Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] released from [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Vincent Cheng , a Catholic social worker whom the government had accused of leading a " Marxist conspiracy " , and Teo Soh Lung , one of Cheng 's co-conspirators , were conditionally released from prison in June 1990 [ see p. 37533 ] . |
| 2 | Two other patients were also released from Guy 's yesterday afternoon . |
| 3 | In July two members of the PKI imprisoned in the 1960s were reportedly released from prison . |
| 4 | Two members of the banned Indonesian Communist Party ( PKI ) were reportedly released from jail on July 24 . |
| 5 | A number of people convicted under Article 100 were subsequently released from prison , including Huang Hwa , Taiwan 's most prominent dissident , on May 18 . |
| 6 | In January 1979 when he was finally released from hospital he and Raine booked into the Dorchester Hotel in Park Lane for an expensive month-long convalescence . |
| 7 | He was finally released from prison two years later on payment of a £500 fine to Edward . |
| 8 | Nicos Sampson , leader of the short-lived right-wing regime of 1974 , was conditionally released from imprisonment in Cyprus on April 28 ; he had been due for release in March 1994 [ see also p. 38450 ] . |
| 9 | Orlando Azcué Rodríguez ( AI Prisoners Letter Writing Campaign June/July 1991 ) was conditionally released from prison in Cuba on 19 July 1991 after serving only 16 months of his three-year sentence for ‘ enemy propaganda . ’ |
| 10 | Given a relatively lenient sentence of 18 years ( Jiang Qing and others were given suspended death sentences ) , Chen was later released from jail ‘ in consideration of age and poor health ’ . |
| 11 | Former Deputy Prime Minister Gen. Arthit Kamlang-Ek was also released from detention on March 9 and he too left Thailand for a " holiday " , on March 16 . |
| 12 | Maximus Ongkili , senior aide of Datuk Seri Joseph Pairin Kitingan , the Sabah Chief Minister , was unconditionally released from police custody on March 2 . |
| 13 | Brigadier-General Tin Oo was unexpectedly released from Insein jail last week , after nearly seven years . |