Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [noun] from [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Applicants with appropriate previous study and/or experience are given exemption from part of the Course and students wishing to transfer from another institution are welcomed , subject to numbers .
2 Au these possibilities are recognized in EC competition policy , and are given exemption from Article 85 so long as certain safeguards are in place .
3 After years spent under the thumb of finance ministries , an increasing number have been given independence from politicians .
4 The newly-formed Town Farm Neighbourhood Watch group has been granted £1,000 from Middlesbrough Council to buy security devices .
5 Following them was Kim Philby , who escaped to Moscow just ahead of MI5 in 1962 , and Anthony Blunt , who finally confessed in 1964 to being a long-time and important Russian spy only after having been granted immunity from prosecution .
6 North 's lawyers claimed that his 1989 trial had been marred by the absence of key witnesses , including former President Reagan , and by the prejudicial effect upon prosecutors , jurors and witnesses of the highly publicized testimony which North had given to the 1987 congressional inquiry , and for which he had been granted immunity from prosecution .
7 Her immediate subordinate , James C. Smith , had been granted immunity from prosecution .
8 The church would be regarded as a charity , and whereas charities are granted exemption from income tax and CGT under the provisions of s 505 Taxes Act 1988 , it does not extend to any profits the charity earns as a result of its undertaking any activities that may be considered ‘ an adventure in the nature of a trade ’ .
9 TWICE in 24 hours we 've been shown letters from Ossie Ardiles , written in the week of his barbaric departure .
10 We should have been shown excerpts from Wasps v Leicester and Gloucester v Bath , not to mention Neath v Bath ; though the niggly Harlequins v Wasps match would have put the indulgent enthusiasm even of Starmer-Smith under some strain .
11 The initiative has been allocated £150,000 from ESRC funds over the next three years .
12 Debtors who showed the courts that they had made their best efforts to pay , and also showed they were not fraudulent or reckless in incurring debt could be given relief from liabilities after three years .
13 Dhlakama also demanded that members of his movement be given immunity from prosecution or official harassment .
14 These pupils in Wales do not start formally to be taught English until the age of 7 or 8 ; all pupils in England will be required to be taught English from age 5 .
15 The Scottish Secretary added : ‘ Children have to be taught right from wrong and to value the distinction .
16 He reckoned that if a US soldier killed an Iranian , such rage would be unleashed that all the Americans would be torn limb from limb .
17 They will be torn limb from limb and cast into a lake of serpents ! ’
18 The Quebec government ordered the Army to dismantle the barricades on Aug. 27 , having refused to accede to the Mohawks ' additional demands that they be treated as a sovereign nation during negotiations and be granted immunity from prosecution .
19 In fact we will be shown extracts from Gloucester v Bath once the programme gets going : but that is not quite the same thing .
20 Bulimia does not mean " to force vomit " , Some compulsive overeaters ( all of whom could be termed sufferers from bulimia ) use enforced vomiting further to control their emotional feelings and also to protect themselves against the consequence of obesity — but not all do so .
21 Indeed he was a great admirer of the Greek philosopher , many of whose concepts stayed with Galileo for a long time , but he demanded to be allowed freedom from dogma and interference to pursue the truth .
22 Statistically , Oxted Green ‘ B ’ can be denied promotion from division three but it is highly unlikely that they will fall in their last match .
23 He is to be afforded shelter from bombardment ‘ to the same extent as the local civilian population . ’
24 He has been awarded £200 from Middlesbrough council 's community chest to help with his training and travel expenses .
25 Under the terms of the Honiara accord the rebels were given immunity from prosecution , together with the promises that the government would remove its blockade and would not attempt to re-establish its troops upon the island by force .
26 On 28 June , before any request had been received from the ruler , Centaur and Bulwark were sailed for the Gulf ; the Amphibious Squadron left Bahrein for Kuwait with instructions to stay out of sight of land ; the Hunters and Shackletons were flown north from Aden to Bahrein ; a Canberra squadron was sent from Germany to Bahrein as well ; and 24th Brigade was alerted in Kenya and preparations were made to fly it to Kuwait in chartered civil aircraft .
27 I smiled to myself as I let in the clutch and moved off I would stop at the shop and tell the little man that he could collect his pans without the slightest fear of being torn limb from limb , but my overriding emotion was one of relief that I had not cut the sparkle out of the big dog 's life .
28 Prices for the golf apartments now being built range from £92,500 for a one-bedroom property to £197,000 for three bedrooms .
29 Another 30 people were granted immunity from prosecution .
30 Four former South African police officers were sought by the Namibian authorities to testify at the trial , but had refused to come forward , despite being offered immunity from prosecution .
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