Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] from the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Somehow his feelings became detached from the critical procedures ( not that he does not handle and assess his own work critically , which he does ) . |
| 2 | The cult of the martyr became detached from the general cult of the community 's dead members . |
| 3 | The stories each picture told varied from the tragic to the hilarious : The expensive oil landscape which had had seagulls drawn on to the sky in ballpoint pen ; the ancient Highland cattle picture , swopped for food after the First World War by a travelling artist . |
| 4 | ‘ Each dealer knew well the cattle he 'd brought from the Irish villages . |
| 5 | A large suitcase lay on the bed , still full of the clothes he 'd taken from the other room . |
| 6 | I did n't know about the woman and thought he 'd chipped from the left-hand side of the fairway to the right-hand side . |
| 7 | Snow had started to block all roads north on the morning we left , and as the last car slithered into the driveway of the cottage , with its white-faced traumatised occupants , Torridon became sealed from the outside world in a spectacular blizzard . |
| 8 | The heights he recorded varied from the tiny Shetland bull standing at only 97cm , up to the large , improved Holderness Shorthorn bull at an immense 152cm ( with a record-breaking 168cm in the ox ) . |
| 9 | In successive seasons , he took United from the Third to the Second and into the First Division . |
| 10 | Despite the opposition of the dominant culture , the music of those within the culture but not of it , the blacks , found resonance with the experiences of others who felt alienated from the established order . |
| 11 | They thus became excluded from the social networks of employed people which are vital for job-acquisition ( Callender , 1986a ) . |
| 12 | The Russians had withdrawn from the southern to the northern side of the harbour , but survived there until the end of the war . |
| 13 | Jumblatt also announced that he was suspending his own participation in the Cabinet until the army had withdrawn from the National Library , the Emir Amin Palace and the Bayt al-Din Palace — buildings the PSP had recently been occupying . |
| 14 | But suppose Lorton had intended from the first to rob Newley , to murder him , and to present the police with a strong case against someone else ? |
| 15 | Meanwhile , against the pope 's better judgement , Edward had recalled from the papal Curia another exile , Winchelsey . |
| 16 | Some were small but violent , like Islamic Jihad , which had broken from the Muslim Brotherhood in the 1960s . |
| 17 | She had also caught the very faint remnant of warmth , gaiety , that he thought no-one but himself had recognized from the old days . |
| 18 | ( 2 ) Directing that the money remain in court , that , where solicitors sought payment out to them of money belonging to a foreign state , if the court was not satisfied that the solicitors had authority to act on behalf of that state , it should , of its own motion if necessary , require them to obtain that authority and ensure that the money remained under the court 's control meanwhile ; that the factors to be taken into account in deciding whether a regime existed as the government of a state were whether it was the constitutional government of the state , the degree , nature and stability of administrative control that it exercised over the territory of the state , whether Her Majesty 's Government had any dealings with it and the nature of any such dealings and , in marginal cases , the extent of its international recognition as the government of the state ; that on the evidence , M. 's interim government did not become the constitutional successor of the former government and was unable to show that if it was exercising any administrative control over the territory of the Republic of Somalia ; and , accordingly , the instructions and authority the solicitors had received from the interim government were not from the Government of the Republic of Somalia , and no part of the proceeds in court should be paid out to the solicitors without further order of the court ( post , pp. 750G–H , 757E–G ) . |
| 19 | When I arrived they showed me the letter they had received from the Chief Education Officer that morning which explained the proposed Statementing procedure : |
| 20 | Of all the advice she had received from the other creatures , taking away the dog 's food was the only one , she decided in the end , that might have a chance of succeeding . |
| 21 | The second time I was pulled over I showed the ‘ producer ’ I had received from the first policeman , but to no avail . |
| 22 | Clarke virtually admitted that he did not believe that these important issues should be discussed in public when he defended the government 's decision not to publish the advice on science funding which it had received from the Advisory Board for the Research Councils . |
| 23 | He was concerned about de Gaulle 's anti-Americanism , but was pleased by the support he had received from the French leader in 1958–61 over the Berlin crises with Russia . |
| 24 | The lawyer was referring to training the captain had received from the British SAS and the New Zealand SAS . |
| 25 | That situation was to change when USAAC General Hap Arnold decided , based upon information he had received from the British about a new aircraft power source , to get the Air Corps involved in jets . |
| 26 | On that day , twenty-seven days earlier , he had travelled from the Syrian Embassy back to his rented home in Kingston-upon-Thames , and there he had , for the first time , informed his wife of their changed circumstances . |
| 27 | Nervously , he stepped into the room and walked around , crunching the broken plaster that had fallen from the crumbling ceiling . |
| 28 | She was part Mulholland on her mother 's side and she knew we had fallen from the middle class or , to be precise , that her mother had married down , even though she loved her father . |
| 29 | He was what we have learned to call a WASP , and his lifetime coincided with the process , not yet quite completed , by which that caste — white Anglo-Saxon protestants of the northeast — was supplanted from the position of privilege that they had enjoyed from the first days of the Republic . |
| 30 | He said it had differed from the Foreign Office advice because it had subsequently been been scrutinised in ‘ greater detail ’ . |