Example sentences of "[vb pp] from [noun prp] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | That same eighth chapter of Acts records the spread of the gospel by informal missionaries , men and women evicted from Jerusalem by the persecution which followed Stephen 's death . |
| 2 | What 's to become of the pool of labour when the heart and soul is torn from London by the ruler of the political obviously , no consideration for the human consequences of its policies . |
| 3 | But Rome , separated from Ireland by a continent in upheaval , had little means of implementing her decrees or ensuring their enforcement . |
| 4 | Weaving region : Asian part of Turkey , separated from Europe by the Bosphorus . |
| 5 | A clearing opened ahead , separated from Trent by a fan of palm fronds . |
| 6 | But even if he had not been separated from Alexei by duty , and leaving aside the connivance of Irina 's family , a gap would have existed between them . |
| 7 | The election was banned in the Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic ( an Azerbaijani enclave separated from Azerbaijan by Armenian land ) by its Supreme Soviet which was headed by Geydar Aliyev , a former CPSU politburo member [ see p. 36592 ] who had become a member of the Azerbaijani People 's Front . |
| 8 | Wirral is a predominantly white community of about 340,000 people fairly tightly packed onto a peninsula separated from Wales by the River Dee and , as we have said , from Liverpool by the River Mersey . |
| 9 | I was separated from Susan by a flood of flailing humanity . |
| 10 | In exile he established and led the Malawi Freedom Movement ( Mafremo ) until December 1981 when he and his wife Vera |
| 11 | Conservative and radical scientific ideas were disseminated from Paris by naturalists and anatomists returning home inspired by what they had heard . |
| 12 | According to Mr Prescott it indicates that ‘ urgent advice ’ was sought from Eurotunnel by Robert Bailey , secretary of Safety Authority , a panel of independent experts , on questions of safety raised by the MP . |
| 13 | Gwenellen was at tea , and reading a letter she had had from Aline by the second post . |
| 14 | During the first summer and autumn on the island , the English had built another sloop — thirty tons , clinker-hulled , two masted — from felled mahogany trees they dragged down from the forest ; they then fitted her with four barbaresque guns forged in the Italian style , transported from Europe by the Hopewell . |
| 15 | The existing T and S at Stranton was included in a package of pubs bought from Camerons by Wolverhampton and Dudley . |
| 16 | The existing T and S at Stranton was included in a package of pubs bought from Camerons by Wolverhampton and Dudley . |
| 17 | But standing out above all are the scores commissioned from Stravinsky by Balanchine , such as Apollo , Orpheus and Card Game . |
| 18 | Nicholson complied with an expansive mural of Adam and Eve being forcibly ejected from Eden by a thunderbolt , watched , as he put it , ‘ by their pets ’ ! |
| 19 | As much of this religious enthusiasm was exported from Britain by the London-based evangelical missionary societies it will be necessary to consult those archives as well as the records of Irish churches and voluntary religious societies . |
| 20 | The operation , a gallant failure , was mounted from Skitten by troops in two Horsa gliders towed by Halifaxes . |
| 21 | It was reported on Oct. 17 that Song Xiaoyong , a naval officer , and Xin Li , a student leader in Shanghai , imprisoned for involvement in the 1989 pro-democracy movement , had escaped from China by means of an underground network . |
| 22 | This accommodating and recommended summit is Bruach na Frithe , reached from Sligachan by a path leaving the pedestrian track over the Bealach a' Mhaim ; it is safe , without hazards , and calls for no more effort than the ascent of Scafell Pike in the English Lake District . |
| 23 | But to have tolerance preached from Westminster by people living in much easier circumstances can seem a bit rich . |
| 24 | 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 ’ . |
| 25 | Garbo , Garland , Gardner , Garson and Gable were there — and that was just the Gs — but the old grey Mayer was n't what he used to be , and he had been ousted from MGM by the time Nicholson arrived as a messenger boy . |
| 26 | Another is Alcuin ( 735–804 ) , who was called from York by the Emperor Charlemagne to be head of his Palace School . |
| 27 | Since 1945 , when it was annexed from Germany by the Soviet Union , it has been Kaliningrad . |
| 28 | STP can be distinguished from LTP by the use of protein kinase inhibitors , in the presence of which potentiation usually persists for only 30–60min r81–85 . |
| 29 | In John Thomas and Lady Jane , Connie is distinguished from Parkin by the type of English she uses ( middle-class , standard ) . |
| 30 | Occasional hybrids of Tufted Duck and Pochard can be distinguished from Scaups by black tip to bill , darker eye and less contrasting wing-bar . |