Example sentences of "be [vb pp] from [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The humiliating financial dependence on his parents , a fact of life ever since he had been dismissed from Goupil 's , was being gradually shifted on to Theo , who would soon find himself shouldering the whole burden . |
| 2 | Just over a year after he had been dismissed from Oscott ( 1888 ) , Rolfe entered Scots College , Rome , in December 1889 . |
| 3 | She knew she had been dismissed from Algox because she had not been up for grabs . |
| 4 | The former Romanian regions of Bessarabia and northern Bukovina had been annexed from Romania in June 1940 in the course of the Soviet advance against the pro-German troops of the Romanian government , and after 1947 they had become the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic ; in practice , the dispute was much older , dating back to Russia 's liberation of the region from Turkish rule in the early 19th century . |
| 5 | Both had been flown from Tangmere while undertaking their world air speed record runs in 1946 and 1953 respectively . |
| 6 | Earlier in the month 806 Squadron 's three remaining serviceable Fulmars had been flown from Malta to Egypt via El Adem , each aircraft carrying three aircrew ; the ground party sailed for the same destination in a destroyer . |
| 7 | Because of tightening central government controls on borrowing , the proportion of local authority capital income derived from borrowing fell sharply during the 1970s and 1980s ( from 83.7 per cent in 1974/5 to 48.4 per cent in 1984/5 ) ( all figures for England are calculated from Travers , 1986 , tables , App. 4 and 5 ) . |
| 8 | The signature of the agreement had been delayed from December 1989 , partly over the question of East German access to the Schengen area , it being finally agreed that border controls would apply only at East Germany 's borders with Poland and Czechoslovakia and not at the existing inter-German border . |
| 9 | It was agreed that 75 per cent of the Italian government 's credits to the former Soviet Union granted in 1990 , which had been delayed from December [ see p. 38656 ] , would go to Russia . |
| 10 | One view of local budgeting is that officials are largely influenced by the advice they are given from Whitehall and that local councillors largely follow that lead , tempered only by party politics . |
| 11 | Examples of this sense are given from Addison and Pope . |
| 12 | Flaubert , on his way up the Nile in 1850 , found Esna much enlivened by the presence of ulmeh , literally " learned women " , prostitutes who had been banished from Cairo by Muhammad Ali some years before . |
| 13 | Little has been heard from Rodney Bickerstaffe of NUPE and Jimmy Knapp of the rail union . |
| 14 | So little has been heard from Steve Chen 's Supercomputer Systems Inc in the past couple of years that people have been wondering if the company still existed . |
| 15 | Soviet advisers have been withdrawn from Dese and Kombolcha . |
| 16 | Russian Interior Ministry forces had been withdrawn from South Ossetia on April 26 , 1992 . |
| 17 | All Allied regular forces had been withdrawn from Java and Sumatra , but guerrilla operations continued in Portuguese eastern Timor until early in 1943 . |
| 18 | Funding has been withdrawn from Bristol and other similar therapeutic centres , and immense harm has been done to what was perceived as a growing trust and co-operation between alternative and orthodox medicine . |
| 19 | At time of compiling , the locomotive is based at Immingham depot on Humberside , having been withdrawn from BR capital stock . |
| 20 | Having been sacked from Ulm in 1934 for excess of talent , he survived in Aachen only until 1942 . |
| 21 | It was promptly announced to Harvard dealers that the rebel had been sacked from Sheppards . |
| 22 | The investigation will begin when details are received from Valenciennes over the allegation from defender Jacques Glassmann that he had been offered a bribe from a Marseille official to take it easy . |
| 23 | Many of the functions of government have been devolved from Whitehall . |
| 24 | It was alleged that Khashoggi , who had been extradited from Switzerland in April 1989 , had purchased four Manhattan properties secretly owned by the Marcoses and had backdated the sale documents to evade a New York court order which had frozen the assets of the former dictator and his wife . |
| 25 | Among the defendants was Licio Gelli , former grand master of the Italian P-2 masonic lodge [ see also pp. 31045-46 ] , who had been extradited from Switzerland in February 1988 after surrendering to the authorities there [ see p. 35591-92 ] . |
| 26 | Pages have been downloaded from PRESTEL to provide additional material for teachers and pupils . |
| 27 | Estonia , Latvia and Lithuania had been conquered from Sweden in the eighteenth century and incorporated as ‘ Baltic provinces ’ into the Russian Empire in the early nineteenth century , although a German landowning and commercial class retained substantial influence . |
| 28 | This concession having been wrung from Dame Evelyn , we were thereupon authorised to attend all meetings and to advise as though we had the accolade of civil service accorded to us . |
| 29 | This must have been formed from Cr(CO) 6 by light-induced loss of a carbon monoxide molecule . |
| 30 | It had been formed from Buffon 's old Jardin du Roi ( the royal zoological and botanical garden ) by the revolutionary government , and had been turned into a major institution for promoting the study of all the non-physical sciences . |