said hello cheerily as we passed , and for no particular reason other than mindless banter I concluded our exchange with some hopeless attempt at humour , which happily has been blacked from my memory . |
| 22 | Once a Squig has been provoked from its lair the Night Goblins throw nets over it then bash it senseless with large clubs so it can be safely dragged away . |
| 23 | For the first time in her life she felt as if the veil had been stripped from her idol and she was looking at the real person who hid away inside a beautiful body , seeing her through the eyes of others who had no family love for her to colour what they saw . |
| 24 | The Home Office were not prepared to enforce such a departure , however , until the appropriate word had been received from their colleagues in the Foreign affairs department . |
| 25 | Less than a quarter of Oxfordshire teachers believe that any important matters have been omitted from their report . |
| 26 | That face , though the hair had been shaven from its head , leaving the skull bald and patterned with livid scars — that face was the face of Justine Moritz . |
| 27 | One hundred and thirteen had been born at term and the others at a median gestational age of 32 weeks ( range 24–36 ) ; none of the latter had been discharged from their neonatal unit on additional inspired oxygen . |
| 28 | Civilians , accompanied by RUC officers , can be seen moving away from the area , having just been evacuated from their houses . |
| 29 | Constance had supervised Camille 's introduction to the children of the neighbourhood , to her own nephews and nieces and those of approved families — some in which the parents were still encouraging their infants to assist on their shoplifting expeditions had been dropped from her acquaintance , as she regarded petty larceny as common and ill-advised — and had taken her to many places deemed of interest to children which Scarlet would have found uncongenial . |
| 30 | ICI 's chairmen have traditionally been picked from its cadre of executive directors ( now nine ) . |