Example sentences of "would have been [verb] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | If usury was wrong in itself then the Israelites would have been prohibited from charging interest on any funds lent , not just funds lent to fellow Jews . |
| 2 | On the issues of location and control of the former Soviet nuclear arsenal , Yeltsin said that all tactical nuclear weapons would have been moved from other republics of the former Soviet Union to Russia by July 1 , although moving long-range strategic weapons was more complex . |
| 3 | When she objected to him sharing the blame with the editor , he brushed her aside and said that without the keys a lot of information would have been kept from him . |
| 4 | I would have been isolated from nature , and natural forces , but for the fact that , from my earliest childhood , I was familiar with the sea and fishing . |
| 5 | If accountability had been enhanced , profligate councillors would have been dismissed from office and replaced by more prudent ones . |
| 6 | We gain an impression of the quantities of oak involved from the estimates for the building ; the 55 m³ ; would have been obtained from about 18 mature oaks . |
| 7 | But all the time there would be this comforting regularity beneath the surface ; the sound of rattling dice would have been banished from fundamental physics . |
| 8 | Mrs. Hamblin would have been precluded from denying the trader 's authority to sell the car . |
| 9 | Apart from the bronze bolt , the other parts of the lock would have been made from iron , including a spring to hold the pins in place . |
| 10 | The United Kingdom Egg Producers ' Association said many poultry owners would have been saved from going out of business if the compensation was paid when it was due . |
| 11 | Do US president Bill Clinton and British prime minister John Major have more in common than would have been guessed from their brief meeting earlier this month ? |
| 12 | Stock would have been excluded from coppiced areas but the importance in the medieval scene of wood-pastures for stock-feed ca n't be over emphasised ; nearly every entry in Domesday quotes the area of woodland and the number of pigs it supports . |
| 13 | Much of the ‘ new academy ’ has comprised , as Bourdieu maintains , downwardly mobile bourgeois , ‘ poorly endowed with academic capital ’ , who otherwise would have been excluded from the academy . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | So we have people who took in evacuees in Princes Risborough because , as you say , people would have been evacuated from London I suppose out to Princes Risborough . |
| 16 | This is about 10 more , she says , than would have been expected From the whole 8000 servicemen who , she says , took part in the South Pacific tests between 1957 and 1958 . |
| 17 | The book would have been sold from the row of shelves to be found in every public library for the price of a daily paper . |
| 18 | Measurements would have been taken from the guest cast enabling the Costume Supervisor either to begin tailoring any special costumes ( a Sensorite uniform for instance ) , or to arrange hiring of costumes from BBC stock or from Theatrical Costumiers such as Bermans & Nathans — who had supplied William Hartnell 's Edwardian outfit as the Doctor . |
| 19 | But this would have been to start from the visible , and the whole tabernacle exists as the necessary " wrapping " for the invisible God when he comes down to be with his people . |
| 20 | ‘ Well , if he had been caught , Bartholomew would have been sliced from neck to crotch , his genitals ripped off and stuffed into his mouth , and his decapitated head placed on a spike above the city gates . |
| 21 | If he had made a full brake application , his guard , Gerry Briggs , would have been thrown from one end of the brakevan to the other with a possible resultant injury . |
| 22 | Then , when the wave and the turbidity subsided , the shallow water would have been repopulated from other habitats . |
| 23 | One would have though a lesson would have been learnt from the community charge fiasco . |
| 24 | By increasing the bureaucratic hurdles , some wives would have been deterred from pursuing the matter . |