Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [adv prt] from [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SIX OF the long-term political prisoners whose release the government announced this week , including Walter Sisulu , the former ANC secretary , were flown up from Cape Town to Johannesburg under guard yesterday morning and transferred to Diepkloof prison in Soweto , according to the South African Press Association . |
| 2 | Urgent medical supplies were flown out from Lyneham yesterday , but for many victims the only hope of a full recovery requires the full faclities which only countries like Britain can provide . |
| 3 | Dairyman Crick 's sleeves were rolled up from Monday to Saturday , and the milkers milked in the fields for coolness . |
| 4 | The ordeal ended when they were picked up from Great Barrier Island , 123 days after they had set out from New Zealand . |
| 5 | There was confusion , however , over the position of the two central banks , Gosbank and Vneshekonombank ( Bank for foreign economic relations ) , whose responsibilities were transferred back from RSFSR to central control on Aug. 29 , and whose chairmen , respectively Viktor Gerashchenko and Yuri Moskovsky were reinstated , according to the Financial Times of Aug. 30 , partly as a result of pressure from European banks . |
| 6 | Pakistani irregulars invaded Kashmir — then an independent kingdom ruled by a Hindu king — in October 1948 after which its ruler acceded to India and troops were moved in from New Delhi to check the invasion . |
| 7 | All the outfits on the catwalk were made up from clothes donated to its charity shops . |
| 8 | However during the 1909 Air Display at Squires Gate and again for the steeplechase meetings at the racecourse there , Corporation trams were operated through from Talbot Square , at a fare of 4d . |
| 9 | They were closed down from time to time and checked the day prior to our morning operation . |
| 10 | Moreover , the system of land tenure , wherein the land belongs to the indigenous Fijians and can only be leased to Indo-Fijians ( the descendants of indentured cane workers who were drafted in from India in the early colonial period ) militates against conservation measures because it ensures the political dominance of the former ; and the encouragement of production ensures that such land is seen to be in use , an artefact to maintain internal stability . |
| 11 | A child , named Lewis after his father , was born to Goram and his wife 18 months ago , and added another stabilising dimension to the life of a player now consumed by the need to make the most of the gifts that were handed down from father to son . |
| 12 | It was in fact , a closed shop , and those working practices and skills were handed down from mother to daughter . |
| 13 | A flax processing mill was built in the 19th century and some workers were brought over from Ireland . |
| 14 | We crossed the fields below Underwood and made our way back home as cows were brought in to milk and children were brought in from play for their tea . |
| 15 | After 1760 bulls were brought in from England , the Netherlands and southern Scotland to improve them and some farmers began to specialise in certain colours or coat patterns . |
| 16 | The economy was strengthened and German miners were brought in from Transylvania to develop the copper , tin , gold , silver and lead mines of the interior . |
| 17 | With armfuls of gifts and souvenirs , the 25 youngsters and seven teachers were waved off from Parkeston Quay by their hosts — children , parents and teachers from Harwich School . |
| 18 | The Row was a highly-traditional society where the skills of the trade were passed on from generation to generation . |
| 19 | So stable were these chemical compounds that they were passed on from prey to predator by their accumulation in fatty tissue , involving a metabolic process which led to higher concentrations as the insecticide was passed along the chain . |
| 20 | Thereafter , the fieldworkers were passed on from person to person within the communities ; thus , the informant groups were self-recruited in that the speakers were not known to the investigators beforehand . |
| 21 | By exaggerating these postures the differences were obvious but as the paddle strokes were passed on from instructor to instructor the artificial distortions were slowly adopted into reality . |
| 22 | ‘ Arts ’ , or crafts , relied on practice ; and these traditional activities were passed on from father to son , or at least master to apprentice , as Faraday learned bookbinding , and as Davy had begun to learn medicine . |
| 23 | But senior members of the cast reveal their surprise at the lack of training for young , inexperienced colleagues , the lack of rehearsals and the way lacklustre storylines were sent out from London . |
| 24 | Four more S.79s were sent out from Sicily to search for it but one ran out of fuel and had to ditch , the crew being picked up by an Italian hospital ship . |
| 25 | In the thirteenth century , itinerant royal justices were sent out from time to time with a list of enquiries to put to local communities . |
| 26 | The first forcible repatriations to Vietnam under a new accord signed by the United Kingdom and Vietnamese governments on May 12 [ see p. 38912 ] took place on June 19 , when 28 Vietnamese adults and 10 children deemed to be " economic migrants " were sent back from Hong Kong . |
| 27 | The busiest place , by far , was Prestwick ; during the war years , in addition to other busy service and civilian traffic , 20,000 military planes were ferried in from North America for distribution to various bases and war zones . |
| 28 | CHUBB Security , which was floated off from Racal Electronics last October , today published a sparkling first set of accounts as a separate company . |
| 29 | He was flown out from Dublin airport to Manchester after waiving the rights he possessed under Irish law which would have allowed him to stage a marathon legal battle to stay in the Republic . |
| 30 | David Smith was flown in from England as cover for Gooch , only to have his thumb badly bruised in the one-day international in Barbados and so miss the Bridgetown Test . |