Example sentences of "[been] [verb] from a " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , while her non-dramatic soul was saying that to present herself at Vasey 's looking the way she did was going a bit over the top , she had never been dismissed from a job before . |
| 2 | For his part , Gould has voiced a degree of scepticism about Europe that has not been heard from a Labour frontbencher for many a long year , and has rescued ‘ devaluation ’ from the party 's dictionary of forbidden words . |
| 3 | Mr Cowan said Lady Kennedy 's promiscuous behaviour was ‘ not unusual for her ’ and she had once been sacked from a job for ‘ obscene behaviour ’ . |
| 4 | A Bloke 's been sacked from a job for having a tattoo of Betty Boop. so it says . |
| 5 | These have mostly been calculated from the speed and force needed to embed swords in wooden hulled ships and boats ; a speed of 57.6 miles per hour ( 92.7 kilometres per hour ) has been calculated from a penetration of 22 inches . |
| 6 | The research vessel Scotia has been diverted from a scheduled cruise to collect extra samples in the area — the Fladen Ground , south east of Fair Isle . |
| 7 | The small pipe has been formed from a flat sheet of bronze , the seam incorporates a plain butt joint , and there is a crudely formed inscription : 32TP1 . |
| 8 | The Secretary of State , Dean Acheson , warned the American mission in Seoul on 13 April 1949 that information had been received from a source believed to be reliable to the effect that serious trouble might arise in Korea within two months and that the initiative in these developments would be taken by South Korea . |
| 9 | It shows that the total cost was to be 11650 and that a Grant of £300 had been received from a private Debt Extinction Fund subscribed by a few individuals to assist poor congregations . |
| 10 | Representations have been received from a former employee of Gwynedd county council and from hon. Members . |
| 11 | Hilda Lodge , in her new capacity of Chairman , welcomed everyone and said that apologies had been received from a number of teachers which had resulted in a smaller than usual attendance . |
| 12 | An offer should only be announced once an irrevocable commitment to provide the necessary funds has been received from a person upon whom reliance can reasonably be placed at that time ( see Panel Notice 1991/4 of 1 May 1991 in relation to Luirc Corp and Merlin International Properties Ltd ) . |
| 13 | The audit , er , the the accounts your your offices will be assigned er , as of the twenty-third of December , of ninety-three , and , but we 're not able yet to conclude the audit as I 'm considering an objection which has been received from a member , on the matter of publicity . |
| 14 | Indeed on the nineteenth of January the Noble Earl Lord told me that of the three hundred and sixty letters which had been received from a wide variety of organisations representing people of totally different political opinions and that following the publication of the White Paper . |
| 15 | The mercury had been discharged from a local chemical plant . |
| 16 | A girl aged nine from Middlesbrough has been discharged from a Sussex hospital after recovering from injuries she received in a road accident . |
| 17 | JOCKEY Lester Piggott has been discharged from a Miami Hospitalthe day before his 57th birthday . |
| 18 | Evidence submitted to a parliamentary select committee by Britain 's Health and safety Executive last week reveals that products containing white and brown asbestos have been dropped from a draft EEC directive issued in 1980 . |
| 19 | Suddenly she was feeling as though she 'd been dropped from a great height . |
| 20 | A new board has been installed from a list of candidates selected by an independent panel . |
| 21 | Such " coral bleaching " has been reported from a range of tropical locations in the past two years [ see EDs passim ] . |
| 22 | They looked like they could have been pinched from a golf course . |
| 23 | Police reports alleged that raids on Ershad 's residence after his arrest on Dec. 12 [ see p. 37907 ] had revealed assets in excess of those which could have been expected from a presidential income , as well as large quantities of unlicensed firearms . |
| 24 | The problem has been approached from a number of different fields of research , and a large number of different theories have been proposed . |
| 25 | Lost on their way , they had been rescued from a Chaos attack by the Treeman Oakheart and his people . |
| 26 | Meanwhile his Countess had been rescued from a Liddesdale cottage ‘ not to be compared to any dog kennel in England ’ by the chivalrous Kerr of Ferniehirst , in spite of past feuds with her husband 's family . |
| 27 | Subsequently another volume of poems , several notebooks , and a book of liturgical devotions were discovered ; in 1964 the discovery of a manuscript of Select Meditations was announced ; and in 1982 a large manuscript entitled Commentaries of Heaven , which had been rescued from a burning rubbish tip in south Lancashire about 1967 , was identified as Traherne 's . |
| 28 | A YOUNG parrot has been rescued from a pet shop by its rightful owner . |
| 29 | He had been lifted from a detention cell and given the job of English teacher because the Colonel liked a boy who could smile into the face of an interrogator who wielded a rubber truncheon . |
| 30 | Co-occurrence data has been used by the present project ; the data having been collected from a number of corpora rather than LDOCE . |