Example sentences of "[vb pp] from their [noun pl] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Still only insolvent ‘ traders ’ could be discharged from their liabilities by bankruptcy . |
| 2 | In the worst cases they have even lost the right to grow up in loving and secure homes , seeking to earn their living on the street or separated from their families by war and civil conflict . |
| 3 | At most sites , strip buildings appear to have been constructed as independent entities , separated from their neighbours by either alleys or narrow lanes . |
| 4 | Countless twentieth-century dictators have been defended from their detractors by pointing out the asceticism of their private lives . |
| 5 | He had seen too many prominent European industrialists toppled from their pedestals by tabloid revelations of the pathetic vanity of their wives , frivolously whittling away the family money on a succession of oversexed gigolos . |
| 6 | Metals can be extracted from their oxides by reduction ( see section 10.5 ) . |
| 7 | A number of hackers ' wives have now joined other grass widows parted from their husbands by golf or similar obsessional activities . |
| 8 | Beneath this man-made mechanism of oppression are the people , literally distanced from their surroundings by Kahlo 's use of photo-collage . |
| 9 | They can not be driven from their burrows by conventional means . |
| 10 | In the first seven months of 1992 there were 233,000 requests for asylum in Germany ( primarily from Romania and former Yugoslavia , and excluding refugees driven from their homes by the fighting there ) . |
| 11 | With hundreds of thousands of people displaced from their homes by the conflict , the economy of these areas has been devastated and government forces are laying siege to many parts of the north , often involving inaccurate and indiscriminate bombardments of civilian population centres . |
| 12 | The extent to which Louis VI and Louis VII had consolidated royal powers was masked from their contemporaries by their policy of pushing hard only where they knew that resistance was weak . |
| 13 | Where were you in 1922 , Mr. Tully , when thousands of Catholics were forced from their homes by marauding B Specials supported by the illegal British administration ? |
| 14 | At dawn on 27 February 1991 nine Orkney children were taken from their beds by social workers and police , and flown away from their parents and their island homes to ‘ Places of Safety ’ on the Scottish mainland . |
| 15 | In June 1991 , following the trauma in Orkney , the government announced categorically that no more children were to be taken from their homes by social workers in dawn raids . |