Example sentences of "had been [vb pp] [adv] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | The prices for oil and gas sold to Russian enterprises had been increased sixfold from May 18 , but were still controlled . |
| 2 | In the summer Henry James used to work in the ‘ Garden Room ’ which had been built apart from the house as a banqueting room . |
| 3 | The station resembled the early Earth Pioneer space stations which had been built outwards from the home planet to the stars . |
| 4 | Rebus and Osvaldo had been blown away from each other some three metres . |
| 5 | I guessed that she had been blown far from her oasis , and now there was no landmark other than the wheelbarrow , not a tree , not a blade of grass , not a ripple on the plain , nor a rock bigger than my fist . |
| 6 | A provincial assembly of the clergy , to which proctors came in greater numbers than to parliament and which all abbots and priors were entitled to attend , was increasingly the body through which the clergy were taxed ; gradually the name of convocation , which had been applied haphazardly from the early twelfth century to a variety of ecclesiastical gatherings , was reserved for this assembly . |
| 7 | Her first impressions , she supposed , had been gained merely from his hostile attitude at the fountain . |
| 8 | A number of teachers had been sent away from our area , too ; some off them as far away as Naples . |
| 9 | Thérèse knew that she had been sent away from her parents at the age of two months , to be fed by Rose , that she had lived with Rose for sixteen months . |
| 10 | John van Loon had been sent home from work for wearing a kaftan and he laughed about it . |
| 11 | One problem during the tour had centred on the young fast bowler Roy Gilchrist , who had been sent home from India for disciplinary reasons ; after the tour , opinion was divided as to whether his misdemeanours should mean the end of his Test career or whether he should be helped back into the fold by someone such as Worrell , whom he worshipped . |
| 12 | In 1762 , for example , Lord Panmure was advised by one of the Angus voters that upon the death of a tide waiter at Montrose , a replacement had been sent there from Alloa or some other place on the Firth of Forth . |
| 13 | There were other things he would not tell her either , such as the reason he had been called away from the restaurant . |
| 14 | Previously , investigations like this had been done mainly from the outsider 's point of view , and it was men like Evans-Pritchard ( 1902–73 ) , Radcliffe-Brown ( 1881–1955 ) , and , particularly , Malinowski ( 1884–1942 ) , who determined that the only really effective way of understanding the way of life of these peoples was to go and live among them for an extended period of time , learning their language , and becoming accepted as a member of their social groups . |
| 15 | We noticed the man 's wallet had been cut away from the belt round his waist . |
| 16 | The latter had been redeployed there from Malta in July 1960 in anticipation of just such a crisis . |
| 17 | As a BCP politburo and secretariat member until mid-1988 , he had been widely regarded as the person most likely to lead political reform in Bulgaria , but he had been dismissed abruptly from the party leadership in July 1988 [ see p. 36304 ] . |
| 18 | The residence of the Metropolitan had been transferred here from Vladimir and Ivan III ( the Great ) , 1462 — 1505 , had the wooden buildings of the Kremlin largely rebuilt in more durable materials . |
| 19 | The track had become a shallow river : the clay had been eaten away from the broken rock and pebble surface , and the front wheel of the motor cycle kicked continuously against the handlebars . |
| 20 | Nuadu could see that even the pale , jellied part of one eye was partly missing and he had the sudden sickening impression that it had been eaten away from within . |
| 21 | By mid December the main flow of the Tara had been diverted away from the base of the dam . |
| 22 | He had been turned away from the door of a local clan chief and needed a place to spend the night . |
| 23 | But the Lady Prioress had maintained that de Craon had been turned away from Godstowe . |
| 24 | Green himself had been turned away from a polling station in the capital , Georgetown , for lack of identity papers ; this prompted his supporters , drawn from slum districts , to go on the rampage , attacking the Commission 's headquarters and that of the PPP and looting and vandalising scores of Indian shops . |
| 25 | More than ten thousand new age travellers and rave enthusiasts converged on the site of a disused quarry near the cotswold village of Lechlade ; many had been turned away from an aborted gathering at hungerford , swelling the numbers even more . |
| 26 | Dacourt estimated we had killed scores of our assailants but only three corpses were dragged in , all of them casualties of the ladder which had been pushed away from the outer wall . |
| 27 | Nevertheless , such a post had its drawbacks : the prince could detain his musicians at will , and , on one occasion , Haydn was obliged to drop his patron a heavy hint — in the form of the ‘ Farewell ’ Symphony — that the court orchestra members had been kept away from their families in Vienna for too long . |
| 28 | Jack Foley began , but then he saw the car that had been pulled away from the corner where it had crashed . |
| 29 | I have led back into the homeland the millions of deeply unhappy Germans who had been torn away from us . |
| 30 | She was about to replace it when she noticed that the satin lining in the bottom of the case had been torn away from one edge , and stitched back into place with large clumsy stitches . |