Example sentences of "was [vb pp] [prep] [noun] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said : ‘ Inspectors sent to investigate the premises then found it was infested with cockroaches from infant to adult stage , alive and dead , on work surfaces , in the waste bins , around the cooker and behind two storage freezers . ’ |
| 2 | In Bath , Nicholas Godfrey , 16 , was plucked to safety from the swollen River Avon as he clung on to a branch . |
| 3 | On Oct. 22 Mohorita was recalled by deputies from the Federal Assembly Presidium , although the reason cited was that he had breached protocol by chewing gum during a speech to the Assembly on Sept. 13 by France 's President Mitterrand . |
| 4 | In the months after legislation was passed , the Home Office was inundated with letters from local police chiefs and magistrates demanding clarification on the extent of the new police powers of prosecution . |
| 5 | The programme has broken new ground for Asian actors , the crew was inundated with requests from young Asian actors for parts . |
| 6 | THE Class 47 Locomotive Society came a step nearer today to preserving 47401 , the pioneer ‘ Generator ’ engine of the class when it was withdrawn by BR from the petroleum fleet at Immingham depot , writes PETER HILL . |
| 7 | He was intoxicated by cinema from the start , and his films came directly out of his own experiences and from a total dedication . |
| 8 | Cirencester , Gloucestershire-based start-up , Beaver Valley Systems Ltd , has signed to market Precision Visuals International 's PV Wave visual analysis software : BVS , an X-Windows specialist was formed by refugees from Meiko and DEC . |
| 9 | Following the February revolution , a Central Ukrainian Council ( the ‘ Rada ’ ) was formed in Kiev from the small circle of nationalists . |
| 10 | As he has explained , Mr. Brand was dismissed by BR from his post as a senior steward with InterCity On Board Services — InterCity 's train catering division — in November 1990 . |
| 11 | Under the old rating system , spending was limited to income from a 2p in the pound rate and an equivalent restriction was continued under the poll tax . |
| 12 | Since the Hungarians had forced him to accept the famous ‘ Compromise ’ of June 1867 which divided the Austrian dominions , Franz-Joseph 's field of action in foreign policy was limited by pressures from the Hungarian half of the Empire . |
| 13 | Assistance was given by brigades from Stony Stratford and Newport Pagnell . |
| 14 | The camera was placed at 1.0m from a masked wall , and subjects were fixed to this wall in the case of cards , immediately in front of it for plants . |
| 15 | Most recently of all , the industry was shaken by signals from Whitehall last year that the size and shape of the armed forces might be transformed . |
| 16 | He always sat at ‘ the Painters ’ table' which was regarded with envy from other quarters , in part because of the noisy laughter engendered by Minton 's wit . |
| 17 | A request under the Convention was received in England from the Sandefjord City Court , Norway , asking that a director and a senior employee of a London merchant bank be examined as to the ownership and control of certain assets and of a charitable trust said to control those assets . |
| 18 | A letter was received in Bonn from the RAF " Command Unit Juliane Plambeck " , claiming responsibility for an attack on Ignaz Kiechle , the Food , Agriculture and Forestry Minister . |
| 19 | The room was filled with books from the Library at Broadcasting House , the BBC headquarters , and the Langham Hotel opposite , which the BBC occupied for so many years . |
| 20 | I suddenly realised the air was filled with soot from the chimneys above and the snow was taking on the appearance of cottage cheese sprinkled with black pepper . |
| 21 | The firemen 's department was filled with men from inland towns or anywhere from whence they could be obtained . |
| 22 | This was developed without assistance from the bureau or the IMS . |
| 23 | Like the development of the original version of Illustrator from a font creation tool , Aldus 's recently introduced FreeHand product was developed by Altsys from a similar background , in this case their Fontographer product . |
| 24 | Anthropology has always provided the clearest symptomatic instance , as was foreseen by Rousseau from the outset . |
| 25 | A rebellion led by the disaffected Duke of Buckingham was crushed with help from , amongst other , the Goldsmiths ' Company : fifty-six of them were ordered each to raise between one and five others , in addition to 73 young men out of the livery . |
| 26 | His body was riddled with bullets from the Skorpion . |
| 27 | Meanwhile , intense lobbying was reported of deputies from Estonia , Georgia and other strongly nationalist-minded republics who were threatening to boycott the vote on the grounds that strengthening centralized executive authority ran counter to recent official proposals for restructuring the Soviet Union into a looser confederation of sovereign republics . |
| 28 | The debate was enlivened by contributions from long-standing unilateralists like Tony Benn , Ron Todd and Bruce Kent , the former leader of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament . |
| 29 | However the windscreen of his aircraft was shattered by crossfire from other Stukas , and with the radiator damaged , he crash-landed the badly-damaged Fulmar on the carrier 's deck ; neither he nor his TAG , P.O. ( A ) R. Carlisle , suffered injuries . |
| 30 | ‘ Well , I was surrounded by music from birth , practically . |