Example sentences of "were [vb pp] from [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most recently , in July 1991 , two fine Balthasar Denner heads of ‘ Old Women ’ were withdrawn from sale in London when it was learned that they had been looted from the Dresden Museum . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Plants were grown from seed in a 38-m long chamber in a ventilated glasshouse . |
| 4 | In Sweden the Social Democrats were ousted from power in 1976 after forty-five years in office by an alliance of ‘ bourgeois ’ parties , although they returned to office in 1982 . |
| 5 | Kadet sympathizers were swept from office in the zemstvo elections of 1906 , and even the more moderate Octobrist party , dedicated to cautious co-operation with the government on the basis of the Fundamental Laws , found growing difficulty in resisting the rightward shift of rank-and-file noblemen . |
| 6 | Other lesser interests and associations continued to exist but they were excluded from influence in crucial areas of public policy and were left out in the political cold . |
| 7 | Following the Restoration he was considered sufficiently dangerous and obnoxious to be listed as one of the twenty non-regicides whose property was to be forfeit and who were excluded from office in perpetuity . |
| 8 | However , in July 1906 , together with Nos. 36–45 , they were removed from service in Croydon , taken and dumped on the site in Aurelia Road , off Mitcham Road . |
| 9 | LIBERALDemocrat candidate Ian Cameron asked the police to intervene after a number of boards promoting his campaign were removed from land in the outlying village of Elwick . |
| 10 | All but one of the ex-PUWP ministers were removed from office in July 1990 . |
| 11 | The bulk of the Prussian peasants were released from service in the years 1811–50 . |
| 12 | Col. Thaabe Letsie and Col. Aloysius Kethang Mosoeunyane , who had been arrested on Feb. 19 , 1990 , and expelled from the Military Council and dismissed from the Army , were released from detention in Maseru in early March . |
| 13 | Two French UNRWA workers were released from captivity in Beirut at the beginning of the year and I had watched their press conference imagining how I would feel if it were John delivering the speech . |
| 14 | An ex-director and an employee of D M de Bruijn , the suppliers of lead-contaminated cow feed , were released from custody in Holland yesterday after a witness withdrew testimony . |
| 15 | Around 40 people convicted of political crimes in connection with acts of defiance during the campaign to impose Slavic names on ethnic Turks were released from prison in accordance with an amnesty bill passed by the National Assembly on Jan. 15 . |
| 16 | Under its terms , Communist or " front " organizations had to register with the Attorney-General ; their members were banned from employment in defence plants , and prevented from obtaining passports ; and no foreigner who had been a member of the Communist Party could enter the USA . |