Example sentences of "[noun prp] be [vb pp] from [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ten per cent of the homes built in 1980 in New Mexico were made from adobe . |
| 2 | There can be no reliable estimate that — ’ 10 per cent of the homes built in 1980 in New Mexico were made from adobe ’ , because Spanish Americans and Anglo Americans far from rich , can so easily convert the soil from beneath their feet into walls around new rooms , and they do this regularly with their own hands in enlarging their houses . |
| 3 | Mr Mandela was brought from prison on Robben Island to join his colleagues , and the trial began on 9 October . |
| 4 | David left school with 2 GCE ‘ O ’ level passes , in Art and Woodwork , and the school found him a job as a junior with a commercial art company , The Design Group Ltd. , and although some early press releases said that David was expelled from school , the record shows that he left two or three days early to start the job . |
| 5 | The fact that half of the members of the Bundestag are selected from party lists , rather than being elected , only reinforces the power of the parties , weakens accountability and is open to the usual favouritist pressures . |
| 6 | The council of nine ceased to be active , Latimer and Lyons were released from imprisonment and Alice Perrers was reinstated at court . |
| 7 | For example , Hungary , Poland and Romania were inserted into the upper-middle-income group , where their apparent per capita income scores would locate them in any case , whereas Angola , Cuba and North Korea were transplanted from lower-middle-income to nonreporting nonmembers . |
| 8 | My young friend Ed Douglas is wrong in assuming that Victor Saunders is excluded from hero-candidacy by virtue of his Gordonstoun education , but right in suggesting its irrelevance ( April issue ) . |
| 9 | The Second Line maintenance of 192 Washingtons , which included Major and Minor Servicings , was carried out by Marham ASF but when the Washington was withdrawn from Bomber Command service , this responsibility was transferred to Watton . |
| 10 | Bankrupt Australian entrepreneur Alan Bond was released from prison on Aug. 27 after the Western Australian Court of Criminal Appeal quashed a fraud conviction against him . |
| 11 | Reynolds was banned from athletics for two years after testing positive for steroids . |
| 12 | Following an appeal made by Major during his visit , the Hong Kong businessman Luo Haixing was released from prison on Sept. 9 " on bail for medical treatment outside the country " . |
| 13 | In Hesse in January 1991 the CDU-FDP coalition was replaced by an SPD-Green coalition [ see pp. 37966 ; 38156 ] ; in the Rhineland-Palatinate in April the CDU was excluded from government and an SPD-FDP coalition was formed [ see pp. 38155-56 ; 38199 ] , and in Hamburg in June the SPD obtained an absolute majority of city-council seats [ see p. 38297 ] . |
| 14 | Haig was saved from dismissal by defenders on the Unionist side , but Robertson 's removal caused a small stir , and Unionists voted in force to save Lloyd George 's face in the Maurice debate . |
| 15 | A HIGH COURT judge today ordered that the Marquess of Blandford be freed from jail , where he has served three days of a 112-day sentence for maintenance arrears . |
| 16 | General Hassan al-Nakib , formerly deputy chief of staff in the Iraqi army , argued there would be no need for any war if Mr Hussein were removed from power . |
| 17 | Edna , worried about Celia , managed to get down to Four Winds for a little while each day and , as soon as Mrs Rafferty was discharged from hospital , resumed her duties with the child , who hardly let her out of her sight . |
| 18 | Cleopa Msuya was transferred from Finance , Planning and Economic Affairs to Industry and Trade ; the Finance portfolio was taken over by Stephen Kibona . |
| 19 | FORON was rescued from liquidation last year by the environmental group Greenpeace , which collected enough advance orders for the Clean Cooler to interest a British-Kuwaiti-German investment group in the firm . |
| 20 | We took the route through Cheapside because the Thames was frozen from bank to bank , past the mansions of the rich , the stalls full of fripperies , the mouldering Eleanor Cross and the great Conduit which was supposed to bring fresh water into the city . |
| 21 | When in 1732 , to quote only two British cases , the representative of George II in Turin was promoted from minister plenipotentiary to full ambassador , this was a clear indication of a desire in London to improve relations between the two states ( especially as the diplomat in question was an earl ) , while simultaneously the strained Anglo-Prussian relations of the 1730s were reflected in the fact that Britain was represented in Berlin throughout the decade by a mere secretary ( and he a humble army captain ) . |
| 22 | Last Friday Jacqueline Fletcher was freed from prison . |
| 23 | While Hatfield was saved from depredation , the estate at Cranborne in Dorset suffered much damage . |
| 24 | The Witham was frozen from bank to bank from Lincoln to Boston . |
| 25 | At the same time Mavis Muyunda was moved from Health to the Ministry of Water , Lands and Natural Resources and was replaced by her deputy , Jeremiah Chijikwa . |
| 26 | Like the captured enemy patrol , Grant and Larsen were dressed from head to foot in dark clothing , only in their case it was less military in style . |
| 27 | LC were enriched from TE- and TC-EC , stained with M5/114.15.2 , FITC-(Fab') 2 goat anti-rat IgG and analysed by flow cytometry . |
| 28 | Os and Re were separated from acid digestions of samples ( 2–4g ) of whole-rock powder using distillation and anion exchange respectively . |
| 29 | They rob banks ’ , and Bonnie and Clyde were transformed from depression era outlaws to '60s counter-culture folk heroes . |
| 30 | Overall , while the UK is the main beneficiary under Objective 2 ( Table 2 ) , the fact that the UK is excluded from Objective 1 assistance ( with the exception of Northern Ireland ) means that access to the vast bulk of the Structural Funds is denied . |