Example sentences of "been [verb] from [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has previously been sacked from one of her schools because she slept with her pupils . |
| 2 | Confirmation has already been received from four of the world 's top 10 players , Stefan Edberg , Ivan Lendl , Pete Sampras and Guy Forget . |
| 3 | The workforce has been slashed from 410,000 to below 300,000 . |
| 4 | Their recent odds have been slashed from 5-2 to 7-4 and then 6-4 yesterday . |
| 5 | David , 38 , and willowy blonde Serena have been picked from hundreds of hopefuls to star in Diana : Her True Story . |
| 6 | A part of this is personal : the shadow of Labour 's punitive taxation plans has been lifted from thousands of households . |
| 7 | But within a few years of the end of the war , responsibility for trunk roads , gas , electricity , national assistance and hospital services had been transferred from local to central government control . |
| 8 | The turn of the century marks the real change in Freud 's work , which had been developing from 1895 through his self-analysis . |
| 9 | Many translations have been made from direct to jungle English as warnings to writers of reports . |
| 10 | This outline shows class 4 to be vacant , linguistics having been moved from 4 to 8 in 1963 to make room for future developments . |
| 11 | He had been selected from hundreds of applicants with stars in their eyes by producer Harry Adair , and was due to appear at the Broadcasting House auditions on Saturday . |
| 12 | English law , for example , provides an offence of rape and attempted rape on the one hand with maximum penalties of life imprisonment , and indecent assault on the other , with a maximum penalty which has recently been raised from two to ten years ’ imprisonment . |
| 13 | The marginal interest rate had early on Nov. 19 been raised from 11.5 to 20 per cent , in an attempt to defend the krona , but cut again to 12.5 per cent by the end of the day , by which time the krona had lost around 9 per cent of its value against the deutschmark . |
| 14 | The target for electricity generated by combined heat and power ( CHP ) schemes has been raised from 4,000 to 5,000 megawatts . |
| 15 | The youth was certainly one of the vagabond gipsies , and it looked as if he had been spying out Farmer Yatton 's land , for the very next morning Angela 's daddy came into the farmhouse with the news that several sacks of potatoes and a quantity of oats had been stolen from one of the storehouses during the night . |
| 16 | ‘ Sacks of things have been stolen from one of the storehouses , ’ she explained to Cheryl . |
| 17 | There is only one civil destruction which can be accepted with certainty , and that is the effect of the sacking of Camulodunum ( Hull , 1958 , 152 — 156 , 198 — 202 ; Dunnett , 1967 , 48 — 54 ; 1971 , 18–23 and probably 54–56 ) , London ( Marsden , 1974 ) and Verulamium ( Frere , 1972 , period I ) in AD 60 , and already useful collections of pottery have been recovered from two of these . |
| 18 | Mean speeds have been reduced from 27 to 22 km/h ( a 20 per cent fall ) , with the most effective measures proving to be road-humps ( less than 60 metres apart ) and mini-roundabouts . |
| 19 | The volume of government activity has therefore become a passive residual in a planning cycle that has been reduced from five to three years . |
| 20 | I remember asking on the shop floor of a division , the board of which had been reduced from fifteen to four , what the major difference was This was not because the fifteen previous board members had felt to be down the line , and was told , to my surprise , that the biggest difference was that they now knew what was going on . |
| 21 | It has been reduced from six to five issues a week . |
| 22 | The reversionary or annual bonuses paid on the bonuses already declared on with-profits endowments have been reduced from 7 to 5 per cent — although the bonus on the benefit assured remains at 3 per cent . |
| 23 | Does he realise that the mining fraternity has been reduced from 22,000 in 1979 , to fewer than 8,000 now and that in my constituency seven collieries have been closed and 5,000 miners made redundant ? |
| 24 | An offer had been made previously , whereby the waiting period would have been reduced from 18 to 12 months but the initial payment held at 54 per cent for a year . |
| 25 | Within Dagenham 's body and assembly plants , the number of managerial layers has been reduced from eight to five with the creation of four ‘ mini plants ’ and the decentralization of finance and quality-assurance activities ( British Institute of Management , 1985 ) . |
| 26 | Gen. Tadeusz Wilecki took over as Chief of General Staff of the Polish Army on Aug. 12 , replacing Gen. Zdzislaw Stelmaszuk , who said that during his five years in command , the army had been reduced from 412,000 to 217,000 soldiers . |
| 27 | Gen. Tadeusz Wilecki took over as Chief of General Staff of the Polish Army on Aug. 12 , replacing Gen. Zdzislaw Stelmaszuk , who said that during his five years in command , the army had been reduced from 412,000 to 217,000 soldiers . |
| 28 | The entire Cabinet resigned to facilitate the re-shuffle and Prime Minister Michael Manley announced that the total number of ministers , ministers of state and parliamentary secretaries had been reduced from 39 to 28 . |
| 29 | As a consequence , the department has been reduced from 19 to six — departmental manager and five supervisors . |
| 30 | Entries for the Diamond Sculls have been reduced from 24 to 16 . |