Example sentences of "were [vb pp] from [noun] on " in BNC.
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1 | Both regression analyses were calculated from data on 448 women because of missing values in one of the exposure or confounding variables . |
2 | Tanks were withdrawn from Tirana on Feb. 25 and the city was reported to be calm , but army patrols remained , and sporadic gunfire was reported each night until the end of the month . |
3 | Key Mafia figures arrested independently of the operation in September were Giuseppe Madonia , the Sicilian Mafia 's second in command , on Sept. 6 ; Pasquale , Paolo and Gaspare Cuntrera , powerful Sicilian Mafia " bankers " and drug traffickers who were extradited from Venezuela on Sept.11 after years of delays ; Carmine Alfieri , the Camorra chief described as Italy 's major gangster , on Sept. 11 ; and Domenico Libri , the supposed head of the Calabrian Mafia or N'Drangheta , in Marseille on Sept.16 . |
4 | More than 100 foreign aid workers were evacuated from Juba on Jan. 29-30 , benefiting from a brief ceasefire called by the SPLA . |
5 | The inscriptions were copied from texts on papyri and certainly date back to the New Kingdom but are probably based on much earlier writings , perhaps as early as the Third Dynasty . |
6 | Various emergency regulations were relaxed for the week prior to the poll to allow campaigning to proceed , but were reintroduced from midnight on May 11-12 . |
7 | The excavation also produced an unusual number of ox-goads and styli and all this may indicate the use of the establishment as a place where animals were brought from farms on the estate and prepared for market . |
8 | A bomb exploded on March 30 at the Addis Ababa Hilton hotel near the apartment of the new Israeli ambassador ( who had presented his credentials on March 23 ) , and two Libyan diplomats , reportedly held responsible , were expelled from Ethiopia on March 31 . |
9 | Traditional ideas about the primitive vertebrate tail were derived from studies on pteraspid heterostracans . |
10 | The last three were taken from forms on which subjects recorded three consecutive defecations , this being done satisfactorily by 77% of the subjects . |
11 | A former Cabinet minister , Edward Rurangaranga , and five others were released from prison on Jan. 23 after the state dropped murder charges against them for lack of evidence . |
12 | Three members of the Roman Catholic clergy belonging to the pro-Vatican underground church were released from prison on Jan. 28 , according to Reuters news agency . |
13 | The leaders of the black Moslem fundamentalist Jamaat al-Moslemeen , Yasin Abu Bakr and Bilal Abdullah , and 114 other members of the group were released from prison on July 1 . |