Example sentences of "been [vb pp] from a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , while her non-dramatic soul was saying that to present herself at Vasey 's looking the way she did was going a bit over the top , she had never been dismissed from a job before . |
| 2 | Mr Cowan said Lady Kennedy 's promiscuous behaviour was ‘ not unusual for her ’ and she had once been sacked from a job for ‘ obscene behaviour ’ . |
| 3 | A Bloke 's been sacked from a job for having a tattoo of Betty Boop. so it says . |
| 4 | These have mostly been calculated from the speed and force needed to embed swords in wooden hulled ships and boats ; a speed of 57.6 miles per hour ( 92.7 kilometres per hour ) has been calculated from a penetration of 22 inches . |
| 5 | The audit , er , the the accounts your your offices will be assigned er , as of the twenty-third of December , of ninety-three , and , but we 're not able yet to conclude the audit as I 'm considering an objection which has been received from a member , on the matter of publicity . |
| 6 | An offer should only be announced once an irrevocable commitment to provide the necessary funds has been received from a person upon whom reliance can reasonably be placed at that time ( see Panel Notice 1991/4 of 1 May 1991 in relation to Luirc Corp and Merlin International Properties Ltd ) . |
| 7 | The Secretary of State , Dean Acheson , warned the American mission in Seoul on 13 April 1949 that information had been received from a source believed to be reliable to the effect that serious trouble might arise in Korea within two months and that the initiative in these developments would be taken by South Korea . |
| 8 | Hilda Lodge , in her new capacity of Chairman , welcomed everyone and said that apologies had been received from a number of teachers which had resulted in a smaller than usual attendance . |
| 9 | A girl aged nine from Middlesbrough has been discharged from a Sussex hospital after recovering from injuries she received in a road accident . |
| 10 | Evidence submitted to a parliamentary select committee by Britain 's Health and safety Executive last week reveals that products containing white and brown asbestos have been dropped from a draft EEC directive issued in 1980 . |
| 11 | A new board has been installed from a list of candidates selected by an independent panel . |
| 12 | Such " coral bleaching " has been reported from a range of tropical locations in the past two years [ see EDs passim ] . |
| 13 | They looked like they could have been pinched from a golf course . |
| 14 | The problem has been approached from a number of different fields of research , and a large number of different theories have been proposed . |
| 15 | Lost on their way , they had been rescued from a Chaos attack by the Treeman Oakheart and his people . |
| 16 | A YOUNG parrot has been rescued from a pet shop by its rightful owner . |
| 17 | He had been lifted from a detention cell and given the job of English teacher because the Colonel liked a boy who could smile into the face of an interrogator who wielded a rubber truncheon . |
| 18 | Co-occurrence data has been used by the present project ; the data having been collected from a number of corpora rather than LDOCE . |
| 19 | Scats may be accumulated outside den entrances ( Poole , 1970 ) , and a very large assemblage of polecat scats has been collected from an area less than two metres square outside a den in Rhosgogh Bog in mid-Wales . |
| 20 | A spokesman for the organising committee has confirmed to Sunday Life that a serious approach has been made from a entrepreneur in St Helier . |
| 21 | It was said to have been made from a nail of the True Cross with ornamentation of gold enamel and jewels . |
| 22 | In 1155 Barbarossa was crowned with the famous Iron Crown of Lombardy , said to have been made from a nail of the True Cross . |
| 23 | Much of the remaining capital has been secured from a group of what AAC describes as ‘ high net worth ’ Saudi Arabian businessmen . |
| 24 | The various Lives had been written from a variety of standpoints , but he observed that the best of them had been inspired with hate — hate , not of Jesus , but of the ‘ Christ of dogma ’ . |
| 25 | They had been selected from a pile of ‘ sets ’ which the Second Son had gleaned from the finest merchants in Abu Dhabi and brought to the Sheikha . |
| 26 | The fact is that he has been saved from a disaster primarily caused by his ill-judged decision , based on terrible advice , to join the mechanism . |
| 27 | Erm , er , the funding for that project which I understand has a total cost in excess of a hundred and sixty thousand pounds , has been met from a variety of sources , er , primarily local , but with a contribution from the County Council through the Leisure Services Committee , and also through the Resources Management sub-committee , and in a , indirect sense , in that the , the , the land transferred to the County Council from the District Council for a particular sum , when the project did n't go ahead , the land went back to the District , and had appreciated in value in the intervening time . |
| 28 | English Nature , the government 's wildlife adviser , expects to recommend at least 20 sites for SPA protection in 1993/94. * Slapton Ley , a coastal freshwater lake in south Devon , has been upgraded from a site of special scientific interest to a national nature reserve . |
| 29 | Confirmatory techniques exist to assess how likely a difference of proportions of a given magnitude is to arise in sample data when it has been drawn from a population in which no such difference exists . |
| 30 | Though it must have been copied from a photograph or something … |