Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] from [noun prp] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tanks were withdrawn from Tirana on Feb. 25 and the city was reported to be calm , but army patrols remained , and sporadic gunfire was reported each night until the end of the month . |
| 2 | Key Mafia figures arrested independently of the operation in September were Giuseppe Madonia , the Sicilian Mafia 's second in command , on Sept. 6 ; Pasquale , Paolo and Gaspare Cuntrera , powerful Sicilian Mafia " bankers " and drug traffickers who were extradited from Venezuela on Sept.11 after years of delays ; Carmine Alfieri , the Camorra chief described as Italy 's major gangster , on Sept. 11 ; and Domenico Libri , the supposed head of the Calabrian Mafia or N'Drangheta , in Marseille on Sept.16 . |
| 3 | More than 100 foreign aid workers were evacuated from Juba on Jan. 29-30 , benefiting from a brief ceasefire called by the SPLA . |
| 4 | A bomb exploded on March 30 at the Addis Ababa Hilton hotel near the apartment of the new Israeli ambassador ( who had presented his credentials on March 23 ) , and two Libyan diplomats , reportedly held responsible , were expelled from Ethiopia on March 31 . |
| 5 | After a 10-month battle , self-proclaimed white supremacist Byron de la Beckwith , 70 , was extradited from Tennessee on Oct. 4 to face a third trial in Mississippi for the killing in 1963 of Medgar Evers , at the time the state 's leading black activist [ see p. 19771 ] . |
| 6 | The Victorian porch was transported from England on a car roof , bringing unexpected excitement to prosaic motorway travel |
| 7 | A senior Iraqi diplomat charged with spying on Iraqi refugees , including Kurds , was expelled from Sweden on Nov. 12 . |
| 8 | A delegation of Canadian MPs was expelled from China on Jan. 7 for " engaging in activities incompatible with their status " . |
| 9 | A correspondent for the Independent , Robert Fisk , was expelled from Turkey on May 2 after describing ( in a report published on April 30 ) looting of relief supplies by Turkish troops at the Yesilova camp for Iraqi Kurdish refugees in Hakkari province . |
| 10 | It was overruled from London on the grounds later justified that victory would n't be a shock in the least . |
| 11 | This report was filed from Tokyo on Tuesday by James Mates : |
| 12 | It was delivered from Ford on a transporter to in Daybrook , run off the transporter , they did the P D I , she went to collect her brand new car and got as far as Kwik-Save in Sherwood . |
| 13 | This report from Andrew Simmonds was sent from Dublin on Thursday : |