Example sentences of "be [vb pp] from the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Gradually , and despite the readiness with which the ranks of the baseej had been filled from the towns and villages , a sense of war-weariness was apparent in Iran ; in 1984 there were even newspaper reports of a loss of the will to fight in the ranks .
2 It 's so persuasively and convincingly argued — especially for those of us most happy to be convinced — that it 's a trifle dampening to be reminded that these are ‘ image patterns whose sexual significance may have been hidden from the poet on a conscious level … .
3 Like Rey and others , he had been dismissed from the Paris Conservatoire in 1802 after various disagreements .
4 Both had been dismissed from the Army for involvement in a previous attempt in May 1988 .
5 Seineldin , leader of an unsuccessful military coup against the previous government of President Raúl Alfonsín in December 1988 [ see p. 36394 ] , had been dismissed from the Army in October 1989 [ see p. 36972 ) .
6 By the fortunes of politics , it has been dismissed from the scene .
7 A prison officer who had been dismissed from the prison service appealed against his dismissal to the Civil Service Appeal Board , which held that his dismissal was unfair .
8 Shildon , he explained , had been dismissed from the Detroit paper towards the end of a long and exhaustive investigation which , if the results had been published , could have had serious repercussions for MacQuillan 's political associates .
9 Ingraham , a former protegé of Pindling , had been dismissed from the PLP and the Cabinet in 1984 because he had recommended the dismissal of officials who were publicly linked to drugs trafficking [ see pp. 33401-02 ] .
10 The problems have also been examined from the vantage of the archivist .
11 Correlations with time at junction , average speed over junction and the number of vehicles seen at the junction are calculated from the video record for 28 subjects only .
12 These are calculated from the number of students registered for each module together with its size , single or double , rather than from class hours .
13 Means from the current study are calculated from the data from 18 subjects for each point .
14 Until I come right inside , I am hidden from the wash basins .
15 Verticals are erected from the plan to provide vertical surfaces that are not true to scale .
16 For the past 11 and a half years , Michelle Howard has been paralysed from the chest down ; the result , she claims , of a routine jaw operation she underwent at Poole General Hospital in 1982 .
17 Michelle has been paralysed from the chest down for the past 11 years — the result , she claims , of a routine jaw operation she underwent at Poole General Hospital in November 1982 .
18 It had been made in 1942 but had not been shown until the Nazis had been banished from the country .
19 Since Pike 's behaviour at the last seance , he had been banished from the Quigley presence .
20 Today , Abul Ismail had stayed at her side , and now Nicholas had been banished from the sickroom .
21 Unlike the other two candidates , little has been heard from the business strategy lecturer at Durham University Business School since the byelection .
22 An O licence normally authorizes more vehicles to be operated than are listed from the start .
23 A similar belt of Mesozoic ophiolites has been traced from the Taurus Mountains of southern Turkey , just into northern Syria and Iraq and then on through Iran to Oman .
24 Cross cultural comparisons are developed from the study of an area in England and another in France .
25 There had been a struggle , buttons had been ripped from the waistcoat , which was open , and a silver pocket watch dangled from its silver chain .
26 ‘ Wires had been ripped from the wall and deliberately attached to metal furniture in the barricades , ’ he said .
27 The panel has been ripped from the bath .
28 Broken glass and china lay everywhere , littered across the torn remains of the carpet which had been ripped from the stairs .
29 Phenformin has subsequently been withdrawn from the register of prescribable drugs in the UK .
30 Troops had been withdrawn from the west , but not because the likelihood of attack in that quarter had diminished .
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