Example sentences of "[was/were] released from [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bulk of the Prussian peasants were released from service in the years 1811–50 . |
| 2 | Col. Thaabe Letsie and Col. Aloysius Kethang Mosoeunyane , who had been arrested on Feb. 19 , 1990 , and expelled from the Military Council and dismissed from the Army , were released from detention in Maseru in early March . |
| 3 | Every one of those surveyed had a class , though some were released from part of their teaching duties to undertake other activities . |
| 4 | Two French UNRWA workers were released from captivity in Beirut at the beginning of the year and I had watched their press conference imagining how I would feel if it were John delivering the speech . |
| 5 | An ex-director and an employee of D M de Bruijn , the suppliers of lead-contaminated cow feed , were released from custody in Holland yesterday after a witness withdrew testimony . |
| 6 | The soldiers were released from hospital after treatment . |
| 7 | A former Cabinet minister , Edward Rurangaranga , and five others were released from prison on Jan. 23 after the state dropped murder charges against them for lack of evidence . |
| 8 | Three members of the Roman Catholic clergy belonging to the pro-Vatican underground church were released from prison on Jan. 28 , according to Reuters news agency . |
| 9 | The leaders of the black Moslem fundamentalist Jamaat al-Moslemeen , Yasin Abu Bakr and Bilal Abdullah , and 114 other members of the group were released from prison on July 1 . |
| 10 | On Aug. 19 the first of 23,108 prisoners were released from prison as a result of a presidential pardon issued on Peasants ' Day , July 7 . |
| 11 | Around 40 people convicted of political crimes in connection with acts of defiance during the campaign to impose Slavic names on ethnic Turks were released from prison in accordance with an amnesty bill passed by the National Assembly on Jan. 15 . |
| 12 | Marian Munteanu , 28 , the president of the League of Students , who had been badly beaten and arrested on June 14 during the crackdown against anti-communist demonstrators in Bucharest 's University Square [ see pp. 37544-45 ] , was released from detention on Aug. 2 . |
| 13 | He appealed against the verdict , and on July 16 was released from detention pending his appeal . |
| 14 | Bembenek was released from jail on December 9 after serving 10 years for the murder of Christine Schultz . |
| 15 | Andrew Hayton was released from jail after serving just half his three month jail term . |
| 16 | He was released from confinement in January 1763 , and in that very year published , with other poems , A Song to David , his masterpiece . |
| 17 | On Sept. 27 Ceausescu was released from custody for 90 days to undergo medical treatment for chronic cirrhosis of the liver ( a condition reportedly complicated by a stab wound he had received from one of the revolutionary mob moments after his Dec. 22 television appearance ) . |
| 18 | Azem Vlasi , the former leader of the League of Communists in Kosovo , was released from custody on April 24 , together with 13 other persons , after being acquitted on charges of instigating counter-revolutionary demonstrations in the province . |
| 19 | DRTF1/E2F DNA-binding activity was released from Rb by detergent , but not from the immunoprecipitate with the control monoclonal antibody A7 ( Fig. 3 a ; compare tracks 2 and 3 , and respective depleted extracts , tracks 4 and 5 ) . |
| 20 | Lafontaine made a quick recovery and was released from hospital on May 2 . |
| 21 | Schäuble was released from hospital on Oct. 31 after two operations to remove a bullet lodged near his spine . |
| 22 | He was released from hospital after treatment to a leg wound . |
| 23 | I do n't think I am fully recovered , and today I am no taller or heavier than I was when I was released from hospital in 1983 . |
| 24 | Gen. Hartono Resko Dharsono , Indonesia 's most prominent dissident , was released from prison on Sept. 16 . |
| 25 | He was released from prison on Feb. 9 , 1990 , and held a seventh meeting with Arafat on March 9 . |
| 26 | A British businessman , Roger Cooper , 55 , was released from prison on April 1 and returned to London on April 2 . |
| 27 | Mario Chanes de Armas , 65 , who took part in the 1953 assault on the Moncada Barracks and was one of the original rebels who had landed in the Granma in 1956 to launch the revolution , was released from prison on July 16 , after serving 30 years for allegedly plotting to assassinate Castro . |
| 28 | Jimmy Stevens , the leader of a secessionist rebellion in Vanuatu in 1980 [ see pp. 30642-44 ] , was released from prison on Aug. 19 after serving 11 years of a 14@1/2-year sentence for treason . |
| 29 | Following an appeal made by Major during his visit , the Hong Kong businessman Luo Haixing was released from prison on Sept. 9 " on bail for medical treatment outside the country " . |
| 30 | Veteran peace campaigner Abie Nathan was released from prison on March 30 after serving six months of an 18-month sentence for meeting Yassir Arafat , chair of the Palestine Liberation Organization . |