Example sentences of "were [vb pp] from [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Saturday afternoons , when the streets were solid with white faces , was a carnival of consumerism as goods were ripped from shelves . |
| 2 | These were developed from qualities defined by Isaiah ( c.11 ) in his prophecy traditionally associated with the Incarnation , and interpreted by the Church Fathers as gifts of the Holy Spirit . |
| 3 | The mathematical techniques for doing this were invented fairly recently , and , unlike most of those we have so far mentioned , were developed from scratch to solve a particular archaeological problem . |
| 4 | Bowel habits , irritable bowel syndrome symptoms , and whole gut transit time were calculated from records of three defectations . |
| 5 | Both regression analyses were calculated from data on 448 women because of missing values in one of the exposure or confounding variables . |
| 6 | Short courses , for teachers already in post , were arranged from time to time , though they assumed nothing like the significance that in-service provision was to have later . |
| 7 | One week several AEs were sacked from DPR for their inability to convey the concept of financial futures . |
| 8 | By 1968 , the clean-cut image of lads in suits and neatly trimmed hair was definitely for the birds , but not the Byrds , and the Monkees had all but swung from their last branch ; the exploitation of four young men who were plucked from audition lines and manufactured into an internationally famous foursome was all but over . |
| 9 | Apologies were given from Hilda Lodge who had been in hospital for several days for tests . |
| 10 | All cars of this batch were withdrawn from service with the reorganization of services in the summer of 1927 . |
| 11 | The Motive Power depot at Derby Road had been disused since 1966 when the last steam locomotives were withdrawn from service . |
| 12 | THE MOST important Khmer and Thai sculptures were withdrawn from Sotheby 's major sale of Asian art yesterday after one of the pieces was found to be a fake . |
| 13 | Then came the Russian revolution ; late in 1917 , the new Soviet leaders renounced what they considered the czar 's unequal treaties and subsequently the Cossack officers were withdrawn from Iran . |
| 14 | Tanks were withdrawn from Tirana on Feb. 25 and the city was reported to be calm , but army patrols remained , and sporadic gunfire was reported each night until the end of the month . |
| 15 | Most recently , in July 1991 , two fine Balthasar Denner heads of ‘ Old Women ’ were withdrawn from sale in London when it was learned that they had been looted from the Dresden Museum . |
| 16 | The Azerbaijan Supreme Soviet , meeting in emergency session , on Jan. 22 threatened that unless all troops were withdrawn from Azerbaijan within 48 hours it would call a referendum on Azerbaijan 's session from the Soviet Union . |
| 17 | On 5 May 1951 passenger services were withdrawn from Barnton although coal was still conveyed to Davidsons Mains . |
| 18 | In military terms the imperial era came to an end when the last British troops were withdrawn from East of Suez in 1972 , but politically it had ended sixteen years earlier at Suez . |
| 19 | Key Mafia figures arrested independently of the operation in September were Giuseppe Madonia , the Sicilian Mafia 's second in command , on Sept. 6 ; Pasquale , Paolo and Gaspare Cuntrera , powerful Sicilian Mafia " bankers " and drug traffickers who were extradited from Venezuela on Sept.11 after years of delays ; Carmine Alfieri , the Camorra chief described as Italy 's major gangster , on Sept. 11 ; and Domenico Libri , the supposed head of the Calabrian Mafia or N'Drangheta , in Marseille on Sept.16 . |
| 20 | The 38 captured guerrillas were extradited from Laos in January 1990 . |
| 21 | Here was a long-established bastion of English liberty , older than the vote , yet older people were banished from participation . |
| 22 | All thoughts of romance were banished from Constance 's head . |
| 23 | Hortense and her sons also went into exile , for all the Bonapartes were banished from France in perpetuity , by a decree of Louis XVIII , and as a result of the hostility of the major European States Hortense had great difficulty in finding some corner of Europe where she could set up home . |
| 24 | ‘ I have made a study of the Fall , how men challenged the Gods in their search for knowledge and were banished from Eden . |
| 25 | The voices of churchmen were heard from time to time , perhaps frequently , complaining of the enslavement of Christians , or of the treatment of slaves ; but there was no radical attack on the institution as such . |
| 26 | Long drives were undertaken from town to town , even country to country . |
| 27 | The likes of Naomi Campbell and Linda Evangelista were clad from head to toe in leather , rubber , latex and PVC . |
| 28 | The waters were layered from October to May while ice was present , with temperatures close to freezing point near the surface but at 1–1.25°C near the bottom in 26 m . |
| 29 | Last summer , the crew 's appetites for racing were whetted by smaller one-design racing when 16 Sigma 33s were chartered from Britannia Sailing in Southampton . |
| 30 | Apologies were received from J. Sharp , Councillor Mrs. B. Brereton . |