Example sentences of "only [vb pp] from [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unlikely as that seems now , it must be remembered that in the early 1970s the private market was in a very bad condition and many developer builders were only rescued from bankruptcy by ‘ package deals ’ under which the DOE gave local authorities special loan sanctions in order to buy in whole estates of unsold private dwellings . |
| 2 | What could have proved a disastrous appointment did , and Athletico were only saved from oblivion by the inspired choice of Reg Pybus as coach . |
| 3 | Most are malnourished , only saved from starvation by water and food provided en route by the Red Cross . |
| 4 | Griffin O'Neal , 27 , was only saved from jail after 24-year-old Lynn Oddo , the woman he beat up , pleaded with the court for mercy . |
| 5 | It took them five overs to score their first run and they were only saved from disaster by captain Allan Lamb . |
| 6 | In recent years it has become fashionable to say that Modi only suffered from poverty because of his drinking and drug-taking . |
| 7 | When you ask him for leave to serve him on this mission he will welcome it as the solution to his anxieties , for even if you are only gone from Kinsai for a time , it will seem to him that you do not mean to impose upon his favour . ’ |
| 8 | Not only excluded from performing , the understudy was not even to be allowed to take part in the murder investigation . |
| 9 | They were not only revived from time to time in Venice during the next twenty years but performed in a number of other Italian cities . |
| 10 | Vitamin B12 is rather an odd vitamin as it is only obtained from animal sources ( such as meat , milk , and eggs ) and not at all from plant foods . |
| 11 | Ophiocymbium cavernosum is a little known ophiuroid previously only recorded from east of Kerguelen Islands , Southern Ocean , its discovery in the Bay of Biscay marks an exciting extension of range perhaps accountable to the considerable depth at which this species is found . |
| 12 | " I 'm only killed from tea . " |
| 13 | Jean-Paul Scarpitta , her ‘ cultural adviser ’ , meanwhile had been indicted for ‘ forgery and embezzlement of public funds ’ and only released from bail of FFr1.2 million after the second inventory . |