Example sentences of "were [vb pp] from [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Short courses , for teachers already in post , were arranged from time to time , though they assumed nothing like the significance that in-service provision was to have later . |
| 2 | All cars of this batch were withdrawn from service with the reorganization of services in the summer of 1927 . |
| 3 | Most recently , in July 1991 , two fine Balthasar Denner heads of ‘ Old Women ’ were withdrawn from sale in London when it was learned that they had been looted from the Dresden Museum . |
| 4 | In military terms the imperial era came to an end when the last British troops were withdrawn from East of Suez in 1972 , but politically it had ended sixteen years earlier at Suez . |
| 5 | The voices of churchmen were heard from time to time , perhaps frequently , complaining of the enslavement of Christians , or of the treatment of slaves ; but there was no radical attack on the institution as such . |
| 6 | Long drives were undertaken from town to town , even country to country . |
| 7 | The likes of Naomi Campbell and Linda Evangelista were clad from head to toe in leather , rubber , latex and PVC . |
| 8 | First , the Athenians who were dismissed from Ithome for ‘ subversive tendencies ’ were not the Athenians who were at that moment overturning the Areopagus but precisely Kimon and ‘ his ’ hoplites ( but we have no right to assume that he chose them personally ; four thousand are a lot of people to know by name ) . |
| 9 | Inspectors , some of them Englishmen , were dismissed from time to time for accepting bribes or for other dubious practices . |
| 10 | Except in Catalonia , the lower ranges of the legal profession were despised — in the Basque Provinces lawyers were debarred from participation in the local assemblies . |
| 11 | The ‘ Vyborg Manifesto ’ elicited little response and those who took part were debarred from election to the next Duma . |
| 12 | During a time of harsh military discipline , when drum-head courts , public floggings and hangings were carried out to ‘ encourage the rest ’ , the 93rd were excused from attendance at show-piece parades ; because not a single member of their regiment was ever punished . |
| 13 | In some parts of the country , ploughs , decorated with coloured ribbons , were carried from house to house and then a mumming play was performed . |
| 14 | Police released a list of survivors : Henry Wyllie , 20 , Helen Lawrie , 48 , and Paula Gaunt , 28 , were discharged from hospital after treatment ; Dawn Howbridge , 19 , and Martin Baptie , 19 , were said to be satisfactory in hospital . |
| 15 | Of the original cohort of 33 , six of 14 patients with moderate hepatic dysfunction were discharged from hospital after transplantation , and four remained alive and well at long term follow up ( three also had moderate renal dysfunction ) . |
| 16 | Fourteen of 19 patients with normal or mildly abnormal hepatic function were discharged from hospital after successful transplantation , 10 being alive at long term follow up . |
| 17 | Of the six patients who underwent intra-aortic balloon counterpulsation and were discharged from hospital after transplantation two are alive , the four others having died at 10 weeks , 31 , 42 , and 61 months . |
| 18 | The remaining 119 ( 84% ) patients were discharged from hospital after treatment . |
| 19 | The princes were seen from time to time when , with a strong guard , they rode through the streets of the City . |
| 20 | Plants were grown from seed in a 38-m long chamber in a ventilated glasshouse . |
| 21 | Durham were saved from relegation despite losing 23–3 at home to Stourbridge as other results in National Division Four North went their way . |
| 22 | His two children , aged 18 months and seven months , were sleeping eight feet from the explosion , but were saved from injury by the bomb-proofing and reinforced glass that all VIPs in the province get in their homes . |
| 23 | Heavy reclamation walls were built from time to time as the docks were extended seawards and today , the dock estate lies entirely on land reclaimed from the foreshore . |
| 24 | Children were collected from home by special bus and places were available on demand . |
| 25 | His original intention was to have the walls constructed out of fibre glass , but costs proved prohibitive and so they were made from wood with vacuum-formed PVC roundels used for the indents . |
| 26 | The first such coins were made from electrum from the rivers that flowed down from the Troilus Mountains , but advantage was soon taken of the different status in the traditional value system of the gold and silver components to separate them and use them for different denominations . |
| 27 | Therefore , in the case of capital expenditure out of reserves , the revenue effect is recorded only when the contributions were made from revenue into the reserve accounts . |
| 28 | A number of reconstructions were made from time to time , especially under Julius Caesar and Augustus . |
| 29 | ‘ All normal programmes were cancelled and brief announcements were made from time to time , interspersed with solemn music , ’ recalls Jean Williams , of Noel 's Court , Catterick Village . |
| 30 | The long shells of the hulls were wiped from view by the heave of the sea , so that the prow platforms and tents of the poop could no longer be seen , and only the pennanted masts told where they were , until they rode into view once more , in a steam of spume from the bite of the oars . |