Example sentences of "[be] [verb] from [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Cognitive behaviour is not reducible to simple sequences of contingencies of reinforcement but instead reflects goal-seeking activities , hypothesis making and many other features which had hitherto been dismissed from consideration within the Anglo-American tradition in psychology . |
2 | The former Romanian regions of Bessarabia and northern Bukovina had been annexed from Romania in June 1940 in the course of the Soviet advance against the pro-German troops of the Romanian government , and after 1947 they had become the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic ; in practice , the dispute was much older , dating back to Russia 's liberation of the region from Turkish rule in the early 19th century . |
3 | Earlier in the month 806 Squadron 's three remaining serviceable Fulmars had been flown from Malta to Egypt via El Adem , each aircraft carrying three aircrew ; the ground party sailed for the same destination in a destroyer . |
4 | The financial criteria are altered from time to time by regulations . |
5 | Undertakings are given from time to time in personal injury cases . |
6 | Flaubert , on his way up the Nile in 1850 , found Esna much enlivened by the presence of ulmeh , literally " learned women " , prostitutes who had been banished from Cairo by Muhammad Ali some years before . |
7 | In the marble version the struts have been banished from sight by designing the statue to be seen from a restricted viewpoint . |
8 | Less has been heard from mothers for many of whom maintenance is their only chance of getting off benefit . |
9 | That is the litany which has been heard from solicitors throughout Scotland over the past months — from the spacious offices of the big city firms to the modest surroundings of rural practices . |
10 | We found a similar trend in a previous study in Hertfordshire , the only other study in which a group of people has been traced from birth to death . |
11 | CANS of a fish product , manufactured by a Scottish company , have been withdrawn from sale throughout Britain as a precautionary measure because of a possible link with a case of suspected botulism in which a woman was paralysed from the neck down . |
12 | Uncured pork from a firm at Wisbech , Cambs , has been withdrawn from sale by supermarkets and shops . |
13 | KMFDM 's recent LP , ‘ Naive ’ , featured cover art by renowned UK design team Brute and has been withdrawn from sale in Sound Warehouse , one of America 's largest record chains with over 1,000 shops coast to coast . |
14 | KMFDM 's recent LP , ‘ Naive ’ , featured cover art by renowned UK design team Brute and has been withdrawn from sale in Sound Warehouse , one of America 's largest record chains with over 1,000 shops coast to coast . |
15 | Debbie Dent from Oxfordshire 's Trading Standard 's Department says although the product 's been withdrawn from sale in most shops , some of the sets marked ‘ Salter 's Science Fun with Crystals ’ may have already been bought and put aside for Christmas . |
16 | A tourist video has been withdrawn from sale after fears it could threaten the safety of children . |
17 | Having been sacked from Ulm in 1934 for excess of talent , he survived in Aachen only until 1942 . |
18 | The excess has been altered from 2% of the building value of 1% where accidental damage cover is included to a fixed sum of £1,000 each and every claim . |
19 | Interest rates are adjusted from time to time to reflect market conditions , and will be chosen to balance long-term inflows of deposits with the demand for loans : higher interest rates attracting more deposits and reducing the demand for loans . |
20 | shall also cause the trade mark registration symbol to be placed next to such of the Trade Marks as are registered from time to time throughout the world . |
21 | The investigation will begin when details are received from Valenciennes over the allegation from defender Jacques Glassmann that he had been offered a bribe from a Marseille official to take it easy . |
22 | Sulphur candles had been burning for days , leaving the house free of vermin , then the whole place had been painted from top to bottom . |
23 | It was alleged that Khashoggi , who had been extradited from Switzerland in April 1989 , had purchased four Manhattan properties secretly owned by the Marcoses and had backdated the sale documents to evade a New York court order which had frozen the assets of the former dictator and his wife . |
24 | Among the defendants was Licio Gelli , former grand master of the Italian P-2 masonic lodge [ see also pp. 31045-46 ] , who had been extradited from Switzerland in February 1988 after surrendering to the authorities there [ see p. 35591-92 ] . |
25 | Presumably the remaining 20% are formed from combinations of these four classifications : |
26 | Snakes have been mobbed from time to time by groups of ground squirrels . |
27 | Estonia , Latvia and Lithuania had been conquered from Sweden in the eighteenth century and incorporated as ‘ Baltic provinces ’ into the Russian Empire in the early nineteenth century , although a German landowning and commercial class retained substantial influence . |
28 | Colloids are distinguished from suspensions by the size of the dispersed particles . |
29 | Professions are distinguished from trades by the length of training , the depth of special knowledge and by codes of behaviour . |
30 | He explained that there was a difference between a statement such as : ‘ Cats are distinguished from dogs by embodying the spirit of cathood , as opposed to that of doghood ’ , and a statement such as ‘ Cats are distinguished from dogs by a combination of characteristics ( such as the possession of retractable claws , … and the inability to swim … ) which , in the aggregate , describe the genus Felis as opposed to the genus Canis ’ . |