Example sentences of "[prep] be [vb pp] from [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , some Brazilian coffee exporters have done well after being liberated from bureaucratic controls , which means that Brazil 's coffee industry is now divided on what the country 's next move should be . |
| 2 | Subjects came up with well-organized fantasy sequences after being roused from some periods with high levels of EEG alpha and saccadic eye movements consistent with relaxed wakefulness . |
| 3 | A REAL life My Little Pony has moved into an Essex animal park after being rescued from appalling conditions and almost certain death . |
| 4 | It was reported by the Iraqi media that 447 Iraqi , Palestinian and Jordanian deportees had arrived in Basra on Oct. 8-9 " after being released from Kuwaiti prisons " . |
| 5 | He first became a builder in 1953 , in Communist Czechoslovakia , after being released from three years ' working in the uranium mines of Jachymov as part of a five year prison sentence for political offences . |
| 6 | His parents had been killed during the Berlin blitz and after being shunted from one set of foster parents to another he had run away at the end of the war . |
| 7 | Lack of specific dating and provenance for many of the exhibits has also fuelled allegations that a large part of the collection was illegally acquired , arriving on the antiquities market after being stolen from archaeological sites and illegally exported . |
| 8 | After being passed from one civil servant to another , an embarrassed underling finally admitted ‘ he only wished he knew ’ confessing ‘ the trouble is , we have no control over it up here ; it 's all being done down in London . ’ |
| 9 | So a horse may be able to cope with the stress of injury or the stress of being isolated from other horses ; but if they both happen at the same time , the resulting stress and anxiety may be more than the horse can manage successfully . |
| 10 | An ‘ idea-meme ’ might be defined as an entity that is capable of being transmitted from one brain to another . |
| 11 | Items in suspense and transmission are funds in the process of being transferred from one customer 's account to another . |
| 12 | Given the recent record of local government in Manchester and Liverpool , constituents in Lancashire and Cheshire would be appalled at the prospect of being governed from either of those places . |
| 13 | However , in the process of being passed from one office to another Joyce was making contacts who might prove of some use . |
| 14 | Another problem that has beset the RMCs is that , instead of being financed from special , earmarked central or regional funds , they have had to derive the necessary resources from the parent institutions . |
| 15 | Thus , if the creditor knew that the debtor hoped to pay his debt to that creditor from a contract which the debtor was about to enter into , the creditor can not subsequently claim that the prospect of being paid from that source is not a reasonable prospect . |
| 16 | Onyett ( 1992 ) argues against the use of the term care management on the grounds that the term ‘ care ’ obscures the need to focus on needs and strengths of individual users ; implies a passive relationship between users and providers ; and can be equated with being banished from everyday life . |
| 17 | We will pursue it vigorously , and we will campaign to get changed the basic rules which ensure that a country which is rich in coal resources ensures that it makes the most of the use of these coal resources , and changes the rules automatically excluding coal from being used from sensible base burning for electricity laws . |
| 18 | This did not save him from being imprisoned from 1661 to 1667 on suspicion of plotting against Charles II . |
| 19 | He looked so dignified , so calm , so thankful to be gone from this world and from his troublesome son . |
| 20 | A : what have you got to do this afternoon B : oh I 'm * going to repair the child bar A : what do you mean CHILD bar B : uh it 's er metal bar goes acr — has to be fixed from one side of the car I mean from one side of the back seat to the other for the BABY seat to go on A : AH … |
| 21 | So , since they claim to know the complete and final story about the nature of mental substance , it is incumbent on them to show that it is impossible for the same consciousness to be transferred from one substance to another . |
| 22 | This is commonly done where information needs to be transferred from one computer to another as in banking or for the operation of a fax machine . |
| 23 | If a vehicle needs to be temporarily substituted for one of the operator 's authorized vehicles or a vehicle needs to be transferred from one operating centre to another the LA does not need to be informed . |
| 24 | Instead we can design a computer which has as its instruction set a set of primitive operations ( or micro-instructions ) , to cause control signals to be Sent to the various parts of the computer , and data to be transferred from one processor register to another . |
| 25 | Norman Lamont , the Chancellor of the Exchequer , presented in the House of Commons on March 19 the budget for the financial year beginning April 5 , 1991 , in which the surprise announcement was made that a considerable portion of the burden of the community charge was to be transferred from individual charge-payers to central government , which would recoup most of the cost through an increase in value added tax . |
| 26 | I understand that a further sum is now to be transferred from military aid to the promotion of the work that he suggests . |
| 27 | A complete set of insurance markets would allow risk to be transferred from those who dislike risk to those who are prepared to bear risk at a price . |
| 28 | It was , for example , quite common in the last century for ivory objects to be carved from mammoth tusk that had been preserved in the permafrost of the Siberian tundra since the last Ice Age ! |
| 29 | And in the middle of this came the kidnapping of four students , who had to be ransomed from Zairean rebels across the lake . |
| 30 | Sanctions would cease to be applied from 15 November , while the senior patrician figure of Christopher Soames ( Winston Churchill 's son-inlaw , no less ) was sent to Zimbabwe to act as temporary governor to supervise new elections and restore the country 's trade . |