Example sentences of "[vb pp] from [noun] [noun prp] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | The New World screw-worm has been eradicated from North Africa by shipping 40 million sterilised flies from Mexico to Libya every week for six months . |
| 2 | To the south , beyond the darkness of Chung Hai , the ancient Mediterranean , glowed City Africa , its broad , elongated shape curving out of view , while to the east — separated from City Europe by the dark barrier of the East European Plantations — City Asia began , a vast glacier , stretching away into the cold heart of the immense land mass . |
| 3 | No mystery tour of Britain should leave out the ancient stone circle of Stonehenge on Salisbury Plain — reputedly transported from County Kildare by the magician Merlin . |
| 4 | He had moved there when Daeniker Distributors in Zürich was bought from Orell Füssli by OLF in 1991 and absorbed into its own operation . |
| 5 | It was manned by thirty-five regulars under Captain C.C. Rawn summoned from Fort Missoula by Howard , plus 200 Montana volunteers and , to the Nez Perce 's disgust , twenty Flathead Indians . |
| 6 | My inclusion was a concession wrung from Mme G by Jean-Claude . |
| 7 | It was agreed that the Georgian and Russian governments , together with the government of the North Ossetian autonomous republic ( inside the Russian Federation ) , would work for the resettlement of the tens of thousands of refugees displaced from South Ossetia by the conflict , and for the " restoration of the lawful local government bodies " . |
| 8 | James Dean had just arrived there for his first major role , having been brought from New York by the famed director Elia Kazan to star in East of Eden . |
| 9 | A fine lot of 46 four-year-old prime Highland bullocks were shipped from Port Ellen by Peter Carmichael from Ballymonie and caused a lot of trouble . |
| 10 | He will take up residence on the cleared site of the Fun House , whose place has been taken by a vintage carousel originally imported from Coney Island by Alderman W G Bean , the founder of the Blackpool funfair . |
| 11 | Before this Board the commissioner advanced two main submissions , namely : ( 1 ) that the business of the bank was one and indivisible since all the profit earning operations were directed from Hong Kong by staff therein employed , no overseas branch of the bank was involved and the funds employed in the purchase of the certificates of deposit arose from the carrying on of the business in Hong Kong ; and ( 2 ) that in any event , even if the sale and purchase of certificates of deposit failed to be treated as separate operations , nevertheless the profits from these operations arose in Hong Kong . |
| 12 | The prosecution say the wedding ring and the chain had been taken from Mrs McGurk by Hagans after he 'd strangled her and hidden her body in undergrowth . |
| 13 | In fact , his cabinet colleagues , already unsure about public support for the bill and alienated from Dr Browne by his provocative politics , were not prepared to go against the hierarchy 's condemnation and refused to support the proposal . |
| 14 | We were reminded of the artful political ruse of a band of women who , flouting the Republic 's law on contraception , returned from Northern Ireland by train having procured hundreds of contraceptives . |
| 15 | She caused an international fuss and was banned from Monte Carlo by Prince Rainier for tearing up a tiny paper flag of Monaco in pique at a banquet . |
| 16 | Lapis lazuli from Badakhshan is still marketed from Nizhni Novgorod by way of Bukhara . |