Example sentences of "they [was/were] [verb] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although they were later acquitted of illegally importing arms and ammunition for use in the North , they were dismissed from the cabinet for their part in the affair . |
| 2 | ‘ I told them that they were barred from the club from now on . |
| 3 | But they were cut from the programme after it overran by 10 minutes . |
| 4 | Jack did not like flowers , or rather said he was ‘ bothered ’ by them , and they were banished from the upstairs rooms . |
| 5 | Otherwise the tt building will have deemed to not comply to B one of the building regulations which I do n't want to go into too much detail but basically what it is that with effect from nineteen ninety one the smoke alarm smoke detector bill came into er operation and it was brought in into the nineteen ninety two building regulations when they were amended from the nineteen eighty five regulations that states now any new build homes shall have and be fitted with a mains operated , with battery backup , smoke detection system . |
| 6 | They were built from the materials closest to hand and so have an utterly distinct regional character . |
| 7 | They were joined from the upper chest to the pelvis and had two arms and one leg each . |
| 8 | They were obtained from the age-sex register of a large general practice in London , and those who responded ( 77% ) were similar to the national average in height , weight , and smoking habits . |
| 9 | They were to depart from the Western Gate . |
| 10 | Ammianus also thought that they were descended from the Romans . |
| 11 | Many were kicked and beaten by eight or more stewards before being flung into the street : ‘ In nearly every case they were bleeding from the head and face and their clothing was badly torn … . ’ |
| 12 | They were made from the road , without Mr Freitag even crossing the garden gate let alone probing around the bedrooms . |
| 13 | In the crowds were to be found most kinds of urban and industrial workers but hardly ever farm labourers ; in many cases they were shielded from the market by receiving part of their wages in kind , and in general the authority structure of the countryside was sufficient to deter them from rioting . |
| 14 | A close comparison of all the details of the heads reveals no differences , and shows that they were struck from the same die . |
| 15 | Before their arrival at Heathrow , their passports and tickets were confiscated ; when the British Airways plane landed , they were separated from the other passengers , put into a van and driven around for several hours before being forced back on the plane and sent out of the UK . |
| 16 | The day-to-day operation of power stations remained under the control of the six National Grid Control Centres , which ( now they were freed from the financial provisions which had governed their relationship to the independent undertakings ) were able to run them in a more efficient merit order , reducing the cost of generation . |
| 17 | It seems to hang threateningly over the village , with massive detached boulders of slate ready to topple if you put a foot wrong , and great heaps of rubble lie where they were detached from the rock face by gunpowder , which was also made in the vicinity . |
| 18 | Not in concrete of course but er you had erm They were wedged from the the erm Oh there was a a granary above barn , then from the rafters there , you had a big a bit of wood to wedge them down solid . |
| 19 | Seated together on a bench seat by a warm hearth , it seemed to Joan that they were isolated from the intrigue and controversy that were presently raging around the royal family . |
| 20 | They were isolated from the crowd , their arms linked , the woman gazing up in to his face . |
| 21 | There they were dragged from the truck to Mr Stokle 's Vauxhall Viva car , which had followed . |
| 22 | They were selected from the medical records of two general practices ( details of sample selection are described in Appendix I ) . |
| 23 | Creed opened the glass panel one morning as they were returning from the airport and said , ‘ Where do you live , Spaghetti ? ’ |
| 24 | Immediately afterwards the UDF deputies announced that they were withdrawing from the GNA indefinitely . |
| 25 | The two other presidential candidates , Alfonso Santos of the Christian Democratic Front and Guadalupe de Seita , an independent , announced at the end of February that they were withdrawing from the ballot , complaining that government funds had been made available for the Trovoada campaign . |
| 26 | The four opposition parties announced on Nov. 13 that they were withdrawing from the parliamentary elections set for Dec. 8 in protest at the failure of their demand for a new voters ' register . |
| 27 | It was a time of great British expansion and it is thought that , in the guise of ships ' cats , they were scattered from the British Isles all over the globe in a comparatively short space of time . |
| 28 | Two days later letters arrived saying they were banned from the club . |
| 29 | They were doomed from the day — admittedly belated — in 2007 when the European Community 's economic and monetary union ( EMU ) became reality and its 29 currencies merged in the ecu . |
| 30 | ‘ They were doomed from the moment they entered the Net , ’ Lacuna said . |