Example sentences of "was [vb pp] from [noun] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a 10-month battle , self-proclaimed white supremacist Byron de la Beckwith , 70 , was extradited from Tennessee on Oct. 4 to face a third trial in Mississippi for the killing in 1963 of Medgar Evers , at the time the state 's leading black activist [ see p. 19771 ] . |
| 2 | YOUR correspondent ‘ Puzzled ’ ( Writeback , August 19 ) complains that an elderly lady of her acquaintance was discharged from hospital on Friday , August 13 , by ‘ taxi ’ , shared with three other disabled senior citizens . |
| 3 | A 12-hour radio synthesis map of the field of PSR J0437–4715 was made from observations on 13 August 1992 . |
| 4 | The Victorian porch was transported from England on a car roof , bringing unexpected excitement to prosaic motorway travel |
| 5 | However , this model was derived from experiments on linear DNA . |
| 6 | The imposition of an additional levy on alien exporters in 1303 had led to English merchants playing a major part in handling wool shipments later in the century , but it was Edward III 's war taxation for his French campaigns , much of which was derived from levies on wool exports , which did most to promote the development of cloth manufacture in England , by creating a tariff barrier which raised the costs of the raw material to the foreign manufacturers . |
| 7 | This tended to increase the influence of parliament ; and in 1858 , for the first time in British history , a government was driven from office on a foreign policy question . |
| 8 | A senior Iraqi diplomat charged with spying on Iraqi refugees , including Kurds , was expelled from Sweden on Nov. 12 . |
| 9 | A delegation of Canadian MPs was expelled from China on Jan. 7 for " engaging in activities incompatible with their status " . |
| 10 | A correspondent for the Independent , Robert Fisk , was expelled from Turkey on May 2 after describing ( in a report published on April 30 ) looting of relief supplies by Turkish troops at the Yesilova camp for Iraqi Kurdish refugees in Hakkari province . |
| 11 | Han Dongfang , leader of the workers ' organization during the Tiananmen Square protests , who was held without trial for two years until released on bail for medical treatment in April , was exempted from prosecution on the grounds that he had given himself up , the agency said . |
| 12 | Mr Mandela was brought from prison on Robben Island to join his colleagues , and the trial began on 9 October . |
| 13 | It was overruled from London on the grounds later justified that victory would n't be a shock in the least . |
| 14 | Its financing was switched from levies on member states to the Community 's own resources , and it was set two broad objectives : firstly , to facilitate the employment adjustment resulting from Community policies , and secondly , to help overcome the structural problems experienced by certain regions or target groups , i.e. migrant workers , young job-seekers , women and the handicapped . |
| 15 | Ferniehirst was removed from office on English insistence , and gradually calm was restored . |
| 16 | The first secretary of the Azerbaijan CP committee in the Nakhichevan ASSR , Gaidar Isayev , was removed from office on Jan. 3 , ostensibly on " health grounds " but apparently as a consequence of the border incidents . |
| 17 | President Najibullah was removed from power on April 15 , after elements of the ruling Hezb-e Watan , with some military support , carried out what was effectively a low-key coup . |
| 18 | This report was filed from Tokyo on Tuesday by James Mates : |
| 19 | It was delivered from Ford on a transporter to in Daybrook , run off the transporter , they did the P D I , she went to collect her brand new car and got as far as Kwik-Save in Sherwood . |
| 20 | This report from Andrew Simmonds was sent from Dublin on Thursday : |
| 21 | Marian Munteanu , 28 , the president of the League of Students , who had been badly beaten and arrested on June 14 during the crackdown against anti-communist demonstrators in Bucharest 's University Square [ see pp. 37544-45 ] , was released from detention on Aug. 2 . |
| 22 | Bembenek was released from jail on December 9 after serving 10 years for the murder of Christine Schultz . |
| 23 | Azem Vlasi , the former leader of the League of Communists in Kosovo , was released from custody on April 24 , together with 13 other persons , after being acquitted on charges of instigating counter-revolutionary demonstrations in the province . |
| 24 | Lafontaine made a quick recovery and was released from hospital on May 2 . |
| 25 | Schäuble was released from hospital on Oct. 31 after two operations to remove a bullet lodged near his spine . |
| 26 | Gen. Hartono Resko Dharsono , Indonesia 's most prominent dissident , was released from prison on Sept. 16 . |
| 27 | He was released from prison on Feb. 9 , 1990 , and held a seventh meeting with Arafat on March 9 . |
| 28 | A British businessman , Roger Cooper , 55 , was released from prison on April 1 and returned to London on April 2 . |
| 29 | Mario Chanes de Armas , 65 , who took part in the 1953 assault on the Moncada Barracks and was one of the original rebels who had landed in the Granma in 1956 to launch the revolution , was released from prison on July 16 , after serving 30 years for allegedly plotting to assassinate Castro . |
| 30 | Jimmy Stevens , the leader of a secessionist rebellion in Vanuatu in 1980 [ see pp. 30642-44 ] , was released from prison on Aug. 19 after serving 11 years of a 14@1/2-year sentence for treason . |