Example sentences of "it was [verb] from [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What is of considerable interest and of value in assessing the rights and wrongs of it , is the fact that it was conducted from beginning to end entirely on the one issue , that of the sovereign rights of the inhabitants . |
| 2 | Although he had helped to set up British Aerospace as a nationalised company , he was convinced it could not take on the huge rival plane-makers in the United States unless it was unfettered from government control . |
| 3 | It was withdrawn from service and probably scrapped . |
| 4 | It was made from brandewijn , egg yolks and sugar . |
| 5 | Trafalgar bought the Port Glasgow yard from British Shipbuilders for just £12 million in 1984 , soon after it was converted from shipbuilding to offshore construction work . |
| 6 | The pirate radio station was anchored off Walton on the Naze for several years until it was prevented from broadcasting by the Government . |
| 7 | Company exhibitions manager Rob Axon said : ‘ It was built from scratch to our own design and so will prove far better than the old trailer . |
| 8 | We set off from Amriyah on 13 March , and spent the night with 73 Squadron , as El Adem was unsafe due to the unfriendly attention it was receiving from enemy dive-bombers . |
| 9 | The play was a two-hander , which meant that it was carried from beginning to end by the two stars . |
| 10 | It was , it was going from side to side . |
| 11 | Speaking at the launch of the booklet , David Pollock , Director of ASH , said that the government has accepted since 1965 that cigarette advertising is harmful , especially to children — that 's why it was banned from TV . |
| 12 | He also rejected arguments that the transcript did not fall within the term ‘ documents ’ in s 2(3) of the 1987 Act and that it was protected from disclosure by legal professional privilege . |
| 13 | It was known from collocation studies ( see Chapter 4 ) that the information from co-occurrence relations is optimised at a distance of four words , so the window size was provisionally set at this distance . |
| 14 | Anyone importing or exporting large sums in cash should be obliged to declare it and Customs officers should have power to seize the money if they suspected it was derived from crime . |