Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [adv] from the " in BNC.

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1 The Australians were recovering again from the brink of disaster , although a ruthless reprisal raid by Portuguese against the natives who had helped the Japanese was storing up trouble for the future .
2 No reports were received either from the Air Rifle Club or the Youth Club .
3 It 's not that Binbrook was such an important station to warrant all this staff , but as the size of the RAF contracted more and more , Waafs were posted there from the closing satellite stations and at one point there were twelve of us .
4 The Burgage is close to Cheltenham race course and race goers heading for the first day of the Cheltenham Gold Cup meeting were diverted away from the murder house .
5 From the stack of suitcases strapped on the overhead rack and the fact that they were driving away from the coast I guessed they were returning from a holiday .
6 She was only dimly aware of the approach of the two boys who were walking swiftly from the street corner .
7 While not exonerated , the four EC countries concerned — Germany , Greece , Italy and Spain — were considered far from the worst offenders .
8 A report in the International Herald Tribune at the end of August suggested that the Khmers Rouges were keeping away from the UN disarmament process because their forces had grown so small that they would lose influence if the numbers were made public .
9 [ These appointments were omitted inadvertently from the roundups of republican appointments on p. 37384 and p. 37460 . ]
10 The seeds tended to be large and heavy and passed through the gut in 13 hours , the passage time inversely correlated with specific gravity of the seeds and had an indirect effect on the distance that seeds were dispersed away from the mother tree .
11 Tribe caught them up as they were attacking a pair of two-seaters which were climbing away from the British Line , if there still was one , having just bombed an artillery position .
12 Shatila and Bourj el-Brajneh were shelled incessantly from the month of May 1988 .
13 All Dave 's flavours were done apart from the odd few extras ,
14 Dinosaurs overcame this problem by pushing the lower end of the pubic bones behind the hip socket , and so the coils of intestines were thrust backwards from the belly .
15 They were whisked away from the theatre by an ever vigilant matron , who stood over them while they had their dreaded wash with cold water from the jug and basin in their room .
16 She stopped and put her case down for a moment to try and collect herself ; her hands were trembling uncontrollably from the weight .
17 Reporters were turned away from the college , where he has lived since the break-up of his marriage , by the porter , Mr Des Koogan , a former army boxing champion .
18 PUPILS were turned away from the gates of one of Merseyside 's most troubled schools today after a devastating Bonfire Night arson attack .
19 PUPILS were turned away from the gates of one of Merseyside 's most troubled schools today , after a devastating Bonfire Night arson attack .
20 Sometimes farm buildings were built away from the central farmstead .
21 But even that was a better success rate than among the nests that were built away from the colony .
22 Ministers were selected mainly from the ruling National Republican Movement for Democracy and Development ( MRND — until June 1991 the National Revolutionary Movement for Development ) , with one from the Christian Democratic Party ( PDC ) ; both parties had announced their working programmes and had listed members .
23 When the forest was cleared , mostly from the twelfth century onwards , the small fields were enclosed directly from the wild state .
24 People were turning away from the dance spectacle to watch , with varying degrees of amusement , the small drama being enacted in their midst .
25 Its 60 members were drawn equally from the Parliament and the Congress of Estonia , a 495-member body elected as a pressure group in March 1990 by citizens of pre-war Estonia and their descendants .
26 Keith was able to appoint officers even to the coveted rank of captain , which was in that period for all practical purposes the ultimate promotion , since admirals were drawn automatically from the more senior members of the captains ' list .
27 Individual ramblers were drawn principally from the upper echelons of Victorian society , mainly aesthetes , academics and members of the legal profession .
28 Controls matched for age and sex were drawn randomly from the same population at risk , including deaths , out migrants , and in migrants .
29 Its significations were shifted away from the evangelical , nonconformist emphasis of the purity movement .
30 We were heading away from the Fraxilly sector , so Famlio could search in that area all they wanted .
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