Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [was/were] [verb] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our stronger feelings were reserved for the unscrupulous organisers of this sordid trade in human cargoes who were profiting from the Asians ' misery . |
| 2 | It was , of course , not the Springboks but Nick Farr-Jones 's Wallabies who were to emerge from the restored gold mine shining as brightly as a 24-carat nugget to inflict on South Africa their worst-ever defeat in international rugby . |
| 3 | Police fired on a crowd of 4,000 demonstrators who were marching from the suburb of Kirtipur to the city centre , killing at least five . |
| 4 | Manager Sue Frost said the club did not have the strength in depth to support the firsts , seconds and As , who were relegated from the East Super League . |
| 5 | The experienced goalkeeper reckons RUC , who were relegated from the senior ranks last season , Parkview , Larne and Wanderers will all pose a serious threat to his team 's chances . |
| 6 | This was apparent in the BUF where the main administrative clique , who were recruited from the BF , were derided as totally lacking in ideas by the more ideologically committed . |
| 7 | The other seat in 1987 comprised the Speaker ; those at dissolution comprised the Speaker , three Deputy Chairmen of Ways and Means and two former Labour MPs who were expelled from the party in December 1991 and who were sitting as independents . |
| 8 | Two boys who were rescued from the fighting in Lebanon are back tonight at the hospital that rebuilt their bodies and gave them hope for the future . |
| 9 | The construction of such a large building was welcomed by the people of Louth , especially as it would create jobs for many men who were returning from the war . |
| 10 | For instance , I was one of several born in Ipswich you see , and I had advantage over a lot of men who were released from the Guards to come here . |
| 11 | This course was rejected partially out of inertia , and partially because it would have been strongly opposed by the English-educated Sri Lankan élite , who held judicial posts and dominated the legal profession , but who were excluded from the executive branch of government . |
| 12 | In fact , blacks used the Titanic disaster as a symbolic setting for the confrontation between the privileged whites and the poverty-stricken blacks who were excluded from the vessel ( Levine , 1977 , p.427 ) . |
| 13 | In addition , the proffered certainties of Calvinism had great appeal for the many men and women who were suffering from the dislocation and anxiety produced by a period of unpredictable economic development and rapid social change . |
| 14 | And there 'd been quite a number there , obviously in that burns unit , who were suffering from the same type of er injury . |
| 15 | The validity of comparing the effects of cyclosporin and placebo on ulcerative volitis in patients who were not randomly admitted to the study or who were removed from the study owing to the severity of ulcerative colitis disease activity can be justified as follows . |
| 16 | He thought of Emmet 's followers , twenty-one in all , who were hanged from the shafts of upturned carts in the narrow streets of the Liberties . |
| 17 | Scott Quinnell , 19 , was the game 's outstanding forward , and a 50-yard run down the touchline with the ball in one hand and handing off tacklers with the other would have impressed Alan Davies , the Wales coach , who was watching from the stands . |
| 18 | That man could well be former Southampton boss Chris Nicholl , who was watching from the stands . |
| 19 | " Let me out , just for a moment , " called the princess , who was watching from the window . |
| 20 | A key addition is the liberal , Mr Alexander Lilov , who was dismissed from the politburo in 1983 , without explanation , for differing with Mr Zhivkov . |
| 21 | The harshest criticism came from the party ideologist , Mr Stoyan Mihailov , who was dismissed from the central committee last year following disagreements with Mr Zhivkov . |
| 22 | Mr King , who was sacked from the group 's board in November 1989 following a problematic £629m management buyout eight months earlier , was told by a High Court judge that he had carried out his duties correctly . |
| 23 | Peter Jay , who was plucked from the economic editorship of The Times by his father-in-law , Labour Prime Minister James Callaghan , to be made ambassador to Washington , recalls the feelings clearly : |
| 24 | Robert Deane 's daughter married William Dalison of Grays Inn , who was descended from the Dalisons of Lincolnshire and claim descent from one De Alanzon who came over with William the Conqueror . |
| 25 | At a meeting on April 29 the Independent Smallholders ' Party political bureau elected Ferenc Nagy as party chairman in place of Istvan Prepeliczay , a proponent of alliance with the SzDSz , who was excluded from the session . |
| 26 | There was no flag at Hammersmith , so it was difficult to judge who was leading from the launch . |
| 27 | Their Managing Director , Europe , Niccolò Caderni , who was recruited from the banking world two years ago , left the company last month , and Phillips 's European offices will close as the contracts fall in . |
| 28 | DISGRACED sprinter Ben Johnson , who was banned from the last Olympics for taking drugs , was arrested in Barcelona yesterday . |
| 29 | An alien who was brought from the wreckage in a container to the Mill Hill Medical Research Centre survived in our atmosphere for three days , five hours and twenty-five minutes . |
| 30 | The oldest patient in the study was a 92-year-old retired college professor who was admitted from the emergency department with a 3-day history of productive cough , dyspnoea , and fever . |