Example sentences of "been [vb pp] [adv prt] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | French military reinforcements , 150 troops , had been flown in from the Central African Republic to evacuate foreign nationals in Kigali . |
| 2 | Fearfully , Seb drew closer and could see her dress had been ripped down from the neck to waist . |
| 3 | The prosecution could not prove that he had encashed the giros because they are destroyed by the DSS twelve months after they have been received back from the clearing banks . |
| 4 | This softly layered bob has been teased back from the face and dressed with wax |
| 5 | He sighed tiredly , as though he had been working for a full day with stone and timber , and tried to listen to James Menzies , who was well away , drinking whisky with Allan and simmering with the news from the west , where the lists had been torn down from the church doors at Fortingall and Kenmore , and from Blair Atholl : the Duke 's factor had had to meet a crowd of more than a thousand and the Duke had signed a paper swearing not to impose the Act . |
| 6 | They would have preferred process control and development staff to have established the new processes , and would have preferred to recruit ‘ green labour ’ to the new machines so that ‘ bad habits ’ would not have been carried over from the old production process . |
| 7 | ( 8 ) For the purpose of this rule : ( a ) pleadings shall be deemed to be closed 14 days after the delivery of a defence in accordance with Ord 9 , r 2 , or , where a counterclaim is served with the defence , 28 days after the delivery of the defence ; but in an action which has been transferred down from the High Court , pleadings are deemed closed 14 days from transfer . |
| 8 | True also that property questions had already been separated off from the main business , to be handled by the British Rail Property Board ( also on a regional basis , but with somewhat different geographical areas from those used by the operating regions ) . |
| 9 | ‘ What has happened is that we have been clawed back from the disastrous level of whitefish we started at to a position in line with the top end of scientific advice . ’ |
| 10 | Now , although St Petersburg is full of some of the greatest treasures of the world , full of riches that have been handed down from the imperial days , there is very little about the tsar and his family at the time of the revolution . |
| 11 | The word had been handed down from the so-called serial killer , Alan Yentob , the newly-appointed BBC1 controller . |
| 12 | Command of the main army was entrusted for the moment to a veteran Huguenot general , Sir John [ later first Earl of ] Ligonier , aged 65 , who had also been called back from the Continent , though it was understood he would become subordinate to Cumberland as soon as the latter was ready to take over . |
| 13 | THE extraordinary thing about Laura Ashley is not that it has been dragged back from the financial brink ; it is that it was ever pushed there in the first place . |
| 14 | The camps were spotted by pilots flying supplies to Nagorny Karabakh , which has been sealed off from the rest of Azerbaijan for several months . |
| 15 | The hut seemed to be as he had last seen it except that the settee had been pulled out from the wall to the centre of the room . |
| 16 | But if the daily figures had n't yet been brought over from the Ritz and Strand , he would stop off there too . |
| 17 | Below 700m many of the soils are man-made — the soils on the terraces having been brought up from the river mouths or down from the bases of the escarpments . |
| 18 | She implored : ‘ If the immediate family breaks up the problems created can still be resolved but only if the children have been brought up from the very start with the feeling that they are wanted , loved and valued . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ But , if the body had been brought in from the Met area , we would not necessarily have been alerted . ’ |
| 20 | And in recent weeks it 's become a daily chore , as more and more birds have been brought in from the nearby Gloucester Sharpness canal . |
| 21 | There 's an image of fire on the screens and they 're piled up like a bonfire with er natural things that have been brought in from the outside , and there 's slide tape projections of the forest around the gallery . |
| 22 | It was n't likely that anyone would come that way , for the hen crees were situated in the field just beyond the hedge , and the sheep were there too , having been brought down from the hills after ten of their already small stock had been taken . |
| 23 | They are , indeed , reported by people who have been brought back from the edge of death — though mundane scientists tend to attribute them to the effects of oxygen starvation on a failing brain . |
| 24 | The taste for sweet and highly spiced food , which made little use of the plants which grew easily in our temperate Northern climate , may well have been brought back from the Holy Land by returning Crusaders . |
| 25 | Joe , a 61-year-old housing supervisor , of Portland House , Longlands , said when he arrived at the loft yesterday morning the outer door had been nailed up from the outside . |
| 26 | When Professor Aldini applied galvanism to the face of a felon who had just been cut down from the gallows , |
| 27 | Partly because the machinery of repression has been so all-embracing for so long , stifling any messages of opposition before they reached a platform , and partly because Romania has for so long been cut off from the mainstream of European thinking and political change , constructive ideas have been hard to come by . |
| 28 | From a purely philosophical point of view , teachers who have been cut off from the mainstream of educational activity should be helped to understand the dynamism that underlies a teacher 's personal development , the rapid changes in teaching situations and accepted methodologies , and also the changes which the target languages themselves are undergoing . |
| 29 | BOSNIAN Serbs yesterday turned back a convoy carrying food and medicine to a Muslim town in eastern Bosnia which has been cut off from the outside world for ten months . |
| 30 | A detachment represents a body of troops that has been split off from the rest of their regiment and armed as small , independent units whose role is to operate within sight of their regiment . |